Life has been keeping me offline for the last little while, busy with the business of living, and not so much with creating. However, here I can share something I prepared a little earlier. My husband Luke and I designed a whole new look for my friend Anita’s quilting business, including her logo, business cards, stickers and assorted fancy looking stuff. I don’t know which one of us was more excited when the business cards finally arrived. Anita has quilted a number of my quilts for me, and we have a great collaborative relationship. For her brand she wanted something that communicated creative and modern, but didn’t ostracise traditional quilters either. We chose to be inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement for the feature font, and Anita found the very cute pattern on Shutterstock. I had to do the reverse of “put-a-bird-on-it” and get rid of the little birdies, and re-jig the pattern to fill in the gaps. It was a lot of fun.Look what else is new this week, some lovely fabric, ( I ordered from Ballarat Patchwork) which is also making me very happy. These fabrics are not all going to be used together, but don’t they look sweet in their stack! The top one is some Sweet Azalea “Lina” from the Echo line by Lotta Jansdotter. In the centre is some “Tangerine Swinging” from the Comma collection by Zen Chic, and the sassy orange “Small Chevron” fabric at the bottom is by Riley Blake.
Ideas in my head are still revolving around feathers, and are joined by yet more pegs and Space-Invader-inspired-rocketships. I’ve also been contemplating beetles and frogs.
What design motifs are you contemplating?