I’ve decided it’s ok to doodle on fabric. I love to machine quilt but sometimes I’m in between projects so that’s when I love to play with scraps of muslin and just go to town!
I keep a bunch of scraps on hand so I can mess around with thread, tension, and batting before I move onto my quilt. I can mark a motif with a stencil and see how it will stitch up.
I tried pebbles, free-form feathers, paisleys, wavy lines, and – oh yeah – stippling! I wanted to see if I could get a trapunto effect by quilting a motif and filling in the background.
If I see a design I want to try, I just grab a scrap and quilt away. I called this post stipple practice but it’s really a good idea to try out ANY design on a “fabric sandwich” first.
How a bout a touch of color – what will that look like? These little pieces are for nothing but my own pure enjoyment. They are fun to look at when I want a visual feast and I plan on incorporating the designs into quilts in the future. Whew, that was fun!
Christa Quilts 
I love your doodling. I also try to play with little squares when I can. My little squares usually look pretty good. I have a hard transferring that to a real quilt! Practice..practice..practice!
This is wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing these various designs. I have learned so much from you.
Love your quilting – very creative! Especially like the paisley one.
I love the idea of doodling…..I have several tops that I’d like to doodle but I feel like I don’t have enough patterns in my head yet to try it.
It’s like doodling on fabric!
I love your projects and ideas~ that is great to doodle with the thread and just have at it! Love your designs too.
I’m envisioning all kinds of different projects that could incorporate those fabulous little samples into something really beautiful once there are enough of them!