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The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously
The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters A Guide to Creating Quilting and Living Courageously Author:Sherri Lynn Wood Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, Sherri Lynn Wood presents a spontaneous approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms. Instead of traditional instructions, she presents 10 frameworks (or scores) that create a guiding, but not limiting, structure. To help quilters gain con... more »fidence, Wood also offers detailed lessons for stitching techniques key to improvisation, design and spontaneity exercises, and lessons on color. Every quilt made from one of Wood?s scores will have common threads, but each one will look different because it reflects the maker?s unique interpretation. Featured throughout the book are Wood?s own quilts and a gallery of contributor works chosen from among the hundreds submitted when she invited volunteers to test her scores during the making of this groundbreaking work.« less