Lois, I love your little quilt. It has been really interesting to read how different people's mind see the same thing
differently. Mind you life would be so boring if we all were the same.

Back to the drawing board (still there at the moment)

Lois I love your little quilt and the description of how your mind worked to come up with such a different quilt but I can follow your logic.

I must learn to free up my mind to think differently after seeing all your ideas. I did go through the field of tulip idea at one point as well

loise98 wrote:

So, I checked #1000200 and is a partial close up photo of #1000201. Which one should we work with? The whole quilt or the close up section :

Your little quilt is very cool Lois! Like you, I didn't even thought about the name or all the red fabric. Going to go check #1000200 and see what I come up with.

Beautiful quilt Lois

Wow, Lois! That is really cool! And you did it so quickly! Like you, I didn't have any trouble ignoring the name and just looking at the quilt.

I'll take a look at the next influence and see where it leads me.....

Nancy

I have look at all the ideas and think it is so much fun to see the directions everyone took. I looked at Red Fury and decided to connect the dots in a sort of way. I connected them in the way the green made my eye move over the quilt. Wish I had had Rita's bamboo, but since I didn't I laid a piece of tracing paper on the computer and made a more organic abstract design. I think it is very interesting that I wasn't at all distracted by the title and so many of you were. It was as if I didn't care what it was called I just wanted to look at it. I was so inspired that I made it into a little 8"x10" quilt that is now ready to be bound. Here it is:



I think this was a great exercise. Anybody up for looking at #1000200?

As long as the raspberry field matches the one in your mind's eye, then it's real enough!! Sounds beautiful!!

Nancy

Well actually a quilt of lots of raspberries growing in a field with a blue sky and one tilted paper pieced block of berries set in at the lower corner. also some sort of black and white piecing accents. The only thing is I don't think I've ever really seen a field of raspberries so I don't know if it looks all lovely red like that or mostly green leaves!?

Renata - I agree with Rita. I feel like the point of this is to let the quilt inspire you in whatever way it does and we'll see how we move along and where we end up. This rather than trying to guess, based on our inspiration quilt, where we started. I really love what you did with the tulips and what your thought processes were.

Everyone's interpretations are so interesting and well-thought out! I'm really enjoying this exercise!

Nancy

So how would you interpret all your raspberries in a quilt or a block?

This has been fascinating following along with all your conversations and plans. It will be so cool to see the end quilts. Just like playing "telephone" it should be VERY interesting to see how it changes. I kinda played along in my head with this practice one and saw Raspberries. Lots of raspberries growing.

Quilt name and color were not what draw my attention. The light blue/turquoise (it's like it looks to me in my iPad), the black & white inner border and the wonky looking blocks is what I focused on. Those were the only light fabrics in a sea of medium-dark and dark colors and a resting place for the eyes. The wonky squares made me think of Lotti's swirls quilt and that's how I came about with my design.

Wonky swirl/pineapple blocks with dark red in the center. Shades of turquoise and royal/saphire blue for the swirl part and black print on white background fabrics for the corners of the swirl block that will create a secondary design of on point squares in between the swirl blocks. Same dark red for a 1.5" border and a white background with red and black print for a 3.5" border. Probably the same red for binding.

My laptop just quit on me so, no drawing but hope all this makes sense.


Grate ideas everyone! Amazing how each of us interpret things so differently and no one has come up with something related to each other design. This is been very educational and a great exercise for "the real thing"

You make a really great point here, Rita. There probably are two things at play here--interpretation and inspiration--and one does not necessarily have to be subservient to the other. Your point of view certainly allows for creativity to be more free from restraint, and I like that!