Zenquilting Week 1

Last night, I parked on the couch, still recovering from the previous non-stop 'quilty' day, and just drew.  For almost two hours.

The ideas just kept flowing, and I couldn't stop!  Some of the areas I really like a lot, for example, on the left page, the combo of pebbles, stippling, and zigzags meeting up with the spiky border.  Makes an interesting background fill.

And on the other page, the area that catches my eye the most is in the upper right where the vertical lines are bounded by an echo and then horizontal lines.  There's something about that change in direction that sets that area off.

These drawings are totally random, as my goal is to draw continuous lines, such that I can then translate it to stitches. Eventually I'll experiment with predefined boundaries, but for now, I'm enjoying flow.

Here's a little bit from the beginning of the week, which started out with feathers and flowers,

just to get some ideas going.  Not that spectacular, but I got some ideas down that I can refer back to at a later time.

Then I moved into designs between two parallel lines, both in a free form flow of drawing, and the more orderly space definition.  Again, more ideas to draw upon later.

I hope that you're inspired to start drawing too.  Let me know if you want to share through a linky party!

Happy Quilting

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