New passion

So last week the class I was going to teach at Keep Me In Stitches got canceled, so I took another class that was going on with Allen. Love you Allen! It was a Landscape quilt class - ala Nancy Zieman. Check out my Amazon Listmaina List to see her books and some other landscape quilting books I have used.

OK, so the quilt that the class is doing is something up WI way, in the woods with birch trees. You know me, I dig the water, so in my mind I conjured up a scene out by the Hyatt Westshore boardwalk where the rosette spoonbills roost at night, the mangrove trees are a sea of pink at that time. So what started out with a log fence across the entire quilt & trees high up in the sky has now become a Tampa Bay Scene. I have the Howard Franklin Bridge off in the left corner, and of course a Jacaranda Tree. Then I have Mangroves, and spoonbills and some other sunset creatures (thank you friends at Flickr who have given me permission to use some of their creature photos). I think it is really looking awesome and I ain't done yet. I only have a picture of what I am making in my mind, no real photo to base it on, so I just put a pix up here of a tree I took out on Picnic Island one night at the "golden hour".

Tonight I am going up to another quilt shop for sew night with my guild. I can hang it on a wall then and get some perspective. I don't have any wall room in my house to do it. I tried at lunch today at work but it is to heavy to hang with tape. I really want it to look realistic like Nancy's does. I have searched the web and found some landscape quilts that are pretty, but most look like they were drawn for a comic book. Those that look natural all seem to be of woods and waters far away from the tropics. So wish me luck, hopefully I will be able to show it off soon.

I have some other ideas waiting to burst out. Wait till you see my challenge quilt for the Sunshine & Sisterhood show!