This is my first quilled design. Like all newbie’s I started
with flowery pattern. Well, it took longer than I anticipated, but
finally, it is completed J.
Usually, it is recommended that the sketch of the design
should be made before you start quelling it. So that there will be minimal
errors. But since I am just a beginner, I had to try creating simple basic shapes.
So I went on creating the shapes, glued them together to form elements like
flower and leaves. And when I was satisfied with the number of flowers and
leaves I had, I tried different possible arrangements with them and finally ended
up arranging them in a circular design.
Before I started quilling for this, I went through number of
blogs and sites to learn basics of quilling and to get simple design ideas. The
flowers with rain drop petals and big leaves using 5 marquise (eye) shapes
caught my attention, hence I tried making those first. For now the only
quilling tool I have is a slotted needle. I don’t have the stencil (it’s next
thing on my wishlist J)
so the petals and leaves are not identical in sizes and hence shapes. I had
prepared one temporary quilling pad by wrapping a small rectangular cardboard
inside a glossy white paper. But I did not find a good background with nice
color to hold my design so I used my ‘quilling pad’ as a background. J
Here is the complete view.
Thanks for visiting.
