Quilting Inspirations

What inspires you? For me its nature....architecture and art.

Here's a little slideshow of our trip to the Detroit Institute of Art that we took yesterday. I left the museum with quilts running through my head. I hope you enjoy it, many of the pics are of elements behind glass I apologize for the glare.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/slideshow/576069199lDIQqF

Great slide show!!! Thanks for sharing it.


For me, almost anything can set me off.

Isn't it funny how we get so that we see inspiration for quilts all around us? Sometimes it can be a color combo or geometric pattern...but I think we see things differently once we become quilters?

I agree. There are a couple of trees we pass going to the next town that always make me want to put them in a quilt. So far, DH has not been willing to stop and let me shoot them. (It's really not a great place to stop.)

What could inspire more than nature... the true colors of a clear day or an odd sunset or sunrise... trees.. fields.. flowers... water... beauty is all around us..

Tiles - I ran my own business within the ceramic tiling industry for 9yrs, tiles, beautiful mosaics, ancient ones, new ones, geometrical, pictorial - there are so many inspiring ideas in tiles. Architechture too and nature, all kinds of things, sometimes an idea just pops into my head like seeing a photograph, other times I see something and just get an idea. Often its inspiration from my friends here :-)

Great topic idea CC and I loved your slide show, thank you for setting it up for us