Patchwork und Quilten

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The stitch and flip technique is an easy way to build a quilt design. By sewing fabric strips onto a muslin foundation, flipping them at the seam line, and adding more strips over the raw edges, quilters with even limited experience can achieve dynamic creations without the painstaking labor of piecework. Valori Wells's bold sense of color and freewheeling approach to design yields eye-catching quilts that are delightful twists on more traditional patterns. (The Moon Phases quilt is particularly striking, a monochromatic symphony of blacks and grays that provides a nice lesson on understanding color value.) Good directions and excellent color photos make for an appealing presentation. --Amy Handy

Synopsis
A manual on the traditional technique of stitch and flip quiltmaking, designed for everyone from beginners to seasoned quiltmakers. It features 14 projects, including quilts, pillows, placemats and a table runner, with step-by-step colour photographs. There is advice on fabric selection and tips to alert the reader to different design possibilities.

The Victorian crazy quilt typically made with velvets and silks and then enhanced with elaborate stitches and embellishments has been ably taken over and personalized by Leone. She has brought this type of quilt into the 1990s by the creation of innovative story blocks. Using today's bounteous prints, which include nostalgic, historical retro motifs, many designed specifically for today's quilter, there are endless possibilities for making theme quilts. Concepts and themes depicted include weddings, animals, music, hobbies, religion, friendship, and even Elvis! A chapter titled "Fun for Kids" will stimulate classroom use. A useful book for the craft that has become more popular than knitting.

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Schon der Quilt auf dem Einband ist sehr ansprechend und das Buch nicht weniger. Jeder der vorgestellten Quilts ist wunderschön. Großartige Ideen - einfach beschrieben und einfach nachzuarbeiten. Na ja, ein bißchen aufpassen muß man allerdings schon, dass einem die Stapel nicht durcheinandergeraten - aber auch hierfür gibt es ein Trick. Die vorgestellten Ideen lassen sich einfach auch auf andere Projekte übertragen - ich habe mich zu einer Randgestaltung mit Crazy-Quadraten bei einem Themenquilt hinreißen lassen und bin begeistert von dem Ergebnis. Durch die beschriebene Technik - die einfach nachzuarbeiten ist - wird wirklich jeder selbst erstellte Quilt ein Unikat. Ich würde dieses Buch jederzeit wiederkaufen.

A selection of 14 paper-pieced quilt designs by Valori Wells, who walks readers through every step of the paper-pieced quilt-making process. The projects range from precise traditional blocks to freewheeling contemporary designs. Valori takes readers beyond the basics, demonstrating more complex techniques like asymmetrical designs, rectangular blocks and extended points. There are complete patterns as well as instructions for drafting one's own designs.

A complete A-Z resource for the quilter - over 100 traditional favourite quilts to make with step-by-step instructions with updated, labour-saving techniques. Beautifully illustrated throughout with projects ranging from Amethyst to Whig Rose, from Evening Star to Flying Geese, and many traditional influences from Amish to Irish. * Patchwork and quilting is a craft as old as history, but it found its apogee amongst the settlers in the New World, and is now considered to be a particularly American artform. * In full colour throughout: each project is illustrated in a full colour photographs and in a series of step-by-step colour drawings and patterns. * Step-by-step instructions, labour-saving techniques, plus an extensive how-to workshop and clear patchwork and applique designs.

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Subtitled A Treasury of Patterns for Patchwork & Appliqué, this comprehensive book is just that--250 pages of pattern-block diagrams accompanied by concise construction directions and small color photos of the made-up blocks in well-chosen colors. In addition, a prelimary chapter gives instructions for about 15 projects, and a tips and techniques section outlines the basics for making the blocks and the projects. Whether your tastes run to the more traditional (nine-patch, star, basket, or pineapple variations, among many others) or the more experimental (appliquéd orchids, cacti, or heraldic designs, for example), you're likely to find something of interest here.

Synopsis
Features 501 pieced and appliqued quilt blocks, easily customised for unique, personalised themes. 40 step-by-step projects for using blocks in the form of wearables, personal accessories, and home and seasonal decorations. Illustrated with more than 500 full-colour photos and 600 line drawings. Contains extensive ideas -- from tea cozies and pillows to clothing and full-size quilts.

40 Fabulous Quick-Cut Quilts

Show Me How to Paper Piece is like having best-selling author and super teacher Carol Doak for your own personal tutor. As Carol leads you through each step-by-step photograph, youÕll learn to paper piece with ease and then make a small wall quilt to show off to your family and friends. Paper foundations for one small quilt (and extras for practice) are included.

Create a menagerie of quilted critters using special foundation-pieced block designs from the author of Go Wild with Quilts and Go Wild with Quilts - Again! With foundation piecing, you can stitch even the tiniest pieces of these 4" x 4" bird and animal blocks with ease and accuracy. Simply trace a design onto your foundation, add oversized pieces of fabric, and sew on the straight lines with your machine!
Combine any number of blocks to make small or large theme quilts or piece your blocks onto clothing and other projects. Complete instructions, patterns for five quilts, and a special ark block are included.

Unlike traditional quilts in which the color scheme is the key element, watercolor quilts, often mood pieces intended to be hung on a wall, are constructed with more attention to the fabric design and to color values than to the actual hues used. Manipulating small squares of fabric into a flowing design--a "wash of color," so to speak--takes not only patience, but good design sense and thorough planning. In this remarkable, unusual book, Magaret and Slusser explain how it's done--including advice on everything from choosing appropriate fabric designs to stitching and binding--using lots of color photographs to ease crafters through the basics as well as to provide them with some specific projects and a gallery of gorgeous design possibilities. A book that calls out loudly to the artist lurking in every handicrafter.

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Na, wenn da nicht für jeden etwas bei ist...?!

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Original von Ikarus

@Chantal: hast Du einen Buchladen o.ä., dass Du soviel Bücher in bezug auf kreative Hobbys hier vorstellst?

Danke
Ikarus

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