Design Your Own Nature Quilt – Expanded Information

Here’s some more information to help you make decisions about photos and fabrics for Design Your Own Nature Quilt.

Photos:
– Choose subjects that have a variety of colors and values, (light-dark variation.) Sand dunes or cliff walls will be challenging because of minimal color changes.
– Avoid a close up of a one-color flower. It will not have enough variation to work with. Instead, choose a bouquet, or garden scene with multiple flowers.
– Think about the feasibility of reproducing your photo with fabric. Can you really manage the subtle changes of a sunset or water reflections? You’ll need the perfect fabrics for such things.

Fabrics:
– Let the pattern of the fabrics work for you. If you have some busy vegetation, look for a busy fabric with similar colors and values. You don’t want to cut tiny little leaves and branches!

Examples: Click images for a larger image or a full blog post with more information.

– Good vegetation fabric in foreground and mottled fabric for flower petals

Lupines, by Gabriele Pulpan

– A variety of busy green fabrics for vegetation

Georgie’s Garden, by Susan Cornell

– Although one color, the photo of this flower provided lots of value changes to work with

Lorraine’s Magnolia, by Gloria Larson.

– See Caroline’s inspiration photo and quilt in-progress at the bottom of this page. Her photo made her task easier.

– Using plaid for vegetation -I suggest reading the whole post