Landscape quilts ideas

I'm doing a happy dance today because after two three (!) years, I have a finish: My Lake Michigan Quilt, or as we say in all of our state's ads about things we like, MI Lake Michigan Quilt. I was under the MIstaken (get it?) impression that it took me two years until I looked up my old posts this week and found out that I started it in MId-October 2015. It's as old as one of MI grandsons. I won't put all the links in here of posts along the way, but if you'd like to read them, click on the…

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...

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...

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...

A beautiful landscape that can be done in so many colors. Use that awesome sky fabric that you have in your stash and were waiting for the right project to use it on. Made as printed this landscape is 16 inches wide by 11 inches long which is fairly small but it can be enlarged to any size. Enlarge by 150% to make it 23” wide by 19” long. If enlarged 200% the size is 33 inches wide by by 28” long. The pattern is already reversed and the directions give a step by step tutorial including 17…

Do you have ideas in your head but you struggle to complete them using traditional quilting methods? This class introduces you to some new techniques and products to make your landscapes sing. #landscape quilts #art quilts #quilting class #quilting tutorial #paint on fabric #artfulquiltingandsewing

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Joyce Becker was attracted to quilting and discovered landscape quilts. Inspired by the nature around her she creates art with fabrics.

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

Watch nine months of quilt-making condensed into 3.5 minutes in Canadian textile artist Laurie Swim's studio.