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In The Art of Landsdcape Quilting by Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell share their tips, tricks, and techniques for creating a landscape quilt from a photo of your favorite landscape. Over 50 quilts, with 9 techniques, and 10 simple landscape scenes as well as how to's.

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Author: Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell
Pages: 143
Page size: 6" x 10"
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Bring Your Landscapes to Life with Fabric

The late summer sunset with hues of orange and purple or your favorite neighborhood flower garden in full bloom, whatever your inspiration, authors and expert quilters Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell want you to enjoy that landscape as often as you'd like.

In The Art of Landscape Quilting, Nancy and Natalie share with you their tips, tricks and techniques for creating a landscape quilt from a photo of your favorite landscape. Their knowledge in landscape quilting will help you bring your landscape to life. It's like having your own private teachers.

Included are:

  • Tips for choosing fabrics, designing, cutting, gluing, fabric painting, and more
  • Over 50 quilts from Nancy and Natalie's own collections
  • Nine techniques for finishing quilts
  • 10 simple landscape scenes
  • How-tos on adding structural elements, creating water scenes, expanding scenes and creating stylized quilts

With The Art of Landscape Quilting you can enjoy your favorite landscapes for years to come.

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In the  Tree Tops
In the Tree Tops

Wisteria
Wisteria



Original Photo of Evening at the Pond
Original Photo of Evening at the Pond

Author  Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell About the Authors

Nancy Zieman is the executive producer and host of Sewing With Nancy, the longest-running sewing and quilting program on television. She is the founder of the mail order catalog, Nancy's Notions and has authored more than 30 books.

Natalie Sewell is an award-winning art quilter who specializes in landscape quilts. She has created collection of landscape fabric designs projeced by Marcus Brothers. The Art of Landscape Quilting is the third book on landscape quilting she has co-authored with Nancy Zieman.

 

Table of Contents

 
About this Book  
Chapter 1 - How to Begin 7
Photos for Inspiration 8
Choosing Fabrics 12
Three Simple Techniques 16
Chapter 2 - Simple Landscape Scenes 21
In the Tree Tops 22
October 27
Wolf River Woods 29
Tree Trunks in the Moonlight 31
The Old Red Bud 33
Winter Sunrise 34
January in My Backyard 36
Moonlit Birches 37
Birches in Snow 38
January 39
Chapter 3 - Expanding the Scene 41
On My Path 42
Splash of Color 47
Rural Route 1 49
The Prairie 51
Spring in the Marsh 53
Birches 55
The Old Woods 56
Spring in Bloom 57
Ted's Quilt 59
Mt. Rainer on a Clear Day 61
Jerusalem 63
Out On a Limb 65
The First Day of Summer 66
Peak Color 67
Chapter 4 - Adding Structural Elements 69
Fence Post 71
Unmended Fences 72
Natalie's Window 75
Front Porch 76
Three Pots of Pansies 78
Aunt Alma's Window 79
The Red Barn 81
Black-eyed Susan Along the Barn 83
Lussier's Bridge 85
Garden Gate 87
Abandoned 91
The Courtyard 95
Gazebo 97
Chapter 5 - Creating Water Scenes 99
The Red Canoe 101
The Yellow Canoe 103
The Oregon Coast 104
The Boat Dock 107
Peaceful 109
Evening at the Pond 111
Summer Morning 112
Jasmine Arbor 113
Lookout Point 115
Chapter 6 - Creating Stylized Quilts 117
Spiderwort 118
Day Lilly Garden 120
Tulips in Bloom 121
Wisteria 122
Tiffany Grapes 123
Clematis 123
Oriental Fantasy 124
Silk Orchids 128
Mary's Orchids 128
Irises on Silk 129
Chapter 7 - Finishing Touches 131
Machine-Stitch the Quilt Top 133
Add the Borders 135
Layer Your Quilt 137
Free-Motion Quilt Your Scene 137
Bind Your Quilt 139
Add a Quilt Sleeve 140
Trim Loose Threads and Edges 141
Block Your Quilt 141
Label Your Quilt 141
Resources 142

 

Evening at the Pond
Evening at the Pond The Red Canoe
The Red Canoe

The Boat Dock
The Boat Dock

 

Garden Gate
The Garden Gate

The Front Porch
The Front Porch

Fence Post
Fence Post

October
October

Out on a Limb
Out on a Limb

On My Path
On My Path



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