Finding Inspiration

This week’s blog hop stop on Friday is See How We Sew, where Darra Williamson shares the blogging fun with three other talented quilters:  Christine Batterman, Laura Nownes, and Jennifer Rounds.  In fact the four of them have sewwwww much experience combined, they could quilt circles around me!  Twice a week they inspire with tips, techniques, nifty projects and patterns, reviews of books and products, interviews, news of upcoming events and more!  I met Darra when she was the editor of our first book (add awesome editor to her long list of creative talents!)   One of Darra’s recent posts about using a camera to capture inspiration reminded me of a photograph my friend Cherie took.  When I saw these rich colours, I fell in love with them and knew I wanted to use this photo inspiration as a jumping off point for a quilt.  

  And this is the quilt!     Now yes, there was that dash of orange in the photo and I did try it out in the design, but after it was auditioned I decided to leave the orange out.  Auditioning is one of my favourite parts of the process, because usually the quilt is able to tell me so clearly what it wants, which saves me from fussing over what works and doesn’t!     So where are some of the places you find inspiration?   If you are visiting my blog for the first time,  be sure to visit my inaugural post for a chance at one of 10 giveaway items!