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From a Quilter's Garden; A Fresh Crop of Applique Designs
From a Quilter's Garden A Fresh Crop of Applique Designs Author:Gabrielle Swain, Nancy J. Martin With the wealth of fabrics currently available (purchased or hand-dyed) and this author's excellent guidance, appliquecan reach new heights. Swain's contemporary style includes leaving predictably stylized blocks behind and moving toward asymmetrical settings, using bilateral symmetry combined with pieced elements. Dyed fabrics produce a... more » shaded look that is identifiable and painterly. This is painstaking, challenging work but it has huge rewards. The glory of the flower (and herbs, fruit, and vegetables) has no bounds!
Contents:
1. Fabric Selection. This chapter talks about fabric selection for background and features. It also talks about setting the fabric which I found interesting.
2. Building your quilt. A section on scale and design walls.
3. Gadgets and Necessities. This chapter talks about tools you will need for your project.
4. Technical Considerations. This section talks about weaves, fabric material, washing fabrics before the project.
5. Final preparations. This chapter covers a master plan, preparing background of your quilt, and window templates.
6. Needle Turn Appliqué. This chapter describes the authors favorite's technique for appliqué.
7. Special Techniques. Goes over reverse appliqué, technique for tiny round berries, using pens and paints and so forth.
8. Feature Blocks. This section goes into details about 8 fruit blocks, 8 vegetable blocks, 8 herb blocks. It finishes up talking about medallions and borders, which are large blocks that combine a number of garden elements. There 4 projects that demonstrate them.
9. Gallery. The gallery contains photographs a large number of beautiful completed quilts.
10. Quilt sets. The section discusses how to combine individual blocks in unique layout for form sets.
11. Block patterns. Detailed patterns for the projects in the book. To use them you need to enlarge them to a size needed by you on a copy machine.
12. Finishing techniques. A chapter on borders, quilting, binding.« less