Originally Posted by
marcycn
How do you all go about taking some material and coming up with your own pattern?
Graph paper? Wing it? Or do you use a pattern you have done before?
And if you see just a picture of a quilt you like without a pattern, how do you go about doing it yourself?
I see some very creative (way beyond any of my imagination) quilts up here and can't for the life of me figure out how they were conceived. :-)
I sketch out what I want for my pattern, then take it to graph paper or sometimes just decide what size an piece should be. I'm assuming you are doing squares, triangles and rectangles.