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Daily Beauty
It’s true—just a simple item from your make-up bag can put the perfect touch on your quilt! Cécile Trentini’s featured quilt of 365 blocks (one for each day of the year) celebrates the extraordinary beauty of ordinary life with perfectly round and richly embellished cotton cosmetic pads. Take advantage of the pads’ small scale and soft surface to experiment with a variety of stitching styles, plus mixed-media and surface design techniques. Soak up unique inspiration with hundreds of gorgeous variations on a theme. Give new life to leftover ribbons and lace, buttons and beads, sequins and tulle, and more!
Get Addicted to Free-Motion Quilting
Give your quilts the fancy finish they deserve with more than 60 lively continuous-line quilting designs from quilting pro Sheila Sinclair Snyder. Learn to stitch free-form spirals, feathers, flowers, bubbles, leaves, cables, and much more. Sheila shows you how to combine individual motifs into fluid designs for quilting blocks, borders, sashing, and all over the quilt. All designs work equally well on home sewing machines, mid-arm, and long-arm quilting machines, or for hand quilting. Try each motif in three versions: simple, more involved, and fabulously over the top! Also included is a bonus quilt project that¿s perfect for practicing new quilting designs.
Art Quilts
Every quilter will want to possess this stunning anthology, which features 10 years worth of the most innovative pieces chosen for the Quilt National biennial exhibition--the top showcase for modern quilt artists. Acclaimed author Robert Shaw, a widely recognized expert on American folk art, introduces the volume and provides both a beautifully illustrated history of the art quilt movement and a special section on building, displaying, and caring for collection of quality pieces. The techniques and materials featured in these 400 spectacular quilts are as varied as the people who created them, and through spectacular color photographs and artists' discussions, readers will discover how the boundaries of traditional quilt-making have expanded in the last decade.
Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts
Discover there’s no such thing as a mistake when you learn how to create original designs with this no-rules method of quilting. • Create one-of-a-kind quilts with free-form cutting and piecing • Discover how to spontaneously combine your own original units and design as you go! • Blend hand-prints and hand-dyes with commercial fabrics to create truly original quilts Enjoy the freedom of free-form! In this follow-up to Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, Rayna shares her “can’t make a mistake” approach to designing quilts. Learn how to how to trust your instincts so you can work more intuitively, and develop a new appreciation for the therapy of sewing without a plan. With these new skills, you can create new work from leftovers and scraps, dig into those favorite fabrics, and transform all those unfinished projects!
The Best Contemporary Quilts
These are among the most innovative, outstanding quilts being designed today--chosen to appear in the 2001 Quilt National Biennial Exhibition--and a source of new ideas, interest, and excitement for quilt makers, collectors, and enthusiasts alike. Since its inception 22 years ago, the Quilt National exhibit continues to be a showcase for contemporary artists who expand the boundaries of traditional quilt making, creating designs meant for display on walls rather than as covers for beds. It sets the standards and serves as the model for all other art quilt shows. Through the large, spectacular color photographs here, as well as the artists' descriptions of the motivations behind their works, you can enjoy and refer to these quilts as often as you like at home. These designs are wonderful reflections of where quilting has been--and where it's going.
Textilforum
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Le génie du lieu
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2011
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