Download or read book DVD Thread Portraits Complete Iquilt Class written by Teri Henderson Tope and published by American Quilter's Society. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to make stunning quilted portraits of family, friends, or pets from favorite photographs - using straight-line stitching! Turn photographs into quilted portrait masterpieces with instructor Teri Henderson Tope. Using nearly all straight lines, create a work of art to give as a gift or to keep as a special memory quilt. Learn how to add highlights and curves with ease. Create borders and details to enhance your project. Beginning as well as experienced quilters will achieve success with Teri's easy to understand, step-by-step approach as she shares how to bring your quilted portrait to life. Turn those fading photographs into touching and beautiful portrait quilts that will last a lifetime with this amazing class. Thread Portraits DVD is the perfect solution for taking the class without having a computer, it makes a wonderful gift, and it is great to have on hand as a hard copy-even if you have taken or plan to take the online class. Run Time: 125 minutes

Download or read book Renegade Thread Play written by Melinda Bula and published by American Quilter's Society. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add delicious color and depth to your quilts with Melinda Bula's Renegade Thread Play! Renegade Thread Play is a fun and easy way to sketch and blend colors with thread. It's a great way to add shading and highlights. The end result is a wonderfully layered look that gives amazing depth to your quilting. Those who are new to free-motion quilting and experienced quilters alike will learn many helpful tips from Melinda Bula who has won numerous awards using this striking technique. Build your skills on a practice quilt sandwich and then make your own contest-worthy quilt with the free pattern included with the class. Renegade Thread Play DVD is the perfect solution for taking the class without having a computer, it makes a wonderful gift, and it is great to have on hand as a hard copy-even if you have taken or plan to take the online class. Run Time: 117 minutes

Download or read book DVD Fabulous Flower Photo Quilts Complete Iquilt Class written by Melinda Bula and published by American Quilter's Society. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning quilter Melinda Bula teaches you how to turn your photographs of flowers into quilted works of art. Your lovely flower photograph becomes a fiber masterpiece as Melinda guides you through the process of choosing the best photograph, making a pattern, and choosing a color palette. Select fabrics that work best with your image, then fuse, make petals, and assemble the complete flower. From foreground to background, Melinda gives practical tips and encouragement along the way. She even demonstrates her Renegade Thread Play, showing how to best quilt the project. Melinda's goal is to show how to think like an artist and sums it up best by saying, 'Perfection and creativity do not go together, so go out there and be creative!' Fabulous Flower Photo Quilts DVD is the perfect solution for taking the class without having a computer, it makes a wonderful gift, and it is great to have on hand as a hard copy-even if you have taken or plan to take the online class. Run Time: 120 minutes

Download or read book Thread Stories written by Jennifer Day and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell captivating stories in fabric and thread! Acclaimed quilting artist Jennifer Day invites you to create realistic portrait quilts with thread painting. Turn your own photos of people and animals into one-of-a-kind story quilts, as you learn to masterfully stitch in the details. This step-by-step visual guide takes you from photo selection to editing, printing on fabric, thread painting, and free-motion quilting. With just a home sewing machine, quilters of all experience levels can capture and quilt life’s precious memories.

Download or read book Mastering the Art of Mctavishing written by Karen McTavish and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded and completely revised, this book is the perfect companion for longarm, sit-down, or hand quilters to add a simple but beautiful background filler to their quilting repertoire. Dubbed "McTavishing" after its creator, it has become the most popular new design concept in quilting today. As shown in the extensively illustrated projects, McTavishing may be added to any quilt or garment, from wholecloth to contemporary art quilts, and done by hand, domestic machine, or longarm technique. The book's how-to chapters demonstrate the uses of the McTavishing stitch--as an addition to an open quilt block, in a border, to highlight complex applique, to custom tailor a favorite garment, or as part of a larger overall design--while the accompanying DVDs provide lessons from the author. Accompanied by interviews with accomplished hand and domestic machine quilters, this guide offers readers an unparalleled view of the exciting new quilting process. This edition boasts revised how-to chapters, new graphics, new text, and a simpler teaching method. Additional pages feature new quilts and quilters as well as a new section on modern quilting styles.

Download or read book Translate Photos to Fabric Art written by Leni Levenson Wiener and published by American Quilter's Society. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn photos into fabulous fabric art with this step-by-step class from Leni Wiener. Turn your favorite photographs into fabric works of art with this class from Leni Wiener. Using a still life photograph, work alongside Leni to break the picture into sections, make a pattern, and choose just the right fabrics for each of the sections and the background. Leni shows many of her own quilts and examples of why some fabrics work while others do not. Use her freezer paper method and see how your piece comes together like a puzzle with all the pieces fitting together. See options for constructing your project with or without batting. You can finish it as a quilt or as an art piece with her special pillowcase treatment that allows for easy turning once the stitching is complete. Leni shows how to use her technique with portraits and more complicated images also so you can select photographs you love and use them to make stunning art quilts of your own. Translate Photos Into Fabric Art DVD is the perfect solution for taking the class without having a computer, makes a wonderful gift, and is great to have on hand as a hard copy-even if you have taken or plan to take the online class. Run Time: 94 minutes

Download or read book Stack n Whack written by Bethany S. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Landscape Quilts written by Nancy Zieman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making gorgeous landscape quilts is easy with these step-by-step instructions.

Download or read book Couture Sewing Techniques written by Claire B. Shaeffer and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion historian Shaeffer opened the door to the exclusive realm of haute couture in her authoritative guide to the techniques that define couture sewing. And now, "Couture Sewing Techniques," has been revised and updated throughout. Full color.

Download or read book Pictorial Art Quilt Guidebook written by Leni Levenson Wiener and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn photos into fabulous fabric art collages You’ll be surprised how easy it is to transform a photo into gallery-worthy fabric art with Leni Wiener’s simple methods. Leni walks you step by step through choosing the right fabrics; creating patterns with free software; depicting common elements, such as grass, trees, water, and faces; layering and sewing your collages; and finishing your work for display. Loaded with inspiring photos, this guide is a virtual art class in a book. • Complete patterns and instructions for two quilts help get you started • Use the included Art Quilter’s Value Scale to choose the perfect fabrics for your quilts

Download or read book Photo Inspired Art Quilts written by Leni Levenson Wiener and published by Krause Publications. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art quilt is a unique and original work of art done in fabric, layered with batting and backed just like a traditional quilt. Most often, they are made to hang on a wall as decoration. In this book, learn how to identify an appropriate photo for an art quilt, how to translate that photo into a fabric collage, and how to accent and/or embellish it using thread painting, raw-edge machine appliqué and fabric collage. A bonus DVD hosted by Nancy Zieman compliments the instruction featured in the book.

Download or read book Trish Burr s Embroidery Transfers written by Trish Burr and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastic resource book contains over 70 of Trish Burr's fabulous embroidery designs on easy-to-use iron-on transfer paper. This fantastic resource book contains over 70 iron-on designs from world-renowned embroiderer Trish Burr's best-selling embroidery books, plus 6 new bonus designs. Project instructions for each design are available in Trish's inspirational books Needle Painting Embroidery, Colour Confidence in Embroidery, Miniature Needle Painting Embroidery and Whitework with Colour. Choose from a wonderful range of inspiring designs, including flowers, birds, figures, animals and small vignettes. The book contains a short section at the start which gives colour inspiration for every design plus advice on using the transfers; the rest of the book consists of iron-on transfer paper. Using the iron-on transfers is very simple, and each design can be used, stored then reused multiple times. This book gives embroiderers a bumper selection of designs to choose from - it will provide embroiderers of all abilities with the confidence they need to get started creating their own masterpieces.

Download or read book Cutting Garden Quilts written by Melinda Bula and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 how-to patterns, plus photo gallery, feature rose, pansies, coneflowers, and apples

Download or read book Altered Photo Artistry written by and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Threads Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Download or read book TLA Video DVD Guide 2005 written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 edition of the annual critical guide that focuses on independent and international films as well as the best in the mainstream contains reviews for more than 10,000 films, more than 300 photos, a comprehensive selection of cinema from more than 50 countries, and much more.