Use Your Camera for Quilting Inspiration

“I try to keep my camera with me most of the time,” my daughter remarked the other day, after she snapped a picture of a young deer on camera while she and her family were geocaching.

(Geocaching (www.geocaching.com ) involves a sort of treasure hunt, checking out a listing of these sites online and using coordinates on a hand-held GPS to locate them.  This is a fun family activity, we’ve discovered.)

In addition to taking photos of the family finding the cache, Beth looks for quilting inspiration by taking pictures of scenery, patterns in stone walls, light and dark in the trees, sunsets, waterfalls, wildflowers.  From these she gains ideas for her fabric art…wall hangings, quilts, fabric postcards, and fabric trading cards.

She has posted some of the photos on her blog (http://meanderingthreads.blogspot.com )…and may relate how she’s using them for quilting ideas.  There are so many ways photos can be incorporated into fabric art, both as a whole scene or simply for the design ideas.

So….keep your camera handy and add to your collection of photos for quilting inspiration.

Betty Alofs‘ book, Quilt Your Favorite Photos: Shoot It, Sketch It, Stitch It, is just one that gives you information on incorporating photos into quilts and fabric art.