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If you've ever dreamed of being an Impressionist artist like Monet or of capturing nature's beauty, light and luminosity in your quilt, Watercolor Quilts is the book for you

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Watecolor Quilts

 

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Watercolor Quilts

Author: Pat Maixner & Donna Ingram Slusser
Pages: 112
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: That Patchwork Place

20% off: $19.96
MSRP: $24.95

 

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If you've ever dreamed of being an Impressionist artist like Monet or of capturing nature's beauty, light and luminosity in your quilt, Watercolor Quilts is the book for you.

  • Use the properties of color to create a watercolor effect in your quilts.

  • Build a fabric library with a wide assortment of varying colors, textures and values.

  • Plan your very own watercolor quilt, using the authors’ easy step-by-step exercises.

  • “Moosh,” smear and create color pockets or the illusion of curves and diagonal lines with 2” squares.

  • Create an original watercolor quilt no matter what your skill level and experience. (Design your own or use one of the six easy quilt patterns included in the book.)

Plus... Learn how to use the Ruby Beholder TM, a new tool designed to help you sort and arrange fabric squares by value.

Lavish color photography takes you on a fabulous journey through the land of watercolor and Impressionism as you design a quilt as rich in color as the paintings of late 19th-century artists. So, put away the paints and pick up your fabrics to create a watercolor masterpiece.

Watecolor Quilts

Table of Contents:

TabIe of Contents

Frame It!

50

Foreword

6

Back lt!

51

Preface

8

Quilt It!

52

Introduction

10

Sign It!

55

What’s Ahead

13

Show It Off!

56

Tools of the Trade

14

Watercolor Quilt Plans

57

Fabric Selection and Preparation

17

Braidings

58

Color and Its Properties

17

Lattice Rejoice!

60

Print Design Elements

18

Welcome

62

Surface Texture or Design

19

Hold Your Heads Up High

64

Organizing Your Personal Fabric Library

21

Dawn’s Early Light

66

Expanding Your Fabric Library

22

Window Box

68

Fabric Preparation

23

Gallery of Quilts

70

Cutting and Sorting Fabric Squares

24

Basic Quiltmaking Techniques

96

Cutting

24

Accurate Seaming

96

Sorting

26

Chain Piecing

96

Planning and Creating Your Quilt

30

Making Half-Square Triangle Units

97

First, Make a Road Map

30

Appliqué

97

Take the Trip of a Lifetime

33

Adding Borders

99

Today, I Sew

44

Quilting

101

Four Rules for Watercolor Quilt Top Assembly

44

Binding Your Quilt

106

Ready, Set, Stitch

45

Adding a Hanging Sleeve

108

Don’t Be Pressed for Time

48

Labeling Your Work

109

Other Journeys-Planning Your Next One

48

Sources

110

Other Journeys-Planning Your Next One

48

Bibliography

111


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