Landscape Quilting from a Beginner's Perspective (Part 3 of 3) - Sewing with Nancy

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Landscape quilting from a beginner’s perspective wraps up the three-part series with spontaneous landscape quilting techniques are the secret to creating picturesque scenes. Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell have fine-tuned the process of landscape quilting from a beginner’s perspective.

Join us in this video as you’ll learn to cut blooms, accents, and mountains creatively & enhance them easily with fabric, paint, or markers. Then, give life to your designs as you stipple, following the movement of the fabric with easy tips from Natalie and Nancy.

►►► Key Points in this VIDEO Tutorial (Beginning Landscape Quilting Part 3 of 3) ◄◄◄

① Focus on specific elements within scenes.

② Creating a mountain scene.

③ Determine ratio of ground to sky.

④ Using different shades of fabric to create distance.

⑤ Selecting and cutting mountain fabric, and shading to create distance and add snow.

⑥ Finishing landscape quilts.

→ Free-motion quilting the finished quilt to secure layers and give the quilt texture and personality.

⑦ Nancy's Corner segment features Bob Freund, of Mexican Indigenous Textile Project.

→ Bob relays his mission to preserve endangered textiles of Mexico's indigenous people.

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►►Information on "Beginning Landscape Quilting" Book◄◄

① Take a simple step-by-step approach to landscape quilting as Nancy and Natalie guide you through eight wall hangings ideal for a beginner.

② You don't need templates, patterns, or many tools—select your own photograph, fabrics, and a few sewing basics and let Nancy and Natalie teach you their favorite user-friendly techniques.

③ Use fabric as paint, and your scissor as your paintbrush to capture nature in a wall hanging.

④ Learn to make dramatic trees with an easy raw-edge applique technique.

⑤ Create simple foliage with a new simplified design process for landscape quilting.

⑥ Learn to create trees, leaves, ground cover, flowers, and more for all four seasons by simply choosing motifs from landscape fabrics.

⑦ The eight projects include:

→ Old Friends (summer scene): Learn how create summer trees with depth and shape, add realistic branches, and how to improvise when you can't find the exact leaf fabric.

→ October Evening (fall scene): Learn almost all the techniques of landscape quilting creating a quilt featuring only four fabrics.

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