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This is a great book for people wanting to take up the art of quilting. The instructions are comprehensive but easy to follow, using some lovely illustrations to help out along the way. You are unlikely to feel like a beginner after you have finished with this book, and it will definitely become your 'Ultimate Quilting Bible' just as the title says! |
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Creative Fabric Techniques for quilters, embroiderers and textile artists By Annette Morgan Rainbow Disks CD Book ISBN: 978-1-906314-16-3 Price: £12.00 Reviewed by Carole Kokinis 21 January 2010 Presented in an A5 plastic wallet with attractive insert, comes the latest innovation, a book on CD for textile enthusiasts. The 76 pages are in the form of a PDF file, which is easily opened, by putting the disc in the CD drive and following instructions. My OS is Windows XP home and my Adobe reader is version 9.3 - I had no problems. Anyone unfamiliar with reading this type of file, will find well written instructions on how to proceed. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Jelly Roll Inspirations By Pam and Nicky Lintott Published by David & Charles Price: £14.99 Reviewed by Bron Ellis This book follows on from two previous books by the same author, Jelly Roll Quilts and Layer Cake, Jelly Roll and Charm Quilts. For those who are not familiar with Jelly Rolls, they are bundles of forty strips of pre-assorted fabrics 2-½ inches wide by 42 inches long supplied by Moda. They are available in many colour and design ways and make piecing of simple quilt designs quicker as the work of cutting the strips and fabric selection has already been done by Moda. This has its limitations as the standard width of the strips dictates mainly simple geometric designs but they are very popular and this book provides lots of good suggestions. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Stitching to Dye in Quilt Art: Colour, Texture and Distortion I read numerous books on textiles, but rarely have I come across one as exciting as this; within minutes of opening it I was itching to get started on the techniques it describes. June Barnes has won numerous awards as a textile artist. In this book she describes the techniques she has developed in stitching and then dyeing fabric to produce vivid and unexpected colour-combinations and fascinating textural effects, including techniques not seen elsewhere. The first part of the book contains a series of exercises which guide the reader through the various processes involved in producingstitched fabrics, then dyeing and overdyeing them for a variety of effects. The second section deals with the effects produced by shrinkage of various fabrics and distortions achieved by combining these with items such as zippers and plastic shapes, which resist shrinking. This book is exceptionally well-written – crisp, witty, to the point and engaging – and sumptuously illustrated. Above all it is successful in opening up a wholenew area for exploration by art quilters and other textile artists. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Designing Patchwork on your Computer Carol 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 through the essentials on each system to get you started. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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| The Uncommon Quilter By 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 or the techniques used for these 365 very varied and personal works. From here grew a worldwide journal quilt fraternity culminating in the Journal Project organised by QuiltArt online and the selective catalogue Creative Quilting. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Free Expression By 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. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Creative Tucks and Textures for Quilts and Embroidery By 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 inserted and manipulated shapes which are presented for use in quilt blocks, but could be equally applicable to other textile projects. Rayment’s trademark pleats, folds and tucks are explained in great detail, with endless variations and ideas for embellishment, creative variations and combined techniques. It includes working in circles as well as squares, which adds an exciting new dimension to tucks and folds, plus an interesting chapter on the use of bias cut strips, including how to cut continuous bias. At the end of the book is a comprehensive chapter on piecing techniques, which is invaluable to those wanting to incorporate their creative experiments into larger work. A simple and informative short chapter on quilting completes the techniques part of the book, and a small selection of projects and a gallery round it off nicely. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Quilter’s Guide To Twists & Tucks Louise 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. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Thread Magic, The Enchanted World of Ellen Anne Eddy Quilting 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 quilt dimensions and reading the informative captions. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project Edited 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 2006. Jeanne Williamson started making weekly quilts in 1999 to document her life and these inspired the project. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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Art Quilts – A Celebration By 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. ... Click here for more information. Click here to purchase this book. |
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