Quilled Shapes
When I first started quilling, I made a lot of individual shapes to practice creating the forms. I kept the pieces in a box on my desk to use in my creation of other works.
I would look through them, too, to come up with ideas for cards or other projects. I liked being able to refer to them for ideas, so I made a shape board with examples of my best of each form to refer to when planning.
All quilling pieces, whether simple or complicated, are made up of these shapes!
This gray sky sunshine is one of my favorite early pieces. It uses a closed circle, some straight and bent strips of paper, as well as some scrolls.
This butterfly is an early favorite as well. The body is made with a half circle, and the head is made from a loose circle with a "v" scroll for the antennae. The wings are made with alternate-side looping, a form of husking.
Premade kits were a huge help to me when I was learning how to quill as well. I was lucky enough to find a bunch of quilling papers and kits on clearance at my local craft store when I was getting started.
After I had E, I knew I wanted to quill this to put in his room. Though I didn't manage to get around to it until he was two, he liked playing with the pieces while I was working on it, so it was worth the wait!
Recently, when going through some patterns, I found a shape chart that I really liked and decided to recreate it. The chart is based on the shape guide from Modern Quilling by Erin Curet of Little Circles, though I did rearrange some pieces and add in a few of my own as well.
