Laced with motion, luminosity, and secondary designs, Karen's quilts offer a delightful sensory experience. Foliage, blooms, shape, shadow and light are wonderful tools for playing optical tricks with flowers. Over a dozen quilt projects contain blocks that have their roots in traditional design, but with blooms that nod toward a contemporary toward a contemporary sky. Enjoy numerous block settings with each project and easy-to-read charts to make quick work of cutting and placement. A super-easy paper piecing technique is included.
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Karen Combs is known for her pieced quilt designs, and especially her "Quilts of Illusion." Her designs encourage quilters to explore visual tricks like transparency, motion and depth. Karen is a frequent contributor to the quilting magazines, and is much in demand as a teacher who makes design concepts such as color easy and fun, even for artistically intimidated quilters. Karen is the author of "Optical Illusions for Quilters" and "Combing Through Your Scraps." "Floral Illusions is Karen's third book with the American Quilter's Society.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Packed full of visual treats,
This review is from: Floral Illusions for Quilters (Paperback)
Karen has designed some lovely quilts using unusual pieced floral blocks. Many of the quilts offer alternative settings as well as showing how much more interesting a quilt can be with proper use of values to add depth. Each quilt is accompanied by beautiful photographs of gardens from all over the US and also with little bits of appropriate poetry - just enough to make me smile and remember literature class! If paper piecing is your thing, this will keep you busy for a long time.
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This review is from: Floral Illusions for Quilters (Paperback)
Karen is the leader in creating quilts of illusions. This is great book for both novice and the experienced quilters.
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Don't let the cover illustration fool you. These quilts are easier to construct than they appear. Good instructions, lot's of illustrations to get you on your way. A great resource for the price.
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