Designing Landscape Quilts: Quilt Art Techniques Simplifieed with Judith Trager
In this DVD, art quilter Judith Trager guides the viewer from start to finish through the design and creation of a landscape quilt. The presentation begins with a discussion about choosing a photograph to work from. Judith reviews the importance of placement and division of space in a landscape, and she shows how to simplify the elements to make an inspired quilt. After piecing the background, Judith demonstrates how to add a silkscreened layer using freezerpaper stencils. Once the silkscreened design is dry, the quilt is sandwiched and quilting is added. Then fussycut appliquA(c) elements are fused and stitched in place on the quilt sandwich. Additional quilting and final design elements (including silk grasses and stamping) are added to the piece as appropriate, and finally, the quilt is completed with a sleeve and binding. With this DVD, Judith Trager takes the mystery out of making a landscape quilt You will learn how to make the foreground, middle ground, and background elements work successfully each time.