Leah Day's Goddess Quilts (Large Print): Journey Into Light and Love Through Art Quilting


Book Description

This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts. Exquisitely illustrated with dozens of detailed, full page photographs, quilters, artists and anyone with an eye for bright color and gorgeous stitch work will find limitless inspiration inside this book.Leah's creative journey began with the birth of her son and the conception of her first goddess quilt in 2007. She discovered more than just quilt making skills in the process of making that quilt. She found the vehicle for change and self-discovery she'd been searching for her whole life.This Leah's story of transformation and how each goddess quilt in this series helped her become a better woman, wife, mother and quilter.This is not a book about any known goddesses from myth, legend, or religion. Leah's goddess quilts are simply fantasy self-portraits that represent who she wished she could be. By focusing on these powerful images and a desire to share them with the world, Leah found the strength and wisdom to become the figure in the quilt.Leah Day's Goddess Quilts is an artist's memoir with a positive message to embrace courage, forgiveness and gratitude. Leah honestly shares her personal struggles with self-criticism, the danger of dwelling on past pain, and how she overcame many obstacles blocking her path.This is the story of a creative entrepreneur following a childhood dream, a story of success and failure and the struggle to remain humble in an egotistical social media fueled world. This is the story of a wife and mother desperate to release her creativity to the world.The goddess on the cover is called Release Your Light.This is the light of your creativity.It is not a spark or a flickering flame.It's an explosion of light more powerful than the sun. Are you ready to release YOUR light?




Leah Day's Goddess Quilts: Journey Into Light and Love Through Art Quilting


Book Description

Leah Day's Goddess Quilts is an artist's memoir with a positive message to embrace courage, forgiveness and gratitude. Leah openly shares her struggles and how she overcame many obstacles blocking her path. Exquisitely illustrated with full page photographs, quilters, artists and anyone with an eye for gorgeous stitch work will love this book.




Eternal Love Goddess Quilt Pattern


Book Description

Learn how to create the Eternal Love Goddess Quilt Pattern




365 Free Motion Quilting Designs


Book Description

In 2009, Leah Day started a new blog, the Free Motion Quilting Project, and set out to create 365 new free motion quilting designs. Each design was published online with photos and a video tutorial for free for everyone in the world to enjoy. This book is a compilation of those 365 designs, and within it you will find a treasury of ideas and inspiration you'll return to again and again. - Find hundreds of filler designs to work in all the different areas of your quilts. From the blocks, to the sashing, and into the borders, you're sure to find the perfect designs to fit your quilt. - Feeling confused with free motion quilting? Get back on track with Leah's quick tips on everything from machine settings to how to prepare your quilt top and backing before quilting. - Build your repertoire of continuous line quilting designs by stitching a different design every day. This book will definitely help you break out of the Stippling rut! Inside you'll find a high quality photo of each meticulously stitched design. For practice, trace the design, or visit www.LeahDay.com/365 to find video tutorials for every single design in this book. While this is not a primer on free motion quilting basics, this book is a helpful companion and the largest collection of free motion quilting designs ever published! This second edition offers a spiral binding to help the book lay flat near your sewing machine. Challenge yourself to memorize - not mark - a new design every day for a year. Stitch the designs exactly as shown or play with creating your own variations. The possibilities are endless! See why quilters like you have called this book "an amazing resource," "just what I needed" and "the best quilting book ever!"




Femininity in Flight


Book Description

'Femininity in Flight' considers flight attendants as cultural icons, looking at how attendants redeployed the 'glamourization' used to sell air travel to campaign for professional respect, higher wages, and women's rights.




Luxury Arts of the Renaissance


Book Description

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.




Craft in America


Book Description

Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft




Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day


Book Description

Ready for a machine quilting adventure? It's time to explore walking foot machine quilting with Leah Day! Specifically designed for quilting on a home machine, this style uses a walking foot to evenly feed the layers of your quilt to produce beautiful quilting stitches. Learn how to quilt thirty designs in seven quilt projects.




Free Motion Quilting from Feathers to Flames


Book Description

Discover a world rich in quilting texture with help from Leah Day, the author of the Free Motion Quilting Filler Design Project. In this illustrated guidebook, you'll find 60 free motion quilting filler designs, perfect for quilters looking for fresh new designs and inspiration for their quilts.




Jane Eyre (Painted Edition)


Book Description

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists. Considered one of the greatest romance novels of all time, Jane Eyre is now available as an affordable softcover edition. Whether you're buying it as a gift or for yourself, this softcover edition includes: A beautiful cover featuring Laci Fowler's distinctive hand-painted art. Decorative interior pages with pull quotes throughout. Part of a 4-volume collection including Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby, and Little Women. Charlotte Brontë's first published novel centers on the title character as she struggles to escape the hardships of her childhood, eventually finding work as a governess at the sprawling Thornfield Hall. Her new life there is derailed when she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Mr. Rochester. Ahead of its time with its themes of feminism and religion, Jane Eyre is a must-have for any well-appointed library.