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teresa_nc7

Landscape Quilt Class - Supply List

19 years ago

In preparation for our September class on Landscape Quilts here on our forum, today I'm posting the supplies you will need to make one of the class projects. Of course, you can make both the River Bend and the Sail Away small landscape quilts if you choose.

I will send the pdfs to Cannahavana (Rebecca) this week and she will put them on her web site and link to the site so you can access the files and print out the patterns.

The method I teach is from Linda Crone's book, Fabric Landscapes by Machine. She has graciously approved my teaching from her book.

If you have any questions about the supplies list, please post them on this thread and I will answer as soon as I am able.

Landscape Quilt Class - supplies needed

Purpose: In this class you will learn the basics of "building" a landscape with fabric. And, you will learn how to transpose landscapes from greeting cards, photos, and calendars into patterns for your own unique designs.

Project: You may choose a mountain lake or a river scene for your small wall quilt. Borders are added to the finished landscape, then the top, batting, and backing are sandwiched together. Minimal machine quilting holds the layers together. Binding is applied to the edges; a hanging sleeve is a convenient option and that all-important label finishes the project.

Fabrics: Look for fabrics that imitate SKY, WATER, and LAND. You can choose the natural colors of these elements, or choose colors never found in nature! Lay out the fabrics together to see that your hues blend and the scale of the prints are varied. Batiks work especially well with this technique.

Supply List:

10" x 12" piece of muslin

10" x 12" piece of stabilizer such as medium weight non-fusible interfacing

scraps of about 15 different fabrics, about 10" x 12" each  sky, sun, river, lake, 3-5 mountains, river bank, tree, foliage, boat, island depending on design

threads to match fabrics or contrast

1/2yard fusible web for applique

pattern tracing paper or plain newsprint

pencil

pins

monofilament thread for quilting, if desired,

sewing machine in good working order with any special feet or attachments for decorative stitches

basic sewing notions, including fabric and paper scissors

10" x 12" piece of thin cotton or polyester batting

Note: a machine that does decorative stitches is nice to have for this class, but zigzag stitch capability is perfectly acceptable.

Here is a pic of the Sail Away design. I will try to take a pic this week of the River Bend design and post it.


Teresa

Comments (19)

  • 19 years ago

    Thanks Teresa, I will have to check my stash and see what all I need to get!

    Sarah

  • 19 years ago

    Teresa,
    I'm looking forward to the class.

    Sally

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  • 19 years ago

    Oh, this will be fun!

    --Laura

  • 19 years ago

    Wow Teresa, you have been busy!!!!
    Thanks for all of your and Rebecca's hard work.
    Rosa

  • 19 years ago

    Here is the sample of the River Bend design:

    {{!gwi}}

  • 19 years ago

    I am excited to learn, too. Those are so neat!
    --Anne

  • 19 years ago

    I have everything already! Yipeeeee. Ready to start now.

    beverly

  • 19 years ago

    I want to join the fun too....

    Nanci

  • 19 years ago

    I am getting my supplies together!
    Suellen

  • 19 years ago

    Ooh, I love the sail away design! What should I look for in terms of "landscape fabrics."? I've seen some specific sky, water, stones, etc. I also like the look of batiks. Any hints for fabric shopping, as I'll probably pick up some things for the project. Thanks for teaching! --Amy

  • 19 years ago

    Amy and others,

    You want fabrics of different scale and varying hues for the mountains and the island in Sail Away. Batiks and tone-on-tone prints looks better than really busy, small calico prints. When you have 4 prints that you like, fan them out together against your sky and water fabrics to see if you like the combination.

    Remember, you don't need huge amounts of any fabric....only a 10" to 12" piece of each or a fat quarter of each.

    Hints as you gather your fabrics:

    Hint #1 - those white waves on the water in my Sail Away were stitched on - they're not in the water fabric.

    Hint #2 - the "babbling" brook in River Bend was made to babble with decorative stitches.

    Hint #3 - look a the distant hills behind the tree in River Bend: one is gold (a field of wheat?) and one is a very textured pebbly fabric for a nice contrast.

    Hint #4 - those rocks in the lower left corner of River Bend were cut out and placed there - some singly, others in groups. You don't have to have "rock" fabric to make rocks.

    Have fun!
    Teresa

  • 19 years ago

    Hi,
    I have a large quantity of fusible lightweight interfacing. Would I be able to use that? Just curious, why is non fusible better?

  • 19 years ago

    You can use fusible, but you want heavier for this project, not lightweight. The non-fusible is perfect for this project; when doing decorative stitches on a project, it is really preferred to have a stabilizer such as firmer, medium to heavy-weight interfacing. Also, plain interfacing is cheaper than fusible and may be less expensive than something called "stabilizer." If you are doing a lot of stitching through fusible interfacing (as this project does) your needle can get gummed up.

  • 19 years ago

    bump

  • 19 years ago

    Sorry for the dumb question, but what the heck does "bump" mean?

  • 19 years ago

    "bump" is just used to bump the message back up to the top of the forum to keep it in view of the readers. I don't know if Garden Web does it anymore, but we used to get friendly reminders that we are not to use the word "bump" to bring a message back to the top. So we started using other words, LOL!

  • 19 years ago

    Oh, you guys are so smart--I've seen it before and always wondered what it meant.

  • 19 years ago

    Your title caught my eye and I had to peek. Very interesting. I think i will have to join this class. I love the mountain scene.
    Off to gather some supplies.

  • 19 years ago

    Bringing back to top for photo reference...

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