"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 fusible web 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. Time will not
allow you to do the stitching during this one day class. Please see the Thread
Painting 101 class if you want to learn to do the free motion stitching with a lot of
help. Because all the hand-dyed and commercial fabrics are included, the
materials fee for this workshop is $45 each. It will take about 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. Students need to bring pins and good
scissors. (The small Fiskars that spring back are best for the fussy cutting.) All
materials will be provided.
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.
It is much easier for me to teach the landscape workshop in my studio in Hemet,
CA. However, I can haul all the prepared fabrics to your location if you have a large
space with lots of tables and room for at least 12 ladies to work.
Please call or e-mail for details on cost for teaching time, lectures, and dates
available. Photo copies and a real example are available to aid in your sign ups.
Phyllis Binkley phyllisbinkley@Yahoo.com
43723 Pioneer Ave.
Hemet, CA 92544 951-306-0919
Every month or so I offer a landscape workshop in my studio for only the materials
fee. Call or email for the next available workshop. I have room for 8 at a time.
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 fusible web 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. Time will not
allow you to do the stitching during this one day class. Please see the Thread
Painting 101 class if you want to learn to do the free motion stitching with a lot of
help. Because all the hand-dyed and commercial fabrics are included, the
materials fee for this workshop is $45 each. It will take about 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. Students need to bring pins and good
scissors. (The small Fiskars that spring back are best for the fussy cutting.) All
materials will be provided.
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.
It is much easier for me to teach the landscape workshop in my studio in Hemet,
CA. However, I can haul all the prepared fabrics to your location if you have a large
space with lots of tables and room for at least 12 ladies to work.
Please call or e-mail for details on cost for teaching time, lectures, and dates
available. Photo copies and a real example are available to aid in your sign ups.
Phyllis Binkley phyllisbinkley@Yahoo.com
43723 Pioneer Ave.
Hemet, CA 92544 951-306-0919
Every month or so I offer a landscape workshop in my studio for only the materials
fee. Call or email for the next available workshop. I have room for 8 at a time.
Landscape 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, framed in wood
Hand Embroidery on flowers, thread painted tree
Hand Embroidery on flowers, thread painted tree
Purple Iris 12X18, framed in dark wood
Coyote 18X12
Big Buck 17X11 inches
| Where did you come from? 12X17 inches, Close up on Rt. |
| This Landscape 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 (Demonstration Only) |
| New Workshop offered, by popular demand..... Thread Painting 101 This workshop teaches you how to do free motion stitching around all the parts of the landscape. Instead of just straight stitching around each piece of fabric, you will learn how to enhance the design my using your free motion stitches in a variety of ways to add interest, textures, and details. These techniques are also useful for the traditional appliqué quilter. By thread painting your birds, flowers, leaves, or whatever you have appliquéd on to a piece, you can spark up the interest and give your appliqué more WOW power. This is a practice only workshop to learn the various techniques. A small kit will be provided with about 12 items to stitch on and around for details. These items include a sky, mountains, hills, bushes, pine trees, animals, grasses, a flower, water, etc. You will learn how to totally thread paint a pine tree and then over stuff it to show more dimension. You will also do a winter branching tree with mostly thread. Students are asked to bring a fat quarter size muslin "sandwich" with any kind of quilt batting in the center. Embroidery machine needles 75 or 90. Top stitch needles 90 or 100, Universal or quilting needles 60 or 70 Please bring polyester mono filament, clear thread and an extra bobbin. You will need several greens, browns, and a variety of colored thread to enhance your objects. Phyllis will share some of her fancy thread painting threads if you don't have quite the right colors. Any blendable colors you have will be good. Thread sizes from 60, 50, 40, 30, or even 24 weight may be used for thread painting. If you have "Sliver" or any other metallic threads, bring them, too. You will learn how to adjust your machine and use the right needle to make those fancy threads work for you. You must have a machine that allows you to put the feed dogs down and do free motion stitching. Please be familiar with your machine and bring an embroidery foot that allows you to do free motion stitching. Regular feet do not work. This workshop is suitable for quilt shops as well as quilt guilds. It does not take up nearly as much table space as composing the landscapes. |
| New Thread Painting 101 class.....see yellow box to the right Email for a list of supplies needed: PhyllisBinkley@Yahoo.com Examples will be sent after booking this workshop. |
Student work from an all day "Build a Landscape" workshop. (below)
No stitching, just ironed down...
No stitching, just ironed down...
Review: One of my students kindly put this on her blog. See what she had to say about the Build a
Landscape Class. She took the thread painting last November and has been stitching up a storm
since then. http://windwoodstone.com/?p=470
Landscape Class. She took the thread painting last November and has been stitching up a storm
since then. http://windwoodstone.com/?p=470