I’m excited to be teaching a class on how I make an art quilt from a photo.
The sky is acting as my background and I fused the green bushes, pale grass, and road to it in that order. Then I layered the top, batting, and the backing and quilted the sky with fairly straight lines.
After quilting the green bushes with meandering circles and the grass with a straight stitch I am ready to iron my pre-made silo to the background.
Ready for detail on the silo.
Using a fine disappearing chalk marker I drew curved lines for the wire that goes around the silo and then quilted those lines with black thread.
Then I outlined the silo and chute with a triple straight stitch and added dark areas on the chute.
Finally I added the dead vines that had grown up the side, added more grass, and then quilted the road out front.
I thought maybe I could call it ‘done,’ and go ahead and square it up and bind it; but I’m thinking now that I really should add those 2 cedar trees before I call it finished. What do you think? This is a small piece, only 8”X10”.
