Landscape Quilts

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

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...

How to Design a Simple Art Quilt. Create an image and make it into an Art Quilt. Fabric scrap and fusible web will make it simple and quick

This post demonstrates the process of creating an art quilt from a photograph. Consider the play of light and shadow as you go about creating your work. #art quilt #landscape quilt #quilting tutorial #textile art #artfulquiltingandsewing

Hand made Quilts are attractive, functional & therapeutic to create or appreciate. These are some of the most amazing quilts I've ever seen

Learn how to make landscapes using small strips of fabric with this strip quilting idea from National Quilters Circle

Gotta Dance! I finished my quilt and shipped it off to Colorado for photography yesterday. (Scary!) Lori from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine saw a pic of my quilt on facebook and wanted me to ship it to her for possibly putting it in their magazine. Soooo, within a day of finishing the faced binding, I was removing all the cat hair and fashioning a shipping tube. Then I filled out the entry form for the National Quilt Museum's New Quilts from Old Favorites contest and saw the date I'll get my…

The Smokey Mountains art quilt by Joyce Becker; Landscape quilt artist Joyce Becker has had the good fortune to find a creative outlet that continues to offer her endless inspiration for art quilts, workshops and books that share her techniques with others.

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...

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...