Where do you find your inspiration?





Bathroom Wall in a local restaurant

Jump Ropes at Field Day

Rain Boots I got from Target

T-shirt from Target

Window at the Bakken Museum

The document under this adorable dog :)

A root structure

Old piece of palm wood

A card I got from a friend



  1. Great post, Colby! After designing my last quilt, I had to scour the internet to see whether something just like it (or with a similar name) is already out there before publishing a tutorial. It made me realize how impossible the task of looking for a quilt block is (especially when so many new patterns are really old patterns already.) We can only work with honesty and integrity and hope that if something similar does already exist, people will understand or at least appreciate that we did our own due diligence ...as well as sketch/math/stitching/photography/etc. It can be nerve-racking.

  2. I have had the same anxiety about accidentally 'copying' someone's work. I know what weird nonsense spurs my ideas but there is no way to prove it. I would be afraid to ever publish a pattern or tutorial because of the public shaming and ostracizing that happens if you are a copycat. Patterns are everywhere and who knows what is truly original... Great post and super good use of a cute dog!


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