Fabric landscape

The Smokey Mountains art quilt by Joyce Becker; Landscape quilt artist Joyce Becker has had the good fortune to find a creative outlet that continues to offer her endless inspiration for art quilts, workshops and books that share her techniques with others.

June Dudley makes a water landscape with small strips of fabric. She teaches you how to gather fabrics with a variety of strips to get what you want, and goes into detail about why water color changes and how to make sure your fabric is in order of lightest to darkest value using a black and white photo copy of her fabric.

Make a super-simple landscape art quilt with free-motion thread sketched embellishments, regardless of whether you’re a beginner or advanced.

I was just getting these little mini-landscapes ready for mounting and thought how lovely they looked together! Mmm….my mind is racing… | Instagram

June Dudley makes a water landscape with small strips of fabric. She teaches you how to gather fabrics with a variety of strips to get what you want, and goes into detail about why water color changes and how to make sure your fabric is in order of lightest to darkest value using a black and white photo copy of her fabric.

Ben y Vrackie near Pitlochry. I loved recycling old bits n pieces of material, tissue etc, fraying the edges to get different textures. Great fun and am going to do these in my workshops.

Landscape quilts were very popular several years ago, and are still fun to try now. Most of these early landscape quilts were made using "strips of fabric" sewn edge to edge arranged by the colors of the sky to the ground. These quilts...