Learn how to make a landscape quilt from a photograph or your own sketch.
This is so easy you will wonder why you have not done it before. It is
so exciting to have a scene pop forth in fabric of a picture you loved.
This will include discussions of ways to interpret your picture,
choosing fabrics and techniques and an introduction to thread painting.
The lesson starts:
A lot of nice pictures. Which one should you choose?
Sometimes it is an easy choice. The first landscape quilt I made from a
photo was like that for me. It is a monument on a very high Norwegian
pass. From the moment I first saw it., I could not forget it. It was put
there for an art celebration in connection with the Lillehammer
Olympics. There was something so perfect about being able to use the
monument to frame a select view that I wanted to capture it in fabric.
Since that time, I have made several other landscape wallhangings from
photos, but that one really has haunted me. I never quite found the
perfect subject after that. I did a seascape, several African landscapes
based on Pete's Pond in Botswana, but much of those I made up elements
of them to make a picture the way I wanted it to be.
Last Labor Day, we were going up to see Mount St Helens and I was taking
my usual barn pictures every few miles, when I yelled for my husband to
stop as the barn came into view. He turned around and found a safe place
to stop and I took about 10 photos of the field and sometimes including
the barn.
At last. I knew that I had found that one in a thousand picture again.
Now which of the 10 pictures was the 1 in a 1000. I first thought it was
Photo C, my first one. I even cropped it and straightened it slightly,
not quite what I wanted. Photo D lacked the presence of the big barn, I
had a number of pictures of the fields without the barn, but I felt it
was the barn in the field that made the picture. Picture B is too close
and misses the drama of the expansive color around the barn......
So the dialog goes as we discuss how to pick and a picture and what to
include in the quilt. The lessons go on to a step by step procedure for
turning a picture into a quilt, using the picture I chose as an example.
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