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Create Landscape Quilts: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dynamic People & Places - Paperback | Diverse Reads

Create Landscape Quilts: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dynamic People & Places

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Quilt realistic people and places with artistic flair Create unique art quilts of your favorite places—and the places you want to go! Meri Vahl shares her simple yet unique method for quilting realistic nature scenes and villages from fabric. Using photographs from her travels, the author explains how to achieve stunning scenery with lifelike details. With techniques like fabric collage and tulle overlay, even beginners will learn to quilt majestic mountainscapes, charming buildings, and realistic people. A stunning gallery of quilts—some named best in the world—will inspire you to bring your own travel photos and art quilt ideas to life. • From photo to art quilt! Recreate landscapes, people, and buildings with ease • World-renowned art quilter Meri Vahl teaches you her award-winning process • Immortalize your journeys as you paint scenes with fabric, one step at a time

ISBN-13: 9781644030127

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: C & T Publishing

Publication Date: 02-25-2021

Pages: 112

Product Dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Meri Henriques Vahl teaches others how to use her favorite techniques in their own art quilts and lectures at quilt guilds in the U.S. and around the world. She lives near Santa Cruz, California with her family and two rowdy felines. www.meriartquilts.com

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Why collage art quilts? 7

Where do I Get my inspiration? 11

The fabric collage with tulle overlay technique 15

Selecting your photograph 17

Choosing your quilt backing 17

Adding the batting 17

Starting with the elements farthest away 18

Dealing with shredding fabrics 19

To fuse or not to fuse? 19

A reminder about taking photos 19

The foreground 20

The final tulle layer 21

Pinning your quilt 28

Quilting 28

Preparing your landscape for borders 30

Some design considerations 31

Visual impact 31

Adding soft embellishments 38

Enhancing your landscape with stitching 40

A simple landscape collage 44

Beginning the landscape 46

Choosing and enhancing the sky 46

Auditioning mountain fabric and cutting out mountains 48

Designing the river 50

The distant river shore 52

The closer river-shore edges 54

The foreground 56

Auditioning the final tulle layer 58

Pinning the landscape 58

Quilting 60

Squarring up your landscape 62

The paper doll technique 64

Outlining your black-and-white photograph 68

Making your paper doll 69

Drawing your person 70

Fixing your drawing 74

Other body parts 75

Putting your person together 76

Creating a whole person 80

The paper doll technique expanded 84

A word about architecture 86

Overview of the paper doll technique 90

Finishing your quilt borders binding and more! 96

Cutting the borders 96

Constructing the first border 97

Adding the short borders 99

Another border technique 99

Some additional thoughts 100

Finishing touches 100

A gallery of student quilts: you can do it, too! 101

About the author 111