The benefits of attending workshops.

It has been a long time since I participated in a quilting workshop. The opportunity of attending a weekend workshop taught by Gloria Loughman, at my local quilting shop, became available. I have always admired Gloria’s art quilts. She creates beautiful colourful landscape pieces inspired from photographs taken during her travels. Her style of quilting is so different from my style and it definitely made me work well outside my comfort zone.
We spent 2 full days over painting commercial fabrics, drawing a design from our chosen photograph and assembling the pieces into a finished landscape piece, reflecting rhythm and colour in the sky area.
I tried using new techniques and different methods of choosing colours and applying shapes to a fabric background.

Here is my finished piece, ‘Sunrise at Malua Bay’. It is based on a photo my husband took at our local Beach.