A Workshop with Velda Newman


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Textile artist Velda Newman helps you find your own path to creativity and self-expression using quilts as your canvas. Take inspiration from nature, then learn the three basic design elements - color, shape, and texture - and use them to translate the world around you into amazing works of quilted art.




Velda Newman


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Find a quilt show, lecture, and workshop combined in one breathtaking book. Learn about the design philosophy Velda follows to create her distinctive quilts. Then experiment with Velda's unusual techniques to create a small art quilt of your own.




The Artful Ribbon


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Heavily requested item. Ribbon work, ribbon flowers.




Winding Ways Quilts


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You ll love this simple new technique. Includes 6 easy quilt projects.




Great Sets


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Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact c&t publishing.




Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter


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Art lessons every quilter will love. Traditional quilter? Art quilter? Improve ANY quilt with this book! Quick no-sew design exercises to make your talents shine. Build a color wheel from fabric to learn color principles. Discover the easy "Nine-Patches" of color and composition.




Celebrate the Tradition with C&T Publishing


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C&T celebrates 20 years of beautiful books! Join C&T Publishing in celebrating 20 years of top-quality quilt books and paying tribute to the authors who made it possible! In honor of our 20th anniversary, the world’s best quilt designers, fiber artists, and quilting teachers - all C&T authors - have designed quilt blocks for us (and you!), plus share advice and memorable stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry. Over 70 commemorative blocks from longtime and brand-new C&T authors combined into 4 extraordinary anniversary quilts. Author reminiscences and qulting tips, plus block illustrations and basic instructions. The inspiring story of how C&T got started in 1983. Fun bonus - a glimpse of first quilts from famous authors alongside their latest work




Masters


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A pictorial showcase of the work of 40 contemporary art quilt masters from around the world. Up to a dozen quilts by each artist are shown, along with commentary by each artist.




The Quilter's Color Club


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“Gain the color confidence you’ve never experienced before . . . This book is perfect for teachers, bee groups or individuals.” —American Quilter Christine Barnes’s quilter-friendly approach provides new and exciting ways to apply simple color concepts to your work. This book reveals successful color combinations in action with an inspiring gallery of eye-catching quilts. Chock full of hands-on exercises, this book teaches how to use value, temperature, and intensity to make quilts luminous and full of movement. “A practical approach for using color to bring quilts to life . . . Eight projects accompany twelve hands-on exercises in this top pick for quilters at all levels.” —The Needlecraft Shelf




The Quilt


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Here is the largest, most comprehensive history of American quilts ever published! The Quilt explores the evolution of quilting in America, showing in vivid colors and patterns how African American, Amish, Hawaiian, Hmong, and Native American quilts celebrate cultural identity, and how quilts connect us to one another through quilting bees and other community groups. Noted quilt historian Elise Schebler Roberts also goes beyond the historical nature of quilts to cover current efforts at quilt preservation, collecting and appraising, and state documentation projects. Her book features an encyclopedia of favorite quilt styles and is gloriously illustrated with more than 200 full-color photographs of classic collectible quilts.