I got a lot of great advice from the GardenWeb quilter’s forum and About.com’s quilter’s forum, and met some nice people too. I learned about adding perspective through shading, and definition by way of a machine free-quilting technique, ’couching’ (adding texture by attaching fibres with invisible thread), fabric painting, using netting, and much more. As a largely self-taught, trial-and-error sort of quilter, many of these ideas were entirely new to me. Many who responded included photos of quilts in which they had used these techniques. The projects shared were just amazing.
I feel quite inspired and even a bit spoilt for choice in terms of the ways that I could transform the big green blob into a more accurate representation of the mountains across the lake. I’ll be sure to post a second photo – that promise alone will help to keep me on track.
