Paula Nadelsterns Kaleidoscope Quilts

Author: Paula Nadelstern
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607052822
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Celebrate Kaleidoscope Quilts With the Master Kaleidoscope Artist. Career retrospective of Paula Nadelstern's awe-inspiring quilts is packed with photos, design insights, and tips for making your own kaleidoscope quilts. Huge gallery with photos and in-depth, behind-the-scenes commentary on 19 quilts. Chapters with detailed explanations of Paula's design strategies and construction methods. The astonishing quilts that spring from Paula Nadelstern's passion for kaleidoscopes will change your view of what a quilt can be. This book highlights Paula's life work and shows how you can use her techniques to create your own unique fabric art.

Snowflakes & Quilts

Author: Paula Nadelstern
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1571207740
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to create a stunning snowflake quilt, including how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully. Paula’s incredible quilts capture the delicate, three-dimensional effect of winter’s snowflakes. Learn how to create the endless variations found in snowflakes using the techniques and materials of quilt making! • Full-size patterns for making 11 of the snowflake designs from Paula’s quilts • Step-by-step instructions explain how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully • Paula reveals her strip-piecing techniques for “Power Stitching” • Learn methods for using your fabrics to create “Seemingly Seamless Seams” “Paula explores the collision of precise geometry and lush splinters of color and pattern. In this book, she reveals her unique technique with characteristic intelligence and humor.” —Stacy C. Hollander, Senior Curator, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City “Much like a child mesmerized by fireflies, I cannot get enough of looking when I see [Paula’s] quilts. Riveting, dazzling, hypnotizing—these are the words that spring to mind when I behold Paula’s art.” —Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Fabricadabra: Simple Quilts, Complex Fabrics

Author: Paula Nadelstern
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617451894
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to use simple piecing to create spectacular quilts that are a feast for the eyes. Imagine a traditional quilt, its ordinary shapes gift wrapped with intricate fabrics. Celebrated author, teacher, and fabric designer Paula Nadelstern shows you how to design simple but stunning quilts with the help of vivacious fabric prints. Analyze fabrics to uncover their piecing potential for color and symmetry. Make your own cutting templates and learn how to get the “seemingly seamless” look made famous by Paula’s kaleidoscopic quilts. Example piecing diagrams show just how easy it is to quilt a visual spectacle. • Fabricadabra! Discover your fabric’s hidden potential and sew complex-looking quilts that are easy to piece with industry leader Paula Nadelstern • Understand symmetry in fabrics and fool the eye with daring design strategies • Fussy cut prints to perfection with self-drafted templates and camouflage seams for luminous effects

Kaleidoscopes And Quilts

Author: Paula Nadelstern
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607050277
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
Kaleidoscope - the very word promises surprise and magic, chance and change. Exploding with visual excitement, a kaleidoscope design organizes an abundance of light, color, form, and motion into a complex and coherent image, capturing a moment of infinity. This book is jammed with how-to's and why-not's, process and product, and an abundance of text and photos that explains elements of design and technique for creating the multifaceted, luminous, and random nature of a kaleidoscope's interior on the flat surface of a quilt. The kaleidoscope configuration and its symmetrical repetition allows the quiltmaker to explore a variety of design possibilities using intricately printed fabric. With Paula as your guide, you will find that making kaleidoscope quilts is like making magic with fabric.

Ricky Tims' Kool Kaleidoscope Quilts

Author: Ricky Tims
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 160705163X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Learn Tims’ innovative techniques step-by-step to create a stunning kaleidoscope quilt of your own. • An inspirational gallery of 26 student quilts • Like snowflakes, each quilt you make with this technique will be unique • Includes easy steps to enlarge or reduce the size of your quilt Create a spectacular kaleidoscope quilt with Ricky's unique strip-piecing method for making a multi-faceted pattern. You'll see impressive and intricate results from simple sets of strips; it’s foolproof with little need for pre-planning. The beauty lies in the unpredictability of how the fabric unfolds—just like a real kaleidoscope!

Lone Star Quilts & Beyond

Author: Jan Krentz
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607053810
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
Explore the world of Lone Star quilts! Expert teacher Jan Krentz shows you how to use today’s techniques to simplify this intricate design. 6 colorful projects - you’ll want to get started right away! Rotary cutting saves you time, while imaginative additions such as appliqué and “designer diamonds” give these Lone Stars a fresh, updated look. Jan teaches you everything you’ll need to know to make the Lone Star quilt of your dreams, from fabric choices to finishing touches. A gallery of eye-catching Lone Star quilts to inspire your creativity

Little Green Dresses

Author: Tina Sparkles
Publisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 1600851215
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Author Sparkles offers up an array of project ideas that are both earth- and user-friendly. She includes 50 original patterns for repurposed dresses, tops, skirts, and more. Included are sewing and shopping resources and a fitting guide.

Tradition with a Twist

Author: Blanche Young
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607050242
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Put a new twist on your favorite traditional quilt designs with this guide featuring creative fabrics and modern, time-saving techniques! Legendary quilters Blanch Young and Dalene Young-Stone present a new twist on traditional quilt patterns including Boston Commons, Trip Around the World, Sunshine and Shadow, Nine Patch, Irish Chain, and more using new construction methods and composing with an exciting palette of contemporary fabrics. The authors introduce the basics of working with fabric to create strip sets to easily construct magnificent quilts. Their streamlined techniques were developed to get traditional quality results using the tools of today, such as rotary cutters and cutting mats.

Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety

Author: Elizabeth Warren
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847846520
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
This significant catalog is a highly detailed look at the world’s most celebrated collection of red and white quilts. Like the Log Cabin or Baltimore-style, the red and white quilt is a hugely popular genre of quilting. Colorfast Turkey red dye became readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, so red and white quilts became extremely popular, due not only to the newness of the color but also because of the extremely vibrant and punchy contrasting color scheme. Featuring over 650 quilts from the past three centuries, this book is filled with the gorgeous and imaginative designs of feathered stars, diamonds, animals, oak leaves, baskets, lettering, and snowflakes, as well as fascinating examples of careful embroidery and appliqué. With inspiring handiwork, designs, and visual histories, this book exemplifies the sheer magnitude and poetry of red and white quilts and is a staple compendium of this beloved art form.

Modern Plus Sign Quilts

Author: Cheryl Brickey
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617455709
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Add to your quilting repertoire with the universally popular plus sign! These 16 bold, graphic designs range from modern to traditional, with something for every skill level and style. Detailed instructions and illustrations walk confident beginners and intermediate quilters through traditional piecing, paper piecing, and fusible machine appliqué to create baby quilts, throw quilts, bed quilts, and more. Use your favorite types of fabric—solids, prints, precuts, or scraps—to make the projects your own.