Fabric + Paint + Thread = Fabulous (That Patchwork Place) [Paperback] Review

Pat Durbin creates amazing landscape quilts.This book gives you a peek into the techniques she uses to achieve her stunning results.There are step by step directions for each project as well as how to paint your background and create thread painted pieces to add to the painted background.I played with both the fabric painting and the thread painting with what I considered successful results for a new technique.It was a lot of fun and very gratifying.To see the 2 small pieces, go to:[...]

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Learn innovative new painting, free-motion quilting, and embellishing techniques for creating breathtaking art quilts. Are you ready to take your quilting to the next level? Then this is the book for you! Discover how to expand your artistic horizons and make breathtaking art quilts with these innovative techniques for painting, free-motion quilting, and embellishing, from award-winning quilter Pat Durbin. With five original projects to get you started and a stunning full-colour photo gallery to get the creative juices flowing, you'll never be without inspiration again.

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Quilt Your Favorite Photos [Paperback] Review

If you are just getting started with photo quilts, this is a good book to get started with.

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-Innovative and do-able approach for turning photos into quilted photos
-Builds on interest generated by previous guides including Fabric Landscapes by Machine which produced sales of $170,000+
Fun and functional format for displaying and savoring family photos, the 10 projects featured in this book offer quilters a new and easy way to embellish quilted photos. Beginners and veteran quilters, as well as sewers, will quickly pick up the easy-to-follow method of creating stunning appliqued quilt projects.
Readers will find:
-Easy instructions to fuse, cut, and applique special photos to quilts
-Steps to add unique embellishments, such as leaves, embroidered fireworks, netting and beading, to create a realistic scene
-Inspiring ideas for items to use as wall hangings, and embellishments to add to any vest, jacket or handbag.
Quilt Your Favorite Photos helps quilters add a personal part of themselves to any quilt they create.

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Enchanted Views: Quilts Inspired by Wrought-Iron Designs [Illustrated] [Paperback] Review

You'll want to start this project right after you read.This is the same quality as LANDSCAPE QUILTS with Nancy Zieman & co-author- the Best Quilts on earth.

Most beautiful reverse applique gated gardens, clear instructions with pictures, and paper TEMPLATES to help you get started. How to arrange colors for a garden, even mountain-scapes and stain-glass like designs included, and you don't have to include the gates if you don't wish to.
There are pictures to inspire as well as a couple projects to start with.I am keeping this one next to my bedside!

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At last-an innovative new technique for applique fans! See how to create window views and garden scenes in fabric and thread, complete with dramatic appliqued garden gates, windows, grills, fanlights, and more. In Enchanted Views, British quilter Dilys Fronks presents her tested techniques for adding reverse applique "wrought iron" designs to everything from watercolor landscapes to handpainted fabric backgrounds. This remarkable guide provides 14 intriguing quilt and home decor projects that combine reverse applique silhouettes with lovely pieced or whole-cloth backgrounds. Perfect for novices as well as veteran quilters seeking a new challenge, you'll find complete patterns and instructions for all stages of design, fabric selection, techniques, and even for adding those special finishing touches. Plus, hundreds of full-color examples are sure to inspire the creativity in every quilter!

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A Bridge to Landscape Quilts [Illustrated] [Paperback] Review

This is a clear and concise book.A good choice if you ever wanted to learn to do landscape quilts. The instructions and pictures make it very easy to understand. Her method for making and attaching bindings is worth having the book besides all the other useful information.

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You are invited on a journey into making landscape quilts and providing a bridge from traditional quiltmaking to scenic interpretation. The author leads you through a series of simple exercises designed to help you really see what you are looking at, to decide which images you favor, and to interpret them in fabric. Various simple quiltmaking techniques are combined in a building-block manner to make a fabric picture. Traditionally pieced blocks, whether sewn by hand or machine, are used to create large areas of a landscape. Sky, water, and land masses are made of these pieced sections, and the wonderful geometric shapes lend a subtle texture.She then shows how to add appliqu shapes and details to the background. In Your First Project, a very simple composition of trees, she takes you step by step through the process, then shows you how to add the 'Wow Factors,' those components that fool the eye into accepting illusion. 80 pages + large pull-out pattern section. AUTHORBIO: Mary's work hangs in private and public collections around the United States and Japan, and she has received recognition locally and nationally. Her quilts have been exhibited in numerous quilt shows and art shows from coast to coast, and she has pieces in the permanent collections of the White House and the Museum of the American Quilter's Society. Mary writes articles on technique, inspiration, and other professional topics, but her favorite creative activity is making quilted landscapes.

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Landscape Quilts [Paperback] Review

I have been making landscape quilts for about a year and found this book inspirational in trying a new technique. Because it includes machine quilting, I was inspired to take a class. While I don't feel that I'll ever be the best machine quilter, I know enough to complete the quilting technique in this book. I am anxious to make my first quilt using this book. The idea is on paper and I am ready to implement it.
The pictures in this book are breathtaking and inspirational. Directions are easy to follow and include special "tip" squares on many of the pages. I highly recommend this book.

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Make gorgeous quilts without patterns or measurements. The projects include creating woodland scenes, creating water, sky, mountains and snow. - Getting started - Creating your own landscape quilt - Adding garden touches - - Cutting free-form shapes - Creating water, sky, mountains and snow - - Creating woodland scenes - Finishing touches - Exhibiting - Working spaces - * Quilting projects inspired by nature - flower gardens, the countryside, woodlands, lakes, mountains and sky. * In full colour: illustrated step-by-step with nearly 300 colour photographs, plus line drawings.

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Impressionist Palette: Quilt Color & Design [Paperback] Review

Of the many books currently available on watercolour quilting, Impressionist Palette is, in my opinion, the best.The pictures are absolutely stunning; the quilts exquisite.Apart from being an art book, the instructions on the technique of watercolour quilting are extremely clear and well-written, making it possible for myself, a fearful watercolourist, to attempt and succeed in making a watercolour quilt.

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This follow-up to "Impressionist Quilts" explores ways of interpreting landscapes into quilts inspired by impressionist paintings, positioning squares in a way that softens edges and gently blends colour. Included are ideas for fabric selection, applique techniques, and several new projects.

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Free-Style Quilts: A "No Rules" Approach [Paperback] Review

I bought this book after I'd already started a pictorial quilt using techniques I learned about in Focus on Features by Charlotte Warr Andersen (highly recommended, too!). The quilt was coming along nicely and I was glad to see that a couple of techniques I'd worked out for myself are also used by the Author. The coolest thing about this book is its ability to inspire you to loosen up and just try things. I was struggling with the sky portion of my quilt, and following the author's advice, just started free-cutting pieces and layering them. It came together very quickly and I am happy with the results. A fascinating thing about Susan's quilts is this: they LOOK really complicated, but if you examine them very closely, you'll see that they are not. Her choices of fabric and quilting are the key to realistic portrayals and lively artistic qualities. I did find myself wondering how many layers of fabric there were in some areas of her Elements quilt.
This is definitely a book that needs to be on your shelf if you enjoy pictorial quilts! I agree with other reviewers on this, though: techniques are not covered in much depth. That's okay...because in my opinion it encourages people to gravitate toward whatever technique works best for them, whether it's needle turn applique, fusible web applique, complicated piecing, etc. The whole point is to be creative and not get stuck working within the confines of another quilter's approach.

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The incredible underwater landscapes, still lifes, and portraits on these delightful pages illustrate how free-style collage techniques can produce exceptional quilts.With no limits and no rules to follow, the book simply demonstrates how different patterns were made. The technique is fun and easy, and the reader does not need a degree in art to produce images that are imaginative, creative, and artistic. Good tips for choosing fabric, drawing patterns, and finishing methods are included.

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Mosaic Picture Quilts: Turn Favorite Photos into Stunning Quilts (That Patchwork Place) [Paperback] Review

The art of tuning your favorite photo into a quilt has become quite popular over the last year or so.MOSAIC PICTURE QUILTS is all about doing this.

Ms. Durbin provides nicely detailed directions on how to get your photo from paper to the quilt.By using a 1" fusible foundation and 1 1/4" fabric squares, you are able to create the graduated colors that a photo shows.But wait, it is easier than you would think because there are no turned under edges.Everything is done in "raw form".The secret is an overlay of tulle fabric!By using this overlay, you can even incorporate 3-D embellishments such as rocks, dried flowers or twigs to add extra punch to the quilt.

These will be beautiful wall hangings but are not something you will make in a weekend.With over 500 pieces in her smallest project to 1200 pieces in her largest, it will take many hours just to cut the fabric.Each project has the photo and the finished quilt shown.Size, number of pieces and skill level are given at the very start of the project so you will know which one you want to do.A materials and cutting list are provided and instructions on building and embellishing and finishing are also given.

Ms. Durbin provides photomaps and transparency forms so you can create these or your own. A four page gallery of quilts she has done show just how detailed these quilts really are.If you have always dreamed of turning your favorite photo into a fabric keepsake, this book will walk you through just how to do it.

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Transform your favorite photos into amazing pieces of quilted art! With fabric as your palette, you can create wall quilts from photos of landscapes, flowers, people--and get results that resemble gorgeous watercolor paintings.
*Learn this easy, square-by-square technique with five step-by-step projects
*Simply print a photo onto paper; then use a transparent grid to lay out your fabrics
*Use raw-edge patchwork for super-simple sewing--plus, you can quilt as you go!

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