"Painting with Fabric" A Landscape Quilt Project
All the materials for this project will be provided by Phyllis. She will get you started
by demonstrating how to build the landscape, step by step. Included in the materials
will be her hand-dyed fabrics for skies and distant mountains or mesas. There will be
many, many choices of textured fabrics for the middle and foreground areas of your
landscape as well as an array of animals from which to choose. Backing, batting, and
binding fabrics will also be provided. Work will be 12X18 inches. A heat-bond will
already be attached to the fabrics so they will be ready for you to select and cut your
shapes. You will compose your own landscape. This is not a “kit”. Lots of photos
and examples will be available for ideas and motivational materials. A handout will be
provided and step by step instructions will guide you through the process. Sewing
around your shapes and free hand machine embroidery for added textures will also
be demonstrated. Hand stitching and embroidery are an option and you may have
time to do some of the sewing during the workshop. Bring a machine suitable for
free motion stitching. (That means the feed dogs will go down.) You will need large
and small scissors, pins, and some earth colored threads as well as mono filament,
both clear and "smoke" for darker fabrics. If time allows, you may want to do the
stitching and binding during the workshop. Because all the hand-dyed and
commercial fabrics are included, the materials fee for this workshop is $45 each. It
will take from 3-6 hours to complete a landscape and iron it down. Embroidered
details by machine or hand will take longer and may be done at a later time.
This workshop is appropriate for Craft groups as well as quilters.
For quilt guild meetings or other groups, I have a one hour presentation using a large
board and actually “building” a landscape with step-by-step directions and a hand-
out. Showing deep space is the emphasis of this lecture by using perspective, color,
and textures. Many Art Elements and Design Principles are taught as the landscape
is put together in front of the group. Please call or e-mail for details on cost for
teaching time, lectures, and dates available.
(A minimum of 12 participants required for the workshop.) Photo copy examples are
available for your sign ups. Real examples may be a possibility if you are not too far
away, or a smaller hanging may be mailed to you.
Phyllis Binkley phyllisbinkley@Yahoo.com
43723 Pioneer Ave.
Hemet, CA 92544 951-306-0919
All the materials for this project will be provided by Phyllis. She will get you started
by demonstrating how to build the landscape, step by step. Included in the materials
will be her hand-dyed fabrics for skies and distant mountains or mesas. There will be
many, many choices of textured fabrics for the middle and foreground areas of your
landscape as well as an array of animals from which to choose. Backing, batting, and
binding fabrics will also be provided. Work will be 12X18 inches. A heat-bond will
already be attached to the fabrics so they will be ready for you to select and cut your
shapes. You will compose your own landscape. This is not a “kit”. Lots of photos
and examples will be available for ideas and motivational materials. A handout will be
provided and step by step instructions will guide you through the process. Sewing
around your shapes and free hand machine embroidery for added textures will also
be demonstrated. Hand stitching and embroidery are an option and you may have
time to do some of the sewing during the workshop. Bring a machine suitable for
free motion stitching. (That means the feed dogs will go down.) You will need large
and small scissors, pins, and some earth colored threads as well as mono filament,
both clear and "smoke" for darker fabrics. If time allows, you may want to do the
stitching and binding during the workshop. Because all the hand-dyed and
commercial fabrics are included, the materials fee for this workshop is $45 each. It
will take from 3-6 hours to complete a landscape and iron it down. Embroidered
details by machine or hand will take longer and may be done at a later time.
This workshop is appropriate for Craft groups as well as quilters.
For quilt guild meetings or other groups, I have a one hour presentation using a large
board and actually “building” a landscape with step-by-step directions and a hand-
out. Showing deep space is the emphasis of this lecture by using perspective, color,
and textures. Many Art Elements and Design Principles are taught as the landscape
is put together in front of the group. Please call or e-mail for details on cost for
teaching time, lectures, and dates available.
(A minimum of 12 participants required for the workshop.) Photo copy examples are
available for your sign ups. Real examples may be a possibility if you are not too far
away, or a smaller hanging may be mailed to you.
Phyllis Binkley phyllisbinkley@Yahoo.com
43723 Pioneer Ave.
Hemet, CA 92544 951-306-0919
Workshop Examples
| Short Summer 15X12 inches |
Dead Tree 12X9 inches
Buck in the Rocks 12X17 inches
Two Ducks 12X17 inches
Gray Wolf 8X15 inches
Howling 15X21 inches
Landscape Art Quilts
by Phyllis Binkley
by Phyllis Binkley
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Spring Buck 9X12 inches, frammed in wood
Hand Embroidery on flowers, thread painted tree
Hand Embroidery on flowers, thread painted tree
Purple Iris 12X18, frammed in dark wood
Coyote 18X12
| Look out for the Rocks" 12X15 inches |
Danger Overhead 13X19 inches
(Close up below)
(Close up below)
Big Buck 17X11 inches
| Where did you come from? 12X17 inches, Close up on Rt. |
| This workshop will teach you how to: ...show deep space ...use "Atmospheric Perspective" ...build a realistic or abstract landscape ...show perspective on the water ...use trapunto without slitting the back ...use "fussy cutting" and combine many fabrics to make realistic foregrounds ...stitch details in the middle ground and foreground ...use free motion machine stitching in the sky ...do thread painting for tree bark, branches, foliage, grasses, and fur on the animals |