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From the back cover
Preserve special memories in fabric as you artfully combine quilting and scrapbooking in 24 creative projects. Using many innovative techniques and materials, you'll learn how to make extraordinary collage quilts that tell a story. Learn how to transfer photographs to fabric; add beads, buttons, ribbons, lace, and other pretty accents; apply stamps, dyes, or paint on to cloth...the only limit is your imagination.
From the inside flaps
Nationally known quilting teacher and artist Lesley Riley introduces you to exciting new methods and materials for crafting collage quilts that tell a story. She presents 24 imaginative mixed media projects that will show you how to transfer photographs, affix beads and other decorative accessories, and embroider designs. Soon you'll be able to make beautiful keepsakes that preserve memories just as scrapbook pages do.
Along with a detailed introduction to the basic principles of design—line, shape, form, color, contrast, pattern, balance, and proportion—Riley offers valuable ideas about finding inspiration, learning to trust your instincts, and making time to fit art into your life. Using this preliminary information, you'll be able to create your own designs.
Fabric is everywhere and Riley provides expert tips on shopping for it. She teaches you how to add pattern to solid color cloth using stamping, stenciling, painting, and drawing. Riley also explains techniques that give fabrics a time-worn look, such as fraying the edges or soaking cloth in bleach.
Using a variety of tools and materials, you'll learn many creative ways of transferring photos to fabric, from direct and laser printing to water and acrylic medium transfers.
Historically, quilts were bound with a separately attached piece of fabric that served to enclose the batting and neatly finish and protect edges. This fabric had to be easy to remove and replace because the quilt edges became worn with use. Collage quilts aren't used daily, so a binding no longer serves the same functions as it did in the past. Riley was thus free to come up with new ways to finish the edges and she shares her creative methods with you.
Now you're ready to choose from any of the remarkable projects included—all designed by Riley and twelve other talented artists and quilters. Using rich red velvet, colorful silk scraps, and bold embroidery stitching, Karen Michel made a small quilt that fits onto the cover of a journal. Olivia Thomas's design features new and vintage fabrics, as well as coffee-dyed linen, to create a folk art look. Buttons and beads are also featured on this unique piece.
If you're a quilter looking for ideas, a scrapbooker who wants to learn a new craft, or a newcomer looking for a creative outlet, this is the book for you.
Sample Pages (70 and 71) here.
About the Author
Lesley Riley is an established artist and teacher of quilting, collage, and mixed media with a passion for color and the written word. She teaches at mixed-media workshops from coast to coast and is a Features Editor at Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine.
Hard cover, 128 pages.
Price: $39.95 ($36.32)
Contents:
Introduction
- Getting Started
- Style
- Making Room for Making Art
- Visual Journals
- Where to Find Fabric
- Photos on Fabric
- Storytelling
- Alternative Techniques
- 24 Quilt Memories
- A Gallery of Quilted Memories Resources
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Metric Conversion Chart
Index
