Create beautiful landscape quilts using strips and scraps with these 15 lovely projects! In Lovely Landscape Quilts, Cathy Geier walks you through the process of creating amazing landscape quilts using simple techniques that anyone can try. Learn how to find inspiration and choose you fabrics, how to design and lay out your quilt, and how to use angles to create skies, water, hills and mountains. Learn tricks for embellishing your quilts with applique, marker and fabric to create shadows and highlights that will give your landscape quilts depth and perspective. Finally, learn the tips for finishing and quilting before trying any of the 15 beautiful projects designed by Cathy. Lovely Landscape Quilts inspires readers to create landscape quilts using strips and scraps of fabric; a rewarding and economical way to quilt. From fabric ""painting"" lakes and mountains, to appliqueing trees, tulips and branches, how-to discussions will focus on construction techniques, design ideas and quilting advice. Methods taught will be used in the many projects included, ranging from easy beginning landscapes to more accomplished ones. Key will be the reference chapter that demonstrates the landscape approach to quilting ? how to piece together to achieve desired shapes, how to select colours to create mood and how to give depth to a piece.