My FIRST Landscape Quilt - Stage I

Fine Wind, Clear Morning

Edo Period ( 1600-1868) Japanese woodblock print by

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Part of the Thirty-SIx Views of Mt Fuji Series

I saw this illustration and loved it - shame I did not see it myself but Les saw it when he was in Indianapolis last week 

Thought it would be ideal as a trial piece for a landscape quilt - so here is progress so far

The Fields of Mt Fuji - Satge I

So far I ahve pieced on a  foundation scrap - the sky, mountian and fields - in silks and cottons

• The Sky is pinwhale corduroy with cream ribbed silk clouds - cut away and left with ragged edges to give the effect of puffy clouds
• The mountain is in terracotta cotton with a crunkle silk dipdyed top
• The fields are in various tie silks - to give an effect of fields but still echoing the originals shades of blue forests in the foreground

Then added padding and a backing fabric and machine quilted the major sections and clouds

Now shall add embroidery for the snow and detail on the fields and perhaps some beading as well - esp on the snow capped top

I might save machine embroidery for another project

So shall .............see what people think of it ...........

PS It never  ceases to amaze me how differnt things look when photographed!