Celebrate the first 10 years of the groundbreaking Quilting Arts magazine with The Best of Quilting Arts, a collection of the best articles, projects, and techniques.
Pokey Bolton, founder of Quilting Arts magazine, has compiled the most popular articles that have inspired quilters and artists alike to move beyond the basics of art quilting and re-explore machine and hand stitching, fabric embellishment, surface design, and more.
Inside you’ll find:Quilt art techniques from fabric collage and applique to resist dyeing, stamping, and foiling.Machine-stitching and thread-painting tips and tutorials from award-winning art quilters.Ideas and advice for the professional quilt artist.An array of binding and stitching techniques to make your art quilt stand out.Methods for making realistic representational art quilts, including portraits of pets and people. Whether you’re making your first art quilt or are a seasoned quilt artist eager to enhance your designs, you’ll find endless instruction and inspiration in The Best of Quilting Arts.
Some useful articles This book is a collection of short process articles reprinted from Quilting Arts. It is very handy to have them all in one place where they can easily be found. If you read and save all your copies of Quilting Arts this is not an essential book, but I do recommend it to those who would otherwise not have this information ready at hand.
Great for art quilters If you like Quilting Arts Magazine, this is a great book for you. It seems like a repeat of projects from the magazine; I am not a subscriber of the magazine, but the projects seem familiar from issues I have seen over the years. I was drawn to many of the book’s manipulation of fabric, including instructions for mosaic quilts, interesting finishes and bindings (such as using ribbon), resist dying and discharging fabric, mono printing, and more. Not everything is my cup of tea, but overall I…
Very Informative There is so much and varied information in this book that you can only read a few articles and then you have to put it down and let the information sink in. It is a great starting point for many quilting methods. It will make you want to try it all.