Thread Stories

A Visual Guide to Creating Stunning Stitched Portrait Quilts

Jennifer Day (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2015
C & T Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61745-053-2 (ISBN)

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Tell captivating stories in fabric and thread! Acclaimed quilting artist Jennifer Day invites you to create realistic portrait quilts with thread painting. Turn your own photos of people and animals into one-of-a-kind story quilts, as you learn to masterfully stitch in the details. This step-by-step visual guide takes you from photo selection to editing, printing on fabric, thread painting, and free-motion quilting. With just a home sewing machine, quilters of all experience levels can capture and quilt life’s precious memories.

Step-by-step visual guide to realistic portrait quilts, using your home sewing machine

Print your own photos on fabric and tell one-of-a-kind thread stories

Thread painting techniques anyone can apply to get that WOW! factor

From award-winning quilter, artist, and teacher Jennifer Day

Jennifer Day is an ASID interior designer, goldsmith, photographer, and art quilter. Using up to 300 different colors of thread in a single quilt, her technique has attracted interest from international galleries, museums, and publications. She lives in New Mexico. jdaydesign.com

Introduction: Quilts Are Stories Photographs That Tell a Story Elements of a Great Photo Editing the Photo Tools and Supplies Sewing Machine Free-Motion Presser Foot Printable Paper-Backed Fabric Canvas Batting Scissors and Thread Snips Ruler Backing and Binding Fabric Threads! Gutermann Thread Precencia Thread Isacord Embroidery Thread Silk Thread Variegated Thread Photographs and Cameras Environmental Portraits Cropping Digital Cameras and Image Size Copyright Pixels, Megapixels, Resolution, PPI, and DPI Using Photo-editing Software to Prepare Your Photos Make Your Photo the Best It Can Be Posterization More Posterization Examples Printing on Fabric Types of Fabric Sizes of Fabric Poster Printing Getting Started Making a Quilt Sandwich Blending is Key Stitching Direction The Eyes Have It The Iris The Whites Stitching the Eyes Highlights Eyelashes Blending Skin Tones Auditioning Threads Starting the Blending Process Elisha (Diverse Skin Tones) Judy (Older Skin) Texture Lips Eyes Carson (Youth) Hair Dark Hair Streaks of Light White and Gray Hair Blondes Hands Elderly Hands Young Hands Clothing Using Free-motion Quilting Completely Covering in Thread Applique Combination Pet Portraits Taking the Perfect Pet Portrait Eyes Mouth Fur Whiskers Birds Free-motion Quilting Choosing a Free-motion Design Correcting Mistakes Don't Bee Too Hard On Yourself Using Applique Cutting to Remove Bubbles Covering Over White Dots The Flip Side Portrait Artists Barbara McKie Jayne Bently Gaskins Laura Rocke... //fill in later Student work Additional Jennifer Day Quilts Resources About the Author

Verlagsort	Concord
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Gewicht	462 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
ISBN-10	1-61745-053-7 / 1617450537
ISBN-13	978-1-61745-053-2 / 9781617450532
Zustand	Neuware