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

Jane Davila (Author), Elin Waterston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2007

The hands-on workbook format guides motivated quilters through basic concepts and skills for developing the quilt artist within.

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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: 96 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing (March 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157120377X
• ISBN-13: 978-1571203779
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get inspired then get creating!, August 23, 2007

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J. M. Arden (NZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity (Paperback)

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.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small Book, Deep Well, January 9, 2008

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Kimberly A. Hambric "Fiber Artist and Home De... (central PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity (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.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New eyes for planning quilts, September 8, 2007

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Rosemary Martin "remanildra" (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity (Paperback)

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.