landscape quilt

Gaia Speaks from Ann Quilts

Late one winter night, I was walking in my neighborhood park, thinking sadly about how wantonly we are treating our beautiful planet. These words then came into my mind:

I have love for you
Love each other
Go slow
Be kind
See the Cycles
Be of the Planet

I knew I needed to make this experience into a quilt.

I made multiple sketches, maybe for about a year. Many of them were trying to do too much at once - showing different biomes and figures cut from animal prints, etc. I settled on a landscape that would be simple enough to ...

added by Ann 3 weeks, 1 day ago. under applique , art quilts , design process , embroidery , gaia , landscape quilt , planet earth , planet quilt , visionary art

A New Adventure from twiddletails

In 2022, we built a new home. We love it, but old "stuff" doesn't always fit into a new place and we now have an empty space above our fireplace and nothing to fill it with.

Even though I do not consider myself an artist AT ALL, I thought I'd try to make a little something to fill the area while we search for the perfect piece of art.

Something neutral and unobtrusive...

Apparently, I don't do "neutral and unobtrusive" very well.

This may be a forerunner to the final product, but I am loving the process ...

added by Anina 1 year ago. under art quilt , decorating with quilts , landscape quilt

A Wedding in Italy from Ann Quilts

A flash of inspiration birthed this quilt. It celebrates the wedding of two of my daughter's super super good friends.

They married last fall with a destination wedding in Italy, a gorgeous setting. This quilt is my rendition of a photo taken on The Day.

The inspiration continued throughout the design and construction. Having decided on the layout, and enlarged and traced the photo, I had my pattern.

Then I started choosing the fabrics. The right ones just flew into my hands. I made only one edit!

That's a pretty good omen, don't you think?

Construction details ...

added by Ann 1 year, 8 months ago. under art quilts , fabric collage , italy , landscape quilt , wedding quilt

Combining Art Quilting Techniques from Mulberry Patch Quilts

When you have an idea in mind for your art quilt, often combining techniques you’ve learned along the way and a little experimentation will help you reach your goal.

My goal for this small landscape art quilt was to recreate a scene of our Capitol shown in the distance through the autumn leaves. The fall season is my favorite, and so beautiful at the UW-Madison with the variety of trees and colors. Having worked in the heart of this beautiful campus for many years, I’ve had many opportunities to view it.

So how do I begin to reach ...

added by mulberrypatchquilts 2 years, 4 months ago. under art quilt , art quilt process , art quilting , art quilts , confetti quilting , fiber art , landscape quilt , mulberry patch quilts , my new quilts--the process , quilt tutorial , quilted art , quilted wall hanging , quilting , quilts (Comments)

Silhouette Art quilt: Project Quilting 13.2 from Mulberry Patch Quilts

The challenge for this week’s Project Quilting Season 13.2 inspired me: “In Silhouette”. Participants have only a week to begin and finish a quilted item for the challenge, and it took me a few days just to come up with the idea.

But once I did get the idea, I was off and running or should I say off and sewing)! I found the perfect fabric for the background from my stash of hand dyed and painted fabric. It reminded me of a sunset.

I free motion quilted the background first using a variety of variegated threads. Next ...

added by mulberrypatchquilts 3 years ago. under #pqseason13 , #projectquilting , art quilt , art quilt process , art quilting , art quilts , landscape quilt , mulberry patch quilts , patchwork , project quilting , project quilting challenge , quilted wall hanging , quilting , quilting process , technique , uncategorized (Comments)

Art Quilting Class: Dream Come True from Mulberry Patch Quilts

Ever since I first saw her art work on Quilting Arts TV, and her articles in Quilting Arts Magazine, I’ve dreamed of taking a workshop from Ann Loveless.

Well last Saturday that dream came true — thanks to a workshop given by our very own Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Art. So Off I went on a road-trip to historic Cedarburg WI.

***We were also treated to view the museum’s current exhibition of quilts by artist Victoria Findlay Wolfe***

The workshop was given in their historic barn. A beautiful space below the museum and gift shop with ...

added by mulberrypatchquilts 3 years, 3 months ago. under ann loveless , art quilt , art quilting , batik fabrics , fiber art , landscape quilt , mosaic landscape quilt , mulberry patch quilts , quilting , quilting road trips , wisconsin museum of quilts and fiber art (Comments)

Workshop with Gloria Loughman from Sew Preeti Quilts

More often than not, quilt guild workshops are on weekdays and are not conducive to those of us not yet retired from our day jobs. But when the guild arranged a two-part workshop with Gloria Loughman on two weekends (9/11 and 9/18), I wasted no time and signed up for it.

I bought the recommended pattern and downloaded the instructions. I watched the videos and read the downloaded pattern sheets. That was in July.

Come September, I am buried deep in Island Batik October Challenge. It has been rather all-consuming.

Improvisational Piecing

Iberian Lynx Silhouette

So when the ...

added by Preeti 3 years, 4 months ago. under art quilt , gloria loughman , gul mohar , iberian lynx , island batik , landscape quilt , light up your landscape , value , wall quilt , workshop , workshop quilt

Dreaming of a Vacation Art Quilt: Project Quilting from Mulberry Patch Quilts

We’ve got mounds of snow outside, temps below zero, and covid all keeping us at home. So when Project Quilting announced it’s challenge theme of Virtual Vacation, I was on board! It was so nice to dream of a vacation while thinking about a quilt to make for the contest.

You’d think I’d be dreaming up a vacation to Florida, sunny Hawaii, or some other place warm. But I happened to see a photo on Pinterest of the Bayfield Wisconsin area in our beautiful northern Wisconsin winter, and it reminded me how much I miss our ...

added by mulberrypatchquilts 3 years, 11 months ago. under #projectquilting , art quilt , art quilt process , art quilting , art quilts , landscape quilt , mulberry patch quilts , painting on fabric , project quilting , project quilting challenge , quilting , quilting process , quilts , soft pastels on fabric , technique , wisconsin (Comments)

My Favorite Thing from Meena Schaldenbrand

added by Meena 5 years, 3 months ago. under fabric postcard , landscape , landscape quilt , postcard , reading , sunset landscape

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