My daughter has become adept at taking interesting photos as inspiration for her quilting and fabric art.  Often these will be bits of bark, barn siding, flower segments, and other textural objects.
Then she incorporates them into many of her small quilts, utilizing a variety of techniques.
This photo of barn siding offers suggestions for textural ideas you may want to try.
Sometimes you might get ideas from a single photo.  Other times you can try combining a variety of close-ups.  Or you can vary the close photos with distant scenery to give you a fascinating combination.

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 “A Blast from the Past” – the Lifestyles Channel’s Promo Day theme – encompasses the upcoming Fourth of July holiday and patriotism.  As I browse through quilt names, I find many that refer to our country’s history or Americana.
Do you know what any of these names mean or refer to in our history, whether patriotic, political, or pioneer?

Old Tippecanoe
Union Star
Mill Wheel
Water Wheel
Clay’s Choice
The Little Giant
Churn Dash
Lincoln’s Platform
Rail Fence
Log Cabin & Log Cabin Star
Whig’s Defeat
“Fifty-Four-Forty-or-Fight”
White House Steps
Madison’s Patch
Kansas Dugout
Democratic Donkey
Elephant

For instance, Madison’s Patch refers to President James Madison.  It’s claimed that his wife, Dolly, had a quilt patch named in his …read more