Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Dynamic Art Quilts [Paperback]

Katie Pasquini Masopust (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2008

Bring out your inner artist-explore 10 approaches to designing art quilts. Techniques work for everyone, beginner or advanced.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Katie's exercises in mastering the basic elements and principals of art to create a successful composition will start you off on your fabric art journey, armed with the information and skills you will need. Her approach to design is well explained and illustrated and she includes her methods of sewing and finishing your quilts after the design stage has been completed. (Machine Quilting, 9/1/10 )

About the Author

Katie Masopust is an award-winning quilter and renowned quilting teacher.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing; Revised edition (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571204555
• ISBN-13: 978-1571204554
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #668,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I grew up in Northern California and have lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 20 years. I became an artist at a very young age, in High School my medium was oils and I had a lot of fun with all of the texture that oils offer. I now enjoy the textures of the many different kinds of cloth that I use. I am an art quilter and have written 8 books on art quilt design. I like to encourage personal growth in my classes and in my books. I want people to use my ideas to develop their own style and to succeed in creating great works of art.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Always the best, December 9, 2008

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J. G. Sebastian "JGSebastian" (CapeCod, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Dynamic Art Quilts (Paperback)

I take classes from Katie, buy all her books and her dvd, love her work and can tell you this book is the best yet. Chock full of detailed information on how she creates not one, but all methods of her art quilts. Katie takes you from the first step, how to find an idea, to the finished product in detailed explanations and pictures. She explains how to create different type of art quilts from your own photos, paintings, or sketches. From start to finish she shows, in easy to follow photos, how to design and actually construct the quilt in several methods. A must have primer for the beginning quilter who is ready to branch out, as well as the experienced art quilter who wants to try different techniques. I highly recommend this book as a reference tool that will have you re-reading it over and over for techniques as well as inspiration.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, useful, & beautiful quilts to Inspire, February 3, 2009

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Kimberly Wulfert (Ojai, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Dynamic Art Quilts (Paperback)

The text Katie writes is focused on her own thinking processes of analysis and alternatives as she plans a quilt from finding the initial concept to the various ways you can turn your idea or photo into a one-dimensional design. She includes her methods known as ghost layers, fractured landscape and the painterly painterly approach. Katie presents a great deal of information in such a way that anyone could follow her method or use it as a reference for idea generation and color and design compositions.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter, April 11, 2009

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Judie Bellingham (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Dynamic Art Quilts (Paperback)

When I tell my husband that "I'll be in my cave with Katie", he knows exactly what I'm up to. My cave is my quilting studio and the Katie I refer to is Katie Pasquini Masopust, one of the worlds most dynamic and vibrant quilters.

I've got to know Katie through her previous publication Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter which she wrote together with Brett Barker. So when her latest publication titled Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter came under my radar, I had to have a look and see whether she has been able to bring to the viewer the same freshness and easy to understand concepts of designing within quiltmaking, in this new publication. Well, I must tell you that not only has Katie achieved to continue her patient explanation of her ideas, but the illustrations and photographs speak clearly for themselves.

This book is like a very good bottle of red wine. It needs to be opened, sampled, then left stand for a while, whilst the reader absorbs each delicious page of concept, theory and details.

The first few chapters of this incredible publication gives a review of the principles and elements of design and then in the further thirty odd pages, Katie explores shapes, lines, details, repetition, Blind painting and watercolour painting. Is your mouth watering yet?

And as if that's not enough, Katie then takes the reader through the process of Design through to Pattern. As with other Pasquini Mosopust publications, a number of vignettes are included, to explain elements that are mentioned in the text. For instance, Enlarging your Design is explained extremely well, including a very clear explanation of the use of the Proportional Scale Wheel that many quilters have purchased, and may be (like me), not completely understood how to use.

C&T Publishing, Inc is continuing to bring to quilters all over the world the most comprehensive range of expert craftspeople who are able to communicate extremely effectively their passion for quilting and pass on to readers their approach, style and method that enables them to achieve the creation of phenomenal quilts. I happily recommend this publication Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter to quilters, where ever they might be traveling in their journey of quilting.