Doodling Overlapping Motifs

Good Morning, Quilters and Doodlers!

Today we are doodling overlapping motifs!

But first–

Double Email Notifications

File this under–I’d rather be quilting  (in fact, I’d rather be dusting or going to the dentist, or….)

A note about DOUBLE DOUBLE Eemmaaiillss!

Argh!

Many people have written to me about the unsubscribe button and the double email situation.

Please accept my apologies if LKQ has bombarded your inbox every day with two emails!  This has been an ongoing and intermittent problem beyond my pay grade.  I’ve enlisted help on several occasions and we’ve tried a few things that haven’t worked.

I have just hired a new consultant to help solve this problem.

Over the next week they will be trying a few new things to correct this problem.

Please promise me—If we inadvertently unsubscribe YOU–please look for us and resubscribe.  

Thank you in advance for YOUR continued patience!

Overlapping Daisies

This week we learned a new motif, Overlapping Daisies.

The motif is not difficult once you learn the “trick”.

And the trick is easier to understand if you doodle first.

Change One Thing

Once you understand how the motif is created, it’s easy to create new motifs.

For example, what if we changed the squared petals to pointy triangles?

We’d would create Overlapping Suns motifs!

Fabulous!!!!

Try a New Shape

And what if we changed the triangles to fat, rounded petals?

We’d get a totally different pattern!

Doodling Should be Fun

Doodling doesn’t have to be dull.  Use Inktense or Aquarelle pencils to test your motifs.

(Did YOU know when you order anything through my affiliate link, I receive a little “pin-money” that helps me pay for tech consultants?  Thank YOU for supporting LKQ every time you shop on Amazon–even if it’s for hair clippers (no–we aren’t gonna do that are we!?))


Doodling with Water Soluble Pencils

I love to doodle with water soluble pencils.  It gives you a chance to test color combinations.

Then, add a little water and it’s like magic!

Doodles become mini works of art–or at least lovely stationery or a journal!

What about YOU?

Do YOU LOVE to doodle?

How often do YOU doodle?

Have you stitched YOUR doodles lately?

We’d LOVE to hear!

Your Tech-Challenged, Doodle-Loving Friend,

Lori

PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy Quilts and are intended for personal use only.  Feel free to re-blog, pin or share with attribution to LKQ.  For all other purposes, please contact me at Lori@LoriKennedyQuilts.com.  Thanks!

 

32 responses to “Doodling Overlapping Motifs”

  1. LOL you can’t get rid of me THAT easily. 😉
    I hereby pinkie-swear that if I get unsubscribed completely, I’ll come back.

    I’m loving these long, skinny motifs (ostensibly for borders, but I have a quilt top that is long columns about 6 inches wide). I’ve already chosen one motif from one of your books, and this is potentially another!!

    I am SO CLOSE to cutting my own hair!

    1. I love seeing what you come up with in every email. You are very creative. I have a set of water color pencils that I have used on a quilt. I used a black to do some shading on the bottom of a bridge. Its really great for that because of the way it ran a little bit on the fabric. It looked water stained in the right was for the bridge. I also have ink pencils that you add water to like the water color pencils. The colors are brighter and it works better on silk. Once it dry you can ink over again for a blended look or whatever. You can get them at art supply type places. Thanks again for sharing your ideas.

  4. Double the emails. Double the fun! Haha. No worries. I just delete one and press on. Love your doodling ❤

  6. I actually receive four each time and I don’t care a bit. That’s why we have a delete key! It doesn’t bother me at all.

  8. Lori, your generosity in sharing your designs is beyond measure! Thanks so much! Almost all my quilts have at least one of your motifs 😁 I used to get 2 emails, but now only 1.

  9. I would rather get two than none! It is..what it is. Spend your time quilting and don’t worry about it.

  10. Ditto! You are so generous to be sharing all these doodles and quilting motifs with us. I LOVE this latest one. Really awesome. Delete works for me, too.

  12. L. Hope – for god’s sake, if you cut your hair, don’t use your fabric scissors LOL

  13. For what it’s worth, sometimes I’ve gotten 2 emails and other times only one. I’m not sure what the big deal is about getting two. Just delete one. And once you’ve read it, you’re not going to keep it anyway, I hope. You can always go back to the blog and reread the past posts. Honestly people, there are way more important things to worry about these days. Stop bugging Lori about the double emails.

  14. I’ve only been getting one I feel so left out Just kidding thanks for sharing I love your work

  15. I wish I lived a little closer, I do a pretty good non-professional hair cut . I got a lot of practice when my husband and I camped throughout Europe, the Middle East , India and No. Africa for a year. Every time we’d be sitting outside our tent and I was cutting, I’d end up with a long line of guys waiting a turn.
    Never have gottn 2 emails, that I remember from you. Others yes, you no…

  16. Doodling a lot lately trying to decide what to quilt. Your motifs are always an inspiration, been playing with this one. Haven’t stitched it yet, but have stitched a lot of others that are on quilts. Thank you so much for sharing.

  17. Not a big deal. I know where the delete button is. 😃😉 I enjoy each one of your newsy emails. Thanks for sharing.😵👀

  18. For me, doodling starts with a computer then needle and thread. I doodle on my computer when I’m pondering what I will quilt. I take a picture of the block and open it in a simple drawing program, and doodle different motifs until I come up with something that works for the quilt. I’ve never been patient enough to play with practice squares or paper…I like to just load a quilt and go. Lucky for me, I had a really ugly quilt top to play with when I first started. By the time I finished the quilt, I was able to quilt feathers, swirls and pebbles to my heart’s content. I love the handmade look of designs crafted without templates, and that’s where doodling fits into my quilting. It’s cartoonish, child like and much more fun than following someone else’s formal pattern.

  19. I decided to let my hair grow out for a new hair style a couple weeks before this all started. I was not looking forward to fighting my hair to look decent thru this process. Now I don’t have to worry the only one to see it is me! So when this is all over I can get the new style I want. Think of it this way, we all can get that new hair style we always wanted but never wanted to go thru the process. Now we can.
    Love to use my boogie board for doodling and especially putting it on my quilt top and audition different motifs. It has saved lots of paper and if I like something I just take a picture of it. Thanks for all your motifs. Love all the possibilities of this new way of overlapping designs.

  20. Thanks Lori. Getting two of your emails is the least of my problems. I love this motif. It will be perfect in the border of the quilt that I am working on. I have your book, but really enjoy your personal touch in these emails. Oh yes, and the Silent Sunday is something I always look for.

  21. In the 4th grade a classmate told me, “Don’t be so technical !” I understood what she was referring to, but I had never heard the word technical before. I was seriously embarrassed that she knew it and how to use it and I did not.
    I missed out on the explanation as to how it applied to the question I had asked her ! But in the ensuing years, I understood.. But Lori, I would like to ask a very technical question; one that has evaded me thru university and many years of living and searching art instructions. You were talking about using the water soluble pencils. “Add a little water, and its like magic..” 1. how much water, 2. where do you add it, 3, to what do you add it and then, 4. what do you do with that result ? Yep, I cautioned it was a technical mystery I have toward this process. I love
    water color painting…no problem there. But if you could offer any answer to my mystery, I would greatly appreciate it.

    1. Hi Marta – I’m no LK but here is my experience. I use Intense pencils, which are water soluble, but when dry, indelible, either on paper or fabric. I’ve found using the pencils on dry PAPER, then going over them with a damp or wet brush, works well. You can get very intense color with a damp brush and the more water you add, the paler the color. On FABRIC, also color first with the pencils only in a small area (easier to work with as the wetting medium dries faster). Use textile medium to wet and blend the colors – again with the same logic as watercolor painting. Using water on fabric “bleeds” the color into areas you don’t want it to go. Hope this helps.

      2. Thank you Gayle… after couple days with no wifi, glad to be back online. During that hiatus, I finished up 2 quilts. Now I can go paint, draw, doodle with clear conscience. A friend gave me a new sketch pad at Christmas and it has been waiting on me. And I am supplied with textile medium by the way and some white muslin too. Thank you again…

    2. priming lightly but thoroughly, to keep hand as close to original, helps keep color where it belongs when wet. It’s like painters priming their canvases. Be sure to let matte medium dry well,

      1. We have had continual trouble with road crews cutting cables for wifi along our road. Trying to catch up. Thank you cyndi for the valuable advice… !! (may 17 now)

  22. Today I tried to draw a tree in my front yard. Not exactly the same, but I impressed myself. It really looks like a real tree!!! I’ve been practicing doodling, now I need to try a small sample. I’ve looking at your books for ideas. Thank you for inspiring me!!

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