A while ago, maybe a month or so, Threadbias announced a contest designing a quilt pattern using Heather Ross' newest fabric line Briar Rose. I was interested, but then I read that you would have full access to their Quilt Design Tool in order to design the quilt. What? I'm so in! I had been dying to try out the full version, so this was the perfect opportunity.
I played around quite a bit, the program is really easy to use, I read no directions, watched no tutorials, just dove right in. So fun. If I ever get extra funds, I will so subscribe to this tool, it makes designing quilts so easy. After playing around for quite a while, I decided on my final design and you can see it here, below. I titled it Modern Portal and my description of it is as follows, "A simple geometric pattern that showcases the lovely feminine prints in this collection. Each "portal" focuses on the fabric design and can be appreciated on its own accord." I am quite happy with the final design, and truly hope to make this quilt on my own, maybe once I get a little more caught up on those Wips!
Oh and before I forget, the Quilt Design Tool calculates the amount of fabric that it will take to make the quilt that you design. This quilt which measures 60" x 75" will take roughly 4 yards of the white and 1/4 yard of all the other prints. How cool is that?
I played around quite a bit, the program is really easy to use, I read no directions, watched no tutorials, just dove right in. So fun. If I ever get extra funds, I will so subscribe to this tool, it makes designing quilts so easy. After playing around for quite a while, I decided on my final design and you can see it here, below. I titled it Modern Portal and my description of it is as follows, "A simple geometric pattern that showcases the lovely feminine prints in this collection. Each "portal" focuses on the fabric design and can be appreciated on its own accord." I am quite happy with the final design, and truly hope to make this quilt on my own, maybe once I get a little more caught up on those Wips!
Oh and before I forget, the Quilt Design Tool calculates the amount of fabric that it will take to make the quilt that you design. This quilt which measures 60" x 75" will take roughly 4 yards of the white and 1/4 yard of all the other prints. How cool is that?
Modern Portal
This is a contest, and voting is open now through Friday. If you are a member of Threadbias, you can vote. I would love for you to vote on mine, but even if you don't, please take a moment to check out the other entries. So many beautiful designs, so hard to pick one favorite for sure! You can go vote HERE, and remember, you have to be logged on, in order to vote.
Thank you to all the sponsors of this contest, it really was fun to play around with great digital prints from Heather Ross and to use the Quilt Design Tool at Threadbias.
Thank you to all the sponsors of this contest, it really was fun to play around with great digital prints from Heather Ross and to use the Quilt Design Tool at Threadbias.
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