Art Quilting

Every quilter will want to possess this stunning anthology, which features 10 years worth of the most innovative pieces chosen for the Quilt National biennial exhibition--the top showcase for modern quilt artists. Acclaimed author Robert Shaw, a widely recognized expert on American folk art, introduces the volume and provides both a beautifully illustrated history of the art quilt movement and a special section on building, displaying, and caring for collection of quality pieces. The techniques and materials featured in these 400 spectacular quilts are as varied as the people who created them, and through spectacular color photographs and artists' discussions, readers will discover how the boundaries of traditional quilt-making have expanded in the last decade.

It’s no surprise that landscape themes are becoming so popular with quilters—people love nostalgic scenes of undulating furrows in a winter field, glorious sunsets, majestic mountain ranges, and peaceful seashores. That’s what this compendium of patterns offers, with examples from some of the world’s leading landscape quiltmakers. It comes with a veritable workshop on technique led by one of the craft’s best designers and instructors and a full range of styles from realism to abstraction, from ancestral sites to favorite vacation spots. The fully illustrated instructions and striking photos of finished projects include imaginative tips on mastering the rules of design (and breaking them properly) so thatmaterials, textures, and stitches create just the right mood.

Don't settle for just any bead when you're creating handcrafted jewelry. Make unique, one-of-a-kind beads from silk, muslin, or hand-dyed ribbon embellished with crystals, fiber, glitter, wire, and more for show-stopping bijoux. Fabulous Fabric Beads combines beading, scrapbooking, quilting, fiber arts, and mixed-media techniques to create lightweight beads made from rolled tubes of silk fabric and painted or embellished with stamps and other materials.

Author Kristal Wick shares her simple and highly sought-after techniques for creating basic fabric beads, plus ideas for embellishing to achieve unique effects. Begin with a primer on supplies, materials and tools, suggestions for ideal fabrics, and how to create surface designs on fabric, including painting, dyeing, stamping, stenciling, computer printing, and foiling. How to create basic fabric beads is explained in detail, from cutting, rolling, dipping, and drying to how to create collage beads. Kristal explains how to use wire wrapping and metals and how to incorporate fibers and embellishments.

All beadmaking steps are shown with step-by-step photography. 112 pages paperback.

Interested in adding beads to your textile or fiber designs? Then Beading on Fabric is the ideal teaching tool and reference guide to get you started! Whether your medium is quilts, wearable arts, beaded jewelry, or woven or felted material, this must-have book will help you add sparkle, texture, and dimension to your work.

Illustrations, photographs of stitched samples, and examples of completed work scattered throughout the book will instruct and inspire. This practical approach to beading on fabric will give you all the tools you need to start bead embroidery-use the skills you've just learned, and let your imagination run wild! Whether you're a doll maker seeking how to secure beads to your doll, a garment maker wanting to glitz up your latest creation, or a quilter venturing away from the traditional techniques, Beading on Fabric is your ultimate reference tool.

120 pages hardcover

Have More Fun with Your Art Quilting!

• Expand your artistic horizons and learn exciting new ways to play with surface design techniques and materials • Explore 22 different techniques and creative design effects • Stretch yourself artistically by connecting with other artists through online groups, art trades, and challenges • Get inspired by photo galleries of work created by other artists at play. 112 pgs softcover

• Discover all the wonderful things you can do with Lutradur®-the exciting new fabric that looks, feels, and folds like translucent paper, but doesn't tear or fray • Add luminous color and exotic lacy effects to art quilts, fabric or altered books, mixed media art • Try 27 fun techniques that produce fascinating Lutradur effects

Looking to try something that's fresh, fun, and creative? Wait till you get your hands on Lutradur, the new art material that combines the best qualities of fabric and paper. Lutradur is ready for almost anything-cutting, burning, stamping, painting, dyeing, and sewing are just the beginning!

17 small-scale projects give you a quick and inexpensive way to play with new fiber art techniques and materials • Have fun making artist trading cards, fabric postcards, wallhangings, journal pages, luggage tags, or pin dolls • Enhance your creations with found objects like wine labels, driftwood, feathers, costume jewelry, even beer cans! • Make beautiful beads from fabric scraps, stabilizer, wool felt, or recycled-plastic felt • Includes informative sections on tools, techniques and supplies

Is that a broken thrift store necklace, or the perfect centerpiece for your next artist trading card? Is it an old wine label, or a witty embellishment for a fabric postcard? Learn how to use supplies from your stash (and maybe your trash) to make charming little quilts. You'll find art all around you, once you learn to Embellish with Anything.

Featuring Hot Ribbon, includes 8 full size patterns with step-by-step instructions. 80 Pages Soft Cover.

Featuring Hot Ribbon, this is the follow-up to Lennie's Floral Fantasies. 8 full size patterns with step-by-step instructions. 88 pages Soft Cover.

Think Outside the Block and Look What Happens!

• 11 creative exercises take your use of color, design, and piecing in dramatic new directions, including unique, 3-D "off the wall" quilts
• Use photographs and journals to find inspiration and develop your ideas
• Learn innovative finishing methods that show your quilts at their best
• Classroom-proven techniques make the adventure easy for any quilter

Jean Wells gives you the assignment of your life: put away your ruler and use your inner vision to design and piece spectacular, free-form quilts you'd never have guessed you could create. You will never see quilting in the same way again.

96 pages softcover

Transform Your Digital Photos into Luminous Fabric Art
• Alter photos and use them to create beautiful, original works of fabric art - 11 exercises show you how
• Learn to alter images with Photoshop Elements®
• Use photos that really enhance your work (Hint: it's not always the best-looking shots!)
• Find inspiration in your own albums, from other artists, and in nature
• Make large-scale quilts with a standard-size inkjet printer
This accessible guide to creating fine fabric art with digital photos covers everything from the tools and equipment you'll need, to designing, finishing, and assembling your quilt.

96 pages softcover

Color Inspiration to Make Every Quilt a Knockout

• Develop a keen color sense with Joen’s easy visual coloring technique • Learn to use this foolproof technique to select your quilt’s colors and fabrics

Do you get stuck when choosing colors and fabrics for your quilts? Joen comes to your rescue with this amazingly simple, practically foolproof technique. Using visual coloring, you’ll learn to select colors you love in nature and duplicate the effect in your work. You’ll find tons of photographs, fabric-swatch examples, and gallery quilts using this color selection technique, plus 5 simple and beautiful quilt projects

96 pgs soft cover

At Home with the Experts!
• Say it with thread - create fabulous free motion embroidery without drawing, templates, or stencils
• Use any sewing machine with feed dog drop
• Learn all about threads, needles and stabilizers, so you're successful every time
• Learn when and where it's convenient for YOU!
Also Includes:
Studio Tour
Interview
Quilt Gallery

75 minutes