Watercolor Quilts


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If you've ever dreamed of being an impressionist artist like Monet or of capturing nature's beauty, light and luminosity in your quilts, Watercolor Quilts is the book for you.--Back cover.




Accidental Landscapes


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Lovely Landscape Quilts


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Create beautiful landscape quilts using strips and scraps with these 15 lovely projects! In Lovely Landscape Quilts, Cathy Geier walks you through the process of creating amazing landscape quilts using simple techniques that anyone can try. Learn how to find inspiration and choose you fabrics, how to design and lay out your quilt, and how to use angles to create skies, water, hills and mountains. Learn tricks for embellishing your quilts with applique, marker and fabric to create shadows and highlights that will give your landscape quilts depth and perspective. Finally, learn the tips for finishing and quilting before trying any of the 15 beautiful projects designed by Cathy.




Watercolor Impressions


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As a celebration and thank-you to all quiltmakers who are hooked on watercolor quilts, Pat and Donna have compiled 74 watercolor quilts for you to enjoy.




Landscape Art Quilts, Step-by-Step


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The award-winning art quilter shares her free-form technique for capturing the beauty of nature using collage and fusible web in this step-by-step guide. Two-time ArtPrize-winner Ann Loveless is known for creating stunning landscape quilts depicting the beautiful natural landscapes of her Lake Michigan home. In Landscape Art Quilts, Step-by-Step, she reveals the creative and technical processes behind some of her best-known designs. With step-by-step instructions, Ann demonstrates her free-form method of cutting and placing fabrics on fusible web and finishing with free-motion machine quilting. By learning Ann’s original techniques, you will be able to create your own art quilts based on your favorite landscape photographs.




Landscape Quilts


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




Landscape Quilts with Kathy McNeil


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Experience every season with these fabulous landscape quilts! Four lovely full size patterns include a spring cottage, fall mill and water wheel, a summer lighthouse, and a winter cabin. Kathy McNeil, an expert in landscape quilting, teaches you how to build a pictorial quilt. Use your favorite method of applique or employ several varieties to make one or all of these four seasonal designs. Be inspired through every season as you take these designs and make them your own!




Awash with Color


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At last--a watercolor quilt book that gives complete cutting and piecing instructions. "Awash With Color" includes 12 wall-size quilt projects that are beautiful, yet not too difficult for the less experienced quilter. Fabric amounts are clearly stated. Step-by-step directions are given from start to finish.




Quick Little Landscape Quilts


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The prize-winning landscape quilter shares easy tips and time-saving techniques in this guide featuring mini-landscape quilts for all skill levels. In Quick Little Landscape Quilts, Joyce Becker shows you simple ways to work with landscape-themed fabrics to make a quilted wallhanging you'll be proud to show off. This skill-building guide covers a variety of techniques, such as incorporating overlays for perspective; embellishing with machine embroidery; and enhancing designs with inks, pastels, and more. Featured projects range from simple patterns to photo-based designs.




Painting with Fabric


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Painting With Fabric Artist Jeanine Malaney explains how to creating artworks utilizing fabric. This technique will allow you to paint a picture with fabric! It's not a typo...it is not painting on fabric, though Jeanine does utilize paints minimally for shading or highlighting; rather, this is creating a "painting" with the medium of fabric instead of paint! Soooooo fun and less threatening than using paints. You will learn the process of finding an inspiration, establishing a design based on the elements of artistic composition, selecting appropriate fabrics, collage layering, use of paint for detail and shading. Also included are design tips for skies, water, mountains, rocks, cliffs, foliage, trees, figures and buildings. If you want to create original and unique fabric collages, one-of-a-kind watercolor or landscape quilts, and without the purchase of any kind of kit, this is your book