Landscape Course Photos- November 24 and November 26

November 28, 2015

Linda, Mary, Jeanine, Franny, Holly, Lecko and Louise show off their landscape quilts.  Way to go !

Learning to put trees on that are stylized.

Selecting colours.

Two great courses in landscape quilting this week.  On November 24 a group of seven women gathered to learn how to do "quilt as you go" landscape quilting. We learned all the techniques and as you can see the finished products were pretty spectacular.  A quick lesson in binding and everyone should be finished up.

 

 On Wednesday I had the pleasure of working with Joni Newman of Quirks and Quilts on stained glass landscape quilting.  A group of three women met for the day long course at Muskoka Quilting in Bracebridge. For this course, we selected one of Joni's patterns, this one is Killbear Provincial Park, and learned how to applique her design onto a piece of black fabric. ( check out her Ontario provincial park series of stained glass quilts and her Postcards from Muskoka quilt on her website quirksandquilts.com)  The end result is stunning, ( I am just quiltng it now) but I am hoping to design my own stained glass landscape from a photograph.  I am already brewing ideas in my head.  Joni suggests a thick black marker and a photo is a good starting point to making your own, followed by the removal of details in the picture.  The one pictured below is one of Joni's easier stained glass quilts, having less teeny tiny pieces to applique.  Isn't it great?  Stay tuned, she is planning to teach a courseon how t designn stained glass quilts this spring at Muskoka Quilting.