Gloria Loughman: The Quilted Landscape

Have you thought about making a quilt to capture your memories of a special place? Perhaps a wonderful holiday destination, a view from your lounge room window or a memory of a special place from childhood. No matter what the inspiration, creating a landscape quilt is an achievable project. The process combines making decisions about design and color choices as well as incorporating accurate construction techniques. This lecture and slide show will focus on these components, solving the mystery of where to begin. 

Gloria lives at Drysdale, on the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula, in Australia.   She is a trained secondary teacher having worked mainly in the areas of literacy and special education.

Over the years she has dabbled in many areas of patchwork. After completing some studies in art, she began to make her large vivid landscape quilts depicting the Australian bush. These quilts have won many major awards, both…