Good Morning, Quilters and Doodlers!
Do YOU find doodling challenging? Do YOU have difficulty thinking of what to doodle?
The solution: Start with a grid!
Start with a grid and repeat any simple design to create very complex looking designs.
For this exercise, I used a ruler to draw a one-inch grid. (If you have a grid template-now is the time to use it!)
First, choose a simple design…and doodle a single row, alternating the orientation of the design.
Next, fill the grid with the simple design to create a basketweave effect.
Create a new design by changing the density of alternating grid squares.
Then alternate two simple designs…
GRID DOODLING AND GRID QUILTING ARE EASY!
Wasn’t that easy? The possibilities are endless!
Now try two new motifs…
And quilt a sample…
Then try it with two different threads….
See where we are going here??? Those complex looking quilt backgrounds are often grids!
THE FASTEST WAY TO BETTER QUILTING?
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Happy Quoodling!
Loodle Lori
PS…All toodletorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy Quilts at The Inbox Jaunt and are intended for personal use only. Feel free to re-blog, pin or share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com! Thanks!
20 comments
Deb Capron
Hi Lori…….love your blog with lots of inspiration. I’m not a doodler …….goes back to elementary school and the only acceptable marks on paper was your NEAT class Work! I’m scarred for life. The grid doodle sounds like fun…..I’ll give it a try. Thanks
Chip Styles
Gray doodles….thanks
Maureen B. in B.C.
Cute cute cute. I particularly like the one with the whirlie-twirlies in it. It’s time to get out the doodle book.
P.S. Lori, this week, four weeks post hip surgery, I was finally able to do some sewing … my dear hubby brought up some of my sewing stuff from downstairs. WOOHOO … can’t keep a good quilter down for long!!!!!!!!!! ???????????? Happy dance!!
Lori Kennedy
Best wishes on your recovery! I’d love to see what a happy dance by a post-surgical hip patient looks like–LOL!
Maureen B. in B.C.
Some lurching, some creaking, a lot of spinning on the good foot inside the walker, and a lot of arm movements like a Hawaiian Hula. ????
Lori Kennedy
LOLOLOLOL!! and a dosey-do!
Linda Williams
Such a cute post Lori. Oodles of Doodles!! I haven’t doodled in a while – but I’m going to take the time today. Thanks for the reminder
Floy
Wonderful. I love these doodles!
Lorraine Doyno Evans
I used to doodle excessively in highschool along my notebook margins when I was bored in school…similiar to what Carlee now does with quilting but rougher with boxes and triangles. Wish I had those notebooks back as it has now left me and I am nowhere as good at it anymore.
Lori Kennedy
It’s a practice easily revived! Soon you will have notebooks full!
Marta
Try turning on a boring political TV show where they drone on and on… mimic a boring class… The doodle might come back to you…Works for me when SpouseMan is watching and listening.. LOL
Arvilla Trag
This is so cool! When I was a kid in school (around the first Crusade) doodling on notebooks or anything was only slightly less than a capital offense. My best friend is an expert at Zentangle, and I can barely doodle at all. This grid idea will fix that!
Last year I made a cute little HST quilt for a colleagues new granddaughter. I couldn’t think how to quilt it, so I just started signing my name and making stars in between. It came out pretty nice. Fortunately, my handwriting – be it on paper or on a quilt – is so bad that the quilting does not even look narcissistic.
Lori Kennedy
Arvilla, you always make me laugh! “Narcissistic Quilting” could become “a thing”!
bbquiltmaker
Love this, brilliant!
Elizabeth
Thank you for the encouragement to doodle. I find it relaxing and I am seeing improvement in fluidity in just a few sessions. THANKS.
Lori Kennedy
Fluidity is the perfect word!!
Shelor
Thank you sooooo much for the blog. I have a hard time doodling, (so mostly I don’t do it) but using the grid idea is great! I’ll have to get at it!
Lucie
Thanks for the wonderful inspiration x
Kerry
Great way to use old calendars too! Thanks for the tip!
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