Drafting For The Creative Quilter

The master quilting teacher presents the ultimate reference guide for drafting your own quilt designs—including 3 projects to test your skills! Quilt artist Sally Collins has helped countless quilters unleash their creative vision by sharing her vast knowledge of drafting. In this comprehensive guide, she offers detailed instructions on how to draft your own quilt blocks based on grids, circles, and various kinds of stars; how to design using mirrors, graph paper, pencil, and calculator; how to create your own variations of traditional blocks; and much more. The three projects featured in this volume are presented in order of difficulty so you can test new skills as you learn. With Sally’s easy methods, you will gain the confidence you need to draft and design your own creative ideas.

Art lessons every quilter will love. Traditional quilter? Art quilter? Improve ANY quilt with this book! Quick no-sew design exercises to make your talents shine. Build a color wheel from fabric to learn color principles. Discover the easy "Nine-Patches" of color and composition.

As a best-selling author and teacher, Katie draws on her two passions-art studies and art quilts-to create abstract quilts that are inspired by still life compositions. In this book you'll learn how you can assemble a still life arrangement from your favorite items at home and transform it into an art quilt, even if you've never considered yourself to be an artist. With Katie by your side, you will succeed!

Art Quilts Made Easy. Bring out your inner artist - explore 10 approaches to designing art quilts with world-renowned teacher Katie Pasquini Masopust. Techniques work for everyone, from beginner to advanced. Creating a gorgeous art quilt is well within your reach when you try Katie Pasquini Masopust's easy methods. Learn 10 different “game plans” for creating a quilt design, then turn your design into a pattern and complete your quilt. With such a variety of techniques to try, you're sure to find the right one for you.

Bring more beauty and balance to your quilt designs • Everything you need to know about the essentials of good design from an internationally reknowned expert • Learn about the key elements of design and how to apply strategies for success • Practice what you've learned with exercises at the end of each chapter • An inspiring gallery illustrates design concepts by many prominent quilters and artists - including Alex Anderson, Paula Nadelstern, and Ricky Tims - with over 150 images showcasing all styles of quilts and fabric art, from traditional to modern This is the design textbook for quilters. Joen presents the eight elements of design: line, direction, shape, color, value, texture, proportion, and scale. You'll learn how to work with these elements using many guiding design principles, such as unity and balance. Whether you consider yourself to be a quilter, an artist, or a crafter, you can improve your design skills by exploring Joen's fresh, innovative approach.

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.

Tips and techniques for unleashing the designer within and creating your own original quilts. Let your imagination take flight! Gail Garber teaches you step-by-step techniques to create your own unique quilt designs, or to make any of the five bonus projects in this book. Draft shapes such as Flying Geese, triangles, and diamonds to fill strips of fabric that weave in and out of your design. Easy paper-piecing instructions help you make all your designs more accurate, from landscapes to radiating sunlight to flowing ribbons. Links to full-size foundation patterns are included, plus a gallery of quilts made by Gail and her students. Learn how to make intriguing quilts with techniques for using free-form strips and shapes to create dimension, illusion, and flow. There’s no limit to the designs you can invent!

Piece dazzling diamond and gorgeous gemstone quilts Add dimension and luminosity to your quilts with gorgeous gemstone piecing! Learn the basics of abstraction and color theory as you piece stunning works of art with gem quilt expert MJ Kinman. After years of perfecting her technique, Kinman explains freezer paper piecing in brilliant detail with jewel quilting ideas to help you express your own creativity. Get helpful advice on fabric selection and quilting patterns to illuminate each cut. A sample gem quilt pattern helps you practice as you follow along step by step. Then find your own muse and bring any gemstone to life in exquisite detail. Just as gems can sparkle and glow in a million different ways, you’ll be inspired by the author’s work and a gallery of student quilts to help you let go of perfection and embrace the chaos of color and light. Shine on! Learn to create freezer-paper patterns for your own gemstone quilts Build skills as you sew a sample diamond quilt top, with step-by-step instructions See a gallery of ground-breaking jewel quilts from the author and her students

The Quilter's Book of Design, Expanded Second Edition is a unique visual experience of stunning color photographs that reveal how quilt designs take shape. Showcasing quilts that range from the very simple to the extraordinary, this book takes the mystery out of the design process and shows that unique, creative quilts are within the reach of every quilter.Ann Johnston, award-winning quilter, designer and instructor, begins by introducing the key principles that govern good design: balance, unity, and variety using crystal-clear text and visuals. In Part Two, she explains and illustrates the design tools you will use to move toward a finished piece: line and shape, value and color, and pattern and texture. Short workshops help you practice techniques and apply everything you have learned to your own quilts.To provide real insight into the design process, in Part Three, Ann takes you through the decisions she made while developing some of her own quilts. Her early sketches and photographs show how the quilts progressed and how she used the design elements to achieve the final result. She provides techniques that you can use to start your own quilts, encourages an open approach to decision-making, and offers a variety of examples of how to expand the boundaries of your own work. + accessible guide through the fundamentals of design+ over 350 examples, all images made of fabric+ oriented to developing each person¿s individual voice+ brief end-of-chapter workshops+ starting-place techniques+ full-length projects