FMQ, seeing inspiration everywhere
 

We went to dinner on Monday, to a Celtic pub. I may have embarrassed DH a little by taking a photo of the menu. No, I wasn't going to post it on UrbanSpoon, or whatever. The Celtic Knot looked like something I might be able to FMQ....

Then there were the 2 pictures I took at the veterinarian...

I am a little ashamed to say, I never saw any of this before I read one of Karen McTavish's books. She said you should be able to find it everywhere. She's right.

Where are other people finding non-traditional inspiration?

i've been looking at floors for over 40 yrs now.

Yes, I see ideas in floors too!

Floors for sure. I have lots of pictures.

Know what you mean...my granddaughters year book cover, a travel bag fabric, design on the lampshade, etc!!

I just step outside into my church of nature and look around. If I see something of interest I take a photo with my camera phone. May be some one or some thing.

One time we were out of town with our son at a soccer tournament. I 'had' to run back in..supposedly to get something I forgot. What did I forget? To take a picture of the wall of the elevator! GREAT freemotion idea! lolol

I just got back from NYC and have 187 pics on my iphone! Mostly of ideas for quilting I got from architecture. Inspiration is everywhere!

I was in Italy a couple of years ago....went into instant sensory overload the minute we stepped off the plane and into the airport, and it was downhill from there! I have never been so overwhelmed with design choices - everywhere - as I was, there! And we won't even go into what the Sistine Chapel did to me....:)

Isn't that funny, floors hadn't occurred to me, but yes, there would be some great patterns. We've laid tile in various places of the house. One of my favorites is the bathroom counter. I did it in tumbled marble tiles, and made them look like a cobblestone street. Some of the architecture in the older cities is gorgeous. I could definitely see inspiration there. And in the stained glass and such in some of the chapels.... oooh.