Brighten up any room with fun, contemporary, and functional projects exploding with sensational color! Fresh Quilting presents 21 brilliant designs featuring quilt artist Malka Dubrawsky’s intoxicating colors and unexpected palettes.
Learn to create beautiful and lively pieces for you and your home–from modern quilts and fun pillows to flirty bags and scarves. In addition to clear directions and step-by-step illustrations for machine-sewn patchwork and quilted projects, Fresh Quilting includes a detailed section of techniques from basic piecing, cutting, and measuring methods to more advanced techniques such as inserting zippers into pillow backs and using bias binding to finish a quilt. Throughout Fresh Quilting, Malka will teach you how to adventurously and confidently mix colors and prints. You’ll be inspired to infuse your own brilliant palettes into each project and discover just how irresistible and beautiful contemporary quilting can be!
Product Features
- IP-82351
- 9781596682351
- Brand New Item / Unopened Product
- Interweave Press
Taste Specific There are some unique and creative projects in this book; I especially liked the baby crib bumper that doubled as a fabric ABC’s book. The instructions are very clear and the author’s tone welcoming and cheerful.That said, I was a little surprised to find that only about a quarter of the patterns were actually for quilts. Pot holders, trivets, sewing machine covers, scarves and other miscellanea accounted most of the book. These are not bad, but perhaps not what everyone is looking…
Inspiring for all skill levels! Only one other time have I purchased a quilting/sewing book in which I immediately tagged a vast majority of projects as ones I want to make, either for myself or as gifts! I consider myself an intermediate quilter but these projects would be great for all skill levels. I LOVE the bright, fresh, modern aesthetic. Too many times I find books filled with beautiful pictures but nothing I want to actually make; it’s refreshing to find one that is both lovely to look at and has many projects I…
Inspiration for the rest of us I was once in a quilt in a very posh neighborhood of the city where I live and overheard the owner tell another customer, “Well, a lot of our customers have engineering backgrounds.” In our conversation later, she discouraged me from asking my wedding guests to provide quilt squares for a wedding quilt because, in her experience, they always turn out too messy.I was somewhat amazed at her complete lack of vision regarding the different styles of quilting out there. All of us come…