Creative Quilt Challenges (eBook)

Take the Challenge to Discover Your Style & Improve Your Design Skills

Wendy Hill, Pat Pease (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
112 Seiten
C&T Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61745-066-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Are you ready to take the challenge? Embark on a creative journey to design the kind of quilts you've always wanted to make! Proving that two minds are better than one, experienced quilters Wendy Hill and Pat Pease take on 7 quilt challenges, including designing a new twist on an old block and quilting with unconventional materials. Sew alongside themby yourself, with a friend, or in a groupas you nurture your own voice of self-expression. Learn new tools, tricks, and techniques, including two-sided binding for two-sided quilts and satin stitching that is sure to impress!

Autor

Pat Pease started the creative process at an early age, under the guidance of her craftsman father. An art major in college, she made her first quilt about 12 years ago, and hasn't looked back. She lives in Bend, Oregon.Wendy Hill started making stuff at a very young age, influenced by creative parents. She's published countless magazine articles since her first in 1992, and this is her fifth book with C&T Publishing. She lives in Sunriver, Oregon. wendyhill.net

Inhalt

DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Challenge Yourself The Challenges of Challenge Quilts Challenge #1: Re-Imagine an Old Block with a New Twist Using the Bright Hopes Block Improvisationally Deconstructing the White House Steps Block Challenge #2: The Value of Value Using Value to Create and Play with Pattern Using Value to Set the Mood Challenge #3: Unlikely Materials Using a Monochromatic Color Scheme to Incorporate the Unlikely Material Using Color to Accentuate the Unlikely Material Challenge #4: Pass It Back and Forth (And Do Not Speak) Using Repetition to Unify the Elements in One Quilt Using Repetition to Unify the Elements in a Triptych Challenge #5: The Collection Using a Collection of Echino Fabrics Using ????// Challenge #6: Invent Your Own Challenge Keeping it Simple Focusing on Circles Challenge #7: Mix It Up Painting, Stamping, and Raw-Edge Construction Surface Stitching, Thread Texturing, and Creating New Fabric Show Me How Reversible Double-Fold Binding Machine Topstitched Binding Facing Finish Freeform Sawtooth Stars Inset Squares Pressing Advice and Seam Treatments Quilting-As-You-Sew with Seam Covers Quilting-As-You-Sew to Batting Professional Looking Satin Stitched Edge Finish Thread Texturing, Surface Stitching, and Satin Stitched Triangles Using Zippers in Your Quilts More Quilts Resources About the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Schlagworte: art quilts • Creative Quilt Challenges • Piecing • Quilt Blocks • quilt designs • quilt diamonds • quilt fabric • quilting • quilting how to • quilting patterns • quilt landscapes • quilt patterns • Quilts • quilt shapes • quilt stars • sewing • sewing how to
• ISBN-10: 1-61745-066-9 / 1617450669
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61745-066-2 / 9781617450662