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In The Art of Landsdcape Quilting by Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell share their tips, tricks, and techniques for creating a landscape quilt from a photo of your favorite landscape. Over 50 quilts, with 9 techniques, and 10 simple landscape scenes as well as how to's.

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The Art of Landscape Quilting

Author: Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell
Pages: 143
Page size: 6" x 10"
Publisher: krause publications
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4L0105
Weight: 1.2 lbs.

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Bring Your Landscapes to Life with Fabric

The late summer sunset with hues of orange and purple or your favorite neighborhood flower garden in full bloom, whatever your inspiration, authors and expert quilters Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell want you to enjoy that landscape as often as you'd like.

In The Art of Landscape Quilting, Nancy and Natalie share with you their tips, tricks and techniques for creating a landscape quilt from a photo of your favorite landscape. Their knowledge in landscape quilting will help you bring your landscape to life. It's like having your own private teachers.

Included are:

Tips for choosing fabrics, designing, cutting, gluing, fabric painting, and more
Over 50 quilts from Nancy and Natalie's own collections
Nine techniques for finishing quilts
10 simple landscape scenes
How-tos on adding structural elements, creating water scenes, expanding scenes and creating stylized quilts

With The Art of Landscape Quilting you can enjoy your favorite landscapes for years to come.

In the Tree Tops

Wisteria

Original Photo of Evening at the Pond

About the Authors

Nancy Zieman is the executive producer and host of Sewing With Nancy, the longest-running sewing and quilting program on television. She is the founder of the mail order catalog, Nancy's Notions and has authored more than 30 books.

Natalie Sewell is an award-winning art quilter who specializes in landscape quilts. She has created collection of landscape fabric designs projeced by Marcus Brothers. The Art of Landscape Quilting is the third book on landscape quilting she has co-authored with Nancy Zieman.

Table of Contents
About this Book
Chapter 1 - How to Begin	7
Photos for Inspiration	8
Choosing Fabrics	12
Three Simple Techniques	16
Chapter 2 - Simple Landscape Scenes	21
In the Tree Tops	22
October	27
Wolf River Woods	29
Tree Trunks in the Moonlight	31
The Old Red Bud	33
Winter Sunrise	34
January in My Backyard	36
Moonlit Birches	37
Birches in Snow	38
January	39
Chapter 3 - Expanding the Scene	41
On My Path	42
Splash of Color	47
Rural Route 1	49
The Prairie	51
Spring in the Marsh	53
Birches	55
The Old Woods	56
Spring in Bloom	57
Ted's Quilt	59
Mt. Rainer on a Clear Day	61
Jerusalem	63
Out On a Limb	65
The First Day of Summer	66
Peak Color	67
Chapter 4 - Adding Structural Elements	69
Fence Post	71
Unmended Fences	72
Natalie's Window	75
Front Porch	76
Three Pots of Pansies	78
Aunt Alma's Window	79
The Red Barn	81
Black-eyed Susan Along the Barn	83
Lussier's Bridge	85
Garden Gate	87
Abandoned	91
The Courtyard	95
Gazebo	97
Chapter 5 - Creating Water Scenes	99
The Red Canoe	101
The Yellow Canoe	103
The Oregon Coast	104
The Boat Dock	107
Peaceful	109
Evening at the Pond	111
Summer Morning	112
Jasmine Arbor	113
Lookout Point	115
Chapter 6 - Creating Stylized Quilts	117
Spiderwort	118
Day Lilly Garden	120
Tulips in Bloom	121
Wisteria	122
Tiffany Grapes	123
Clematis	123
Oriental Fantasy	124
Silk Orchids	128
Mary's Orchids	128
Irises on Silk	129
Chapter 7 - Finishing Touches	131
Machine-Stitch the Quilt Top	133
Add the Borders	135
Layer Your Quilt	137
Free-Motion Quilt Your Scene	137
Bind Your Quilt	139
Add a Quilt Sleeve	140
Trim Loose Threads and Edges	141
Block Your Quilt	141
Label Your Quilt	141
Resources	142