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The Painted Quilt
The Painted Quilt – paint and print techniques for colour on quiltsAuthors: Linda and Laura Kemshall Publisher: David and Charles 120 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-7153-2450-9 Price £14.99 Reviewed by Diane Watson This book promises to enable the reader to “add colour to quilts in a way that’s beyond fabric, creating textiles more dimensional, detailed and distinctive that you ever imagined possible.” If like me you have shied away... Read more | Buy Book |
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Designing Patchwork on your Computer
Designing Patchwork on your ComputerCarol Phillipson Published by A&C Black ISBN: 9781408101438 Price: £19.99 Reviewed by Lindsay Roberts This chunky square format book temptingly incorporates a CD in its front cover, inviting you to find out for yourself how easy the process can be. With guidance on using the basic Paint programme included in Microsoft Windows operating system, or Adobe Photoshop if you have a Mac, the author talks you... Read more | Buy Book |
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The Uncommon Quilter
The Uncommon QuilterBy Jeanne Williamson Published by Potter Craft ISBN: 978-0-307-38122-4 Price: $25 (approx. £12.99) Review by Bron Ellis Jeanne Williamson is well known for her journal quilts, having exhibited in galleries throughout the world and been published in many books and magazines. In 1999 she took the decision to make a small art quilt every week in order to expand her creative horizons, she placed no limits on either the materials... Read more | Buy Book |
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Free Expression
Free ExpressionBy Robbi Joy Ecklow Published by Search Press ISBN: 9780976692805 Price: Was £17.99 NOW £12.59 Reviewed by Sandra Wyman In her first book Robbi Joy Ecklow details the methods she uses to design and make her award-winning art quilts, covering everything from composition and colour-choice to edging and finishing techniques, including a chapter on fabric-dyeing. The major part of the book deals with fused appliqué... Read more | Buy Book |
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Creative Tucks and Textures for Quilts and Embroidery
Creative Tucks and Textures for Quilts and EmbroideryBy Jennie Rayment Published by Batsford ISBN: 9780713490534 Price: £14.99 Reviewed by Ruth Singer This is a comprehensive, absorbing and enjoyable book. For those with a love of fabric manipulation, this book is a must. It is an easy to use guide to many fascinating techniques, which go beyond the normal realms of quilting or embroidery. It covers tucks, folded and interlocked shapes plus... Read more | Buy Book |
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Quilter’s Guide To Twists & Tucks
Quilter’s Guide To Twists & TucksLouise Mabbs and Wendy Lowes Published by Collins and Brown ISBN: 1 84340 311 0 Price: 18.99 Reviewed by Bron Ellis This full-colour hardback book aims to introduce the reader to fabric manipulation or ‘orinuno’, meaning fabric folding. The name was coined by one of the authors, Wendy Lowes, who is an accomplished origami practitioner. There are other more comprehensive books available on the subject... Read more | Buy Book |
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Thread Magic, The Enchanted World of Ellen Anne Eddy
Thread Magic, The Enchanted World of Ellen Anne EddyQuilting Arts LLC, distributed by Search Press ISBN: 0-9766928-1-3 Price: £19.99 Reviewed by Greta Fitchett This is a delightful book, with plenty of images to enjoy and inspire. The first section shows images of the author’s quilts. These are generous photographs showing superb detail of the quilt surface, with a double page given to each design. These are pages to take time over, noting the... Read more | Buy Book |
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Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project
Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt ProjectEdited by Karey Patterson Bresenhan Publisher: Quilting Arts, LLC Distributed in the UK by Search Press ISBN No: 0-9766928-3-X Price: £20.00 Review by Bron Ellis This is a beautifully produced, large, full colour book featuring 400 photographs of A4 sized quilts. It is a partial catalogue of nearly 6000 monthly quilts made for the Journal Project organised by QuiltArt online between 2002 and... Read more | Buy Book |
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Creative Quilts
Creative QuiltsBy Sandra Meech Published by Batsford ISBN 0 71349 063 RRP £18.99 Reviewed by Jenny Lewis We welcome this highly explorative book that encourages readers to compile a notebook of information designed to stimulate the creative processes. The idea is akin to keeping a scrapbook and collecting ideas from hundreds of different sources and recording them. It incorporates architecture, world textiles, nature, people, landscapes... Read more | Buy Book |
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Art Quilts – A Celebration
Art Quilts – A CelebrationBy Various artists Published by GMC Group ISBN 1 57990 711 3 Price £16.95 PB Reviewed by Jenny Lewis ‘Art Quilts’ is a celebration of 400 stunning contemporary designs covering the years 1995-2003. These designs will delight, surprise, excite and even shock, but will not leave you unmoved. It is interesting that traditional quilting is not obliterated, but incorporated into many of the designs. The concept... Read more | Buy Book |
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