Originally Posted by Georgette
Your quilt is beautiful. I just purchased some books to learn to do pictorial or landscape quilts. I hope some day I can make some as nice as yours. Did you use a kit or is this all your own design? Either way your friend will love it.
Georgette
Thank you, Georgette. I am a huge fan of Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell, authors of "The Art of Landscape Quilting," and who have demonstrated their techniques on "Sewing with Nancy" on PBS. All my landscape and seascape quilts were inspired by them. Once you know the basic principles, you add your own style and touch to your art quilts. They seem to have a life of their own once you begin the creative process. So, no, this was not a kit, which would be too restrictive and predetermined.
The hardest part of a landscape or seascape quilt is fabric selection because you have to have the right values, hue and scale for all the various elements you will be collaging. Did I mention it helps to have a huge fabric stash? Construction and quilting are the easy part after that. All of this is challenging but, oh, so much fun!
You can do it, Georgette!