More quilt designs

I think I might have found a way to rescue my quilt designs from the trap of outdated software.  I have one word for you:  Adobe.  I mentioned that one of my goals this year was to learn more about illustration software, and gradually I’m hacking my way through a passing acquaintance with Illustrator and Photoshop.  I did some passable stuff for work, and am trying out some passable stuff for home, too.

The following two designs are now somewhat workable graphics, but not yet vector drawings. However, I can open them in Photoshop and play with the color, and that’s really the important stuff.  If push came to shove, I could always redraw them in Illustrator if I wanted to adjust the shapes.

These were drawn during a time that I can only describe as “obsessed with green and purple.”  Come to think of it, I’ve always liked green and purple, and my chair cushion and sewing machine cover are green and purple also.

These are not very traditional. The graphics are supposed to play tricks on the eyes.  They involve no typical blocks and have few colors.  I call the left one the Helix design and the right one Harlequin.  I’d be interested in seeing how these work in different colors, maybe even more shades of the same colors.  I’d kind of like to see Harlequin as a progression of colors from one side to the other. Which I will think more about later, having not the brain to do it now, or the patience with Photoshop..