Since my Create Your Own Quilted Landscape class is coming up quickly (listed here in my shop). I thought I’d reshare some of the fabric selection tips I included in last week’s email newsletter.
This machine appliqué-and-quilt in 1 step project is much easier than you probably think!
Whether you use my tips to draw your own line art or use one of the small landscapes provided with the pattern, the fabrics you choose can do most of the heavy lifting for you.
The shapes we’ll work with are very simple. Like an impressionist painter, we let the viewer’s eye fill in the detail – all we need to do is suggest elements like sky, clouds, water, land, rocks, vegetation, etc. And the fabrics we select can make this easy!
(We’ll also cover optional embellishment techniques in class such as the use of fabric paint, fabric markers, yarns, stitching, 3-D elements, etc. – but that’s a discussion for another time.)
I do not sell fabric, but I did a couple of quick google searches on “landscape fabrics” and “batiks fabric landscape”.
PLEASE NOTE: You may not need to buy a single fabric for this class – but you can use these examples to help you sort through the fabrics you already have.
Here are some of the wonderful fabrics I found:
This first photo shows a shelf full of Moda Grunge. I would also recommend looking at other color ranges within this super versatile line.
And here are some Landscape Batiks from Sew Simple. Fabrics like this are great because you may be able to get multiple pieces/colors out of a single cut of fabric.
These Sky Ombre fabrics by Jennifer Sampou are similarly scrumptious!
The Open Air collection by Quilting Treasures has lots of wonderful natural textures – although the scale may or may not be too large, depending on how you use the fabric.
Some of my favorite fabrics to use are multi-colored prints that I can cut up in different ways to feature different colors or textures.
These happen to be batiks, but non-batik quilting-weight cottons work well, too.
I hope these photos get your mind whirling with other possibilities!
