A Prairie Home Quilts

I started the freezer paper templates for the top half of the background.

I’m still unsure of how I want the hills to look in the bottom half, and I definitely have too many green fabric choices that are muddying up my thinking. I decided to just go ahead with the top half of the background for now.

Late last night this is how things looked on my design wall:

I’ve decided for one thing I need a bigger design space! Hmm… but where to *put* it? LOL The idea for a tree doesn’t work for me when I see the fabrics on the wall. It makes the scene look too crowded or something. I’m not liking my large rock formation at the bottom of the sea either. I *do* love the fabric though and want to use it somehow. We’ll see what I come up with… I’m off to do some machine quilting and piecing.

Piecing: 14 days of 22

I got the full-sized drawing for my Psalm 8 quilt top done. Here’s a picture:

I realize you really can’t make out the details very well… you’ll just have to wait for the fabric unveiling in stages. :) I picked out quite a bit of the fabric for the major portions of the background from my meager stash. I’ll only have to get a few FQs or 1/4 yd pieces from the LQS to get started on the background.

I’ve been reading through some of my landscape piecing books for tips to get me started. Ruth McDowell’s book had a tip on piecing the “S” curves for the two sky fabrics that will be a great help. In Mary Hackett’s, A Bridge to Landscape Quilts, I found this bit of wisdom:

“You have the quilting skills. The rest is simply the willful act of allowing your mind to let go of what you think you can or can’t do. It entails getting past what is “right” when it comes to quilting, of training yourself to really see the natural things around you, and employing well-loved quilting techniques to simulate them.”

And, so, let the process begin!

Piecing: 11 days of 17