Hello and welcome 😎 I'm thrilled to share Views Both Far and Near with you. I learned so much and I'm so happy that it's finished. The last few days have been very intense - I'm glad that I don't do this for a living!

Views Both Far and Near

Last week the piece was getting close to finish. It's mostly a blur but by Sunday evening I knew that I would have the embroidery finished on Monday and that I would spend most of Tuesday framing it. I also watched the course that Take Two provides all of its student on photographing our art with a cell phone. That left the photography session for this morning.

Views Both Far and Near

In the last two weeks you've seen a lot of process photos. Here are a few closeups of the finished piece. In the area where the nut was (I never did find it!) I added various semi-precious stones such as amethyst, since stones are also a part of nature. I also added some fun critters such as the bird next to the clover. I stitched many tiny flowers in the areas that I had covered in stem stitch. Very loose couching was used above the orange proddy flower. It covered the area quickly and looks like fields of plants.

Details of the stitching

A rabbit lurking behind a row of plants

The top of the piece with shells and a turtle hanging out by the water

In the image below, you can see how the canvas was covered on the sides. It was quite the learning experience!😧

Side view of the piece.

I mentioned in my last post that Take Two also offers a course on how to take photos of our art with our cell phones. It was a great course and I learned so much. I even discovered that my phone has all kinds of editing settings that I had been looking for! It turns out that the default was on auto - so when I explored further, I found out how to adjust colour, brightness, etc.

After the section on lighting, I knew that the best photos could be taken in my dining room in the morning. The wall next to the window has wonderful lighting but is painted a taupe colour, so I stuck a white cardboard to the wall and used the existing nail to hang the piece. The cardboard doesn't have to be centered since I'm going to get closer and crop the image anyway.

A white cardboard sheet is placed on the wall
to get the best lighting

The other thing I learned was that it's best to use your feet to get closer to the art that you're photographing than to use the zoom function on your phone. It's too bad that I can't do that with the wildlife in my backyard! 😀

What I learned

I learned many things while making this piece. Most of these you can read in my previous posts.
I did learn a lot while trying to attach the art piece to the framed canvas.
In theory my method should have worked but when I attached the piece to see if it would work, I hadn't stitched the sides much. I learned that when you add all of that stitching, the art contracts and becomes smaller.
I did what I could, but it's certainly not to a professional standard. Since I'm keeping this piece, that doesn't matter as much.
Next time I'll try to face the piece and then attach it to the canvas, if a canvas is necessary.
I'll add more photography tips as I keep learning. 😊

I Quilted This!

Welcome to the I Quilted This! linking party that celebrates quilting on a domestic machine or custom quilting on a long-arm. Feel free to link up and share any recent project, even if you're not quilting it!

Here are the posts that included FMQ, ruler work and walking foot quilting last week. Thanks for linking up 😊 and consider grabbing the button.

Kat from Scrapbox Quilts is participating in the Make 6 quilts in 6 weeks Challenge with Villa Rosa Designs. Her first quilt, Cabin Fever is very cute. Kat quilted it in a cross hatch.

Cabin Fever made by Kat - the first of six!

Margo Young of MY Quilts and Crafts finished and gifted two baby quilts. They are so cute!

Baby quilt by Margo

Another baby quilt by Margo

Preeti of Sew Preeti Quilts finished another lovely quilt, Polite Society, for a magazine about using precuts. Check out her post for more of her precut friendly patterns.

Polite Society by Preeti

Gwyned Trefethen is getting ready to FMQ her secret mission. Here is a sampler of the FMQ designs that will be on her quilt.

Gwyneth's FMQ practice sandwich

FMQ loops with open hearts by Gwyned

Terry from On Going Projects finished quilting her 2021-22 temperature quilt. It really looks great! You'll want to check out her post to read all about it.

Clam shells quilted in the borders of
Terry's 2021-22 temperature quilt

It's now your turn 😍

17 comments:

Gretchen Weaver23 April 2026 at 06:47
I hope you do well at the Fibre Fling, enjoy your day! Every project teaches us something, happy stitching!
Anonymous23 April 2026 at 10:20
Your final finish photos are terrific! Covering the edges of the canvas was genius. I look forward to hearing all about Fibre Fling results!--TerryK@OnGoingProjects
Kate25 April 2026 at 06:56
Congrats on a very interesting finish. All those parts work together so well. Enjoy Fibre Fling this weekend.
Brenda @ Songbird Designs25 April 2026 at 15:42
What an interesting piece, Andree. I hope you do well at Fibre Fling. Thanks for sharing with us at Monday Musings.
Anne-Marie25 April 2026 at 19:04
Wow, that's really cool.
Frédérique - Quilting Patchwork Appliqué26 April 2026 at 09:31
Oh wow, je l'adore cette pièce-là ! Bravo pour les superbes détails, et l'encadrement me paraît tout à fait professionnel. Ca va être une pièce maîtresse pour l'expo !
LIttle Penguin Quilts27 April 2026 at 16:29
That is a beautiful piece, Andree! So much to look at, and I bet it has wonderful texture, too. Congratulations on having it hanging in the show!
Kim28 April 2026 at 18:06
Your 'Views' piece is filled with gorgeous imagination and beauty, Andree. I would love to see this up close and personal. So much detail to be seen. I have a feeling the Fibre Fling show would be filled with fabulous works of art. Fleur Woods is a favourite fibre artist of mine.
Alycia~Quiltygirl29 April 2026 at 10:42
Your piece is amazing - its so detailed and full of cool things, And your photo nailed it!! sounds like your brain got quite the workout recently haha
Yvonne from Quilting Jetgirl2 May 2026 at 17:40
What a fun piece! Thank you for sharing with Favorite Finish. :)
JanineMarie2 May 2026 at 21:16
What a texture-y piece with so many things to find. Have fun at the FIbre Fling. I definitely need to go back and read your whole process. Our cell phones are really amazing camera/editing devices. I only know a fraction of what can be done with them and need to learn more, so thanks for any tips you discover. I did find by accident that the worst place for me to photograph my quilts is on my rather dark green carpet. It does amazingly awful things to color in whatever I'm photographing, so now (when I remember) I put a white-ish bed quilt on the floor.