- Description
- Requirements
Imagine capturing the beauty of rolling hills, glowing sunsets, peaceful water, and dramatic skies - then turning those scenes into fabric art. Painted Landscapes for Quiltmaking shows you how to bring the colors and atmosphere of the natural world into your quilts using simple painting techniques designed especially for quiltmakers.
Instead of searching endlessly for the perfect landscape fabric, you’ll learn how to create your own. With easy-to-follow guidance, you’ll discover how paint can transform plain fabric into luminous skies, soft horizons, shimmering water, and textured land. The results are unique fabrics that give your landscape quilts depth, movement, and a true sense of place.
Whether you dream of creating scenic wall quilts or simply want to expand your creative toolbox, this eBook will open the door to new possibilities. Painting on fabric is surprisingly approachable—and once you begin, you may find it becomes one of your favorite ways to design truly original quilts.
Let your fabrics become your canvas and start painting your own quilted landscapes.
Using Sétacolor paint from Pebeo, Michele will teach you to create beautiful watercolor-style mountain scenes and landscapes. No painting experience is necessary! Create your painted impression using your own imagination or from a picture, you took on vacation.
See the wonderful effects this paint can create in two easy lessons! In Lesson Three, you will take that painting and embellish it, bringing out the detail in your scene. You will unleash your creativity using a variety of decorative threads that add depth and character to your work. Michele has many examples so you can see how to use the wide array of threads available in today's market.
Level: beginner for painting, some experience using specialty threads.
OUTLINE
- Supplies
- Part One
- STEP ONE: Set Up Your Work Area
- STEP TWO: The Paints and Brushes
- STEP THREE: Begin to Paint - Painting from the Bucket
- STEP FOUR: Pollock Painting
- STEP FIVE: Brushing it on – Sunsets
- STEP SIX: Salt Effects
- STEP SEVEN: Variegated Fabric
- STEP EIGHT: Sponge Painting
- STEP NINE: Sunprints
- STEP TEN: Setting the Paint
- Color Tips
- Things to Remember
- Part Two
- Landscape 1 – Hawaiian Sky
- Landscape 2 – Electric Sky
- Landscape 3 - Just Add Blue
- More, More, More!
- Setting the Scape
- Things to Consider Before Starting
- Part Three
- EMBELLISHING LANDSCAPE QUILTS
- North Carolina View
- Seaside Sunrise
- Electric Sky
- Hawaiian Sky
- Day at the Lake
- Tranquility
- FINISHING UP ISLAND PARADISE
- The Border
- Adding Thread Embellishments
- Working Thread from the Bobbin
- USING DECORATIVE THREADS
- Know Your Machine
- Threads
- Batting
- Basting
- Testing
- Designs
- Your Turn!
Fabric
White 100% Cotton. It is extremely important that you get finely woven cotton. Regular muslins will make the paint seep because of the loosely woven fibers. I prefer to use White Pimatex Cotton from Kaufman. You can also use any fabric that has the letters "PFD" after it (prepared for dyeing). One landscape takes 1 1/2 yards
at the most (including border), but you may want as much as 5 yards for any happy accidents. Michele has this on her Web site.
You will also want 2-3 yards of the white Pimatex to practice all the techniques in PartOne.
Paint - Setacolor from Pebeo
- Transparent 10 pack: Ten 45-milliliter bottles in an assortment of all of the colors necessary.
- Setacolor Pearl - gold and pearl in 45 mL bottles
These will be available from Michele or you can find them atwww.dharmatrading.com (https://www.dharmatrading.com/)
(https://www.prochemical.com/store/)
If you cannot find the 10 pack and want to buy the individual containers, these are the colors in the 10 pack: Black Lake; Oriental Red; Cardinal Red; Bright Orange; Vermillion; Lemon Yellow; Parma Violet; Ultramarine Blue; Cobalt Blue; Emerald Green.
If you have the opportunity, I like to add these to the mix: Buttercup Yellow; Velvet Brown; Red Ochre; Moss Green.
Applicators
- Brushes - foam brushes you can get in any hardware store in a variety of sizes, assorted brushes with natural bristles - I like "hake" brushes the best - they hold a lot of paint.
- Sponges - large and small sea sponges to add different effects (for rocks, and other textures)
Painting Surface
- Foam core - You can get this light firm board from any craft store. OR
- Foam-ula - This is PINK insulation you can find at Home Depot. Cut it in half and tape or glue the two pieces together.
Cover either with white contact paper. It is also a good idea to have a plastic drop cloth if you are doing this inside.
Other Stuff
- picture - either professional or amateur of a landscape, seascape or mountainscape. Please know that this will be a watercolor version of the picture. You will not be able to paint fine details with our paints. You may, however, add them through appliqué, embellishment or your own fabric paints.
- spray bottle
- small containers to hold paint (plastic microwave dinner plates, bowls, etc.)
- paper towels or old cloths
- gloves/apron (or wear old clothes!)
- coarse sea salt (the bigger kind)
- cheesecloth (available in canning section of grocery store)
Optional
- assortment of leaves to make sunprints for the borders!
- color wheel or good book on color mixing to help get just the right colors
For Finishing the Landscape
Backing and batting the size of finished piece
Assortment of threads, yarns, to decorate the piece. We will not be doing this until Part Three, so you can wait to see the painted piece before deciding how you want to embellish it.
You can order threads from www.artfabrik.com (https://www.artfabrik.com/).
If you think you might want to appliqué something to the foreground (like the reeds) make sure you have some sort of stabilizer (I use Sulky Tear Easy)
Many of the other items are available from Michele on her site: www.piecefulquilter.com (https://www.piecefulquilter.com/)
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