Creating Art Quilts with Panels

Author: Joyce Hughes
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607656892
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
Discover how to transform premade fabric panels and thread into one-of-a-kind art quilts! Award-winning quilter and fiber artist Joyce Hughes will show you how to use a variety of decorating and customizing techniques – from thread painting to trapunto – to add dimension and texture. Complete 6 step-by-step projects with full-color photography that feature seasonal panels, beautiful florals, holiday designs, and gorgeous landscapes.

Art Quilts Made Easy Mini Book

Author: Susan Kruszynski
Publisher: Landauer (IL)
ISBN: 9781947163843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
An inspiring and accessible guide to creating landscape-style quilts, Art Quilts Made Easy is the perfect basic introduction to art quilting. Featuring 3 stunning yet simple quilt designs, including a bookmark, card, and 8 x 10 scene, author Dr. Susan Kruszynski offers easy-to-follow techniques that infuse art quilts with splashes of intense color that both beginner and experienced quilters can achieve and will love! Also included are sections on planning your quilt and mapping a design, design rules, guidelines, and tips, basic tools, and the entire art quilt process from start to finish! Dr. Susan Kruszynski is an award-winning quilted landscape fabric artist and educator.

Landscape Quilts

Author: Nancy Zieman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780848724832
Category : Appliqué
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Making gorgeous landscape quilts is easy with these step-by-step instructions.

Art Quilt Workbook

Author: Jane Davila
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607050005
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Do-It-All Guide to Putting the ART in Art Quilts. Learn the basics of good design with simple step-by-step exercises, then add your own personal style. Develop the quilt artist within you. Explore fabric collage, thread painting, innovative piecing, and photo imagery on fabric. Learn about the business side of creating, exhibiting, and marketing your quilts. Take your art quilts to the next level with Jane and Elin guiding the way. Do the lessons and homework, check out all the beautiful gallery quilts for inspiration, and find lots of resources for further study.

Quilts with an Angle

Author: Sheila Christensen
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 161745642X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Triangles, hexagons, diamonds, and more! Learn to measure, rotary cut, and machine piece 60° shapes with ease. Sew 15 interesting angular quilts with no templates, no y-seams, and no paper piecing! Any 60° triangle ruler or straight ruler with a 60° mark works with these patterns. Arrange blocks in straight rows or kaleidoscope layouts for wildly different looks. After learning triangle grid basics, you’ll be able to design your own angled blocks and quilts.

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

Free-Motion Quilting 101

Author: Ashley Nickels
Publisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 9781641550024
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Quilters want to finish their quilts--and that means doing their own machine quilting. In Free-Motion Quilting 101, teacher and quilter Ashley Nickels provides in-depth instruction on learning the technique of free-motion quilting, combined with simple small projects that reinforce the technique. Quilters will have fun while learning the necessary steps to complete a quilting project. Free-Motion Quilting 101 is divided into three parts--workbook-style practice; project session and in-depth reference for finishing a quilt 15 foundational designs 3 simple projects and 1 larger project that is a culmination of the techniques learned in the book Free-Motion Quilting 101 is squarely on mastering the technique on a regular home sewing machine and will be the book new quilters pick up first to learn how to free-motion quilt successfully.

Foolproof Art Quilting

Author: Katie Fowler
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644031337
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
The fun, no-fail approach to creating art quilts Bolster your creativity while having a ball! Certified creativity coach and art quilter Katie Fowler shares her no-fail approach to art quilting, perfect for all experience levels from beginner to advanced. Learn key design elements to take your surface design to the next level as you build your piece layer by layer with fabric, pens, and paint! Focusing on the process rather than the product, readers learn to embrace mistakes as they create unique works of art. Full of visual treats, this guide provides practical insights on the creative process and tools for overcoming obstacles. You can be an art quilter! Have a blast with pens, paint, and fabric Take anxiety out of the process with advice from your personal creativity coach Learn key design elements, overcome creative blocks, and move confidently toward a final piece you love

The Complete Photo Guide to Textile Art

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 1610596196
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description

Create Landscape Quilts

Author: Meri Henriques Vahl
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644030136
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Quilt realistic people and places with artistic flair Create unique art quilts of your favorite places—and the places you want to go! Meri Vahl shares her simple yet unique method for quilting realistic nature scenes and villages from fabric. Using photographs from her travels, the author explains how to achieve stunning scenery with lifelike details. With techniques like fabric collage and tulle overlay, even beginners will learn to quilt majestic mountainscapes, charming buildings, and realistic people. A stunning gallery of quilts—some named best in the world—will inspire you to bring your own travel photos and art quilt ideas to life. From photo to art quilt! Recreate landscapes, people, and buildings with ease World-renowned art quilter Meri Vahl teaches you her award-winning process Immortalize your journeys as you paint scenes with fabric, one step at a time