Download or read book Skydyes written by Mickey Lawler and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 1997-09-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran fiber artist shares the basics of fabric painting, including step-by-step instructions to master techniques, and a list of necessary supplies. For Mickey Lawler, the sky is never the limit! Mickey’s SKYDYES fabric is well known among quilters and fiber artists as the finest individually hand-painted cotton available. • Perfect for beginning fabric painters, as well as those who have dabbled with fabric paints • Straightforward instructions explain Mickey’s painting techniques • Easy-to-follow exercises show how to create skies, earth, seas, and gardens • Learn how to choose appropriate fabrics, paints, and applicators • Handy “Paint Color and Mixing Chart” • Includes an easy quilt project that uses fabrics you create in the exercises Praise for Skydyes “Skydyes takes an easygoing tutorial approach to teach quilters new aspects of their craft. Known for her beautiful hand-painted cotton fabrics, Lawler here teaches the art of fabric painting to those who would rather paint their own than buy custom-painted fabric. . . . An excellent choice.” —Library Journal

Download or read book Mickey Lawler s SkyQuilts written by Mickey Lawler and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create your own beautiful fabric landscapes • Master 12 different fabric painting techniques with detailed, step-by-step photos • Build your own stunning stash of fabrics with painted landscapes, water scenes, and dreamy skies • Learn Mickey's "design strip" technique to make dynamic quilts using large, uncut sections of your fabrics • Suitable for all skill levels; 3 projects included With Mickey Lawler, the best-selling author of SKYDYES, even beginners who have never picked up a brush can learn to paint striking scenes on fabric. She demonstrates how to paint every nuanced texture found in nature, from cloudy skies to rosy sunsets, blue water to green fields, and stone walls to wood grains. Includes a gallery of projects made with lush landscape fabrics that is sure to inspire.

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Download or read book Beautifully Embellished Landscapes written by Joyce Becker and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Ideas to Bring Your Landscape Quilts to Life! You won't believe the realistic effects you can achieve in your next landscape quilt! Amazing variety of techniques includes paints, markers, stamps, photo printing and artwork, threadwork and lace, sheer overlays and Angelina fibers, and so much more. Create realistic special effects for water, reflections, skies, snow, gardens, and buildings. Great ideas for landscape-inspired gifts including greeting cards, photo transfers, and small quilts. Spectacular results are within your reach, when you try the techniques developed by landscape expert Joyce Becker. Play like a kid in kindergarten: special paints, fibers, and tools are easy to find and fun to use. Over 200 photos and illustrations for inspiration, plus 8 complete projects.

Download or read book The Quilter s Catalog written by Meg Cox and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bee-all and End-all: The complete quilter's companion and essential resource, jam-packed with information, supplies, expert interviews, techniques, community, and inspiration. All the tools of the trade: rotary cutters, sewing machines, longarms, anddesign software; fabulous fabrics and where to find them; and if you're just starting out, everything that belongs in a quilting basket. The online world made manageable with a guide to the most useful blogs, websites, e-mail lists, free patterns, and podcasts. National and regional shows, guilds, and the best retreats and quilt museums. Batting parties, tutorials on fabric dying, and a breezy history of the quilt boom. Profiles of twenty top teachers-including television's Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, and Ruth B. McDowell, known for her bravura technique. This is a book to help every quilter deepen and grow-keep it as close by as your stash of fat quarters -Cover.

Download or read book Beautiful Landscape Quilts written by Joyce R. Becker and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can quilt stunning scenery—from brand new art quilters to veteran artists looking to learn new tricks and techniques! Explore methods for transferring photographs to fabric, utilizing panels, free-motion quilting, and binding or framing your wall quilts like a pro. The book includes a gallery of landscape quilts and 50 tips for success from Joyce Becker and other featured designers—from avoiding pitfalls to professional secrets. How-to photos and complete instructions will guide you along the way, along with a half-dozen projects to get you started.

Download or read book Beyond the Horizon written by Valerie Hearder and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn firsthand from this award-winning quilt artist how to make miniature fabric landscapes. Valerie is internationally known for her vibrant and expressive landscapes. Her love of fabric combined with free-form landscape design will spark your creativity. She introduces you to her unique method of cut and collage piecing with appliqué work and fabric embellishments. Step-by-step instructions and stunning examples help you discover your abilities as a designer of original creations. The landscapes are beautiful, inspiring, and fascinating - the ideal form for spontaneous, pattern-free composition.

Download or read book Luscious Landscapes written by Joyce R. Becker and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flying Colors written by Gail Garber and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tips and techniques for unleashing the designer within and creating your own original quilts. Let your imagination take flight! Gail Garber teaches you step-by-step techniques to create your own unique quilt designs, or to make any of the five bonus projects in this book. Draft shapes such as Flying Geese, triangles, and diamonds to fill strips of fabric that weave in and out of your design. Easy paper-piecing instructions help you make all your designs more accurate, from landscapes to radiating sunlight to flowing ribbons. Links to full-size foundation patterns are included, plus a gallery of quilts made by Gail and her students. Learn how to make intriguing quilts with techniques for using free-form strips and shapes to create dimension, illusion, and flow. There’s no limit to the designs you can invent!

Download or read book Radiant Landscapes written by Gloria Loughman and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, readers can discover how to add dramatic depth to their landscape applique quilts using easy-to-follow techniques from master quilter Gloria Loughman."

Download or read book Fabric Surface Design written by Cheryl Rezendes and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensational sewing projects demand fabulous fabrics! Fiber artist Cheryl Rezendes shows you how to create an astonishing array of surface designs, simply and safely, using textile paints and printing ink. She covers a wide variety of techniques: stamping, ancient Japanese Shibori, silkscreen, soy wax and flour resist, image transfer, marbling, nature printing, foils and metal leaf, and more. Step-by-step photographs illustrate every technique, and Rezendes includes innovative suggestions on how to combine and layer techniques for stunningly original results.

Download or read book The Art of Landscape Quilting written by Nancy Zieman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're in good company! 33 percent of quilters say landscape is their favorite quilt design, according to the latest Quilting in America survey. The Art of Landscape Quilting covers all aspects of designing and quilting landscape quilts through detailed instructions and concepts you will benefit from, regardless of your skill level. This one-stop resource for landscape quilting features 16 upscale step-by-step projects, and 20 partial projects; plus tips, tricks and techniques from the authors - including foremost sewing expert Nancy Zieman. With prints and supplies available at chains and independent shops, all you need is this book and your own creative sprit.

Download or read book Free Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano written by Judith Baker Montano and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiber artist and author of Crazy Quilting Odyssey shares her secrets for creating embroidered landscapes and seascapes in this illustrated guide. Beloved fiber artist and teacher Judith Baker Montano demonstrates how to beyond traditional embroidery in this new and comprehensive to free-form embroidery. In this book full of stunningly photographed examples and watercolor illustrations, she shows you how to apply the principles of fine art to various projects using fabrics, threads, and fibers. Judith explains how to use these materials with other embellishments to convey lifelike trees, flowers, ocean corals, and more with 60 stitches and 67 stitch combinations. She also demonstrates artistic embroidery techniques for building layers, creating dimension and perspective, and blending shapes. With techniques of free-form embroidery, you’ll be able to translate your favorite landscape or seascape photo into fiber art.

Download or read book Faces Places written by Charlotte Warr Andersen and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to create a quilt from a favorite photograph but didn't know how to begin? Capturing realistic details in fabric seems an elusive art, but Charlotte shows how to portray images in quilts using a layering technique that is easy to understand and easy to use. Now you can create images in fabric through the appliqué techniques and exercises discussed in this exciting new book. A photo sequence for each project guides the quilter through the process. The projects include landscapes and portraits, with step-by-step techniques to capture realistic detail.

Download or read book Radiant Landscapes written by Gloria Loughman and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “By playing with light and color, [Loughman] designs additional dimensions to quilted landscapes, thereby creating smashing results.” —Publishers Weekly Light not only catches the eye, it can transform your work into something truly magical. With four inspiring projects to get you started, world-renowned, award-winning quilt artist Gloria Loughman shows you how light can set a mood. You’ll get stunning results with her mosaic tile process for capturing the essence of natural light with your fabric selection. You’ll learn how to create your own landscape quilt with her easy-to-master techniques, including fusible tiling, invisible machine appliqué, free-motion stitching, plus fabric dyeing and painting. In addition, she shares important design principles behind perspective, composition, color, and focal points that add dramatic depth to your landscape appliqué quilts.

Download or read book Luminous Landscapes written by Gloria Loughman and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thread, Paint & Inspiration — the Sky’s the Limit! • Create unique and impressive landscape quilts from photos you take — includes tips on taking good pictures, how to combine elements of several photos into one design, and how to use color effectively • Yes, you can create stunning pictorial effects using step-by-step techniques! • Learn how to paint your own fabrics and create striking silhouettes Let your inner artist out! Capture the glory of a sunrise or sunset, the stark outline of a tree against the sky, the placid surface of the ocean. Gloria has assembled a repertoire of techniques to give all your pictorial quilts breathtaking impact, from working with photographs to painting fabric, creating silhouettes, constructing backgrounds, and embellishing with stitching. Try one of three projects, or use the techniques in your own designs.

Download or read book Collage Cloth Quilts written by Judi Warren Blaydon and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the techniques in this book to create an endless array of adventurous quilt designs inspired by your favorite photos. Discover simple ways to transform your photography into collage-inspired quilts that speak to your soul. You'll see your fabric stash in a whole new light!