Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting: Surface Design * Patchwork* Appliqu * Quilting * Embellishing * Finishing

by Linda Seward, Tom Messenger (Illustrator)

Overview

Accessible, beautiful, and lavishly illustrated, this ultimate guide goes step-by-step through every creative option needed to create an art quilt. From the essentials, like enlarging and transferring patterns, to surface design techniques that add texture and color, to piecing, machine stitching, appliqué, finishing, and embellishing, this has it all. Galleries of stunning art quilts from around the world provide extra inspiration. 
 
More than 1,000 illustrations! 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936096718
Publisher:	Sixth & Spring Books
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Linda Seward is an experienced quilter, writer, and quilt judge. She has written 12  quilting books, including The Complete Book of Patchwork, Quilting, and Appliqué (Firefly Books), which has sold over 250,000 copies in several languages. Linda has appeared on television and radio, and has judged numerous quilt shows around the world. She has had a regular column in The Quilter magazine for more than 10 years, and also writes for other magazines.

Editorial Reviews

★ 07/07/2014
In this encyclopedic work, Seward (The Art Quilt Collection) does not spend time on simple basics of quilt-making nor on complicated details of processes like computer-generated embroidery but interestingly covers a myriad of techniques and styles, all generously photographed. After a bland introduction to art quilts, Chapter 2 covers "The Basics and Beyond"; "beyond" includes felting, "upcycling" and—an inspired addition—exercising. Seward guides quilters through surface design in the longest section (dyeing, applying color, foiling, rusting, etc.), then through chapters on patchwork, appliqué, quilting, "Embellishments and 3D," and finishing. Each of these topics is preceded by examples of art quilts from around the world (Brazil, U.K., U.S., Korea, and others) with fully descriptive cutlines about techniques and artists' goals. Within each chapter, the how-to pages, set in blocks of information like a paper quilt, employ graphics – more than 1,000 in total – that are both colorful and instructive. (July)

Publishers Weekly