Combine Photos to Create Quilts
Landscape quilting breaks many quilting rules and is quite liberating as a result. It’s okay to cut inaccurately, in fact, it’s often recommended. Glue sticks are used instead of pins, and the pattern is not a pattern at all, just a photo! Natalie Sewell taught me her spontaneous technique many years ago, and I haven’t stopped quilting since. She’s back to give simple techniques on Beginning Landscape Quilting Part Three on Sewing With Nancy.
After making hundreds of landscape quilts, Natalie has learned to fine-tune the process. In this series we’re focusing on specific elements within scenes. In the quilt, Prairie, you’ll see distant and close-up coneflowers. Designing a scene such as this might seem daunting, yet you’ll soon learn how you too can become a landscape quilter.
In Beginning Landscape Quilting Part Three, we share how to create the flowers in this prairie scene.
You’ll learn how to select fabrics, creatively cut blooms, and accent flowers with fabric markers.
In Beginning Landscape Quilting Part Three, we also share how to create mountains. We used two inspirational photos to create the quilt titled Rocky Mountain Summer.
Hand dyed fabrics, permanent fabric markers, and oil pastels are the needed elements to create the majestic mountain in fabric. See how we select fabrics, cut mountain shapes, and shade with permanent markers/oil pastels.
In the Beginning Landscape Quilting book, we share quilting and finishing tips for machine basting, layering, stippling, binding, and more.
Watch Beginning Landscape Quilting (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three) on Sewing With Nancy online.
Now that you’ve seen how easy it is to dive into landscape quilting, which season would you most like to capture in landscape quilt imagery? Leave your answer in the comment section below for a chance to win a copy of the book Beginning Landscape Quilting. One winner will be randomly selected.
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Marsha Dimond
This process looks less intimidating with Nancy & Natalie’s step-by-step instructions. I would do an autumn or seascape scene.
Clovis
I bet any season would look good.
Ilana
I’d love to do a Spring quilt of our glorious California Poppies in bloom.
Vicki
I’ve always wanted to try landscape quilting. Stash fabric awaits for the project. This would be enormously helpful as I don’t know where to start or anything. Thanks!
BevM
I would love to create a fall landscape quilt with a scene from our 65 acre woods.
Susan Spiers
I would do Winter-visiting with my daughter in Michigan reminded me how beautiful snow collecting on the trees & bushes can be! Thank you, Susan
Gloria Edmiston
I like the beginning of new things so I would choose spring with all the different colors of new plant and tree life.
Bonnye
I would love to make a aprons landscape. It is really pretty here in PA.
Cathy from KY
Autumn because of the beautiful colors. I also love the beach, it’s so calming.
Just finished Seams Unlikely. Enjoyed reading every page.
Cindy M
I’d love to make a 4 season collage! Love your video!!
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Gina M
It would be fun to make four of the ‘same’ landscape, one in EACH season! … and rotate the seasonal display.
Robin
I’d love to capture old wooden boats next to the seashore.
Sandra
Fall, my favorite season!
Jade
I would do a fall landscape especially since I am moving from Wisconsin to Arizona and the beauty of fall is one this I will really miss…what better way to capture the memory, than make a quilt!
Chris Vick
I would like to create spring scenes, flowers blooming and nature waking up from winter
Denise T Vinson
I would make a Spring landscape with Mountains in background and fields of flowers. I would love to have your books to learn the process. Thank you for this opportunity.
Kimberley
I think I would create a spring landscape. I love to see the trees and flowers come back to life.
Roberta A.
This is something I would like to try. It’s so beautiful. I think I would do a beach scene or spring.
Diana W.
Here in Oregon, everything in spring is so pretty, bright, different shades of green on the hills and fields, flowers blooming in so many places, and Mt. Hood gleaming with new snow above it all – that would be fun to pull into a landscape picture.
Julie Kill
I SO (SEW) want to do this! I SEW would like to win this book!
I would do: Duluth MN during all 4 seasons!- a lake shore picture with the caves and trees.
The Black Hills (Bridal Veil Falls area) in the Summer with the morning or evening sun shining on the falls and the rocks!
THANK YOU for more helpful, easy ways to do things we want to do, but don’t have time/ or maybe knowledge to figure out.
Pat
I would love to do a landscape quilt showing the fall colors of the Door Peninsula. The combination of the warm earth tones of the trees and the blues of the lake waters would be such fun to do. Thanks for this series that makes me believe I could do this!
Sandra
Although fall is my favorite season, my favorite colors are in the blue & green ranges so I would look for an opportunity that would incorporate them to the best advantage so I’m thinking summer.
Grace Niederlehner
I have taken many fall sunrises from my deck. I would love to be able to make a landscape quilt from one of them. I also want to make a landscape quilt from photos I took on our Alaskan trip in the summer of 2010. I took over 6000 pictures that summer from June to September as we drove all over Alaska.
Kathie R
Spring – when everything is green, and the tulips and daffodils are in full bloom. Especially the beautiful scenic areas near where I live!
Twyla
I would like to try a fall sunset scene. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Janice Williamson
I love spring and fall. I would like to do a fall scene, using all the beautiful colors of the peak of fall. I think the landscape quilts are beautiful. It is like painting with fabric! In fact I just bought some landscape fat quarters in hopes of making at least a block. I have watched Sewing With Nancy for years. I love it!!
Jean GB
Fall is my favorite time of year but there is this fungus that goes on a stump in my back yard in the spring that is really cool. Would love to capture it in a quilt.
Kelly Sas
I know you asked for a season, but I have been wanting to do a landscape quilt for years of the desert in Arizona. I even have lots of fabric I purchased for this, but like you said it seems daunting. This series has been so very helpful and I know Beginning Landscape Quilting would also.
Valerie Thompson
I grew up in Arizona so I would love to do a spring desert landscape because the desert is sooo beautiful after one of our rare heavy rains in the early spring I’ve wanted to capture it for many years now is my chance. Thank you for a chance to win your book Beginning Landscape Quilting
Ennis A
Love this!!! Fall is the season that I would begin with!! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!!
Mary Wright
I would choose Autumn, my favourite time of year! Love the brilliant colours of the maple leaves.
Joyce
I love the colors of Fall, but Spring tulips are a very close second choice.
Cassy L.
The spring season has arrived where I live so that is calling to me right now!
Martha Hood
Would love to do the Winter one- mountains of Colorado in the winter – with all the snow covering the mountains and the aspen trees- thanks
Peggy Underhill
I’ve worked my way through the first book, and now can’t wait to try these new techniques. Thanks for the inspiration.
Maria R
I would love to try a fall mountain scene. Looks like a fantastic book. Keeping my fingers crossed
Angela Curtis
I would try an autumn scene first. I love the warm colors of fall. Thanks for such clear instructions as always.
Renee Shelhamer
I would love to do a landscape quilt of my home and yard in autumn. I have watched Nancy and Natalie and they make it look almost easy.
Pat
I love landscape quilting but am hesitant to begin. Thanks for the instruction and encouragement.
Marty
Love to do a 4 seasons of a fjord in Norway!
Barbara harvey
I love summer or spring. I would enjoy flowers in my landscape quilt. Thank you!
Ellen
Spring time in the Rockies . Really like the ones you have made together!
What fun Nancy.
Nancy Becker
After a visit to the poppy preserve in Lancaster CA this spring, I would love to recreate one of the best photos as a great remembrance.
Joyce Burns
I would like to try a summer storm.
Sandy Trachsel
Definitely fall! These quilts are really beautiful!
Nancy Runnels
I have a photo of sunset over the Great Lakes and would love to create it in fabric for the center of a quilt for my niece. i really need help to create depth, use of fusible, and cutting.
This book could save me. Good luck all. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Lynne Hoyt
I would love to make a wallhanging of the high desert in the Spring.
Debra
I’m thinking I’d like to try a winter landscape- I have some nice black and white photos to use as inspiration. A seascape with some of my photos from trips to MN North shore would also be lovely experience. Choices….
Doris Carbone
Winter would be a challenge for me.
Would love to paint w/fabric.
The ice, shadows of snow, the “the blue cast. Thank you.
Mary Ellen
Spring is my favorite season because it makes me happy. The flowers are so beautiful in their magenta, yellows, blues, with white flowers setting them up to sparkle.
Can’t you just see the beautiful quilt that can be made?
Pat
Spring – everything is so fresh green and colourful when blooms start erupting – and I’ve always wanted to try and capture those images in a landscape quilt!
Judy
I have wanted to try this for years and have many fabrics gathered to use for a variety of landscape quilts. I’d probably start with a spring scene as that is my favorite time of year but I must also have four seasons in my life. Winning this book would get me started.
Pauline Dean
I would love to make a fall scene. I just love all the beautiful colors of fall when all the leaves start changing color. I’ve always wanted to make a landscape quilt and never knew how to start. This book would be perfect. Your videos are great you make it look so easy to do. Can’t wait to give it a try.
Rose
Fall and Spring are my favorite seasons in that order. If I had to pick just one, it would be fall. I love the rich vibrant fall colors. Mountains, a lake and various colored trees would be in my landscape quilt.
mary m young
I did a four season wall hanging. Each square had the same pieced tree with the fabric corresponding to the season.
Pretty cool. I had it professionally quilted which gave it
interesting texture.
mary m young
I did a four season hanging quilt. Each square consisted of a pieced tree with corresponding fabric for the season. Very
cool. I had it professionally quilted so it has lots of interesting texture.
Margaret Morton
I’m anxious to do a summer view of a river scene I love in Montana.
HELEN CONACHAN
Thank you for your encouragement. This would be a new and exciting endeavor for me. Looks so much easier than I thought it would be.
Linda
You always make projects easier. I would attempt a springtime landscape quilt first because I love the fresh colors of spring. Thanks for the giveaway!
Jackie L Fife
Fall has the colors I love. The oranges, taupes, browns, and reds. I choose Autumn!
Sunni
Spring! Everything is fresh and new….but how does one draw the line with so many flowers and colors?! Can’t wait to start cutting fabric.
Linda
Love making quilts out of favorite places pictures
Anne Z
I would love to make a Fall quilt. I just love the colorful fall foliage.
Gail Hendershot
I like the spring flowers on dogwood and redbud trees mixed with all the different shades of green.
Sue Proffitt
Our Quilting Guild brought in a teacher for a Landscape Quilting class. I now have one finished and framed on the wall and another in progress. I love the concept and will buy the book soon. Thank you.
Michelle Hall
I think I would like to try doing a Spring Quilt
Diana
I love the spring colors! Pastels and medium shades are perfect when you’ve had white winters.
bonnie glover
Landscapes are my favorite quilts to do thanks for inspiring me as you always do
Beverley Hancox
Wow, hard to pick just one season, guess I would have to do all four here in our beautiful Finger Lakes in upstate New York.
Lisann Durm
I have always wanted to try a landscape quilt. I never go for easy in anything I do. For me, I would pick winter. I have no picture in mind but if I did it would be of the first fallen snow on the earth. Be it the ground, trees, bushes or mountains. How beautiful that would be. Thank you for the opportunity to win your book.
Terri Alsobrook
I would like to try a few scenes from around the Captiva Island, Florida area. It holds special meaning for my in laws, who have vacationed there in May for over 20 years. I’d try to do a scene w the lime greens of the waters w palms and pale blues of the sky. I’d also like to try a scene of a tarpon or snook bursting forth from the water to shake the jig loose from it’s jaws. I’m intrigued that disparate fabrics can be utilized to create something so totally unrelated. Maybe the random pearlescent sequin could serve as a large scale, glinting in the sunlight.
Thank you for your many videos, your style, and this opportunity.
Carol
The spring season with its glorious colors would be my choice.
Sharon Mastrangelp
I have a picture I took of a very old dead tree I took a few years ago that needs to be made into a quilt.
Sherry Campbell
I have just finished my first quilting-applique- machine embroidery-painting projects-3 to be exact.
I didn’t think I would be fond of applique faces so I painted them. I had no white fabric paint so I mixed the skin tones with acrylic paint. As I will probably framed them in oval frames-I am wondering what the paint will do? They are lace ladies somewhat Victorian Ladies. I have never attempted to applique and new at sewing in general.
Thank you,
Sherry
Lisann Durm
Taking part in making any pictorial quilt would be truly fascinating. Its also on my bucket list of things to do, make and accomplish. I think they are amazingly. beautiful.
Angie Larsen
I’m looking for a new sewing/crafting challenge! This looks like it might be it! Not really into quilting. …too many rules 🙂 I’m more of a free spirit!
Karen, Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats
When I first saw this quilt in my Facebook feed, I said “I want to make this one.” I’ve got several coneflower pictures so I’ll be digging thru the computer files and boxes of older prints looking for that summer scene. Thanks for the chance to win these directions.