Watercolor Quilts
Patricia Maixner Magaret and Donna Ingram Slusser
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If you've ever dreamed of being an Impressionist like Monet, or of capturing nature's beauty, light and luminosity in your quilts, this is the book for you. Easy-to-follow directions are included on how to build a fabric collection and use value and color to create an original watercolor quilt, no matter what your skill level or experience. Design your own project or use one of the six easy quilt patterns included in the book.
112 pages; 95 color photos; $24.95. Available at your local quilt shop, bookstores, or visit How to Order.
Visit the Watercolor Quilts mini-Exhibit to see some quilts from this book.
Table of Contents
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- Forward
- Preface
Introduction
What's Ahead
Tools of the Trade
Fabric Selection
- Color and It's Properties
- Print Design Elements
- Surface Texture or Design
- Organizing Your Personal Fabric Library
- Expanding Your Fabric Library
- Fabric Preparation
Cutting and Sorting Fabric Squares
- Cutting
- Sorting
Planning and Creating Your Quilt
- First, Make a Road Map
- Take the Trip of a Life Time
Today, I Sew
- Four Rules for Watercolor Quilt Top Assembly
- Read, Set, Stitch
- Don't Be Pressed for Time
- Other Journeys -- Planning Your Next One
A Fine Finish
- Frame It!
- Back It!
- Quilt It!
- Sign It!
- Show It Off!
Watercolor Quilt Plans
- Braidings
- Lattice Rejoice!
- Welcome
- Hold Your Heads Up High
- Dawn's Early Light
- Window Box
Gallery of Quilts
Basic Quiltmaking Techniques
- Accurate Seaming
- Chain Piecing
- Making Half-Square Triangle Units
- Appliquè
- Adding Borders
- Quilting
- Binding Your Quilt
- Adding a Hanging Sleeve
- Labeling Your Work
- Sources
- Bibliography
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