FMQAL: Row 3, Blocks 1 and 2: Landscapes and seascapes

I haven't been sleeping on the job of the FMQAL, I swear! Unlike the other member of this household I could mention... (DON'T ask about the sewing machine. I have BAD sewing mahcine karma. To cut a long story short, I have a loan Artista while the 820 gets fixed from being 'fixed').

This week starts off a part of the FMQQAYGQAL that I've been looking forward to. The theme is Landscapes and Seascapes. I've been doing a whole row at a time with on colour. This time, I'm mixing it up a bit. I couldn't see Seascapes in anything but blue, and landscapes - well, I live in "a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains..." So it's yellow through to red for Australian landscape colours for me.

You'll be pleased we've got two nice easy blocks to start with. Again, I'm using Leah Day's Free-motion Quilting Project. (I have done next week's blocks too, and one of those is mine - hurrah, I'm feeling unoriginal!)


Block 1: Landscape 1
This one looks nice and easy, but it's a tad deceptive. I just rewatched the video and worked out I haven't actually finished it. Ooops. Leah fills in all her hills. I kinda like the simplicity of not having them filled in, so I'll think about whether I'm going to do more on it or not.
Good parts - it's really good practice to go over the lines you have just stitched in such a simple pattern. And it's versatile. I can see this working for water too. I was thinking of looking for a landscape picture of a Scottish highland loch amongst mountains and trying to replicate the lines of the landscape. Maybe later... What would your ideal landscape picture be?

Tricky parts - getting the hills even. There's that middle mound that seems a bit outta place to me. Here's the back of it.

I like the look, but to be honest, stitching this design bored me slightly. Maybe because I didn't finish it. Was working with a new darning foot too and the thread broke early on, so I probably should have stepped back, had a beer and relaxed before tackling it. But it was 9:30am and I'm not keen on beer for breakfast. (Am going to have to get over that if I room with Sunni at Sewing Summit).
Watch Leah's landscape video here.

Block 2: Seascape 1

My yellow landscape block reminds me of sandy dunes at the beach. (Summer here, remember peeps?) So what goes with sanddunes but swirling waves? I LOVED sewing this one. Nice swirly lines, go wherever you please...  Love the colour too!

The video is below - have a go!

Happy FMQing!