Grace Errea, Meridith Osterfeld

Exploring Value & Design to Create Artistic Quilts

Take a tactile adventure as you interpret the world through line, form, texture, color, and most importantly, value. Play with the unexpected and making your quilt becomes a dream-like experience...where the sea ebbs and flows in shades of fire, and feathered creatures evoke cotton candy softness. Set your imagination free!

• Discover how value creates a focal point, develops dimensionality, and lends a painterly effect to your quilt
• 5 projects with full-size patterns feature 3 appliqué styles: turned-edge, raw-edge, and free-edge
• Learn how to choose fabrics with value in mind to achieve different effects


Published by: C&T Publications
ISBN: 9781607054672
Number of pages: 97 plus pattern pullouts
Year published: 2012

25 quick & easy projects to wear, decorate and share.

Express your individual style by adding a “wink” to your wardrobe or room with these beautiful blooms from Indygo Junction’s Fabric Flowers, with inspiring techniques for the novice to more advanced creative enthusiasts.

Combine cotton prints into one-of-a-kind fashion statements, recycle jeans, ties, sweaters and t-shirts, create painterly effects of needle felting, and play with felt, wools, and silks!

From a simple rose created from repurposed denim jeans to a full wedding bouquet of felted roses, the projects in this book teach traditional techniques and introduce flower making short-cut methods, featuring Clover Needlecrafts tools.

Published by: Indygo Junction
ISBN: 9780982627020
Number of pages: 86
Year published: 2012

Christine Morgan

You've never seen chenille used like this before! Artist Christine Morgan was playing around with layered fabric one day after a brief introduction to the chenille technique. Self-taught, she developed a method that retains the pattern and design of the layers rather than obscure them in 'fluffiness.' She calls the layered and slashed fabric yardage she makes 'pelts.' Once she has a home décor design in mind, she creates pelts that bring out the look she wants, including big bold appliqués and off-center piecing.

Now you can use chenille the same way, creating truly unique pieces of fabric art for your home. Instructions for 4 projects are included: Pillow, Placemat, Table runner,& Mini wallhanging. The inspiration gallery shows potholders, wall art, and even an ottoman covered in Christine's artistic pelts.

Published by: AQS Publishing
ISBN: 9781604600322
Number of pages: 80
Year published: 2012

Jane Davila

The Must-Have Reference Tool For Surface Design Success

• Create your own hand-painted designs on fabrics, paper, and more
• Expert advice from popular art quilter and surface design teacher Jane Dávila
• Learn the basics of mixing paints and see how easy it is to create your own effects
• Includes 7 projects and an inspirational fiber art gallery
• Discover the secrets of using mediums
• Create fun designs with found objects
• Lay-flat format makes referencing instructions easy
• Add new dimension to your quilts and fiber art

This is your license to play! Whether you're a quilter, a textile artist, or you dabble in mixed media, you're going to love this tool. When you can't find the exact fabric you need, make it yourself!
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Celia Eddy

This unique book features over 800 stunning colour variations for a wide range of traditional and contemporary designs, from nine patch and log-cabin blocks to fans, appliqué, stars, medallions and hexagons.
Published by: Search Press

Lesley Riley

Use Transfer Artist Paper (Ref 10493/10500) ™ to Transfer Any Image onto Fabric, Paper, Wood, Glass, Metal, Clay & More!

• Learn everything you need to know about how to use Transfer Art Paper - also called TAP - for quiltmaking, fiber arts, mixed-media, and papercraft projects
• 15 different projects, including treasure boxes, collages, dolls, quilts, and jewelry
• Unlock your inner artist with Lesley's romantic ideas and accessible techniques
• Photo transfer projects are fun for you and your family

Lesley is one of the inventors of TAP and is an unparalleled expert on how to use it for maximum creative effect. She'll teach you how to create unique fabric images from photographs that stay vibrant and colorfast, even after washing. You can use her photo transfer methods to quickly create your own masterpieces, using just your inkjet printer and basic art supplies.

Lesley Riley's Transfer Artist Paper (TAP®) received the Craft & Hobby Association Innovation Award for most innovative product.

Published by: C&T Publications
ISBN: 9781607052678
Number of pages: 64
Year published: 2011

Lesley Riley

Get Creative with this Fabulous Cross Between Paper and Fabric

• 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
• Book incudes 2 sheets of acid free Lutradur (one sheet regular 70 gram, one sheet heavyweight 100 gram)
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!

64 pages

Rebekah Meier

Mix It Up with Dozens of Exciting New Ways to Create Mixed-Media Fabric Art

• Everything you ever wanted to know about mixed-media fabric collage - the techniques, the supplies, the fun of creating!
• Learn more than 40 original techniques, each illustrated with step-by-step photos
• Find out which products work best for each technique
• Test-drive your new skills with 5 small quilt projects

Have you ever melted crayons onto muslin? Painted wool felt with bleach? Heat-embossed quilt batting using lace? Rebekah Meier has, and she shows you how to create fabulous fabric collages with these techniques and many, many more.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Jean Wells

Adventures in art quilting. 11 creative exercises take your use of colour, design and piecing in dramatic new directions.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Gladys Love

Recycle Found Treasures into Fun Little Art Quilts to Give, Trade, and Show Off

• 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.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

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Jane Davila and Elin Waterston

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

Packed with creative new surface design techniques and ideas.
Published by: C&T Pubishing
ISBN: 9781571205308
Number of pages: 112

Nancy Crow

Crossroads is designed to accompany an exhibition of art quilts by the celebrated designer Nancy Crow. This collection of 25 improvisational quilts represents work from three distinct series of quilts. Together, they mark a turning point in the career of one of the world's most admired textile artists, as she experiments with new techniques. All are photographed in beautiful detail. Work-in-progress photographs invite readers inside Nancy Crow's studio.
Published by: Breckling Press

Was £19.95 now down to £13.95

Vikki Pignatelli

Discover surprisingly stress-free techniques to tame curves and sharp angles that anyone can master.
Published by: Dragon Threads

Judy Balchin.

A rich source of ideas and inspiration for all craftspeople and artists - these designs can be used as stencil or embroidery patterns, stationary designs, furniture decoration, glass painting guides or whatever your imagination chooses. The designs can be photocopied, traced, coloured, adapted or used as inspiration for originating your own designs. They can be enlarged or reduced for a particular project, and will stand up well to reproduction at any scale. Individual designs in the book are copyright-free, and may be used without further payment, permission or acknowledgement. The reader purchases such rights when they buy the book. Packed with beautiful Art Nouveau designs - flowers and leaves, birds and animals, figures, borders and frames...and more.
Published by: Search Press
ISBN: 9780855329730
Number of pages: 32