Kaffe Fassett's Country Garden Quilts: 20 Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting
by Kaffe Fassett
from Taunton
Kaffe Fassett presents 20 magnificent quilts bursting with floral themes and his trademark color combinations -- all luxuriously photographed against the stunning backdrop of lush English country gardens. Based on Fassett's signature line of Rowan fabrics, the pieces have been designed by some of the world's finest quilters, including Liza Prior-Lucy, Pauline Smith, and Robert Horton. And the gorgeous photography is just the start: Complete instructions for creating each museum-quality quilt are also included. Plus, Fassett draws from his 30 years of experience to offer tips and techniques that every quilter will treasure. This new collection from a master will be eagerly embraced by his fans worldwide.
Jelly Roll Quilts
by Pam Lintott
from David & Charles
Jelly rolls are the new fat quarter bundle! They consist of 2 ½ inch strips of color-coordinated fabric, rolled up to create a solid disk and tied with a ribbon. Jelly Roll Quilts is the first book to show quilters the best ways to use these desirable, laborsaving fabric packs. The author shows how to make 15 quilts; each perfectly suited to the color-coordinated jelly rolls and includes variations in color, style and size for each project. Jelly roll quilts are suitable for quilters of all skill levels, especially those quilters with a passion for a variety of fabrics. With names like Bars of Gold and Blue Lagoon, the quilts demonstrated in Jelly Roll Quilts are on the cutting edge of the craft.
Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists (The Masters)
by Martha Sielman
from Lark Books
Abstract appliquéd shapes cascade across the surface of Ita Ziv’s brilliantly colored quilts, creating vibrant celebrations of life. Noriko Endo captures her deep feeling for trees in a stunning interplay of light, shadow, and leaves. Gloves appear in nearly every quilt by Jane Burch Cochran, representing probing hands and, sometimes, angel wings. John Lefelhocz’s fantastic imagery—including an airplane silhouette that lights up—grabs viewers’ attention.
Esteemed curator Martha Sielman contributes an illuminating essay for each of the 40 featured artists, who are showcased in eight-page features.
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Simply Amazing Spiral Quilts
by Ranae Merrill
from Krause Publications
Learn to create six foundation-pieced spiral-based quilts—with no math! This one-of-a-kind technique for spiral quilt design allows you to create fascinating and beautiful art quilts. The bonus CD includes the basic shapes for the spiral patterns and the pattern insert helps you set up the perimeter shape, or draw free-hand irregular shapes without a template.
Choose your technique from any of three methods:
- By hand, completely freehand, using only a straight
- By hand, precisely, using a ruler to measure increments in each spoke
- On the computer — Electric Quilt works great for all types of spirals
Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters
by Susan Stein
from Creative Publishing international
This technique-driven book explores a wide range of new possibilities and materials available to fabric and journal artists. Each unique technique is presented with an inspirational, full-page photo of a fabric journal page. How-to steps with photos explore all the possible results from applying the technique. The reader can create journal pages and/or quilt blocks, which can be sewn together to make one large journal quilt, matted and framed individually, displayed on a meditation screen, or used as book pages sewn into a traditional journal format.
- Full-page fabric journal block to introduce each technique
- Step-by-step photos for exploring and executing the technique
- Gallery showing ways to display and use the fabric journal blocks
- Great value. Like two years of classes rolled into one book.
- Beautiful "journal page" opens each of 28 technique chapters
- All techniques are easily mastered by anyone. No complex dying involved. All products are readily available at craft, fabric, and quilt shops.
One-Block Wonders Encore!: New Shapes, Multiple Fabrics, Out-of-This-World Quilts
by Maxine Rosenthal
from C&T Publishing
One-Block Wonders definitely wasn’t a one-hit wonder. This fresh, fun follow-up spins more one-block quilts, new visual effects, and great ways to add even more color to your quilts with multiple fabrics. Whirling kaleidoscopic hexagons...simple straight-line piecing (no Y-seams!)...and the dramatic large-scale prints that make these colorful quilts a fabric-lover’s favorite. They’re all here, sure to make One-Block Wonders Encore a big, bit hit on all the charts.
Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth: Stamp, Screen, and Stencil with Everyday Objects
by Rayna Gillman
from C&T Publishing
Discover your inner artist--and the deepest bowels of that junk drawer--with this practical guide to fabric design. The eight easy techniques, explained in clear step-by-step directions and photographs, are stamping, stenciling, random screenprinting, gelatin plate printing, deconstructed screenprinting, discharge printing, soy wax batik, and rubbings. Use one, two, or more to make gorgeous, utterly unique fabric for fashion, home décor, or crafts.
One-Block Wonders: One Fabric, One Shape, One-of-a-Kind Quilts
by Maxine Rosenthal
from C&T Publishing
• Two super-speedy, surefire projects
• Easy random cutting! No planning, no fussy cuts, no mess-ups
Simple steps to dazzle friends and impress people: 1. Buy One-Block Wonders. 2. Follow precise directions to choose a large-scale print, calculate yardage, and cut and piece these drop-dead gorgeous quilts. 3. Graciously accept cheers and accolades from all. Big pieces and clever shortcut methods make these quilts go together fast so that quilters can spend more time with their admiring public.
Paula Nadelstern's Kaleidoscope Quilts: An Artist's Journey Continues
by Paula Nadelstern
from C&T Publishing
The Painted Quilt: Paint and Print Techniques for Color on Quilts
by Linda Kemshall
from David & Charles
The only book on the market that deals with the application of color to the quilted surface--a technique that creates completely unique effects.
Dyeing, fabric painting and print techniques are an important part of the increasingly popular City & Guilds textile courses.
Painted Quilt demystifies the process of coloring cloth using a variety of techniques including fabric paints, pastels, dyes, bleaches and transfers. The book combines simple techniques to produce complex textile surfaces, and describes exactly how these effects are achieved with easy-to-understand step-by-step photographs and instructions. Many people have competent sewing skills but lack the confidence to create their own designs--this book will help them to explore their own creative potential to achieve effective and original designs.
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