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Celebrate Kaleidoscope Quilts With the Master Kaleidoscope Artist • Career retrospective of Paula Nadelstern's awe-inspiring quilts is packed with photos, design insights, and tips for making your own kaleidoscope quilts • Huge gallery with photos and in-depth, behind-the-scenes commentary on 19 quilts • Chapters with detailed explanations of Paula's design strategies and construction methods The astonishing quilts that spring from Paula Nadelstern's passion for kaleidoscopes will change your view of what a quilt can be. This book highlights Paula's life work and shows how you can use her techniques to create your own unique fabric art.
Learn how to quilt today! Whether you want to make a functional quilt or one you can hang on a wall in your home for family and friends to admire, this book is the singular resource you need. Filled with step-by-step techniques ideal for beginners as well as aspirational designs for even the most experienced quilter, Everyday Quilting lives up to its name with patterns for all seasons. With more than 300 full-color photos, more than 20 projects, and expert quilting directions, this guide to quilting will help ensure you not only become a successful quilter but also become one that maintains a quilting practice. Even the tutorial pages offer inspiration to would-be and dedicated quilters, confirming your skills while also encouraging them. Everyday Quilting also includes these features: - Instructions for machine and hand sewing - Tips for selecting and preparing fabric - Basic and advanced sewing techniques - Appliqué techniques and tips - Detailed directions for making quilts
Inspired by the idea that quilts can honor and heal, the Quilts of Valor organization is committed to gifting quilts to service members and has awarded over 408,000 quilts to date. To celebrate their mission to "cover military touched by war," All-Star Quilts of Valor shares inspiring quilt patterns from well-known quilters, which you can use to craft your very own patriotic quilt. The second edition of this bestselling volume is revised to include updates about the quilts' impacts on veterans and 12 additional patterns. Plus, a new spiral binding (often requested by quilters) makes it even easier to use! Each quilt includes clear, easy cutting and assembly instructions, materials lists, and diagrams. This book will empower community groups, military family members, and quilters at any level to make patriotic quilts for special service members or to donate to honor a worthy Quilts of Valor recipient.
Kaleidoscope - the very word promises surprise and magic, chance and change. Exploding with visual excitement, a kaleidoscope design organizes an abundance of light, color, form, and motion into a complex and coherent image, capturing a moment of infinity. This book is jammed with how-to's and why-not's, process and product, and an abundance of text and photos that explains elements of design and technique for creating the multifaceted, luminous, and random nature of a kaleidoscope's interior on the flat surface of a quilt. The kaleidoscope configuration and its symmetrical repetition allows the quiltmaker to explore a variety of design possibilities using intricately printed fabric. With Paula as your guide, you will find that making kaleidoscope quilts is like making magic with fabric.
Presented on these exquisite pages are the most innovative quilts being designed today, all selected for the world-class 15th biennial international juried quilt exhibition. For 30 years, the exhibition--which travels throughout America--has served as a showcase for contemporary quilt artists who expand the boundaries of the craft. Large, spectacular color photographs and the artists’ commentary will fill home quilters with inspiration. All the pieces are genuine artworks meant for display, and they set the standard and serve as the model for other art quilts. Innovative and complex, they reveal themselves slowly and reward you with new insights each time you take another look. From computer-generated images to abstract patterns to human figures, these designs are rich in metaphors, stories, and historical tradition.
Covers every aspect of quilting for the group quilter from conception and design to care and storage.
The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to create a stunning snowflake quilt, including how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully. Paula's incredible quilts capture the delicate, three-dimensional effect of winter's snowflakes. Learn how to create the endless variations found in snowflakes using the techniques and materials of quilt making! • Full-size patterns for making 11 of the snowflake designs from Paula's quilts • Step-by-step instructions explain how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully • Paula reveals her strip-piecing techniques for "Power Stitching" • Learn methods for using your fabrics to create "Seemingly Seamless Seams" "Pau...
A dazzling collection of crib quilts created especially for a contest organized by the Musuem of American Folk Art, New York City, in conjunction with the Great American Quilt Festival. 64 color plates.
A Puzzle Quilt is a Sampler with a Secret! • Finally...Paula Nadelstern's signature look in blocks any quilter can create • Choose special fabrics to create a variety of effects • The PUZZLE is in the PAIRS-identically pieced blocks look amazingly different! Everyone loves Paula's complex, optically challenging quilts. Now, Paula strips construction down to the bare bones, so you can focus on fabric selection, then use special techniques like symmetry, mirroring, and seam blending to create stunning, exciting designs. The six blocks are featured in a sampler, or combine them with your own ideas to create unlimited projects.
Boxed set of 12, 6 round notecards with images of Paula Nadelstern's quilts. 4 designs, 3 of each.