Pre-tax total cost of workshop: $450 (includes $25 reg fee), 30% deposit: $135
Dates: Thursday, September 10 – Saturday, September 12, 2026 (9am – 4pm)
Location: Art School, 15 NW Birch St, Coupeville
Materials: Conley- Supply List.pdf
Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Advanced

Creating Bold Graphic Landscape Quilts

In this multi-day workshop, you’ll learn how to transform your own photographs into bold, graphic landscape quilts using approachable design techniques and simplified construction methods—without needing advanced drawing skills or perfect precision.

In this class you will learn how to:

• Combine multiple reference photos into one strong landscape composition
• Simplify complex images into bold graphic shapes
• Use tracing techniques with clear sheet protectors or tracing paper
• Explore digital design options using the iPad app Procreate
• Design an original quilt pattern from your own photographs
• Understand value, color, and fabric selection for greater visual impact
• Use Turned Edge Machine Piecing techniques
• Create skies and blended areas using Fussy Piecing methods
• Incorporate lettering into quilts using printing, stenciling, or appliqué techniques

Students will:

• Construct a simple rock study to practice the techniques
• Enlarge and trace their finished design onto Floriani Stitch and Wash Fusible stabilizer (available from Vicki)
• Begin creating their own original landscape quilt during class
• Learn a construction method where the pieces are sewn directly to each other rather than appliquéd, while the stabilizer remains inside the finished quilt

Included Bonus:

• A pre-class Zoom session with Vicki to help students select photos that will work best for these techniques
• Students interested in learning Procreate before class can explore Vicki’s online course available through C&T Publishing

Perfect for students who:

• Want to turn personal photographs into original art quilts
• Feel intimidated by the design process
• Love landscape imagery and expressive fabric choices
• Enjoy improvisational creativity more than precision sewing

No perfect points or advanced drawing skills required—just your photos, your imagination, and a willingness to experiment creatively with fabric.

Photo credits: Completed quilt photos displayed after instructor’s portrait have been shared by students from prior workshops.

Instructor Bio
Vicki Conley lives in the mountains of southern New Mexico. She has been a creative person all her life and has recently retired from 42 years as a studio potter. She has been a fiber artist for about 20 years and is now also exploring surface pattern design and online teaching. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and was part of Quilt National 2017. Vicki has an eye for interpreting the natural world and is best known for her original national park poster art quilts. She and her husband now travel extensively in their RV with their two dogs, always looking for the next inspiration. Vicki enjoys bold graphic landscapes as well as abstract improvisational piecing.
  
You may have seen Vicki’s work in Machine Quilting Unlimited, Art Quilting Studios and Art Quilt Quarterly and she has articles in recent issues of Quilting Arts Magazine. She has also been a guest on The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson demonstrating some of the techniques she uses in her national park art quilts. She recently finished taping for Quilting Arts TV series 3100. Look for it this fall on PBS. In her class you will learn all the techniques she uses in these stunning quilts. You can see her work at vicki-conley.com