The 10 best landscape quilts for 2022
Finding the best landscape quilts suitable for your needs isnt easy. With hundreds of choices can distract you. Knowing whats bad and whats good can be something of a minefield. In this article, weve done the hard work for you.
Best landscape quilts
1. Lovely Landscape Quilts: Using Strings and Scraps to Piece and Applique Scenic Quilts
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Fons PorterDescription
Create beautiful landscape quilts using strips and scraps with these 15 lovely projects!
In Lovely Landscape Quilts, Cathy Geier walks you through the process of creating amazing landscape quilts using simple techniques that anyone can try. Learn how to find inspiration and choose your fabrics, how to design and lay out your quilt, and how to use angles to create skies, water, hills and mountains. Learn tricks for embellishing your quilts with applique, marker and fabric to create shadows and highlights that will give your landscape quilts depth and perspective. Cathy's book evokes a warm contemporary feel through its use of wood-free paper and includes life size patterns of all the appliques used in her projects. Finally, learn the tips for finishing and quilting before trying any of the 15 beautiful projects designed by Cathy.
In Lovely Landscape Quilts, Cathy Geier walks you through the process of creating amazing landscape quilts using simple techniques that anyone can try. Learn how to find inspiration and choose your fabrics, how to design and lay out your quilt, and how to use angles to create skies, water, hills and mountains. Learn tricks for embellishing your quilts with applique, marker and fabric to create shadows and highlights that will give your landscape quilts depth and perspective. Cathy's book evokes a warm contemporary feel through its use of wood-free paper and includes life size patterns of all the appliques used in her projects. Finally, learn the tips for finishing and quilting before trying any of the 15 beautiful projects designed by Cathy.
2. Quick Little Landscape Quilts: 24 Easy Techniques to Create a Materpiece
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C T PublishingDescription
Let the fabric do the work! Joyce shows you uncomplicated ways to work with landscape-themed fabrics to make a quilted wallhanging you'll be proud to show off. Quickly build an eye-catching scene using her popular techniques for painting, fusing, embellishing, and embroidering.3. Landscape Art Quilts, Step by Step: Learn Fast, Fusible Fabric Collage with Ann Loveless
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C T Publishing Kansas City Star QuiltsDescription
Ann Loveless shares her timetested method for creating oneofakind art quilts based on your favorite landscape photographs. With stepbystep instructions, she shows you her freeform method of cutting and placing fabrics on fusible web and finishing with freemotion machine quilting.4. Accidental Landscapes
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Discover the secrets of creating a fabric landscape accidentally using this topstitch/layering technique. These quilted scenes are surprisingly simple to create! The book contains over 30 new inspiring landscapes to guide you along the way. You'll learn how to capture the feeling of a scene in simple layers. Create a landscape based on a favorite photo or color palette. Adopt the same easy layering technique to create gorgeous curved borders. For ease and fun, Karen's topstitched layers beat out machine applique and curved piecing by a mile.5. Landscape Quilts
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Explore your creativity! Making gorgeous landscape quilts is easy with nationally recognized quilting experts Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell. Let them show you step-by-step how to: make gorgeous quilts without patterns or measurements find inspiration all around you select the best nature fabrics and free your creativity...be spontaneous! Softcover: 144 pages.6. Inspired by the National Parks: Their Landscapes and Wildlife in Fabric Perspectives
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Schiffer Pub LtdDescription
A colorful celebration of the 59 US National Parks, this collection of 177 original art quilts depicts the widely varying landscapes, flora,and fauna of the parks. Basic facts about each of these national treasuresfrom Acadia in Maine, to Voyageurs in Minnesota, to Yosemite in California, to Haleakal in Hawaiiare included, along with short writings from 64 park rangers and other personnel. The book reveals individual glimpses into the passionate commitmentto preserve, protect, and enjoy these special places.7. Landscape in Contemporary Quilts: Design and Technique
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Its no surprise that landscape themes are becoming so popular with quilterspeople love nostalgic scenes of undulating furrows in a winter field, glorious sunsets, majestic mountain ranges, and peaceful seashores. Thats what this compendium of patterns offers, with examples from some of the worlds leading landscape quiltmakers. It comes with a veritable workshop on technique led by one of the crafts best designers and instructors and a full range of styles from realism to abstraction, from ancestral sites to favorite vacation spots. The fully illustrated instructions and striking photos of finished projects include imaginative tips on mastering the rules of design (and breaking them properly) so that materials, textures, and stitches create just the right mood.
8. Easy Batik Landscape Quilts
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Enhance your home's decor in a snap with these super-easy landscape quilts. Use a simple pattern as a template, add dynamic batik fabrics, sew with a straight stitch, and voila! Magnificent landscape quilts made easy, made quick. Quilt designer Patricia Brown has created 20 very different landscape possibilities from one simple, adaptable pattern. Her free-form movement technique means every quilter will create a unique work of art. Patricia quilts her pieces by hand, but these elegant wallhanging designs call out for machine quilting, too.9. DVD - Step-By-Step Quilted Landscapes - Complete Iquilt Clas
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Step-by-Step Quilted Landscape DVD is the perfect solution for taking the class without having a computer, makes a wonderful gift, and is great to have on hand as a hard copy-even if you have taken or plan to take the online class. Kathy McNeil shows how to create your own landscape quilt using her pattern or adapting her strategies using your own landscape photographs! Making stunning landscape quilts from photographs is Kathy McNeil's specialty and she shares so many tips and suggestions in this class. Choosing the subject and selecting the photograph is the starting place, but Kathy shows how to edit the photo and imparts some design secrets she uses in her own quilts. Kathy encourages exploring the subject of the photograph and planning the background. On the included pattern, it is easy to construct and piece the background of the sailboat landscape pattern already provided. Kathy demonstrates how she uses paints to highlight and add dimension to the scene. Rough and finished-edge applique techniques are taught and Kathy also shows how to attach applique pieces by hand or machine. Finishing touches are included. Complete the landscape pattern provided, or use the information to make a quilt from your landscape photograph.10. Pictorial Art Quilt Guidebook: Secrets to Capturing Your Photos in Fabric
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