You can never have too many timesaving techniques when it comes to quilting! With "90-minute Quilts'" clever tips and methods, quilters will discover just how easy it is to create stylish quilts. These time-tested techniques are demonstrated with a small quilt, while projects featuring traditional quilt motifs show a variation of patterns, techniques and fabric choices. In this book, quilters will discover designs and tips for creating a baby or larger lap quilt, plus options for creating a large quilt and small wall hangings and pillows. Special sections help quilters explore fabric selection and successfully teach techniques to aspiring quilters. Quilters will find 250 detailed colour photos and illustrations to reference while completing projects. Plus, this book includes a gallery of beautiful quilts to inspire quilters to see the possibilites 90 minutes holds.
Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author and educator who has been actively engaged in employing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing for the past three decades.
She is the author of the bestseller, 90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Quilt in an Afternoon (Krause, 2006), which she wrote as her "healing-through-creativity" response to 9-11. In it, she quips, "They don't call quilts 'comforters' for nothing!"
Trained in traditional drawing and painting by master of realism, Harold R. Stevenson, who was a student of Norman Rockwell, she was running her own art school when she took her first quilt class in 1982. Meryl Ann's passion for art and color was suddenly married to fiber and texture as she dove headlong into the world of quilting.
Back in those days, quilters still cut strips with scissors, as the rotary cutter had only been recently introduced. And she remembers the exhilaration she and her quilter friends felt when pin dot fabric was introduced in an exciting and radical new style: with colored dots instead of the standard white!
We've come a long way, baby!
Meryl Ann's fiber artwork has been featured in over 100 magazines and periodicals including Newsday, and a wide variety of trade publications.
Her quilted fiber art is in hundreds of collections around the world, including those of His Holiness, the late Swami Satchidananda, the Hon. Nelson Mandela, Cathy and Ed O'Neill, Dr. Caroline Myss, Dr. Barbara King, Dr. Norman Shealy, the Hon. and Mrs. Dennis Kucinich, Harpo Productions, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Productions, The Findhorn Community (Scotland), City Hall (Moss, Norway), The St. Petersburg Peace Committee (Russia), School 119 (Odessa, Ukraine) and the University of Peace in Costa Rica.
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(Photo taken with kind permission at Sarah's Thimble Quilt Shoppe, Virginia Beach, VA, 23451)
