nana pat

that sounds like a great place to start Emma S.

jillmc

I am amazed at the creativity and talent here! Following closely with hopes of jumping in soon....life has gotten in the way, but I am in need some thread therapy! Thank you all for sharing your progress!

Elisabrat

ok my big major mistake here: I posted pics from the web thinking they were public since they were put out to public viewing. I learned that they are priorty pictures of some sort and you cant post pictures just links so in the future I will be careful what I copy and paste. Lessons learned sigh. so I am sorry for this and they have been removed (darn it!).

I simply on mine for the sky cut the strips and sewed them together. when I got to the next block I just looked at what I had done and tried not to get the same color in the same area for the next strip. not hard to do at all. this way the same width and same color did not hit at the same time. I had cut tons of strips so it just involved grabbing the right one at the right time tada! the next was mixed teals for the water. I cute 2.5 inch pieces and did one row starting with a half square and the next a full square so no lines matched up. easy to sew together and then just sew strips together. that was super easy to do also. just a lot of work as with 2.5 inch squares it took 42 squares per block to sew together. that took a bit of time lol for slow poke like me! going to check out the strip piecing method mentioned with curves? that would be great for the sand that I want to do. if its truly as easy as said well here I come! but otherwise going for the wedge blocks done for the sand. love that one one too think it was posted here for sky examples by another quilter. love the ideas that everyone has. then I will get onto.. regular blocks with applique ideas for the beach. a row of buckets? a row of island flowers for sure! and so on. that will be the best finish to this quilt and well.. a test of my skills as an applique quilter! I can do it. just get the heebies when I have to do it lol.

whitepine

I guess I get pretty careless about posting pictures too. I think that because they're posted on Google images or Pinterest that it's OK to post them here. I really try to include credit and it's hard to figure out what's OK and what's not. How come Google can do it?

Anyway, I am enjoying the process of trying something new. It is different than following instructions, or a pattern, and I have no idea how it will turn out, but it's fun. And I am going to try that curvy method, maybe on water.

To answer a couple of questions, my mountains were paper pieced from a pattern from a shop hop. All my paper piecing is from patterns, not from my head. I'm no artist. And I did some ripping because I hadn't done it in a while and everything is backward, of course. And yes, that row is only 6" high because the mountains are supposed to be in the distance. The trees are next and they might be taller than the mountains. I like paper piecing because you don't have to worry about 1/4" seams. It is slow though.

Emma, the idea is the hardest part and it sounds like you already have that. What amazes me about some of the pictures on Google Images, etc., is that it only takes a suggestion of something and everybody know what it is.
I bought the Landscape Quilting book that you have, Linda, today from Connecting Threads. They are having a sale so I decided to go for it. I'll shut up now.

m-fay

Love those mountains whitepine they are so realistic

nana pat

Whitepine, don't ever shut up please, your words are a poem for others to follow and it for sure (like Linda's) encourages the likes of me who has never done an art quilt and amsqueemish at starting now. Please, all of you, keep up the chatter.

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Elisabrat

thanks for the compliments! I know its more a one dimensional quilt but now that I own that book I will post a picture at the end of the swap of the one I am going to do from the book. I will sketch it on fabric and fuse it on I think and then art quilt it (ok have someone else art quilt it chicken bock bock bock!) I want to frame one of those my kids are always fighting over who gets the cowboy print I have done with fabric. sigh. so time to make another one different scene and they can have one for each of them. TADA! no fighting over mommas things. sheesh. I have tried to go really simple here so anyone who wants to follow along can easily copy what I have done and oh the paper pieced pieces are so grand that I am sure you can get instructions if you only ask.

Emma we miss having you! your an amazing quilter and your work would be a pleasure to see. what about doing a traditional row robin and sharing your work with us? SheriR said she has a ton of row robin packages at home to do so hoping she pops in with her amazing work also. its never to early to start Christmas quilts I know groan but its true. these take a bit to put together then you have to quilt them and if you wait til Sept you end up with no time to get other things for the upcoming holidays (tons of them) so why not start NOW? I did one in the summer which was so fun to do and think early is never to early. especially if you have more than one gift to do. I am still finishing a quilt for Christmas .. groan again. it will be a Christmas gift this year for sure now. its taking me forever to do because its boring lol. its all the same colors beige and pale sage. boring! how to finish a boring quilt any answers I am all ears! two more blocks. yuck! how lame I am sorry. I should be better than that. I am not.

dfelker

Whitepine- you had me at 1/4" seams


"I like paper piecing because you don't have to worry about 1/4" seams. It is slow though."

nana pat

just lurking this afternoon, wanting to see whateveryone is doing. I've been halping with the laundry and playing ngames. No energy to think right now. Maybe later today.

whitepine

There are a lot of YouTubes , tutes and patterns all over the web on paper piecing. Best to start simple. I got pretty good at it when PokerDiva hosted the 50 paper pieced stars by Carol Doak. We did one a week for a year and I think we all got pretty tired of those stars. The worst one had 129 pieces. The hard part is visualizing in reverse. It seems like it's one of those love/hate things.

nana pat, a poem?? LOL. Thanks much, you're very kind.