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Whether you want to preserve memories, tell a story, recreate fascinating locations and animals, or just stitch loving portraits of friends and family, Pictorial Quilting by Maggi McCormick Gordon gives you all the tools you need to make your own beautiful pictorial quilts.
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Pictorial Quilting
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Create unique images in fabric with simple quilting techniques.
Whether you want to preserve memories, tell a story, recreate fascinating locations and animals, or just stitch loving portraits of friends and family, Pictorial Quilting gives you all the tools you need to make your own beautiful pictorial quilts. Learn how to adapt source material, choose color and fabric to enhance your compositions, and assemble all the elements of the quilt into a magnificent end result.
| Introduction | 6 | Preparation | 38 |
| The History of Pictorial Quilts | 8 | Piecing | 40 |
| Chapter One | Hand Appliqué | 42 | |
| Designing Pictorial Quilts | 16 | Machine Appliqué | 49 |
| Source Material | 18 | Decorative Stitches and Embellishments | 50 |
| Adapting Source Material | 20 | Chapter Three | |
| Composition | 22 | Pictorial Themes | 52 |
| Using Perspective | 24 | Section One: Land and Sea | 54 |
| Choosing Colors | 26 | Section Two: Flowers and Foliage | 72 |
| Choosing Fabrics | 28 | Section Three: Animals | 86 |
| Creating Texture with Quilting | 30 | Section Four: Figures | 102 |
| Embellishments | 32 | Section Five: Places | 114 |
| Chapter Two | Index | 126 | |
| Techniques for Pictorial Quilts | 34 | Acknowledgments and Sources | 128 |
| Materials and Equipment | 36 |
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1000+ Books &
Magazines Index
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Picture Blocks & Quilts (Mixed Themes): Pieced, Paper Pieced, &/or Appliqué |
Software![]() Quilted Photo Xpress 4.0 Software |
Software![]() Quilted Photo Deluxe 1.0 16 new shapes for contoured applique quilts |
2nd Book![]() More Amazing Quilted Photography by Tammie Bowser |
3rd Book![]() Amazing Chenilled! Quilted Photography by Tammie Bowser |
1st Book Out of Print ![]() Simply Amazing Quilted Photography by Tammie Bowser |
Recommended as helpful in Quilted Photography![]() Fabric Swatch Box 13 7/8" x 8 3/4" x 2" (4) 2" Rows with 20 movable dividers to vary compartment section sizes for Watercolor & Quilted Photography Series |
![]() Extra Wide Fusible Tricot Interfacing 60" x 2 yds Recommended for use in the Quilted Photography Series |
![]() Distance Viewer Reduce Tool Designed Soft Cover |
![]() Gridded Guides 1" & 1 1/4" recommended in the Quilted Photography Series |
12"-18"-24"W![]() Steam-A-Seam2 & LITE Steam-A-Seam 2 |
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