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.

Jean Wells

Adventures in art quilting. 11 creative exercises take your use of colour, design and piecing in dramatic new directions.

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.

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.

Sherrill Kahn

Creative effects of paper and fabric. Learn how to transform fabrics, papers and embellishments into jaw-dropping collage fit for an art gallery.

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.

Lindy and Laura Kemshall

Learn how to colour cloth using a variety of techniques including fabric paints, pastels, dyes, bleaches and transfers.

Wheeler and Marquette.

Learn how to step outside the frame! Make fabulous fabric art from photos and scans.

Use your computer, printer, and sewing machine to make amazing art from ordinary images

• Learn 6 different ways to alter images on your computer

• Make 6 easy projects: pillow shams, tote bags, book covers, postcards, greeting cards, and friendship books

• Detailed guide to equipment, working with photos, printing on fabric, free-motion quilting, and finishing projects for display

• Inspiring photo gallery of finished works

They'll never believe you started with a snapshot! This comprehensive guide shows you everything you need to know about creating awesome art with a computer, printer, scanner, and sewing machine. Beth and Lori guide you from choosing the right fabrics and equipment, to enhancing your images with the artistic filters in Photoshop Elements® and other computer software, printing in large and small sizes, and free-motion quilting your creation. The result: art that will take your breath away.

Vikki Pignatelli

Discover surprisingly stress-free techniques to tame curves and sharp angles that anyone can master.

Davila & Waterston

Your do-it-all guide to putting the art in art quilts. Learn the basics of good design with step-by-step exercises, then add your own personal style.

Gloria Loughman

Quilted visions in paint and thread. Thread, paint & inspiration - the sky's the limit!

Let your inner artist out! Capture the glory of a sunrise or sunset, the stark outline of a tree against the sky, the placid surface of the ocean. Gloria has assembled a repetoire of techniques to give all your pictorial quilts breathtaking impact from working with photographs to painting fabric, creating silhouettes, constructing backgrounds, and embellishing with stitching.

New ideas to bring your landscape quilts to life! 125 tips and techiques to create stunning quilts.

Ellen Anne Eddy.

A quilt gallery illustrates The Enchanted World of Ellen Anne Eddy. Lots of inspiration and techniques for free-motion embroidery and surface embellishing.

Robbi Joy Eklow.

The art and confessions of a contemporary quilter. Covers fused applique, free-motion quilting, innovative finishing and dyeing your own fabrics. Includes CD with 8 patterns.

Ann Fahl.

A no-drawing approach to free-motion embroidery. Express yourself as you dress up your quilt top or fabric. Information on needle and thread selection.

Barker and Masopust.

Art lessons every quilter will love! Improve any quilt with easy-to-follow colour theory lessons and stitching techniques.

Laura Wasilowski

Create an art quilt in a weekend! Give your sewing machine a rest too: there is virtually no sewing to do except for the quilting and binding. Design as you go - there’s no measuring or math. Includes a gallery of quilts.

Added in June 2005

Ruth B. McDowell

Quilt artist Ruth McDowell shares her insights into the design process, from inspiration to final stitch. Through 18 photographs of her recent works learn how to use patterned fabrics, plan borders, choose colours and make quilting decisions.

Added in June 2005

Cindy Walter

Painting with fabric - easy as 1-2-3

Rebecca Barker

Exquisite paintings artfully blend traditional quilts into beautiful scenes. More than 24 full-sized pieced and appliqued blocks.

Nancy Halvorsen

More delightful designs and patterns from Nancy including seasonal projects, quilts, tea towels, pot holders, gift bags and 4 seasonal mini quilts.

Was £14.50 now down to £8.50

Ricky Tims

Become a fabulous quilt artist - the fun, easy way. Convergence quilts feature two or more fabrics cut into strips, sewn together, then cut and pieced again. The results are fantastic!

Joyce R Becker. Simple techniques for dynamic quilts. Create richly embellished scenes from nature.