Landscape Backgrounds continued

I have been meaning to post about the stitching that I added to the backgrounds for days. Every time I sat down to do it I realized that there was one I had not taken a photo of. I would then get distracted by something else. Finally got my scatty brain into action!

The pictures speak for themselves. Lots of easy straight line stitching. The colour and the choice of thread do the work.

I did change the stitch size on this one. Making it bigger as I moved towards the foreground, to try and portray some depth. Not sure if it works or not.
Next time, the focus of each piece.
What would you put on these backgrounds?

fabric friday

I had fun doing this one:)
Linking up with Nina-Marie's Off The Wall Friday.

Landscape Background Options

Using the Fabric Scrap Rolls that I showed you in my previous post, here are the backgrounds I have created.
The Seascape above was done by tearing the strips of fabric into roughly 1/2 inch and heat setting them onto the surface of a fusible wadding/batting. The edges are deliberately left raw.

I took the green fabrics and ironed them to a fusible and cut them into roughly 2 inch squares. Along with some blue squares I made the scene below.

Countryside

Hillside

Hillside was made by cutting up the leftover square from Countryside into smaller pieces and changing the aspect from landscape to portrait.

Beach Scene

Finally I pieced together some strips for the beach scene.
All of the above were done with two rolls of blue, one green and one yellow.
You could try this with any blue, green, and yellow scraps, or you could get some of your own hand painted rolls here or here :)
Next time I will show you how I stitched them.

Wouldn't you know....

...that the sun would start shining  now that the summer holidays are officially over!
As you can see, from the shadows on my deck this morning, the sun is out!

I have just listed these Fabric Scrap Rolls in my shops (links in my side bar).
Next time I will explore some ways of using these to create some small landscape quilts.

The basket was made by my friend Clare.

fabric friday

fabric friday

A huge thank you to all those who came to say hello at the Festival of Quilts.
It was great to finally meet those I have "known" through the Internet.
It was great to see friends and familiar faces.
It was a lovely surprise to see some I didn't expect to see.
It was  great meeting new people.
To all of you, thank you for making my experience at the show so wonderful.

fabric friday

Haven't done one of these for a while!

Things have been quiet here while I prepare for the Festival of Quilts.
This time next week I will be into the second day of the show.
This is a first for me so it does come with a certain amount of trepidation. I really can't tell if I have enough to display in my 2 x 2 metre booth, or whether I have got far too much.
"How big do you think this booth is Mum?" was the question asked by my daughter when she saw my pile of boxes!
Better too much than not enough eh?
If you are at the show please come and say hello. You will find me at O14 :)