Art Quilt Maps

Author: Valerie S. Goodwin
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607056828
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Award-winning quilt artist Valerie Goodwin shows your customers how to transform the places they love and places they ve always wanted to see into hypnotic art quilts. Readers learn step by step how to create fiber collages based on maps of their favorite real and imaginary places. The book features a large photo gallery of quilt maps by Valerie and her students. . Innovative designs keep your customers creativity engaged . Fully illustrated guide covers a variety of basic mixed-media techniques . Bundle this book with fabric paints and mediums, markers, and fusible web"

Map Art Lab

Author: Jill K. Berry
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1627880313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Explore the world of cartography with this collection of creative map-related projects—for artists of all ages and experience levels. This fun and creative book features fifty-two map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds. Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide you through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. Maps are beautiful and fascinating, they teach you things, and they show you where you are, places you long to go, and places you dare to imagine. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on creative experiences. Map Art Lab is the perfect book for map lovers and DIY-inspired designers. Artists of all ages and experience levels can use this book to explore enjoyable and engaging exercises. “Learn about cartography, topography, legends, compasses, and more in this adventurous DIY map book.” —Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine “Every art teacher should have a copy of this book.” —Katharine Harmon, author of The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

Art Quilt Collage

Author: Deborah Boschert
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617452858
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
How to get from "start" to "art" Make treasured art quilts from bits of cloth, stitched motifs, and painted details. Dip your toes into the world of art quilting with mixed-media techniques, practice exercises, checklists, and work-along projects presented using 8 design guides. This visual, step-by-step guide will help you unlock your own artistic vision as you quilt in a series, finish small art pieces, and incorporate meaningful symbols into your work. • Tap into your creative muse! Art quilt inspiration, techniques, and checklists presented in 8 easy-to-use design guides • Uncomplicated, visual guide to fabric collage with practice pieces to help you gain expertise • Tell your own artistic story with colors, materials, and beloved symbols

Contemporary Quilt Art

Author: Kate Lenkowsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
In the 1970s young artists "discovered" quilts and began experimenting with contemporary styles. Today quilt art is a staple of art exhibits nationwide. This handsomely illustrated introduction provides a useful guide to the contemporary art of quilting for quilters and collectors alike. The book illustrates the various styles of quilt art, introduces both established and emerging artists, and discusses aspects of their art as well as the process of quilt making. In addition to information about how to value and where to purchase quilts, the reader will learn how to commission a quilt and work directly with an artist, and will find information about what quilt costs generally run. Kate Lenkowsky gives an overview of exhibition and marketing opportunities and lists art quilt organizations at the national, regional, and local levels. Collectors will find a guide to resources on the conservation of new materials and options for displaying quilts in the home and elsewhere. This is a wonderful gift for anyone interested in viewing and collecting contemporary American art quilts.

Foolproof Crazy Quilting

Author: Jennifer Clouston
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607057182
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
“[The author] presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons [and] describes how to take each stitch.” —Publishers Weekly Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston’s gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn: which fabrics, threads, and needles to use how to piece crazy quilt blocks how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt, and more Included are complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; links to full-size patterns for nine hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.

Art Quilts International

Author: Martha Sielman
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764352201
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
These engaging works of art represent a range of styles across the abstract art spectrum. 300 gorgeous art quilts, bursting with color and excitement, capture the work of 124 major quilt artists from 18 countries. In-depth interviews with 29 of the artists help us understand their inspirations, their techniques, and their challenges. Learn about how Denyse Schmidt makes her color choices. Find out how Fumiko Nakayama first discovered the mola techniques for which she is famous. Discover why Sue Benner is drawn to plaids and why Deidre Adams likes old books. Participating artists come from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and across the US.

Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893824973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522

Book Description
Barbara Brackman's classic quilter's resource, the "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns," is fully modernized, updated with over 160 new blocks, and presented in full color for the first time in this third edition! All of the 4,000+ pieced quilt block patterns found in this book are illustrated with both a line drawing and sample color suggestions to ensure that you will never run out of inspiration! Quilters, quilt historians, and textile enthusiasts will love the detailed information on pattern names and publication sources included with each block pattern.The book is easy to use in a multitude of ways: look up block designs by name to find a perfectly themed pattern, search by layout and construction information to find the name of the pattern in a historic quilt, or just browse the pages until your next quilting project catches your eye! Combine the book with "BlockBase" software (sold separately) to easily design and print custom templates, rotary charts, or foundation patterns for any of the blocks in the book.As a one-stop-shop for quilt pattern identification and ideas for your next quilting project, this fabulous book should be in every quilter's library!

Surviving the Winter

Author: Dorothy R. Zopf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
How the women of New Mexico have used a patchwork of materials to create an enduring quiltmaking legacy.

Art Glass Quilts

Author: Julie Hirota
Publisher: C & T Pub
ISBN: 9781571202604
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Learn Julie's innovative Subtractive AppliqueTM technique for adding colourful fabric patches as you "subtract" from the outline of your design 4 original Art Glass projects allow you to practice the techniques OR design your own Art Glass quilts-Julie teaches you how! Detailed lessions on color, design, balance, and borders Easy machine construction-no handwork involved!

Twelve by Twelve

Author: Deborah Boschert
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
ISBN: 9781600596667
Category : Art quilts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Looks at a two-year-long international collaboration between 12 quilters, each of whom created 12 quilts on 12 different themes, showcasing the quilts in full-color and examining the intimate quilting community. Original. Twelve by Twelve has a number of Australian contributors.