Fractured Landscape Quilts

Author: Katie Pasquini Masopust
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1571208704
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
Fiber artist Katie Pasquini Masopust's stunning quilts reflect the beautiful landscape within a complex network of straight lines and curves. Using a profusion of colors and fabrics, Katie creates strikingly rich textured quilts. Her innovative fractured landscape technique, described in this book, is shown with many how-to photos and inspirational quilts. Starting with a photograph, Katie explains how she draws the landscape, fractures the image, selects the fabric, then applique's and quilts the piece for successful results.

Inspirations in Design for the Creative Quilter

Author: Katie Pasquini Masopust
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607052083
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
As a best-selling author and teacher, Katie draws on her two passions-art studies and art quilts-to create abstract quilts that are inspired by still life compositions. In this book you'll learn how you can assemble a still life arrangement from your favorite items at home and transform it into an art quilt, even if you've never considered yourself to be an artist. With Katie by your side, you will succeed!

Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter

Author: Katie Pasquini Masopust
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607053780
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
Art lessons every quilter will love. Traditional quilter? Art quilter? Improve ANY quilt with this book! Quick no-sew design exercises to make your talents shine. Build a color wheel from fabric to learn color principles. Discover the easy "Nine-Patches" of color and composition.

Beautiful Landscape Quilts

Author: Joyce R Becker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781644031223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Anyone can quilt stunning scenery--from brand new landscape quilters to veteran artists! Explore Joyce Becker's simple methods with 50 tips for success and a gallery of quilts from featured designers.

Making Quilts with Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession

Author: Kathy Doughty
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607058235
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Believing that each quilt is but a starting point for a new quilt, Kathy Doughty shares 21 of her patterns and invites you to recreate them in your own voice. You’ll find quilts you love and quilts you don’t like at all. She encourages you to discover in each quilt what appeals to you. To help you define your own style, each quilt pattern is outlined by three exploratory tips regarding concept, technique, and fabric choices. Simply follow the easy guidelines and let your instincts make your choices.

Lovely Landscape Quilts

Author: Cathy Geier
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144023843X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Create beautiful landscape quilts using strips and scraps with these 15 lovely projects! In Lovely Landscape Quilts, Cathy Geier walks you through the process of creating amazing landscape quilts using simple techniques that anyone can try. Learn how to find inspiration and choose you fabrics, how to design and lay out your quilt, and how to use angles to create skies, water, hills and mountains. Learn tricks for embellishing your quilts with applique, marker and fabric to create shadows and highlights that will give your landscape quilts depth and perspective. Finally, learn the tips for finishing and quilting before trying any of the 15 beautiful projects designed by Cathy.

Ricky Tims Convergence Quilts

Author: Ricky Tims
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607053470
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Become a fabulous quilt artist - the fun, easy way! Popular quilting expert Ricky Tims presents an imaginative, new piecing technique that quilters will adore! Convergence quilts feature two or more fabrics cut into strips, sewn together, then cut and pieced again. Nothing could be simpler - or more magical! Ricky offers lots of creative guidelines but no hard-and-fast rules, so every Convergence quilt is a unique work of art. • 4 projects walk you through the steps of making Convergence quilts • Quilts look complex but are fun, easy, and, best of all, creative to make • Use any fabric from commercial prints to hand-dyed • Add decorative touches such as appliqué to dress up your projects • An infinite number of looks from one ingenious technique

Attic Windows

Author: Diana Leone
Publisher: Krause Publications Incorporated
ISBN: 9780873418348
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
This guide describes a technique for quilters of all ages and skill levels to use their imaginations, creativity and favourite motif fabrics. The book contains a gallery of more than 50 Attic Window quilts, information on selecting fabrics, tips on colours and numerous exercises.

Quilt Love

Author: Cassandra Ellis
Publisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 9781600855016
Category : Patchwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
20 Beautiful, inspiring, and personal projects to stitch that will unleash your creative spirit even if you've never quilted before.

Quilt Recipes

Author: Jen Kingwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645076004
Category : Baking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Quilt Recipes is a brilliant pairing of captivating, pieced projects and family favourite deserts from her mum's kitchen. Enjoy the process of piecing and the challenge of finding, pairing, and arranging diverse patterns and countless colours together, especially those that make you uncomfortable. Savour each kitchen recipe that has been timelessly tested, lovingly passed down and now fondly shared with like-minded soul stitchers.12 brilliant patchwork projects paired with eight of Jen's mum's favourite, delectable dessert recipes. As quilters, stitchers and makers, we fill our souls with like-minded friendships, feed our souls with hand or machine stitching, and we love to treat ourselves and others to decadent desserts. Jen Kingwell's, Quilt Recipes, is a brilliant pairing of captivating pieced projects and delectable desserts. Whether you are a hand or machine piecer, one can relish in each recipe, whether it be a quilt or perhaps something sweet. Use a variety of patchwork techniques including, machine & hand piecing, hand applique, and hand quilting. Full-size paper patterns make template creation quick and simple. Acrylic template sets for six of the quilt patterns are sold separately.