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Quilts of a Different Color

Author: Irena Bluhm
Pages: 95
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4Q0750
Weight: 0.95 lb
20% off: $21.56
MSRP: $26.95

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Quilt First, Color Later! Try this fun and easy technique with fabulous results!

• Create wholecloth quilts with the look of applique simply by using colored pencils and easy-to-find materials.
• Supplies, quilting motifs and plenty of how-to photos will show you how.
• Pillow and wallhanging projects plus a gallery of glorious quilts will inspire your own creative designs.

About the Author

Irena Bluhm is an award-winning quilt artist, quilt and quilting pattern designer and a longarm machine quilter, instructor and sales representative for Gammill Quilting Machine Company. Born and raised in Poland during the reign of communism, she moved to Germany in 1981 and ten years later moved to the United States, living in California.

She watch her seamstress mother making clothes for customers and by the age of nine was helping with the hand finishing. At age 17, she bought an electric sewing machine with her very first paycheck. She learned to make her own clothes and moved on to designing and making garments and wedding dresses for others.

Irena's first exposure to quilting came from the Log Cabin-style quilts her mother made with scraps. She tried some piecing of her own, but quilting didn't become a passion until she saw a Gammill longarm quilting machine at a local quilt shop in 2004. Two days later, Irena was stitching pantographs for the shop owner.

A few days later, she heard about Linda V. Taylor and still remembers seeing her work for the first time. After asking herself how it was possible for any one person to be that good at free-motion quilting, she immediately started to wonder if she could do it herself. It took her a few days, but she convinced her husband to buy a quilting machine. Barely a month later, she was amazed to have her friends tell her she was ready to do "heirloom quilting."

Irena noticed improvement with every quilt she did, giving her the confidence she needed to try making a quilt for show. When her first two wholecloth quilts came back from their first show with three ribbons, she decided to create quilts just for shows. She's won numerous awards nationwide.

After just a little over two years of longarm quilting experience and teaching at multiple venues across the country, Irena became a national sales representative for Gammill Quilting Machine Company. She has designed pattern collections for Statler Stitcher computerized systems with more to be added.

Irena has two precious daughters and three gorgeous grandchildren. After her husband Richard retired in 2002, they bought a farm in rural Oklahoma where her large studio is located.

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Color Pencils, Textile Medium, Paints &/or Paint Sticks

Simulate Faux Applique and Traditional Blocks OR Embellish Innovative quilts with:

Color Pencils

Faux Applique
by Helen Stubbings

Paint a Quilt
by Marie Monteith Sturmer

Stencils, Books, Clipart and CDs

Doodling Ideas: Helpful for hand & machine quilting design ideas
& Fabric Painting, Foiling & Stenciling

Circles

6" x 6" &
12" x 12"
Doodling Templates

Flowers

6"x6" &
12"x12"
Doodling Templates

Stewart Gill: Modular System Stencils
6" Square Repeat Design

Cedar Canyon Textiles
(Shiva Paintstiks)

Stewart Gill Paints & Accessories (4 Pages)

Timeless Teasures Stencils: Includes Instruction on how to create quilt & embellish

Daughter Stencil

Shiva® Artist's Painstiks® & Accessories for Stenciling

Page 1 of 6

Page 2 & 3 of 6

Page 4 of 6

Page 5 of 6

Page 6 of 6

Paintstick Sets

Iridescent & Matte.
Sets of 3, 6, 12 or 15+

Page 2
Matte Paintstiks

Single (51 Colors)

Page 3
Iridescent Paintstiks

Single (15) Colors

Cedar Canyon Textiles Patterns for Shiva Paintstiks

Butterflies Pattern
using Shiva Paintstiks
by Nancy Kazlauckas

Paintstik Patches
using Shiva Paintstiks & Rubbing Plates

Shiva Paintstiks:

Book & DVD Instructions for Stenciling

Stencils

Cedar Canyon Textiles

Leaves & Snow Flakes
Designed for Shiva Paintstiks

Stenciling
w/ Crayons, Paints & Paint Sticks