A few years ago, I combined my love of sewing with my love of puzzles and landscapes and created a Landscape Quilt. This is a quilt in the sense that it is created out of fabric where many small pieces are sewn together, backed with quilt batting and backing cloth and quilted. It is a landscape in the sense that it depicts a landscape just as if it was painted. My first Landscape Quilt was a Fall scene. The second became a Winter scene and now I have begun a Spring scene.
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| Original watercolour of Spring Garden |
The process I go through to get to the end result is most gratifying to me, however, others may find it tedious and far too much work. I usually begin with a photograph I have taken and do a watercolour painting of it to determine the composition, values and colour of the finished piece. The finished Landscape Quilt will have a similar composition, however, the colours will be more intense.
From the painting, I do a tracing of the main shapes and values and then I enlarge that tracing to the size I want the quilt to be. In this case, it will be 40" x 60.5". I then lay freezer paper over the enlarged design and start plotting how I will cut my fabric and writing colour codes on the pattern. Once the plotting is done, I can begin to cut fabric and sew it together. In my next blog, I'll describe that part of the process.
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| Fabric choices for the Spring Landscape Quilt |
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| Plotted Pattern on freezer paper for Spring Landscape Quilt |
