Good Morning, Quilters and Doodlers!
Get out your markers and let’s Dooooodle!
Today we are doodling leaves.
In Lessons One and Two we worked fast without effort to control the pen. Last week, we worked on control with Circle Slow Down. Today, we continue with slow doodling.
SPACING AND SYMMETRY
Our focus this week is on spacing and symmetry.
I was asked this week if I marked the spacing between the Beginner Loops from Tuesday’s Tutorial.
I do not. Over time and with lots of doodling, I have developed a pretty good sense of spacing.
Another advantage to doodling–it helps you develop an “eye” for spacing the elements within your quilt.
LEAVES
Doodle sets of leaves with a stem.
Work on spacing the sets equidistant apart on the line.
It is difficult to make identical, mirror image leaves, but do your best.
Try for “sisters not twins”.
Play with the leaf shape to make other designs.
Try a tapered leaf…
And different shapes and sizes.
Use these samples as a guide. Look at them once, then see where your imagination takes your pen.
Play with sizes.
Then add Messy Lines, Messy Circles and Circle Slow Down to make new designs.
Remember…No Rules…Just have fun!
Doodle-a-Day,
Lori
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