Landscape quilting

I’m not a sketcher or very good at drawing.but I do make some rudimentary sketches for most of my landscape quilts. These are very broad and simplistic ideas of the way I want the art quilt to flow and appear. Much of what I use the sketches for is to figure the proportions of the Read the full article...

size: 12x9in Art Print: Quilted Landscape 10 by RileyB :

In our last quilt group's exhibition, everyone had to make a 80/80cm quilt inspired by a picture. Here's the photo I chose. The quilt is named "Argousier" (Buckhorn) Lors de la dernière exposition de notre groupe de patchwork on devait faire un quilt de 80/80cm en s'inspirant d'une photo. Voici l'image que j'ai choisie. Le quilt s'appelle "Argousier". Firstly I chose the fabrics in the colours of the picture. Tout d'abord j'ai choisi les tissus dans les couleurs de la photo. Then I thought…

As the fall arrives and summer winds down, I find myself thinking about images that relax me. I just finished this art quilt in early September. It transports me back to quiet afternoons at Long Beach Island in NJ with my family or visits to the Outer Banks in NC. Beaches are universal. After creating Read the full article...

Nature Scenes Archives - Pat Durbin

Make a super-simple landscape art quilt with free-motion thread sketched embellishments, regardless of whether you’re a beginner or advanced.

I had both of my Grandson's for the weekend. After they left today I went back to the studio to keep working on my pine needles. I fused the larger part of the each branch, quilt it, outline it and then stitch in the smaller branches in a variegated thread. When I have all the branches in I begin adding the needles with thread. It is a tedious process but the results are worth it. I keep my sketch of the short needle pine close by so I remember the layout of its branches. It is below zero…

size: 12x9in Art Print: Quilted Autumn Landscape 4 by RileyB :