Paint-By-Number Quilts


Book Description

Create four pictorial quilts with easy-to-use, paint-by-numbers color keys! These complex quilts may look difficult, but Kerry Foster takes the guesswork out of fabric choice so that you can sew animal portraits with sophisticated areas of light and shadow. Use the color keys and diagrams to easily choose a palette from your fabric stash and create amazing portraits with turned-edge machine appliqué. Choose from a fabulous fox, an adorable raccoon, a majestic stag, and a fierce bear!




Paint-by-Number Quilts


Book Description

This full-color beginner’s guide lets you create four pictorial animal quilts with easy-to-use, paint-by-numbers color keys! These beautifully intricate quilts may look complicated, but Kerry Foster makes them easy with this step-by-step guide. By taking the guesswork out of fabric choice, anyone can bring a sophisticated use of light and shadow to these sewn animal portraits. Use the color keys and diagrams to easily choose a palette from your fabric stash and create amazing images with turned-edge machine appliqué. Choose from a fabulous fox, an adorable raccoon, a majestic stag, and a fierce bear!




365 Foundation Quilt Blocks


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It’s quiltmaking made as simple as paint-by-numbers! With a new method called foundation piecing, you just follow a numerical sequence to stitch fabric onto a foundation. Even the smallest pieces meet precisely, quickly, and accurately. With 365 projects, you could make one every day of the year. They’re organized month-by-month, so you could make a patriotic quilt with the July blocks; a Thanksgiving quilt in November; a Christmas quilt with the December blocks; or pretty floral quilts with each month’s flowers. (There are also some whimsical designs such as the yellow submarine that marks the day the Beatles came to America.) Photos of quilts made with blocks for each month accompany the complete instructions for the entire foundation piecing process.




Cutting-Garden Quilts


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5 how-to patterns, plus photo gallery, feature rose, pansies, coneflowers, and apples




Gemstone Quilts


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Piece dazzling diamond and gorgeous gemstone quilts Add dimension and luminosity to your quilts with gorgeous gemstone piecing! Learn the basics of abstraction and color theory as you piece stunning works of art with gem quilt expert MJ Kinman. After years of perfecting her technique, Kinman explains freezer paper piecing in brilliant detail with jewel quilting ideas to help you express your own creativity. Get helpful advice on fabric selection and quilting patterns to illuminate each cut. A sample gem quilt pattern helps you practice as you follow along step by step. Then find your own muse and bring any gemstone to life in exquisite detail. Just as gems can sparkle and glow in a million different ways, you’ll be inspired by the author’s work and a gallery of student quilts to help you let go of perfection and embrace the chaos of color and light. Shine on! Learn to create freezer-paper patterns for your own gemstone quilts Build skills as you sew a sample diamond quilt top, with step-by-step instructions See a gallery of ground-breaking jewel quilts from the author and her students




Textile Artist: Small Art Quilts


Book Description

An inspiring look into the world of creative textile-making, illustrated with beautiful textile pieces. This inspiring book guides the reader through Deborah's creative and inventive textile work: from painting fabrics and building textures to embellishing with hand and machine stitching. This book contains a wealth of inspiration for any textile artist, showing them how to create gorgeous, textured pieces of art.




Creating Art Quilts with Panels


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· Learn thread painting and embellishing techniques for making one-of-a-kind art quilts with dimension and texture · Provides 6 projects with step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs · Includes an inspiring gallery of magnificent art quilt masterpieces · Joyce Hughes is an award-winning quilter and fiber artist, a McCall’s Quilting Quilt Design Star, and a fabric industry consultant




Early American Patchwork Quilt Designs


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Painstakingly researched, accurately detailed renderings of 42 authentic early American quilt designs including: Basket of Scraps, Sunflower Star, Split Rail, Clockworks, Lady of the Lake, many more. Storehouse of inspiration for artists and craftspeople. Fun to color, too.




How to SEW ART!


Book Description

It's Easy To Sew Art When You Know The Simple Secrets! In this book you will find the inspiring story of how I became an artist and I'll teach you the easy way to become an artist too. I will teach you my award winning Contoured Pixel Technique. You will master the Core Concepts that make sewing art easy. Follow me and you'll be making fine art with a sewing machine and ordinary fabrics (easily found at any fabric store) very quickly. The diagrams and instructions make this modern quilting process so easy to understand that even a beginner can do it! Each book comes with a free online video course to guide you. The Techniques Are Easy! Read This Book And Learn: How to choose the perfect image! How to make your fabric look like paint! How to use thread like it's a paint brush!




Skinny Quilts and Table Runners


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These stylish "skinny" quilts are perfect for gift giving, technique trying, and indulging creative whims. Choose from 15 projects from Kaffe Fassett, Jane Sassaman, Marti Michell, Laura Wasilowski, and many more Display projects as table runners, wall quilts, mantel scarves--the sky's the limit! Find designs for every taste, from traditional beauties to appliqued wonders, plus a few artful adventures