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Create beautiful landscape quilts using strips and scraps with these 15 lovely projects!In Lovely Landscape Quilts, Cathy Geier walks you through the process of creating amazing landscape quilts using simple techniques that anyone can try. Learn how to find inspiration and choose your fabrics, how to design and lay out your quilt, and how to use angles to create skies, water, hills and mountains. Learn tricks for embellishing your quilts with applique, marker and fabric to create shadows and highlights that will give your landscape quilts depth and perspective. Cathys book evokes a warm contemporary feel through its use of wood-free paper and includes life size patterns of all the appliques used in her projects. Finally, learn the tips for finishing and quilting before trying any of the 15 beautiful projects designed by Cathy.
About the Author
Cathy is an author, lecturer and teacher. Her art quilts have been juried into prestigious quilt shows and museums both regionally and nationally. Using both innovative and traditional piecing techniques, she creates landscapes which reflect her love of the beauty found in the world around her. Cathy earned her B.A. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and sets up her landscapes with the eye of a painter. She enjoys lecturing and teaching her landscape quilt methods both regionally and nationally. See Cathy's latest quilts and learn more of her landscape quilting techniques by following her blog at http://cathygeier.blogspot.com. You can also find her on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/patchworksthatpraise.Currently she is promoting art quilts everywhere, trying to keep track of her dog, cat, fish and kids, and desperately trying to keep from being buried alive under piles of strings and strips of fabric!
