Floorquilts!: Fabric Decoupaged Floorcloths--No-Sew Fun

by Ellen Highsmith Silver

Overview

The Floor's the Limit! Raid your stash! Turn your favorite fabrics and quilt patterns into durable, walkable art. 12 projects with step-by-step instructions and dozens of how-to tips. Make floorcloths, placemats, coasters, luggage tags, trivets, bookmarks, and more. A new place to show off your favorite quilt designs when your house is full of quilts. Easier to make than a conventional quilt or a painted floorcloth, a Floorquilt is the perfect way to turn the fabric you love into a masterpiece you can use. Plus, there's no sewing! Decoupage techniques and supplies are all you need to transform a piece of canvas into a beautiful, durable floorcloth. Ellen guides you every step of the way, from choosing raw fabric to applying a protective finish to the completed Floorquilt. Lots of how-to photographs and inspiring examples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607053095
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Ellen Highsmith Silver Bio: Ellen Highsmith Silver invented Floorquilts to reconcile her love of having beautiful textiles on the floor with a household that includes two rug-chewing dogs. When she's not teaching at the Quilt Cottage in Mamaroneck, Ellen lives in Rye, New York.

Editorial Reviews

Floorquilting is a new fabric decoupage technique for making dazzling patchwork floor quilts by piecing fabric onto artist's canvas, sealing it, and applying protective coatings and nonskid backings to make an extremely durable floor covering. Living in a household with rug-chewing dogs, Silver came up with the idea of durable floor quilts as a substitute for conventional throw rugs. Twelve projects with step-by-step instructions are supplemented with a gallery of examples of other uses for the technique, including making place mats, coasters, luggage tags, and bookmarks. Quilters will find this a good way to use up fabric scraps while creating wearable art for their homes. An excellent choice for public library craft and quilting collections.

—Jan Zlendich

Library Journal