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

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

Was £17.95 now down to £15.95

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

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.
Published by: That Patchwork Place

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

Lindy and Laura Kemshall

Learn how to colour cloth using a variety of techniques including fabric paints, pastels, dyes, bleaches and transfers.
Published by: David & Charles

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.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Vikki Pignatelli

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

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.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Was £17.50 now down to £15.50

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.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

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

Published by: C&T Pubishing

Was £17.95 now down to £13.95

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.

The full-color book features many of Robbi’s popular quilts as well as chapters on: fused appliqué (save your machine for the quilting); free-motion quilting techniques (so comprehensive it could be a separate book); innovative finishing techniques (to make your quilts wall art not wallflowers); and dyeing your own fabrics (create a river of colors as unique as you are).
Published by: Quilting Arts
ISBN: 9780976692805
Number of pages: 116
Year published: June 2005

Barker and Masopust.

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

Published by: C&T Pubishing

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
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Was £15.95 now down to £13.95

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.
Published by: C&T Pubishing
Number of pages: 96
Year published: Feb 2005

Was £6.50 now down to £3.50

Cindy Walter

Painting with fabric - easy as 1-2-3

Creating art with fabric has never been so fun and easy! Countless people around the world have created a fabric masterpiece with Cindy Walter's revolutionary Snippet Sensations technique, where small "snippets" of fabric and fusible web are used to "paint" on fabric. With this new booklet, readers will be introduced to the basics of the technique and then guided through step-by-step instructions for 10 stunning floral projects that can be quilted, including a sunflower quilt.

Published by: Krause Publications
Number of pages: 24
Year published: May 2002

Was £14.50 now down to £12.50

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!
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Joyce R Becker. Simple techniques for dynamic quilts. Create richly embellished scenes from nature.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

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