In debuting my new blog I want to invite you into my quilting world. I will be introducing you to some new ideas and surprises in design and quilting. We will have fun choosing fabrics for the quilt block of the day or week, we will see what the majority of you say, we are here to have fun and learn. OKAY! Here is my surprise for you, drum roll please, Please bare with me as I say Landscape Art Quilting. I know, I know, you do not think you can do this but I know you can. I have taught traditional quilters how to design and finish an art quilt in a two day class. I want to put your mind at ease and explain my theory behind you designing an art quilt, my theory is if you can take a photograph of something you really like, you can make a beautiful peice of art for your home or as gifts for the Holidays or maybe you would like to start your own little business and sell them, how wonderful would that be?
You probably have the fabrics in your stash right now to start a small art piece, I will guide you throughout the process step by step. We wil be using both sides of the fabrics, go ahead and check out some of your fabrics, they are a little lighter on the back, right? They are great to work with, if they are a little darker we can use them for a shadow, such as the underside of a leaf for contrast. We will be designing and making Impressionistic Art Quilts, just like the painters with their paint brushes dabbing on a bit of paint here and there we will be pinning small peices of fabric up on a design wall or laying flat on a table works great also, at first your don't see much but when you step back at least 6 feet it all comes into focus. This is Impressionistic Painting With Fabric. When you look at The Covered Bridge In The Fall which is the header for my blog you will see the small covered bridge, a friend gave me the covered bridge fabric and immediatly I saw this art quilt, the owl was not in it originally, but of course eventually he got to make his appearance. He was so beautiful I could not resist. There are two little birds in the scene, see if you can find them. Okay, by now you can see that I have a passion for landscape art quilting, but I also have a passion for traditional quilting, who doesn't love a half square triangle block? flying geese? courthouse steps block and of course the ever faithful, which I dearly love, The log cabin, just imagine how many different ways we can turn these blocks and get hundreds of different designs, and quilts? How many different quilts could we have, the designs are endless. So you might not agree with me, but I think we are all landscape art quilt and traditional quilters. You go to a quilt show and there are art quilts, then we stroll over to where the traditional quilts are and we have appliqued trees, flowers, people, buildings, animals etc. onto our quilts, but, just in a different way. I love our quilting world and all of the options that we have to explore what our grandmothers and grandfathers have done for centuries. As little girls my sister and I sat under a quilt at our grandmothers house that would be pulled down every week on a pulley that our grandfather must have made. We would sit under the quilt as the ladies made their tiny stitches, they would talk and laugh so hard sometimes, my sister and I wished we knew what they were talking about, but then again it is probably a good thing we didn't know. We would spend the day under the quilt playing with our dolls and eat lunch then it was time for a nap. Oh, for the good old days. I want to have a blog that is different and exciting for my guests that stop by to say hi and for the friends that want to make a tradtional quilt block or to learn how to make a landscape art quilt from their own stash. Next time I will have a small art quilt for you to check out, it is called Birches in Spring, I will have a supply list along with a photo of the finished piece. Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see and hear from you soon. Phyllis Prom
