There is not a beach anywhere near my house in landlocked Colorado, but if there was one, yesterday would have been the day to go!
So instead, I took the finished beach landscape out into my backyard for some photos. I like the look of the dark blue binding which matches the border to finish off the edges.
This project came from a kit that I bought on our vacation to Oregon in September, and it included all the fabric for the quilt, except for the backing. I had never tried a landscape quilt before and it has been a fun sewing experience!
The pattern designer, Karen Eckmeier, has a great website with galleries of finished landscapes for inspiration. The Quilted Lizard.
For the backing I dug into my stash and used up some larger chunks of sandy prints - footprints and shells.
Click to enlarge and you can see the quilting I did that
follows the shapes of the sand dunes and ocean waves.
It was a beautiful day out in our yard when I took these photos and this little quilt went well with the leaves that are falling!
It's also a great souvenir of our trip to a favorite place!
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19 comments:
You did a beautiful job on your beach quilt, Dianne! The contour quilting highlights the design perfectly.
It's so pretty! And when the temperature falls, you'll really enjoy looking at it and thinking of the beach!
It's a beautiful finish! What a great back! You will enjoy this hanging in the years to come!
A beautiful reminder of a favorite beach. We had a gorgeous 75 here in eastern SD yesterday. It was a picture perfect fall day, and I think we are at our peak fall colors this weekend.
It looks like a perfect beach vacation - nice
it was a warm day yesterday I think it got up to 82 for us another warm day today then back to fall like weather I think. The landscape wall hanging turned out really great.
It’s a beautiful wall hanging, Diann. And a lovely photo op in your yard. It is leaf raking time here too. I hope we can do it in small batches.
Beautiful quilt with lots of memories!
What a stunning landscape you created, Diann. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could walk into the landscapes of our imaginings.
Wonderful little quilt. It does look like your last photo. Awesome! Bravo on your first landscape finish. ;^)
It's beautiful Diann, looks like you can walk right into it! I love the borders, just perfect. Nicely done!
It's a gorgeous finish! Do you have a spot picked out for it?
Wow 88 degrees! It was the perfect day to pull up a lawn chair sit back and enjoy your beautiful quilt. Woo Hoo on the finish! I love how you pieced the sandy backing too; it reminds me of wet and dry sand on the beach.
Wow to 88 degrees. It is just 6C here today and raining so not a very nice Sunday. However, I enjoyed seeing your beautiful finish and photographed in that pretty setting outside. What a great souvenir too!
Your quilted landscape looks like a framed piece of art. You did a great job, Diann.
What a lovely project. Having a kit to get started creating landscape quilts is a good idea. Will you be making more? Maybe capturing the landscape nearer to home?
Hi Diann, those are great pictures of your landscape beach scene. It really makes me want to go there! Thanks for linking up to Free Motion Mavericks.
How big did your landscape quilt finish? I hope you get to enjoy seeing it hanging in your home to help offset the distance you are from the beach. Congratulations on the lovely finish!
I love your landscape quilt!
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