Thread Stories (eBook)

A Visual Guide to Creating Stunning Stitched Portrait Quilts

Jennifer Day (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
112 Seiten
C&T Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61745-054-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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

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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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Introduction: Quilts Are Stories Photographs That Tell a Story Elements of a Great Photo • Editing the PhotoTools and Supplies Sewing Machine • Free-Motion Presser Foot • Printable Paper-Backed Fabric • Canvas • Batting • Scissors and Thread Snips • Ruler • Backing and Binding Fabric Threads! Gütermann Thread • Precencia Thread • Isacord Embroidery Thread • Silk Thread • Variegated ThreadPhotographs and Cameras Environmental Portraits • Cropping • Digital Cameras and Image Size • Copyright • Pixels, Megapixels, Resolution, PPI, and DPIUsing Photo-editing Software to Prepare Your Photos Make Your Photo the Best It Can Be • Posterization • More Posterization ExamplesPrinting on Fabric Types of Fabric • Sizes of Fabric • Poster PrintingGetting 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 ProcessElisha (Diverse Skin Tones) Judy (Older Skin) • Texture • Lips • EyesCarson (Youth) Hair Dark Hair • Streaks of Light • White and Gray Hair • BlondesHands Elderly Hands • Young HandsClothing Using Free-motion Quilting • Completely Covering in Thread • Appliqué • CombinationPet Portraits Taking the Perfect Pet Portrait • Eyes • Mouth • Fur • Whiskers • BirdsFree-motion Quilting Choosing a Free-motion DesignCorrecting Mistakes Don't Bee Too Hard On Yourself • Using Appliqué • Cutting to Remove Bubbles • Covering Over White Dots The Flip Side Portrait Artists Barbara McKie • Jayne Bently Gaskins • Laura Rocke… //fill in laterStudent work Additional Jennifer Day Quilts ResourcesAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Schlagworte: art quilts • quiltmaking
• ISBN-10: 1-61745-054-5 / 1617450545
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61745-054-9 / 9781617450549