Mt Washington–inspiration everywhere
Creativity is like bunnies. All you need is two and a little bit of time, and then you have LOTS, it just takes (ahem) practice. Even in the few buildings and spaces of the top of Mount Washington and the observatory, I found lots of inspiration. There is an OLD building half dug into the rocky top of the mountain that used to be an old hotel. Inside were these gems….
An old lamp:
Wouldn’t that scrollwork and fill-pattern be wonderful in an applique or a quilting design?
And the woodstove…the top:
and the front…what a design!:
Then there are the converging lines of the observatory rooftop / pavers, with the guys at the railing:
Then there’s that cairn of rocks….
Repeating lines in the stairs:
And the stairs from the parking area up to the observatory from the side:
A grate over that stream by the entrance (with part of my shadow):
The screen in the Japanese (!!!) restaurant in Gorham:
Repeat after me: harmony, rhythm, repetition…. and again but in circles:
I love that photo…the contrast of the red and black, the dark of the background/ceiling, the lines in the lanterns, the round shapes….
It all goes to prove that there are ideas for quilts, applique, piecing and quilting design EVERYWHERE…. once you get into the habit of actually SEEING what is there, instead of passively looking and absorbing, you can find inspiration all over the place…. the creativity breeds like bunnies….. the trick of course is weeding out the good ideas from the bad, but that’s another blogpost entirely!