Bamboo in Vase Wall Hanging		Bookshelf Wall Hanging		Wide Bamboo Living Room Valance

Many art quilters have perfected techniques to depict nature scenes. I am an avid collector of quilting books and try to take several classes each year from innovative teachers. Then like so many other fabric artists, I modify and unify all of the information I have learned and end up with a technique that works best for me. The PhotoView technique creates a straight-line piecing pattern by simplifying an image into pie-shaped pieces.

The process is as follows:

	Blow up a photograph of an image you want to recreate in fabric
	Using tracing paper, or a computer drawing program, create a straight-line drawing that reproduces the image
	Blow this image up to a full-size pattern
	Transfer the entire pattern onto freezer-paper
	Cut out each shape into templates
	Iron the freezer-paper templates onto fabric and add ¼-inch seams when cutting the fabric out
	Sew the pieces together to create an exact replica of the full-size pattern
	Make a pieced Roman shade or wall hanging

Learn this Technique
I offer three workshops that use the PhotoView Technique:

	Trees & Doors PhotoView Workshop
	Windows with a PhotoView
	Quick-and-Easy Batik Bamboo Window Valance

I took a workshop from Ruth McDowell in 2000. After that class, I designed my first PhotoView shades (Aspen Grove French Door Shades). Ruth has published many books on her techniques. You can see her work at www.ruthbmcdowell.com. The best book for learning her technique is Piecing - Expanding the Basics. Another excellent source with detailed design information is Cynthia England's book Picture Piecing - Creating Dramatic Pictorial Quilts, which can be ordered on her web site: www.englanddesign.com.