We will continue on with putting the finishing touches on our landscape designs.

Sail Away:

Position the Island piece #4 over top of the water and mountain pieces. Refer to your Placement Page as a guide. Choose a decorative or zig zag stitch and stitch along the raw edge of the top, side, and bottom of Island piece #4

For the sailboat: because this piece is so small, I would advise that you fuse the piece to some fusible web (Wonder Under, Heat 'n Bond, etc.) if you haven't done this already.

For the sail, clip on the dotted line almost all the way up to the tip of the sail, but not through the tip. Leave a few threads at the tip to keep the two parts of the sail attached. Remove the paper backing, split the sail slightly apart and fuse the sail and boat sections on the water. Stitch around the boat and sail with a tiny zigzag stitch.

For the sun:

Position the sun and fuse it in place with a cool iron. Stitch rays around the sun with metallic thread using a long straight stitch set at about 3.0. Zigzag with a satin stitch all around the edge of the sun, hiding the starting and stopping points of the rays.

River Bend:

Position Right River Bank #7 in the lower right corner, matching the raw edges at the bottom and right. Choose a decorative stitch or satin (close) zigzag stitch and stitch along the curved top edge.

Position the sun and fuse it in place with a cool iron. Stitch rays around the sun with metallic thread using a long straight stitch set at about 3.0. Zigzag with a satin stitch all around the edge of the sun, hiding the starting and stopping points of the rays.

Add embellishments if desired:

Cut a tree trunk out of brown fabric. Use the tree trunk pattern as a guide to draw your own pattern - or draw one of your own freehand design.

Cut four fabric patches from small floral print or green fabric that looks like foliage. When positioned on the top of the tree trunk, these patches create the look of leaves.

Position the foliage patches on the ends of the tree trunk, creating the look of foliage. Fuse down if using Wonder Under. Stitch the tree and patches in pace with a small zigzag stitch and monofilament or fine thread.

If you prefer a winter look, don't add foliage.

If you have an embroidery machine, you could embroider the tree and foliage on the quilt, if desired.

Duplicate the rocks by cutting out basic rock shapes from several different shaded or mottled fabrics. Layer the shapes, fuse in place and stitch in place with a zigzag stitch using monofilament or fine thread.

Thread paint some grass around the tree with a free-motion stitch. Drop the feed dog on your machine and gently move the fabric back and forth to paint the grass with the needle on your sewing machine.

Or, choose a decorative stitch that looks like grass, vines, little leaves, etc. and embroider some "flora" around the tree and down by the rocks at the river's edge.

I added some "tumbling water" in my River Bend by using a flowing sort of decorative stitch on my machine and white embroidery thread. You can also make "tumbling water" or a "babbling brook" using free-motion thread painting and thread that matches your water fabric for a more subtle effect.

Quilters, we're almost finished with this class. In the next lesson we will square up and finish our projects, so think about what borders and binding you want to use, or maybe you will want to frame your finished landscape quilt?

Teresa