Landscape quilting ideas

Creating a landscape quilt from a photo my husband sent me from one of his bike rides on Kelly Drive. See the process.

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

I wanted to share how I make my painted and applique landscape wall hanging. It's a class I have taught to my junior quilters and wish to teach it again. Below are photos of the progress of the quilt from photograph or image, painted background, added fabric details and then finished quilt a

Landscape quilts were very popular several years ago, and are still fun to try now. Most of these early landscape quilts were made using "strips of fabric" sewn edge to edge arranged by the colors of the sky to the ground. These quilts...

June Dudley makes a water landscape with small strips of fabric. She teaches you how to gather fabrics with a variety of strips to get what you want, and goes into detail about why water color changes and how to make sure your fabric is in order of lightest to darkest value using a black and white photo copy of her fabric.

Discover stunning Northern Lights Quilt Patterns in our roundup. Capture the magic of the aurora borealis in your next quilting project!

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking and teaching at Hexagon Quilters in Reading. I had a great time and was made to feel very w...

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...

Freestyle applique leaves you with a million raw edges. And then, when it’s time for machine quilting, you have to carefully stitch along the perimeter of each piece. Frankly, it cramps my “free” style. Today I’ll show you how to add a layer of nylon netting over your quilt top. It’ll hold everything in place so your stitch patterns can be wild and free. Click HERE to watch the vid!

June Dudley makes a water landscape with small strips of fabric. She teaches you how to gather fabrics with a variety of strips to get what you want, and goes into detail about why water color changes and how to make sure your fabric is in order of lightest to darkest value using a black and white photo copy of her fabric.

Watch this free video for some great ideas on choosing colors and design ideas for your landscape quilts. #landscape quilts #quilting tutorial #quilting video #quilting classes #artfulquiltingandsewing

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Today we honor our dear friend, Natalie Sewell, who passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. Natalie was a talented artist and an inspiration to us all. http://www.nancyzieman.com/blog/sewing-general/beginning-landscape-quilting-part-one/ https://video.wpt.org/video/wpt-presents-treasured-quilts-wisconsin/ #NZPBlog #NatalieSewell #LandscapeQuilting

I enjoy quilting from a pattern, but my first love is freestyle applique. I let my imagination take the wheel as scraps of fabric are transformed into a totally unique scene.

​Have you ever wanted to try art quilting but don’t know where to start? I have a few easy ways to help get you over the hurdle of getting going! I have lots of tricks for making projects that...

Three finished projects to start off the new year! Project #1: Hilde Morin workshop - January 16 & 17 Six of us - Marti, Janet, Ann, ...

There's an imminent new arrival in our extended family, so it's time for me to get working on another version of my baby beach scenes. Simon suggested I incorporate surfing since the father is a keen surfer. That was the starting point for my designing, anyway. I ended up with this row of (potentially surfable?!) waves which will go across the top of the reef/water section, and I started by piecing them. I divided the waves into organic shapes, much like those I used in the much larger…

During the three-part series, we take a simplified approach to landscape quilting. It's all about trees—dark-shaded trees, light-colored tress, snow-accented

Get a peek into an Atlantic Canada quilt-maker's studio and quilt-making process. Watch a sped-up view of the making of a landscape quilt from start to finish. #quilts #LandscapeQuilts #AtlanticCanadaQuilts #MapQuilts #PiecedQuilts #ArtQuilts #QuiltPictures #3DQuilts #QuiltsCanada #PeggysCove #NovaScotiaQuilts