Art Quiilt pic #6

This pic shows an additional pattern so I could over lay the design and even use it to do with the raw edge where needed.

Art Quilt pic #5

Still bringing forward by adding the background forest trees.  I will build the temple and the trees simultaneously and overlapping when needed.   I use all techniques, fusing, raw edge, needle turn, machine applique.  Of course I do not demand perfection for myself or others.

Art Quilt pic #4

This is where I begin to build the temple because it is next in the background coming forward.  You may use Steam a Seam or wonder under to hold things in place.  You can do needle turn applique or do your stitching on your sewing machine(raw edge) then carefully trim up close to your stitching with your scissors to remove excess fabric..

Art Quilt Pic #3

Example of the drawing, foundation laying over the drawing and the layering of the 1st fabric which in this case is the sky.

Art Quilt Pic #1

This is the picture I selected because it has meaning to me.  It portrays a lady who has tamed or slain her dragon.  Our daughter is in the process of slaying her dragon, cancer, and has a daily struggle to keep her dragon tamed.  You may use a picture or let it come directly from your imagination, it does not have to have a meaning.
Just remember, this is only my way, not claimed to be the right way.

Making an Art Quilt

It started out that I wanted to do some art quilting.  Since I had painted for a few years, I thought I might be half way there.  NOT.  Totally different in some ways; however the concept is the same.  You just need to get your prospective right and it is like painting with fabric, almost.  Anyway, I found a picture that I wanted to portray, of course it was very small, had to enlarge it to the size of the quilt I wanted to make.  Found a piece of paper of the size I needed, which was about 38 X 30, and drew the picture to about the size of the paper.  I do not draw well, I paint, but was able to sketch in what I wanted it to look like.  Then I again drew around the lightly penciled lines with a black felt tip pen, in order to see the drawing through the foundation fabric on which I will sew my picture. Do not draw on your white foundation fabric.  Just be assured you can see the paper drawing through your white fabric.  All of the white fabric will be covered when you have it completed.
Thus far, I have used the following:
Picture
Large paper
Erasable pencil
Black felt tip pen
White foundation fabric

Art Quilt pic #2

          Start with the furthest objects away from you, in this case, the sky will be in the background.