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"Prairie" Landscape Quilt by Nancy Zieman

Combine Photos to Create Quilts

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"Prairie" Landscape Quilt by Nancy ZiemanLandscape quilting breaks many quilting rules and is quite liberating as a result. It’s okay to cut inaccurately, in fact, it’s often recommended. Glue sticks are used instead of pins, and the pattern is not a pattern at all, just a photo! Natalie Sewell taught me her spontaneous technique many years ago, and I haven’t stopped quilting since. She’s back to give simple techniques on Beginning Landscape Quilting Part Three on Sewing With Nancy.

Beginning landscape Quilting Natalie Sewell and Nancy Zieman

After making hundreds of landscape quilts, Natalie has learned to fine-tune the process. In this series we’re focusing on specific elements within scenes. In the quilt, Prairie, you’ll see distant and close-up coneflowers. Designing a scene such as this might seem daunting, yet you’ll soon learn how you too can become a landscape quilter.

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In Beginning Landscape Quilting Part Three, we share how to create the flowers in this prairie scene.

Landscape Quilt by Nancy Zieman

"Prairie" Landscape Quilt by Nancy Zieman

You’ll learn how to select fabrics, creatively cut blooms, and accent flowers with fabric markers.
Beginning Landscape Quilting by Nancy Zieman

Beginning Landscape Quilting by Nancy Zieman

Beginning Landscape Quilting by Nancy Zieman

Beginning Landscape Quilting by Nancy Zieman

In Beginning Landscape Quilting Part Threewe also share how to create mountains. We used two inspirational photos to create the quilt titled Rocky Mountain Summer.

Nancy Zieman's Landscape Quilt

Nancy Zieman's Landscape Quilt

Rocky Mountain Summer by Nancy Zieman's Landscape Quilt

Hand dyed fabrics, permanent fabric markers, and oil pastels are the needed elements to create the majestic mountain in fabric. See how we select fabrics, cut mountain shapes, and shade with permanent markers/oil pastels.

Beginning Landscape Quilting by Nancy Zieman

Beginning Landscape Quilting by Nancy Zieman

Beginning Landscape Quilting by Nancy Zieman

In the Beginning Landscape Quilting book, we share quilting and finishing tips for machine basting, layering, stippling, binding, and more.

Beginning Landscape Quilting by Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell

Watch Beginning Landscape Quilting (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three) on Sewing With Nancy online.

Beginning Landscape Quilting Natalie Sewell & Nancy Zieman

Now that you’ve seen how easy it is to dive into landscape quilting, which season would you most like to capture in landscape quilt imagery? Leave your answer in the comment section below for a chance to win a copy of the book Beginning Landscape Quilting. One winner will be randomly selected.

Beginning Landscape Quilting Book by Nancy Zieman and Natalie Sewell from TVs Sewing With Nancy

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78 Comments

  • Marsha Dimond
    April 20, 2017

    This process looks less intimidating with Nancy & Natalie’s step-by-step instructions. I would do an autumn or seascape scene.

  • Clovis
    April 20, 2017

    I bet any season would look good.

  • Ilana
    April 20, 2017

    I’d love to do a Spring quilt of our glorious California Poppies in bloom.

  • Vicki
    April 20, 2017

    I’ve always wanted to try landscape quilting. Stash fabric awaits for the project. This would be enormously helpful as I don’t know where to start or anything. Thanks!

  • BevM
    April 20, 2017

    I would love to create a fall landscape quilt with a scene from our 65 acre woods.

  • Susan Spiers
    April 20, 2017

    I would do Winter-visiting with my daughter in Michigan reminded me how beautiful snow collecting on the trees & bushes can be! Thank you, Susan

  • Gloria Edmiston
    April 20, 2017

    I like the beginning of new things so I would choose spring with all the different colors of new plant and tree life.

  • Bonnye
    April 20, 2017

    I would love to make a aprons landscape. It is really pretty here in PA.

  • Cathy from KY
    April 20, 2017

    Autumn because of the beautiful colors. I also love the beach, it’s so calming.
    Just finished Seams Unlikely. Enjoyed reading every page.

  • Cindy M
    April 20, 2017

    I’d love to make a 4 season collage! Love your video!!
    lstangl482 at aol dot com

  • Gina M
    April 20, 2017

    It would be fun to make four of the ‘same’ landscape, one in EACH season! … and rotate the seasonal display.

  • Robin
    April 20, 2017

    I’d love to capture old wooden boats next to the seashore.

  • Sandra
    April 20, 2017

    Fall, my favorite season!

  • Jade
    April 20, 2017

    I would do a fall landscape especially since I am moving from Wisconsin to Arizona and the beauty of fall is one this I will really miss…what better way to capture the memory, than make a quilt!

  • Chris Vick
    April 20, 2017

    I would like to create spring scenes, flowers blooming and nature waking up from winter

  • Denise T Vinson
    April 20, 2017

    I would make a Spring landscape with Mountains in background and fields of flowers. I would love to have your books to learn the process. Thank you for this opportunity.

  • Kimberley
    April 20, 2017

    I think I would create a spring landscape. I love to see the trees and flowers come back to life.

  • Roberta A.
    April 20, 2017

    This is something I would like to try. It’s so beautiful. I think I would do a beach scene or spring.

  • Diana W.
    April 20, 2017

    Here in Oregon, everything in spring is so pretty, bright, different shades of green on the hills and fields, flowers blooming in so many places, and Mt. Hood gleaming with new snow above it all – that would be fun to pull into a landscape picture.

  • Julie Kill
    April 20, 2017

    I SO (SEW) want to do this! I SEW would like to win this book!
    I would do: Duluth MN during all 4 seasons!- a lake shore picture with the caves and trees.
    The Black Hills (Bridal Veil Falls area) in the Summer with the morning or evening sun shining on the falls and the rocks!
    THANK YOU for more helpful, easy ways to do things we want to do, but don’t have time/ or maybe knowledge to figure out.

  • Pat
    April 20, 2017

    I would love to do a landscape quilt showing the fall colors of the Door Peninsula. The combination of the warm earth tones of the trees and the blues of the lake waters would be such fun to do. Thanks for this series that makes me believe I could do this!

  • Sandra
    April 20, 2017

    Although fall is my favorite season, my favorite colors are in the blue & green ranges so I would look for an opportunity that would incorporate them to the best advantage so I’m thinking summer.

  • Grace Niederlehner
    April 20, 2017

    I have taken many fall sunrises from my deck. I would love to be able to make a landscape quilt from one of them. I also want to make a landscape quilt from photos I took on our Alaskan trip in the summer of 2010. I took over 6000 pictures that summer from June to September as we drove all over Alaska.

  • Kathie R
    April 20, 2017

    Spring – when everything is green, and the tulips and daffodils are in full bloom. Especially the beautiful scenic areas near where I live!

  • Twyla
    April 20, 2017

    I would like to try a fall sunset scene. Thanks for the opportunity to win.

  • Janice Williamson
    April 20, 2017

    I love spring and fall. I would like to do a fall scene, using all the beautiful colors of the peak of fall. I think the landscape quilts are beautiful. It is like painting with fabric! In fact I just bought some landscape fat quarters in hopes of making at least a block. I have watched Sewing With Nancy for years. I love it!!

  • Jean GB
    April 20, 2017

    Fall is my favorite time of year but there is this fungus that goes on a stump in my back yard in the spring that is really cool. Would love to capture it in a quilt.

  • Kelly Sas
    April 20, 2017

    I know you asked for a season, but I have been wanting to do a landscape quilt for years of the desert in Arizona. I even have lots of fabric I purchased for this, but like you said it seems daunting. This series has been so very helpful and I know Beginning Landscape Quilting would also.

  • Valerie Thompson
    April 20, 2017

    I grew up in Arizona so I would love to do a spring desert landscape because the desert is sooo beautiful after one of our rare heavy rains in the early spring I’ve wanted to capture it for many years now is my chance. Thank you for a chance to win your book Beginning Landscape Quilting

  • Ennis A
    April 20, 2017

    Love this!!! Fall is the season that I would begin with!! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!!

  • Mary Wright
    April 20, 2017

    I would choose Autumn, my favourite time of year! Love the brilliant colours of the maple leaves.

  • Joyce
    April 20, 2017

    I love the colors of Fall, but Spring tulips are a very close second choice.

  • Cassy L.
    April 20, 2017

    The spring season has arrived where I live so that is calling to me right now!

  • Martha Hood
    April 20, 2017

    Would love to do the Winter one- mountains of Colorado in the winter – with all the snow covering the mountains and the aspen trees- thanks

  • Peggy Underhill
    April 20, 2017

    I’ve worked my way through the first book, and now can’t wait to try these new techniques. Thanks for the inspiration.

  • Maria R
    April 20, 2017

    I would love to try a fall mountain scene. Looks like a fantastic book. Keeping my fingers crossed

  • Angela Curtis
    April 20, 2017

    I would try an autumn scene first. I love the warm colors of fall. Thanks for such clear instructions as always.

  • Renee Shelhamer
    April 20, 2017

    I would love to do a landscape quilt of my home and yard in autumn. I have watched Nancy and Natalie and they make it look almost easy.

  • Pat
    April 20, 2017

    I love landscape quilting but am hesitant to begin. Thanks for the instruction and encouragement.

  • Marty
    April 20, 2017

    Love to do a 4 seasons of a fjord in Norway!

  • Barbara harvey
    April 20, 2017

    I love summer or spring. I would enjoy flowers in my landscape quilt. Thank you!

  • Ellen
    April 20, 2017

    Spring time in the Rockies . Really like the ones you have made together!
    What fun Nancy.

  • Nancy Becker
    April 20, 2017

    After a visit to the poppy preserve in Lancaster CA this spring, I would love to recreate one of the best photos as a great remembrance.

  • Joyce Burns
    April 20, 2017

    I would like to try a summer storm.

  • Sandy Trachsel
    April 20, 2017

    Definitely fall! These quilts are really beautiful!

  • Nancy Runnels
    April 20, 2017

    I have a photo of sunset over the Great Lakes and would love to create it in fabric for the center of a quilt for my niece. i really need help to create depth, use of fusible, and cutting.
    This book could save me. Good luck all. Thanks for the opportunity to win.

  • Lynne Hoyt
    April 20, 2017

    I would love to make a wallhanging of the high desert in the Spring.

  • Debra
    April 20, 2017

    I’m thinking I’d like to try a winter landscape- I have some nice black and white photos to use as inspiration. A seascape with some of my photos from trips to MN North shore would also be lovely experience. Choices….

  • Doris Carbone
    April 20, 2017

    Winter would be a challenge for me.
    Would love to paint w/fabric.
    The ice, shadows of snow, the “the blue cast. Thank you.

  • Mary Ellen
    April 20, 2017

    Spring is my favorite season because it makes me happy. The flowers are so beautiful in their magenta, yellows, blues, with white flowers setting them up to sparkle.
    Can’t you just see the beautiful quilt that can be made?

  • Pat
    April 20, 2017

    Spring – everything is so fresh green and colourful when blooms start erupting – and I’ve always wanted to try and capture those images in a landscape quilt!

  • Judy
    April 20, 2017

    I have wanted to try this for years and have many fabrics gathered to use for a variety of landscape quilts. I’d probably start with a spring scene as that is my favorite time of year but I must also have four seasons in my life. Winning this book would get me started.

  • Pauline Dean
    April 20, 2017

    I would love to make a fall scene. I just love all the beautiful colors of fall when all the leaves start changing color. I’ve always wanted to make a landscape quilt and never knew how to start. This book would be perfect. Your videos are great you make it look so easy to do. Can’t wait to give it a try.

  • Rose
    April 20, 2017

    Fall and Spring are my favorite seasons in that order. If I had to pick just one, it would be fall. I love the rich vibrant fall colors. Mountains, a lake and various colored trees would be in my landscape quilt.

  • mary m young
    April 20, 2017

    I did a four season wall hanging. Each square had the same pieced tree with the fabric corresponding to the season.
    Pretty cool. I had it professionally quilted which gave it
    interesting texture.

  • mary m young
    April 20, 2017

    I did a four season hanging quilt. Each square consisted of a pieced tree with corresponding fabric for the season. Very
    cool. I had it professionally quilted so it has lots of interesting texture.

  • Shannon Denbow
    April 20, 2017

    I love all the seasons, so this is a particularly hard question to answer. I have also thought about doing separate wall quilt for each season and have looked for patterns, yet I have not been successful. If I had to choose, I would probably want to eventually attempt an Autumn quilt. Living near the Blue Ridge Mountains, the array of colors is extraordinary, so I would incorporate the beautiful fall colors, the mountains, the last of Indian Summer flowers with a nearby bubbling creek. One day…. hopefully! 😀

  • Margaret Morton
    April 21, 2017

    I’m anxious to do a summer view of a river scene I love in Montana.

  • HELEN CONACHAN
    April 21, 2017

    Thank you for your encouragement. This would be a new and exciting endeavor for me. Looks so much easier than I thought it would be.

  • Linda
    April 21, 2017

    You always make projects easier. I would attempt a springtime landscape quilt first because I love the fresh colors of spring. Thanks for the giveaway!

  • Jackie L Fife
    April 21, 2017

    Fall has the colors I love. The oranges, taupes, browns, and reds. I choose Autumn!

  • Sunni
    April 21, 2017

    Spring! Everything is fresh and new….but how does one draw the line with so many flowers and colors?! Can’t wait to start cutting fabric.

  • Linda
    April 22, 2017

    Love making quilts out of favorite places pictures

  • Anne Z
    April 22, 2017

    I would love to make a Fall quilt. I just love the colorful fall foliage.

  • Gail Hendershot
    April 22, 2017

    I like the spring flowers on dogwood and redbud trees mixed with all the different shades of green.

  • Sue Proffitt
    April 22, 2017

    Our Quilting Guild brought in a teacher for a Landscape Quilting class. I now have one finished and framed on the wall and another in progress. I love the concept and will buy the book soon. Thank you.

  • Michelle Hall
    April 22, 2017

    I think I would like to try doing a Spring Quilt

  • Diana
    April 23, 2017

    I love the spring colors! Pastels and medium shades are perfect when you’ve had white winters.

  • bonnie glover
    April 25, 2017

    Landscapes are my favorite quilts to do thanks for inspiring me as you always do

  • Beverley Hancox
    April 25, 2017

    Wow, hard to pick just one season, guess I would have to do all four here in our beautiful Finger Lakes in upstate New York.

  • Lisann Durm
    April 25, 2017

    I have always wanted to try a landscape quilt. I never go for easy in anything I do. For me, I would pick winter. I have no picture in mind but if I did it would be of the first fallen snow on the earth. Be it the ground, trees, bushes or mountains. How beautiful that would be. Thank you for the opportunity to win your book.

  • Terri Alsobrook
    April 26, 2017

    I would like to try a few scenes from around the Captiva Island, Florida area. It holds special meaning for my in laws, who have vacationed there in May for over 20 years. I’d try to do a scene w the lime greens of the waters w palms and pale blues of the sky. I’d also like to try a scene of a tarpon or snook bursting forth from the water to shake the jig loose from it’s jaws. I’m intrigued that disparate fabrics can be utilized to create something so totally unrelated. Maybe the random pearlescent sequin could serve as a large scale, glinting in the sunlight.
    Thank you for your many videos, your style, and this opportunity.

  • Carol
    April 27, 2017

    The spring season with its glorious colors would be my choice.

  • Sharon Mastrangelp
    May 11, 2017

    I have a picture I took of a very old dead tree I took a few years ago that needs to be made into a quilt.

  • Sherry Campbell
    June 29, 2017

    I have just finished my first quilting-applique- machine embroidery-painting projects-3 to be exact.
    I didn’t think I would be fond of applique faces so I painted them. I had no white fabric paint so I mixed the skin tones with acrylic paint. As I will probably framed them in oval frames-I am wondering what the paint will do? They are lace ladies somewhat Victorian Ladies. I have never attempted to applique and new at sewing in general.
    Thank you,
    Sherry

  • Lisann Durm
    June 30, 2017

    Taking part in making any pictorial quilt would be truly fascinating. Its also on my bucket list of things to do, make and accomplish. I think they are amazingly. beautiful.

  • Angie Larsen
    August 8, 2017

    I’m looking for a new sewing/crafting challenge! This looks like it might be it! Not really into quilting. …too many rules 🙂 I’m more of a free spirit!

  • When I first saw this quilt in my Facebook feed, I said “I want to make this one.” I’ve got several coneflower pictures so I’ll be digging thru the computer files and boxes of older prints looking for that summer scene. Thanks for the chance to win these directions.

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