I want to make an ART quilt
06-20-2009, 03:31 AM
#1
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Newfoundland Canada
Posts: 1,695
I want to make a quilt of this picture... but I have NO idea of how to start.
Does anyone have any tips? A link? A book you'd recommend?
This is on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland... also known as the Irish Shore in a little place called Tors Cove. We have sat there looking down at the Cribbeys ( that's the name of this tiny spot) and watched whales breach just beyond the headland. It is heaven on earth for me. And very special for my husband as his greatgrandmother was born in Tors Cove.
Does anyone have any tips? A link? A book you'd recommend?
This is on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland... also known as the Irish Shore in a little place called Tors Cove. We have sat there looking down at the Cribbeys ( that's the name of this tiny spot) and watched whales breach just beyond the headland. It is heaven on earth for me. And very special for my husband as his greatgrandmother was born in Tors Cove.
06-20-2009, 03:56 AM
#4
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sleepy Hollow, NY
Posts: 4,727
i would trace all the major elements of the picture - the house/windows/door, the road, the mountains, the hills.
then scan that into the computer, enlarge it to the size that you want the quilt to be, then print it out.
tape the pages to a light source (i use my sliding glass doors) and trace then pattern onto freeze paper or fusible web.
then you cut out the pattern pieces and adhere them to the fabric.
that landscape is beautiful and i'm sure the quilt will look great.
then scan that into the computer, enlarge it to the size that you want the quilt to be, then print it out.
tape the pages to a light source (i use my sliding glass doors) and trace then pattern onto freeze paper or fusible web.
then you cut out the pattern pieces and adhere them to the fabric.
that landscape is beautiful and i'm sure the quilt will look great.
06-20-2009, 04:22 AM
#5
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Montreal
Posts: 1,962
I have a book called Landscape Quilts, by Natalie Sewell, it's got tons of great tips and hints for your project, notes and details about fabric selection and all kinds of stuff. You should take a look at the book, even if you just leaf through it at your local bookstore.
06-20-2009, 04:30 AM
#7
Power Poster
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 18,726
Oh Mama...that will really be a beautiful quilt when you are done! Does the cute little house have special meaning to you or your DH? Klue gave you the technique that I used on my portrait quilt of my cat. Thats about as close to "landscape" as I've come.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Radiana
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
47
05-07-2011 10:50 AM
sbeddingfield
Main
16
06-05-2010 07:09 PM
Izy
Main
8
04-25-2008 08:01 AM
