Create Beautiful Landscape 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 Nancy Zieman her spontaneous technique many years ago, and they share their simple techniques with you 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 Nancy and Natalie focus 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, watch 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, you will also learn how to create mountains. Nancy and Natalie 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 to select fabrics, cut mountain shapes, and shade with permanent markers/oil pastels.
In the Beginning Landscape Quilting book, quilting and finishing tips for machine basting, layering, stippling, binding, and more are explained with step-by-step photos.
Watch Beginning Landscape Quilting (Part One, Part Two and Part Three) on Sewing With Nancy online.
Happy Landscape Quilting,
Team Nancy Zieman
Nancy Zieman Productions, LLC.
Anne Z
I would love to make a Spring Landscape Quilt….ready for some Spring flowers.
Susan
With living in New England, the fall provides a burst of colors all over the landscape which is truly beautiful. The inspiration from the season stimulates creativity.
Max
Living in the desert area, beauty is all around, just different for other landscapes.
CariAnn K
I would love to make a fall landscape scene. Beautiful pictures!
Laura
I’d love to capture a fall landscape first as the colors are so beautiful.
Susan T
You can’t go wrong with an Ohio fall. So many lush colors.
Julie Kill
I’d like to capture sunset in the Black Hills in Summer. Bridal Vail Fall especially!
Susie Furgason
The flowers in the meadow are breath taking!
Karen
A winter, snow scene would be the one I would like to create.
Nancy Ballard
I would like to do a coastal mountain around Sitka, Alaska.
Robin Pope
I have always been drawn to the colors of fall. They are so vibrant and yet so calming. That is the scene I will be creating.
Teresa Seaver
Living in Northern California there are so many beautiful areas. My favorite time is spring when the almonds are in bloom & surrounding fields are full of mustard blooms. I have taken many photos with plans of making a quilt. Now that I see how easy it is I would love to get started.
beth d.
Can do a spring landscape quilt, would be exciting to start one.
Vicky K.
Landscape quilting is a bit intimidating for me, but I would love to capture the Texas bluebonnets in the spring!
Diane Calvano
I’ve always loved landscape quilts but have never attempted one. Maybe with the wonderful colors of autumn in New England as inspiration, I’ll try one.
Kathryn E
I would to capture the spring flowers in a landscape quilt. I really like the freshness of spring. Hope I win.
Lynne H
The view of the mountains is intriguing all year round- I might have to make more than one quilt!
Stacy B
I would love to try landscape quilting. My subject would be spring thunderstorms over the prairie.
Pat
I would create a fall landscape quilt because I love the colors of that season.
Ms
Summer!
Carol
It would have to be fall!!! Having been raised on the east coast and now living on the west coast, I so miss those glorious colors and smells I remember growing up with.
Deborah Herold
I have to go with Spring, as I feel like its a new beginning, I get to go outside & play in the fresh cool dirt in the garden and get outside in the fresh air.
Anderson, C
Love this idea and end results. I want this skill and creative license. Help and Thanks. Beautiful!
Marty
Autumn is my favorite with limestone bluffs and their colorful trees.
JoanneTillery
Spring.
LoAnn Trowbridge
SPRING! Then Summer, Fall, and Winter.
Blueberry Mary Kubenik
Summer. How many greens can I get onto one quilt? The thought boggles my mind.
Susan Spiers
Spring – when the Bradford pear trees boom & crocuses push their way thru the soil in their beautiful color!
Carolyn Prentice
Fall would be my favorite season with its many colored leaves and hills that look like hand dyed fabric. Early Spring is my second favorite as the new plants..violets, tulips, Star of Bethlehem, Iris and Mayflowers come up through the snow. This is after a long winter and reminds you whew winter is finally over . I would love to win the Landscape book. Thanks for all Team Nancy does. I miss her so. Carolyn
Clovis
Summer with a lot of flowers.
Terra Jones
I love the Spring and Fall seasons. Probably try both.
Karen L.
I would probably want to make a Summer at the Beach scene or Fall in the mountains. Every time I see a landscape quilt, I want to go right home and make one. Thanks so much for doing this give-away.
Kirstie K
I would love to do a winter season with landscape quilt imagery. When the snow covers the land, it always looks lovely!!
Brenda Nance
Fall! I love the colors of Autumn.
Bonnye
I love spring with the many colors of green.
Marty Brunskill
Fall is the best, with all the red, yellows, and orange leaves,. I am starting to collect fabrics for one now.
kathy steere
I would make fall.
Maryann Ratchford
I would love to do all seasons starting with Spring and eventually moving through the year to winter. I think landscape quilting is incredibly beautiful and challenging. I have photographs that would be so satisfying to make into landscape quilts. Places I have been different times of the year with happy memories.
BevM
I would like to make a landscape quilt using photos from our own woods taken during all four seasons.
Solveig VanOverbeke
I would like to do a landscape quilt of Lake Superior, my most favorite place.
Ola Norman
I’d love to make a spring landscape quilt.
Judy
I would first make a fall landscape quilt.
CAROL
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ONE OF EACH SEASON INCLUDING
A VERY EARLY SPRING WITH THE START OF EMERGING BULBS
INTO GORGEOUS COLORED FLOWERS WITH SPLASHES OF
SNOW AND BRIGHT GREEN GRASS.
Gail Beam
I would love to be able to create a fall mountain scene.
Barbara Harvey
I would do a Spring Landscape quilt. I picture the Clematis, Tulips and Daffodils in the little garden I have around my Mailbox out front. Yes!
Sara
Would love to learn to landscape quilt – it looks amazing.
Sandra N
I would love to recreate a photo into a fabric landscape quilt!
Linda
I would like to make a beach scene !
Bonnie
I would love to make a landscape quilt in the beautiful colors of autumn.
Suzi Smith
it would be a challenge but a fun one!
Jeanette Tuck
I think I would like to do a spring one first and then a fall one.
Toni Leggate
Spring would be my fist choice – the season that ‘wakes me up’ and gives so much joy…
Mieke Hofman
I would like to make a spring landscape quilt
Linda Bushart
Would like to see ideas of how to do waterfalls! Thanks! Linda Bushart
Vicki
I would love to learn about landscape quilting. I just joined a guild and this year’s challenge is a landscape.
Judy Warren
I would love to do an ocean “landscape” quilt. I have a really great view of the Kohala coast of Hawaii Island (aka: The Big Island) and could segue to the ocean!
Deb C
Spring is my favorite season. Quilting it can only be fun.
Jenny Meyers
Inspired by a recent trip and hike near Taliesen West, I’d like to try a designing a spring landscape in the desert.
carolyn
Spring! I love the new leaves, the flowering trees and the spring birds that migrate thru the neighborhood.
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