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Japanese Quilt Inspirations

A practical guide to combining Japanese fabrics and traditional Oriental style with fast, super-easy techniques. Each of the ten quilts is made up in two different colorways for maximum inspiration, and shown both as hand and machine quilted designs. As an added bonus, there are five simple-to-make home-style projects for using up leftover quilt blocks. Japanese patchwork style is incredibly versatile, and the finished projects will work well in both the most modern interiors as well as rustic cottages.

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Inspirations in Design for the Creative Quilter: Exercises Take Your from Still Life to Art Quilt

Learn 10 different techniques for creating stunning still-life inspired art quilts with this easy-to-follow book. As a best-selling author and teacher, Katie draws on her two passions – art studies and art quilts – to create abstract quilts that are inspired by still life compositions. “Inspirations in Design” teaches readers how to assemble a still life arrangement from favourite items at home and transform it into an art quilt. Even if you’ve never considered yourself to be an artist, With Katie by your side, you will become one.

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Quilt Improv: Incredible Quilts from Everyday Inspirations

Take inspiration from simple objects to create 12 beautiful, contemporary quilt blocks. Create original quilts from each block design and adapt them to your own style. Learn how to interpret print, pattern and shapes into unique quilting ideas and experiment with a range of innovative techniques for impressive, professional results. Covers techniques such as square piecing, basket weave, half-square triangles, chevrons, quarter circles and portholes.

Contents:
How to use this book
Block instructions
Quilt projects
Techniques

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Mark Making: Fresh Inspiration for Quilt and Fiber Artists

Discover how the simplest marks–stitched lines and knots–can be used to create graphically compelling art! In Mark Making, art quilter Helen Parrott, known for her strongly graphic and landscape-inspired textile art, demonstrates how marks can be used in textile work and explains the crossover between stitch and drawing.

This fascinating book is divided into the different types of marks or lines that can be made on fabric varying in complexity, arrangement, and ‘feel’.

You’ll also learn techniques in both hand and machine stitching, which offer limitless potential for surface effect. Mark Making aims to help you take inspiration from the world around you to create marks, develop your own mark-making skills, and strengthen your personal creative voice! This is an essential book for any textile artist.

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Hawaiian Quilt Inspirations: A Journal of Life

October 2009 First Printing in Softcover of this classic by Patricia Lei Murray. This book is a collection of unique quilts and the stories that inspired their creation. It is a book to treasure and to share. In it she reveals a golden thread that bind Hawaiian thinking and values for living. She honors the early quilters who create quilts not only for warmth and art but for the joy simply giving them away.

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