I am in a hurry to finish up some projects for our upcoming guild show on October 1st. I took a workshop at the guild with Renske Helmuth to learn how to make a landscape wall hanging....I am not sure if landscapes are for me. I found it very difficult to choose the fabrics for an imaginary landscape....I think if I had make it from a photograph I could match up fabrics much better. I did finish the top, I just had to quilt it so I can put it in the show.I am a novice machine quilter, and I didn't have a clue how to quilt this thing. I first stitched around the beige border 1/4 inch...that was fine, then I did 1/2 inch around that...that sucked...picked it all out...stared at it and stared at it, could not decide what to do....did not want to do any more picking out....so then I did just inside the green border...fine, then I stippled around the outer border fine, but now the lighter border was a little loose and needed to be flattened...so I quilted lines in there and that's when I thought I had killed it! OMG the landscape in the middle was all puffy! it looked ridiculous! now I know why they always want you to quilt from the middle out instead of from the outside in! I was pretty much ready to chuck it! but I thought well maybe I can quilt in some clouds and flatten it a bit, that worked but now the bottom was puffy, so I quilted in some grass along the bottom. It was a lot better but not perfect.
This is how it looks on the bottom:
Finished product; ta-da!
Not my finest work, but I sure learned a lot! Will I ever do another landscape? not sure, the jury is still out.
