About my design notebooks

I have 2 DESIGN NOTEBOOKS... one for quilting ideas and one for apparel. Here's a page from my QUILTING design notebook...actually this is the moose quilt (see  finished quilt in my older posts).  You will notice I used a pre-printed wildlife fabric.  I didn't like the borders they came with so I applied layers of strips of fabrics over them, similar to doing a log cabin and then every other square I did a real log cabin.  This was a lot of fun.  I like to put samples of the fabrics used in each quilt, although lately I have been remiss in doing this because I am using so many different fabrics.  The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt has 111 separate, distinct blocks.  Some people try not to use the same fabric twice.  Don't know that I will be one of them.

Here's another page out of the same design book.  ON the LEFT, I keep a swatch of SOLIDS with the name brand and color since I like to do micro borders (1/2" or less wide border) on my quilts.  The RIGHT is the fabric page and quick sketch of my original design baby quilt (see my older posts).

One inch and micro borders plus unfinished binding....

This pic is from my APPAREL design notebook...sketches of ideas, patterns, fabric swatches, my croquis fashion templates, my original designs... it's got all kinds of things.