Heidi Edwards Dunn
Need ways to spark your creativity?

How does creativity work for you? Is it fresh and ready each time you choose a pattern or fabrics? Or do you have to work at finding the spark again when you're starting a new project or you've been working on a quilt for a while?

Often, a spark is all it takes to reset our brains.

Need ways to spark your creativity?
Heidi Edwards Dunn
The/My creative process - and getting re-started

Does your creative process include procrastination? Why is it so hard to get re-started after a project’s completion or when circumstances change? I'm thinking about creativity and my creative process.

The/My creative process - and getting re-started
Heidi Edwards Dunn
Help on finding fabrics at the quilt shop: ...

I'm sure you love going to quilt shops. But, when you open the door and step over the threshold, are you overwhelmed by all the fabrics? There are too many possibilities! Come have a look at some ways to Prep before you head off to the quilt shop, and a Perspective to use when you arrive.

Help on finding fabrics at the quilt shop: Prep and Perspective
Heidi Edwards Dunn
Color runs in the family

Creativity takes many forms, from designing your own quilts to choosing your own fabrics for someone else's pattern, to painting or sculpting or writing. We don't have to see color and fabric in the same way in order to create amazing quilts.

Color runs in the family
Heidi Edwards Dunn
Wild colors

My son said we have "wild colors" on our walls. What color do you paint your walls to show off your quilts? What do you choose for background fabrics for your quilts? If beige is your go-to background color, I challenge you to try something different.

Wild colors

Black & White

Black & White

Happy New Year! A fresh new beginning...

I took this photo yesterday morning, looking out over my backyard, looking for sun after our first snowfall of the winter.  Found it!  And amazing shadows and backlighting behind one of our old pine trees.  My husband looked at the photo and said, "You should make a black and white quilt like that."