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Get Creative with M'Liss Rae Hawley, is a hands-on Beginner's Guide to Color and Design for Quilters. Go beyond piecing, enhance your own designs with pin tucks, machine embroidery, threadwork and beading.

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Get Creative with M'Liss Rae Hawley A Beginner's Guide to Color & Design for Quilters Author: M'Liss Rae Hawley Pages: 80 Page size: 8 1/2" x 11" Publisher: C&T Publishing Cover: Soft Item Code: 4L0492 Weight: 1.0 lb 20% off: $19.96 MSRP: $24.95

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This is a hands-on guide to creative design with M'Liss as your mentor.

• 8 easy projects include lessons in color and design
• Tell your own story- redesign blocks in new sizes, proportions, and settings
• Learn to build themes into your quilts
• Created an artist's series of quilts based on the easy "Century of Progress" block sewn with squares and rectangles
• Go beyond piecing—great tips to enhance design by using pin tucks, machine embroidery, threadwork, and beading
• Includes illustrated glossary of color terms.

About the Author

M'Liss Rae Hawley is an accomplished quilting teacher, lecturer, embroidery and textile designer, and best-selling author. She conducts workshops and seminars throughout the world. As a author of seven books, including Mariner Medallion Quilts, Phenomenal Fat Quarter Quilts (2004), More Fat Quarter Quilts, Get Creative With M'Liss Rae Hawley (2005), and M'Liss Rae Hawley's Round Robin Renaissance (2006) the originator of numerous innovative designs, M'Liss is constantly seeking new boundaries to challenge her students while impartiong her enthusiasim and love for the aart of quilting.

Although her new PBS television series, M'Liss Quilting Worls, is in production, M'Liss continues to create fabric with coordinating embroidery collections, write books, and create patterns for McCall's Quilting magazine. She likes to break quilting down to the basics to show students that it can be easy and fun at any skill level.

M'Liss and her husband, Michael, live on Whidbey Island, Washington, in a filbert orchard. Michael is also a best-selling author and the sheriff of Island County. Their son is in the Marine Corps, and ther daughter is in college. Michael and M'LIdd share their home with five dachshunds and three cats.

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Table of Contents:

1000+ Books & Magazines Index

M'Liss Rae Hawley Get Creative with M'Liss Rae Hawley A Beginner's Guide to Color & Design for Quilters

Mariner's Medallion Quilts by M'Liss Rae Hawley

More Fat Quarter Quilts by M'Liss Rae Hawley

Phenomenal Fat Quarter Quilts by M'Liss Rae Hawley

Round Robin Renaissance by M'Liss Rae Hawley

Contemporary Design Techniques & Ideas for Repeating Designs & Block Variations

Settings for Quilt Layouts Diagonal Set Triangle Rulers	Great Sets by Sharyn Craig	Round Robin Renaissance by M'Liss Rae Hawley	Smashing Sets by Margaret J. Miller	Sensational Settings by Joan Hanson

Single Block Ideas with Design Variations	9-Patch Pizzaz by Judy Sisneros	Dresden Plate New Quilts from Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit	Puzzle Quilts by Paula Nadelstern	Monkey Wrench New Quilts From Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit
	New Quilts From an Old Favorite Contest Double Wedding Ring, Log Cabin, Ohio Star MAQS Exhibit	Seven Sisters New Quilts from Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit	Simple Contemporary Quilts by Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader	StrataVarious Quilts by Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover

Design using Perspective & Adding Illusions
3-D Explosion by Cara Gulati	Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust	Easy Pieces by Margaret M. Miller	Shifting Perspective by Lorraine Torrence	Smashing Sets by Margaret J. Miller

Optical Illusions For Quilt Ideas	Ambiguous Optical Illusions by Al Seckel	Action Optical Illusions by Al Seckel	Geometric Optical Illusions by Al Seckel	Impossible Optical Illusions by Al Seckel
	Book of Optical Illusions by Michael DiSpezio

3-D Illusions using Hexagons in Quilts Building Block, Inner City

Big Book of Building Block Quilts by Sara Nephew

Seven Sisters by The American Quilter's Society

One-Block Wonders Encore! by Maxine Rosenthal & Joy Pelzmann

Optical Illusions for Quilters by Karen Combs

Designs	DecoDesigns	GeoDesigns	MicroDesigns	OptiDesigns
	PrismDesigns	UltraDesigns
Modern Patterns	Modern Patterns Botanical	Modern Patterns Circular	Modern Patterns Illusions	Modern Patterns Linear
	Modern Patterns Molecular	Modern Patterns Optical

Linear Lines Design Influences	A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves by Louisa L. Smith	Beyond the Block by Linda K. Johnson & Jane K. Wells	Creative Fabric Weaving by Julie Higgins	Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust
Dancing Quilts by Debbie Bowles	Quilted One Block Marvels by Carolyn Sullivan	The Quilter's Book of Design by Ann Johnston	Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts	Thinking Outside the Block by Sandi Cummings with Karen Flamme

Quilt Designs using Contemporary Curves	A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves by Louisa L. Smith	Blendable Curves by Peggy L. Barkle	Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust	Dresden Plate New Quilts from Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit
Easy Bias Curves by Wendy Hill	Foolproof Curves by Barbara Barber	Free & Eazy Circles by Jan Mullen	Free Expressions by Robbi Joy Eklow	Journey of an Art Quilter by Barbara Olsen
Piec-Lique by Sharon Schamber	Pieced Curves So Simple by Dale Fleming	Quilters Playtime by Dianne S. Hire	Quilting by Improvisation by Vikki Pignatelli	Simply Stunning Woven Quilts by Anna Faustino

The Wave Edge by Lily Marie Amaru

Ruler WaveEdge Rulers 2 sizes: 24" & 16"

Book Let's Make Waves by Lily Marie Amaru

Pattern Triangle Waves by Lily Marie Amaru

Pattern The Wave Lotus by Lily Marie Amaru

Pattern Wave Edge Placemat/Napkin by Lily Marie Amaru

Design & View Tools BlockButler Design Wall

Distance Viewer Reduce Tool Designed Soft Cover

2x Reducing Lens Glass 3" diameter 3/12" Handle

EZ View Multiplier rotate to view on-point or straight layout

Colorscope Use to view fabric, thread and paint selection for color balance, value and contrast

Projector & Light Table

The Projector enlarge photos or drawing

Porta-Trace Light Table two sizes

Trace & Develop Line Ideas for Quilting & Appliqué	EZ Flex Design Rule	Mesh Canvas Transfer by Clover See-thru material that allows simple tracing & transfer	Preview, Overlay CLEAR Quilter's Preview Paper by Quilter's Touch use with quilting lines & appliqué
	Quilter's Vinyl by the Yard	EQ Printables Clear Overlay 12 Sheets for use in inkjet or laser printers	Transdoodle Transfer Paper for clean guidelines

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