Art and Stitch - Design Day 9

Played some more with the Tulips Scroll Block, this time I took the remaining tulip, duplicated it, moved it to a position I liked and used Transform Unite. I then added a hexagon and a wave hatch.

Enjoy!

 

Art and Stitch - Design Day 8

Today I opened up one of the existing block patterns in Art and Stitch - Tulips Scroll Block and decided to play with just the scroll part. Used the splice tool to isolate the part of the design I wanted and then used the magic circle to create a totally different design

Art and Stitch - Design Day 7 - Circle Play

Played with a circle and an oval with the magic circle and loved the result

And then stitched them out:

Art and Stitch - Design Day 6 - Celtic Knot

I am so excited to show my first Celtic knot since I started playing with Art and Stitch I have been trying different options on how to digitize Celtic designs. For a longarm machine the stitches of a design need to be  in a continuous path and you need to draw in the order you want the machine to sew it out.  For knots it is not always possible to identify the path without backtracking in parts. Well I tried lots of different options which looked good but stitching them out ended up with lots of oversewing and really didn't look good.
Tonight I picked a simple knot and decided to bring it in as a backdrop and trace the design, backtracking where I needed too. It took lots of attempts and lots of use of the reshape tool but I am very proud of my first Celtic Knot.

 I stitched it out on my embroidery machine and it turned out well but I did see an area that didn't quite touch correctly and was able to fix it. Must set up my longarm tomorrow with some fabric to test my designs on it also.


Here it is stitched out:

I really had a very fun Friday night and even better is that the Giants won!

Art and Stitch - Design Day 5 - playing with swirls again

So today I played with the auto shape swirl. Here is the shape I started with:

Which became this:

And then I split one swirl away to make another base shape and used the magic circle again and here is the result :

Lots of fun with swirls!

Art and Stitch - Design Day 4

Not sure what to call this today, it started out as a  kinda feather doodle.

Are they leaves or flowers?

Art and Stitch - Design Day 3 - Swan Fun!

Today's fun started out with a photograph I took of a swan on The Lough when I was at home recently. I did a post a while back about The Lough in Cork and it is one place that I always have to visit when I am in Cork.

Here is the photo that I started with:

I opened it as a backdrop in Art and Stitch and traced the swan and here is what it turned out like after much reshaping:

And here is the swan stitched out:

Not bad for a first attempt.

And then I decided to stitch it again but this time with 2 swans and my first attempt at water:

Art and Stitch - Design Day 2 - A swirl and a little magic!

So for day 2 I want to show something that can be done in 5 min

Started out with one double swirl and end up with some interesting designs

As you see above I started out with one double swirl which I duplicated, then used the Magic Circle and then Transform Artwork, Unite and the result with 6 objects and then 9 objects produced some interesting designs.

Fun! Fun!

And here one of the designs stitched out:

Art and Stitch - Design Day 1

So today's design started out as a very simple doodle

Doodle 1

Did some reshaping, duplication and connecting  = Doodle 2

Then used the Magic Square to come up with Design 1

I went back to doodle #2 and duplicated it

Hit the Magic Square again and came up with design # 2.

Just shows you how a simple doodle can become a cool quilt block design and with some quick moves in Art and Stitch you can come up with a secondary designs - the options are endless from the starting point of one simple doodle!

Art and Stitch designs

I spent two days in Salt Lake City recently where I attended a workshop for the Art and Stitch a digitizing software for longarm quilt  and embroidery designs. Loes and Theo were wonderful teachers and the Handi Quilter folks were great hosts.

Theo on his blog is drawing 50 quilt patterns in 5 months with Art and Stitch and so far he has designed some great designs. Check out his frog, his King Tut, his Jungle Fun also got some great block designs.


Theo's blog posts have inspire me to also post some designs that I have created and as tomorrow is September 1, my goal is to post at least one design each day for a month. This will challenge me to keep practicing with this new wonderful software and also provide me with some unique designs I can use on my quilts.

This should be fun!