The Making of a Landscape Quilt
Don't you wish you could watch the process of someone creating a quilt from start to finish?
Well, if so, you're in luck! Canadian textile artist Laurie Swim filmed the making of a landscape quilt. We get to watch her work over the course of nine months, compressed into three and a half minutes.
Watch the video to see her thinking, taking breaks, placing fabric, stitching, and layering, over and over.
In the end, we see a landscape taken straight from Atlantic Canada. Laurie has captured Canada's northern light in this gorgeous quilt - in her careful choices of colors, and the long shadows she's created with patchwork.
It could be Peggy’s Cove on the Southern Shore of Nova Scotia. She's created a scene populated with a lobster fisherman with lobster pots, a dory, a house, and some small out-houses on a bay - all out of pieced and stitched fabric.
It takes a lot of planning and experience to get a landscape quilt to look so realistic, with shading in the sky, reflections in the water, and top stitching that acts like lines drawn in perspective.
I’m so glad Laurie let us in on her creative process, from start to finish.
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Screen grab via Sea to Sea Productions Ltd. Time Goes By.
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