My sister in law Gayle ask how I did this little village “Venice”.  It’s a really fun process of cutting up geometric pieces of fabric, 12 different colors in all.  We simply started putting the pieces of different shapes directly on batting, overlapping each one by maybe 1/8″  I had the sky fabric already placed at the top.  Once all the remaining batting was covered I cut out roof tops and looked for likely houses to put them on, folowed by windows and doors.  It just took shape.  I put steps to walk up the hills to the houses, and trees of course.  There’s also a stainglass church,nd a giraffe hiding in he mix.