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This book is a guide to creating landscape-themed quilts, from the earliest sources of inspiration to the finished article.. Quirky quilt projects such as fabric postcards, greeting cards, bags and practical exercises to help you create your own landscape quilts can be found in award-winning Ineke Berlyn's book, Landscape in Contemporary Quilts.

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Landscape in Contemporary Quilts
Design and Technique

Author: Ineke Berlyn
Pages: 125
Page size: 9" x 11 1/2"
Publisher: Batsford
Cover: Hard
Item Code: 4L0597
Weight: 1.8 lbs

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Award-winning quiltmaker Ineke Berlyn reveals the secrets of her stunning landscape-themed quilts.

Practical exercises help you create your own landscape quilts - finding a theme, fabric and stitch choice, design solutions and putting if all together

Quirky quilt projects such as fabric postcards, greetings cards and bags

Illustrated with stunning examples of work from leading quilt artists and the author's exquisite landscape photographs

 

About the Author

Ineke Berlyn is a well-known quiltmaker and teacher who has exhibited her quilts all over the world. Her first major landscape quilt, Omaha, was chosen to form part of the 'Transforming Traditions' exhibition organized by the Quilter's Guild of the British Isles, and also won first prize at Quilts UK. She also teaches landscape-inspired for magazines such as Patchwork and Quilting and Workbox.

 

Table of Contents

 
Who is the book for? 6
Introduction 7
1. Threads of Inspiration 12
Landscapes Urban and Rural 14
The Netherlands 16
Ton Schulten 20
Art Begins at Home 23
Composition 26
Travel 30
Water 32
Making and Keeping a Sketchbook 34
Making Your Own Sketchbook 37
Project: Filling in the Gap 38
Project: Landscape Cards 40
Project: Fabric Postcards 42
2. Color and Fabric 44
The Color Wheel 46
Color Values 48
Materials for Coloring 51
The Character of Colors 51
Color and the Seasons 62
Project: Dyeing a Color Wheel 69
3. Texture and Stitchery 72
Recycling 74
Stitchery 78
Pattern 81
Layers 86
Edges and Texture 90
Free-Machine Quilting 92
Project: Making a Book Cover 94
4. Layers and Design 96
Three-layered Quilts 96
Composition Revisited 100
Journal Quilts 102
Project: Making a Landscape with Sheers 104
An Extra Experiment 110
5. Your Landscape 112
Gridlines 114
Filling in the Colors 116
Adding Interest 117
Project: Making a Tote Bag 119
Suppliers 126
Bibliography 127
Index 128

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ere Comes the Sun
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