Sarah Ann Smith

A compendium of everything you need to know about that most essential of quilting notions thread! Sarah Ann Smith unravels the secrets behind how it's made, how to select the right thread for the right job, and how to use it to enhance your piecing, appliqué, and quilting. And not just thread! Learn about needles, machines, fabrics, stabilizers, marking tools, and more! Interspersed with the valuable nuts and bolts are small projects to put the information to work a needlekeeper and a thread tension sampler, to name just two. Sarah Ann's insights and tips will help you understand how and why certain tools and notions work best and when another option is a better choice.

Charlotte Ziebarth

Transform Your Digital Photos into Luminous Fabric Art

• Alter photos and use them to create beautiful, original works of fabric art - 11 exercises show you how
• Learn to alter images with Photoshop Elements®
• Use photos that really enhance your work (Hint: it's not always the best-looking shots!)
• Find inspiration in your own albums, from other artists, and in nature
• Make large-scale quilts with a standard-size inkjet printer

This accessible guide to creating fine fabric art with digital photos covers everything from the tools and equipment you'll need, to designing, finishing, and assembling your quilt.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Beth Wheeler

More Quilt-Art Adventures with Photos and Fabric

• Explore the amazing visual effects you can create with your own photos and Photoshop Elements software
• Build on the techniques for printing on fabric covered in Altered Photo Artistry
• Bonus CD with 17 free photographs, 12 custom graphics add-ons, and free trial version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6

You've learned to print photos on fabric - now you're ready to explore the full artistic potential of altering images to create quilt art. Learn to transform ordinary photos in a dozen exciting ways with photo editing software. Bonus CD with Beth's original photos and graphics add-ons helps you alter photographs as never before!
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

Lorraine Torrence & Jean B Mills

Stock Up Your Creative Toolbox With Indispensable Quilt Design Techniques

• Supercharge your creative spirit with 10 lessons in designing with fabrics-from basic design principles to finding new sources of inspiration
• Take an artistic journey through the creative processes of 8 real-life quilters and learn with them as they work through a series of design challenges
• Learn to experiment, evaluate results, and enhance your designs, working either by yourself or with a group
• Use critique groups to improve your work with other quilters' insights

The lessons you'll learn in this inspiring workshop will help you bring new creativity to any style of quilting or fiber arts, whether your tastes are traditional or contemporary. It's a must for anyone who loves to design with fabric.

Ann Johnston

A serious and accessible guide through design fundamentals. Includes start techniques and full-length projects.

Mary Ellen Kranz

In this all-new sequel Mary Ellen shows you the photography and printing tips she teaches in her popular workshops. No prior knowledge needed! All you need is a camera and an inkjet printer.
Published by: Electric Quilt

Katie Pasquini Masopust

Explore 10 approaches to designing art quilts with techniques for everyone, from beginner to advanced. Bring out your inner artist
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Was £11.95 now down to £9.95

Ricky Tims

Design companion Vol 1 to Ricky Tims' Rhapsody Quilts. Full-size freezer paper pattern with bonus applique designs and ideas.
Published by: C&T Pubishing

Ruth B. McDowell

Everything you need to knwo about pieced design is here: working with focus, depth of field and scale, using geometry to adapt your images into quilt blocks and moving from sketches to pieced block diagrams.

Was £16.50 now down to £11.50

Susan Carlson. Discover fun, creative fabric collage in easy-to-understand steps. A great book for anyone who wants to experiment with visual imagery

Cut fabric shapes freehand or use a pattern, building layers as you go. Complete the design, and you're ready to machine quilt. 3 patterns for fish designs, plus how-to's for flowers and butterflies.
Published by: C&T Pubishing
Number of pages: 96
Year published: July 2000

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

Was £16.50 now down to £12.50

Claudia Olson. Unlock the secrets of secondary patterns

If you've ever marveled at the deceptively complex effect of a two-block quilt, this is the book for you. The secondary design created by placing two blocks side by side adds up to much more than just the sum of its parts. 15 two-block quilt projects help you put the process into practice-choose from Churn Dash Memories, Kansas Windmill, Shoo Box, and more fun block combinations; Claudia's detailed directions teach you the tricks of the technique so you can design your own two-block quilts; Learn which types of blocks work well together and why, for sensational secondary design effects; Includes instructions for extending blocks into borders. Easy rotary cutting and strip piecing

Published by: C&T Pubishing
ISBN: 9781571201478
Number of pages: 112
Year published: May 2002