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Shifting Perspectives: Trim Your Way to One-of-a-Kind Quilts by Lorraine Torrance helps you find and develop the artist within you.
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Excerpt from the BookRepeated block quilts are familiar territory for most quilters. Shifting Perspectives presents a different way to use repeated blocks. You make a set of oversized blocks and then trim them so that smaller blocks are cut from the originals, but with each cut, the blocks are trimmed in a different place. Sew them together to produce a unique shifted-image quilt that takes the repeated block quilt on a whole new adventure. Even better, you won't waste the trimmed-off parts - use them for a border that balances and unifies the quilt!
The idea for this kind of quilt was sparked by the use of the Fresnel lens, also known as the Fly's Eye lens or the Multi-View lens. The lens multiplies the image seen through it into many small blocks, each of which is shifted slightly. Shifting Perspectives will guide you through all the steps to make a dynamic Multi-View quilt, using a block pattern from the book or using a block of your own design. You will also find many variations on this approach, including the use of other traditional blocks, rectangular blocks, and square blocks made into a rectangular quilt.
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Instructions for four quilts are included to get you started and guide you through the concepts presented here. Each uses different cutting techniques so you can try them all out. Pick your own level: Easiest, Easy, Intermediate, or Advanced. Or strike out on your own and design an original Multi-View Image quilt yourself, beginning with the chapter, Design Your Block. Design guidance in that chapter will help you in auditioning fabric choices while considering value, scale, and color - all are important ingredients in achieving balanced, unified quilts. As always there are many right ways
to do everything! You may find shortcuts or better approaches, or simply use these
ideas as a springboard to your own technique. About the AuthorLorraine lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and near her two grown children and her grandsons. After earning a BFA and an MFA in sculpture, she stumbled into quilting and has enjoyed teaching (and constantly learning more about) this fabulous art form since 1972. Her first book, Design Essentials: The Quilters Guide, was published in 1998. She has two lines of wearable art patterns and can't seem to decide which she likes making more, quilts or garments - so she keeps doing them both!
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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 |
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 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 |
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Impossible Optical Illusions by Al Seckel |
Book of Optical Illusions by Michael DiSpezio |
3-D Illusions using Hexagons in QuiltsBuilding 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 |
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 usingContemporary 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 |
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 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 |
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 |
Innovative Software for the Quilter |
  Bargello Designer 32 |
 Creative Impulse 2000 |
 Gliftic |
 Repligator |
 Paint by Number 2005 CD Being able to draw is NOT required! Turn any photo or image into a pictorial quilt! |
 Quilted Photo Xpress Software 
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Innovative SoftwareCreate Stack-n-Whack Images, Wedges & Kaleidoscope Repetition |
 Kaleidoscope Kreator 2.0 |
 Quilters' Polygon Templates for Kaleidoscope Kreator 2.0 |
 Frame Frenzy Templates for Kaleidoscope Kreator 2.0 |
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SymmeToy |
Creative Impulse 2000 |
Design & View Tools |
 Distance Viewer Reduce Tool Designed Soft Cover |
 2x Reducing Lens Glass 3" diameter 3/12" Handle |
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 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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Cover Information
Shifting
Perspectives will teach you how to use the Multi-View lens to look at everyday
items around you and find inspiration for original block designs. You will learn
how to simplify those designs into easy-to-sew patterns. The book presents techniques
for enlarging a design; cutting your block pieces using rotary cutting tools,
templates, or tape on your rotary cutting ruler as a reference; and piecing blocks
using partial seams for easy construction.
