The Best of Quilting Arts: Your Ultimate Resource for Art Quilt Techniques and Inspiration - Couverture souple

Bolton, Pokey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596683996 ISBN 13 : 9781596683990

Editeur : Interweave Press Inc, 2011

Synopsis

Celebrate the first 10 years of the groundbreaking Quilting Arts magazine with The Best of Quilting Arts, a collection of the best articles, projects, and techniques. Pokey Bolton, founder of Quilting Arts magazine, has compiled the most popular articles that have inspired quilters and artists alike to move beyond the basics of art quilting and re-explore machine and hand stitching, fabric embellishment, surface design, and more. Inside you'll find: * quilt art techniques from fabric collage and applique to resist dyeing, stamping, and foiling; * machine-stitching and thread-painting tips and tutorials from award-winning art quilters; * ideas and advice for the professional quilt artist; * an array of binding and stitching techniques to make your art quilt stand out; * methods for making realistic representational art quilts, including portraits of pets and people. Whether you're making your first art quilt or are a seasoned quilt artist eager to enhance your designs, you'll find endless instruction and inspiration in The Best of Quilting Arts.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Art quilting is one of the hottest, most exciting categories of quilting today, and Quilting Arts magazine has been at the forefront of all the techniques and trends. Readers will get exercises to help them develop and improve their skills, machine- and hand-quilting tips from today's top award-winning quilters, inspiring profiles of prolific art quilters, a ton of techniques, advice for turning art quilting into a business, and ideas for creating the ideal quilt studio. Whether a reader is embarking on an art quilt for the first time or is already an advanced quilter, all will treasure the informative and inspiring collection of material culled from the first ten years of Quilting Arts magazine.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Pokey Bolton is a co-founder of Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines. She is now the editorial director of Interweave's Quilt and Paper Division. She is the author of The Quilting Arts Book: Techniques and Inspiration for Creating One-of-a-Kind Quilts and 1,000 Artist Trading Cards: Innovative and Inspired Mixed Media ATCs. Pokey is also the host of Quilting Arts TV. She splits her time between Sudbury, Massachusetts and Boulder, Colorado.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Interweave Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1596683996
• ISBN 13: 9781596683990
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160