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Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity [Paperback]

Jane Davila , Elin Waterston
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

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Book Description

March 1, 2007
This is the do-it-all guide to putting the art in arts quilts! Develop the quilt artist in you. Explore fabric collage, thread painting, innovative piecing, and photo imagery on fabric. Learn about the business side of creating, exhibiting and marketing your quilts. Take your art quilts to new levels with Jane and Elin guiding the way. Do the lessons and the homework, check out all the beautiful gallery quilts for inspiration, and find lots of resources for further study.

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About the Author

Jane Davila began her professional art career as a printmaker specializing in etchings and intaglios. Her prints are to be found in many private and coprporate collections. Elin Waterston has a background is costume design and works with mixed media such as painting, dyeing, and manipulating fabrics.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 95 pages
  • Publisher: C&T Publishing (March 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 157120377X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1571203779
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.3 x 11 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #402,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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76 of 77 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Get inspired then get creating! August 23, 2007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is the text of a 10 week course the authors
teach on art quilts. After an initial look at the various
components of design, the course builds up through design
elements, construction techniques and embellishments. It is
simply superb. Each chapter has plenty of examples, plus three
exercises on the technique discussed. In addition there
are links to quilt artists of that genre and names of painters
to study for design as well. It leads the reader to think,
question and play, while working on a series of journal size
quilts. If you follow the entire course you will have
about 10 page-size quilts at the end. You could dip and dive
through the book, but it is designed to be worked through
from the beginning.

I am so inspired by this book that I am working through it with
a couple of quilt buddies. The appeal for me is gaining confidence,
developing my own style, and making small projects that don't have
to be perfect to have achieved their aim.
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Small Book, Deep Well January 9, 2008
Format:Paperback
I have been an art quilter for almost 10 years. I've done large ones, complicated ones, teeny ones, played with thread, beads, fusibles. I still have plenty to learn.

This book has plenty of ideas, yet is not overwhelming in the least. The majority of examples and the exercises are 9 x 12", a manageable size for anyone. The book opens with a brief description of design principles. Yes, I know, entire books have been written on this subject. Yet, for this book, it is enough. You are encouraged to have fun and play. The authors are like friends who are with you when you are quilting.

Each chapter has references at the end, consisting of collage and fiber artists who employ the techniques mentioned, books to read, famous artists to study and inspirational exercises. I feel the authors did not write this book to show how talented they are or how superior they are. They want to share the fun of art quilting.

Some quilting books I read intimidate me. This book does not. It inspires me to be creative. If I take a five-minute break in my studio, I find myself looking at this book almost every time.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars New eyes for planning quilts September 8, 2007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This stepped introduction to thinking differently from cutting squares of carefully chosen fabrics is written in a warm and encouraging style. The use of colour illustrates and enhances the text, which has a brief but stimulating chapter on design, next on colour linked with perspective, then on "Art" quilt techniques from use of photographs, added items sewing techniques and more, each chapter ending with ideas to put into practice so that there is an experience of the theory. I am using it towards developing a method of conveying what I feel about a striking tree in my garden into a stunning quilt.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Art Quilt Workbook
My friend lent me this book. I loved it so much that I had to order a copy for myself.
Published 2 months ago by OKOK
5.0 out of 5 stars doing my homework
Our sewing group is using this as the 2013 guide for our stitching projects. There is "homework" at each chapter's end.... Read more
Published 3 months ago by B. J. Wright
5.0 out of 5 stars Well thought out building blocks
I am new to art quilting and although I love the look of lots of different artists work, I had no idea how to do it or where to start. This book is very good for that. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Drifting in pages
1.0 out of 5 stars Title is completely misleading
If your idea of a "workbook" with "exercises" is book that has detailed, step-by-step projects that you can complete while learning techniques, you won't find this book helpful at... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Larry E. Lutz
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
I enjoy quilting and found this book an inspiration to stretch my imagination to trying art quilts. In presenting basic art concepts, it will be helpful for any quilt project I... Read more
Published 13 months ago by mary
5.0 out of 5 stars great product
Great product, fast delivery, this book will be given to a friend, who will enjoy the wonderful new technique, and discovering new things to do
Published 17 months ago by Linda R. Roberts
5.0 out of 5 stars Creativity Exploding
This book has fired my imagination. It also describes supplies and is otherwise detailed so the reader can make an art quilt. Read more
Published on April 5, 2010 by C. D'Amico
3.0 out of 5 stars art Quilt Workbook
Basically I knew from previous experiences most of the information in the book possible a more advanced design concept would have been more helpful, for a beginner art quilterthis... Read more
Published on November 29, 2009 by K. A. Burford
5.0 out of 5 stars Art Quilt Workbook got me working again
I was getting rave reviews with my landscape quilts - but I was not satisfied. I wanted to move in the art direction rather than the quilting direction. Read more
Published on May 27, 2009 by Angela Meister
5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT
Excellent book for the experienced or novice art quilter. many different techniques detailed. highly recommended.
Published on January 11, 2009 by Carol Hesketh
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