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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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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: Traditional & Art Quilt Development

Art & Art Quilts Explore & Develop Creativity, Design & Color Expression thru exercises	Art + Quilt Design Design Principles & Creativity Exercises by Lyric Kinard	Art Quilt Workbook by Jane Davila and Elin Waterston	Book & Card Kit The Artist's Muse by Besty Dillard Stroud	Explore Design Creative Quilts by Sandra Meech
Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust	Exploring Colour Experimental Approaches to Color & Stitch by Julia Caprana	Fearless Design for Every Quilter by Lorraine Torrence & Jean B. Mills	It's All About You Ngaire Bartlam	The New Creative Artist by Nita Leland
Quilt Challenge "What If" Ideas for Color & Design by Sharyn Craig, Pamela Mostek	Quilting Art Book by Patricia Bollton	DVD Teach You Art Quilting with Jane Davila & Erin Waterston	The Quilter's Book of Design Expanded 2nd Edition by Ann Johnston	Visual Chronicles by Linda Woods and Karen Dinino

Fabric Swatches & Textures Books, Books w/ CD or CDs	Bk & CD w/ 120+ Patterns Batik Patterns by Pepin Press	Book w/ CD 200+ Images Fabric Textures & Patterns by Elisabetta "Kuky" Drudi	250 desins on CD Pattern Storybook: Japanese Style by Shigeki Nakamura
i Colour book Abstract Designs	i i Colour Designs from Nature	Electric Quilts Stash CDs Spring & Fall Release of Fabric Collections in bitmap format

Contemporary Designs

Simple Contemporary Quilts by Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader

Settings for Quilt Layouts Books & Rulers	Perfect Patchwork w/ Marti Michell Diagonal Set Triangle Rulers	Fons & Porter Easy Diagonal Sets Ruler	Great Sets by Sharyn Craig	On-Point Quilts by Retta Warehime
	Round Robin Renaissance by M'Liss Rae Hawley	Simple Strategies for Block-Swap Quilts by Lynn Roddy Brown	Smashing Sets by Margaret J. Miller	Out of Print Sensational Settings by Joan Hanson

Single Block Ideas with Design Variations

9-Patch Pizzaz by Judy Sisneros

Puzzle Quilts by Paula Nadelstern

StrataVarious Quilts by Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover

Single Block w/ Design Variations American Quilters Society Art Quilt Series from Contests & Exhibits
Burgoyne Surrounded New Quilts from an Old Favorite by Linda Baxter Lasco	Dresden Plate New Quilts from Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit	Monkey Wrench New Quilts From Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit	Sawtooth New Quilts from and Old Favorite by Linda Baxter Lasco	Seven Sisters New Quilts from Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit

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	Intuitive Color & Design Adventures in Art Quilting by Jean Wells	Quilted One Block Marvels by Carolyn Sullivan	The Quilter's Book of Design Expanded 2nd Edition by Ann Johnston	Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts
Thinking Outside the Block by Sandi Cummings with Karen Flamme

Sewing Machine Accessory Curve Master Presser Foot	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	Fearless Design for Every Quilter by Lorraine Torrence & Jean B. Mills	Foolproof Curves by Barbara Barber	Free Expressions by Robbi Joy Eklow	Journey of an Art Quilter by Barbara Olsen
Layered Waves A Fresh New Way to Quilt by Karen Eckmeier	Piec-Lique by Sharon Schambe	Pieced Curves So Simple by Dale Fleming	Quilters Playtime by Dianne S. Hire	Quilting by Improvisation by Vikki Pignatelli
Book w/ Template CD Log Cabins, Pin Wheels & More Simply Amazing Spiral Quilts by RaNae Merrill	Simply Stunning Woven Quilts by Anna Faustin

Applique Themes: Circles

Adventures in Circles by Leigh E McDonald

Circle Play by Reynola Pakusich

Circle A Round by Cheryl Phillips

Free & Eazy Circles by Jan Mullen

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 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

Masters of Deception by Al Seckel

Optical Illusions in Art by Alexander Sturgis

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

Out of Print Optical Illusions for Quilters by Karen Combs

Geometric 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

Design & View Tools

Reducing Glass

BlockButler Design Wall

Distance Viewer Reduce Tool Designed Soft Cover

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

Trace & Develop Line Ideas for Quilting & Appliqué

EZ Flex Design Rule

Transdoodle Transfer Paper for clean guidelines

The Projector enlarge photos or drawing

Porta-Trace Light Table two sizes

Preview Lines & Placement Overlay Paper, Vinyl, & Mesh

Preview, Overlay CLEAR Quilter's Preview Paper by Quilter's Touch use with quilting lines & appliqué

Preview Overlay Quilter's Vinyl by C&T Publishing Quilting Designs, Appliqué Overlays, Crafts

Mesh Transfer Canvas

EQ Printables Clear Overlay 12 Sheets for use in inkjet or laser printers

 

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