I thought I would post a sneak preview of a mixed media piece my daughter and I are working on. It is a landscape quilt around a felted piece. I did the landscape with quilting fabrics and my daughter needle felted the house. The foreground tree and the children are appliqued. I have yet to quilt it, but that is tomorrow's project.
To make it, I first drew the house on the quilt batting. I then used a quilt as you go technique to attach the snow and trees. The snow was made from several white and slightly off white fabrics. I tried to keep the sky consistently blue within a limited range of colour. The actual house, on which the landscape is based, has large trees surrounding it and in the afternoon the shadows reaching toward the house are dramatic. In the waning sunshine at the end of the day the shadows always appear blue or purplish. I think the windows should cast a yellowish haze, for warmth, but my daughter thought otherwise. I may have to change that. My sensibility says that purple and yellow and blues go wonderfully together and will give warmth and cohesion to the picture. I may have to compromise with just a few yellow glows in the windows.
You can felt through the quilt batting or through the fabric. This makes for crisp edges and a house that pops every so slightly out of the background. In the end we plan on wood framing this piece but probably without glass. There is a story to tell about this landscape, but because it is going to be a gift I will save the story until it is given. If you are looking for felt roving in wonderful colours, Pondering Rock Farm in Rosseau, Ontario, owned by Heather Darlington is the place to go. She dyes her own wool and you can meet and greet the sheep that so generously donate their fleece to be turned into roving. I love visiting and purchasing her terrific colours. If I only had more time....
Here is the landscape - remember it is not yet quilted or bound and the pieces are still waiting to be appliqued.
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