Fabricadabra: Simple Quilts, Complex Fabrics

Fabricadabra: Simple Quilts, Complex Fabrics
Title Fabricadabra: Simple Quilts, Complex Fabrics PDF eBook
Author Paula Nadelstern
Publisher C&T Publishing Inc
Pages 116
Release 2016-10-01
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1617451894

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The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to use simple piecing to create spectacular quilts that are a feast for the eyes. Imagine a traditional quilt, its ordinary shapes gift wrapped with intricate fabrics. Celebrated author, teacher, and fabric designer Paula Nadelstern shows you how to design simple but stunning quilts with the help of vivacious fabric prints. Analyze fabrics to uncover their piecing potential for color and symmetry. Make your own cutting templates and learn how to get the “seemingly seamless” look made famous by Paula’s kaleidoscopic quilts. Example piecing diagrams show just how easy it is to quilt a visual spectacle. • Fabricadabra! Discover your fabric’s hidden potential and sew complex-looking quilts that are easy to piece with industry leader Paula Nadelstern • Understand symmetry in fabrics and fool the eye with daring design strategies • Fussy cut prints to perfection with self-drafted templates and camouflage seams for luminous effects

Snowflakes & Quilts

Snowflakes & Quilts
Title Snowflakes & Quilts PDF eBook
Author Paula Nadelstern
Publisher C&T Publishing Inc
Pages 116
Release 2010-11-05
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1571207740

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The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to create a stunning snowflake quilt, including how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully. Paula’s incredible quilts capture the delicate, three-dimensional effect of winter’s snowflakes. Learn how to create the endless variations found in snowflakes using the techniques and materials of quilt making! • Full-size patterns for making 11 of the snowflake designs from Paula’s quilts • Step-by-step instructions explain how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully • Paula reveals her strip-piecing techniques for “Power Stitching” • Learn methods for using your fabrics to create “Seemingly Seamless Seams” “Paula explores the collision of precise geometry and lush splinters of color and pattern. In this book, she reveals her unique technique with characteristic intelligence and humor.” —Stacy C. Hollander, Senior Curator, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City “Much like a child mesmerized by fireflies, I cannot get enough of looking when I see [Paula’s] quilts. Riveting, dazzling, hypnotizing—these are the words that spring to mind when I behold Paula’s art.” —Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Paula Nadelsterns Kaleidoscope Quilts

Paula Nadelsterns Kaleidoscope Quilts
Title Paula Nadelsterns Kaleidoscope Quilts PDF eBook
Author Paula Nadelstern
Publisher C&T Publishing Inc
Pages 132
Release 2010-11-05
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1607052822

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Celebrate Kaleidoscope Quilts With the Master Kaleidoscope Artist. Career retrospective of Paula Nadelstern's awe-inspiring quilts is packed with photos, design insights, and tips for making your own kaleidoscope quilts. Huge gallery with photos and in-depth, behind-the-scenes commentary on 19 quilts. Chapters with detailed explanations of Paula's design strategies and construction methods. The astonishing quilts that spring from Paula Nadelstern's passion for kaleidoscopes will change your view of what a quilt can be. This book highlights Paula's life work and shows how you can use her techniques to create your own unique fabric art.

Easy Precision Piecing

Easy Precision Piecing
Title Easy Precision Piecing PDF eBook
Author Shelley Scott-Tobisch
Publisher C&T Publishing Inc
Pages 125
Release 2018-07-01
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1617455849

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Say goodbye to your seam ripper, backwards blocks, and mismatched seams with Easy Precision Piecing—the pathway to flawless patchwork. This comprehensive system starts with picking the right tools and prepping your fabric for the best results. Learn to get organized so you can easily set aside projects without losing your place. Practice your cutting, sewing, and pressing with foolproof Quilt Block Builder blueprints, then use your newfound skills to make 6 stunning quilt projects.

Kaleidoscopes And Quilts

Kaleidoscopes And Quilts
Title Kaleidoscopes And Quilts PDF eBook
Author Paula Nadelstern
Publisher C&T Publishing Inc
Pages 149
Release 2010-11-05
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1607050277

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Kaleidoscope - the very word promises surprise and magic, chance and change. Exploding with visual excitement, a kaleidoscope design organizes an abundance of light, color, form, and motion into a complex and coherent image, capturing a moment of infinity. This book is jammed with how-to's and why-not's, process and product, and an abundance of text and photos that explains elements of design and technique for creating the multifaceted, luminous, and random nature of a kaleidoscope's interior on the flat surface of a quilt. The kaleidoscope configuration and its symmetrical repetition allows the quiltmaker to explore a variety of design possibilities using intricately printed fabric. With Paula as your guide, you will find that making kaleidoscope quilts is like making magic with fabric.

One Block Wonders

One Block Wonders
Title One Block Wonders PDF eBook
Author Maxine Rosenthal
Publisher C&T Publishing Inc
Pages 76
Release 2010-11-05
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1607050544

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1 Great Fabric + 1 Block = 1 Stunning Quilt! • Brand new technique is all about texture, movement, sparkle, and swirl! • Choose hexagons or octagons-you're the designer • Easy random cutting! No planning, no fussy cuts, no mess-ups • Simple piecing with NO Y-SEAMS! Amaze your friends! Maxine shows you exactly how to choose a large-scale print, figure yardage, cut and piece these drop-dead gorgeous quilts. Big pieces and clever short-cut methods make these quilts go together faster than you'd think. Choose one of two projects or use the techniques in any size quilt you can imagine.

Landscape Art Quilts, Step-by-Step

Landscape Art Quilts, Step-by-Step
Title Landscape Art Quilts, Step-by-Step PDF eBook
Author Ann Loveless
Publisher C&T Publishing Inc
Pages 99
Release 2015-02-01
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1617453668

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The award-winning art quilter shares her free-form technique for capturing the beauty of nature using collage and fusible web in this step-by-step guide. Two-time ArtPrize-winner Ann Loveless is known for creating stunning landscape quilts depicting the beautiful natural landscapes of her Lake Michigan home. In Landscape Art Quilts, Step-by-Step, she reveals the creative and technical processes behind some of her best-known designs. With step-by-step instructions, Ann demonstrates her free-form method of cutting and placing fabrics on fusible web and finishing with free-motion machine quilting. By learning Ann’s original techniques, you will be able to create your own art quilts based on your favorite landscape photographs.