Easter Landscape Quilt

After seeing this picture, I was inspired to create an Easter landscape quilt.  My goal was to make it foundation friendly without too many pieces.  I debated showing you this inspiration photo as mine does not look a lot like it and I am not sure my quilt does the photo justice -- but sometimes you just need to spend time creating.

Easter Sunrise Photo from the Internet

​And creating the piece allowed me to focus on the upcoming Easter celebration.  

​See how to create your own foundation friendly Easter landscape quilt in my video for the week.

Coloring the Quilt
In my initial rendition, I played with colors instead of fabrics.  Using the colors in the inspirational photo, I added some gradations in EQ.  Then I took a few of the colors from those gradations and did a search for fabrics in the library.  I included all EQ libraries in my search, knowing that I wanted primarily batiks and tonal prints.  To keep the video under 10 minutes, I did not include this process in the video.   However for those in Tech Know Quilters, take a look at Lesson 12 in Working with Fabrics for a better understanding of grades and Lesson 13 Randomize for transitioning from colors to fabrics.

Added Gradations in the Project Sketchbook

Here are my final fabrics if you would like to look for something similar.  I probably downloaded over 100 fabrics.  Did randomize to convert the colors to fabrics and then then swapped out fabrics that I didn't like in the quilt.  Once the quilt was done, I did a compress project file size to eliminate everything that wasn't in the quilt.

Fabrics Used in Easter Landscape Quilt

Mini Heart Black Text

Adding Text 
I added text on Layer 2.  The font I used was the Mini Heart Font from Creative Fabrica.  There were actually two fonts in the download file.  In Tech Know Quilters we work with text on a quilt in Lesson 1 of the Calendar Quilt class.

Foundation Patterns
Make sure to save your block before adding the applique.  Once the applique is added, Electric Quilt will tell you that the block is too complex for EQ to automatically section and number.  You always have the option to section and number yourself.  But if you saved the version before the applique, it is already done for you.

Here is the sectioned foundation from the video -- all done by Electric Quilt 8.

Foundation Sectioning for Easter Landscape Quilt

Here is the quilt from the video.

Do you have a favorite Easter quilt that you have designed in Electric Quilt?  I would love to see pictures. (It doesn't need to be this one.)   Please feel free to post in the Learning EQ Facebook group.

Happy Easter!

Happy quilting.

​Kari

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