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[dragonlady7]

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 I love the idea of a mixed-media ¿quilt? map of the farm! If wanted, I’d be happy to burble a few ideas for possible ways to start. If not wanted, that’s OK, too. Plenty on your plate.

The idea I have is to start with a base layer of canvas, and maybe a layer of batting and a second layer of canvas, and then quilt the general outlines into that. Then, applique the large masses of the different areas in the color they need to be– roads, streams, hills, fields, forested areas. And then, over the top of that, the finer-detailed things, like buildings and textures, would be embroidered or painted, and maybe built up with yet another layer of batting underneath for things that should be raised.

I might also do the artistic conceit of showing topograpy from the top, but all buildings and details from the side, rather than just straight-up embroidering a satellite photo.

I’d love other ideas and suggestions, though! This was good because I hadn’t put the idea into words really yet, so this got me to explain it a little more!

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[harpers_child]

My dad's parents had a rug with a similar idea. It was of the part of Ecuador they lived in for a few years. Whoever made the rug wrote the colors down wrong so instead of being blues and greens it was predominately shades of orange and brown. It's in storage right now or I'd get you a picture.

[dragonlady7]

oh that's so cool though! i love that!