Inspiration for a Vermont Landscape Quilt Series















View of Mount Mansfield from my backyard in Jericho, VT.




I can't begin to describe how beautiful this view is at sunset. I haven't been able to truly capture the light properly to do justice to it. I've also been desperately looking for fabric that gives some semblance of these shades. I've begun to think about things like dying my own fabrics. Help!! Another quilting slippery slope...
I have started my first quilt in what will probably become a series.


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