Product Description

PICTURE YOUR WORLD IN APPLIQUE shows crafters how to take the memories and images they want to preserve and turn them into beautiful appliqued pictures that will last a lifetime - and beyond. Author Margaret Cusack is renowned for her powerful, colourful portraits and illustrations, all created with machine-stitched applique. For the first time, she shares her techniques for creating realistic, often nostalgic pictures that capture a moment in time, a magnificent landscape, or a beloved face. From gathering tools and supplies, to choosing, cutting, and assembling fabrics in a composition, to adding finishing touches such as stitching or quilting, PICTURE YOUR WORLD IN APPLIQUE shows exactly how to create richly evocative works of art that will be cherished for generations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #460299 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Released on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780823016419
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Margaret Cusack has created applique illustrations for many clients, including American Express, Time, AT&T, Avon, Seagram's, and Texaco. In 2001, she designed a stamp for the United States Postal Service. She has won many awards for her work, including an Emmy, and exhibited in numerous museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the American Craft Museum.

Customer Reviews

A guide to creating machine-stitched applique from realistic scenes
Creating still lifes in quilts is becoming more recognized as a fine quilt art and Margaret Cusack's Picture Your World In Applique: Creating Unique Images With Fabric is the place to turn to for instruction. Use memories and pictures from life and transform them into lovely appliqued pictures with a guide to creating machine-stitched applique from realistic scenes. From selecting pictures to cutting and stitching fabrics, Picture Your World In Applique covers all the moves.

I loved this book
This book was very helpful to me when creating my own large scale designs; her ideas on how to bring depth and perspective to a larger scene is fantastic. Especially interesting for me was the land and city-scapes. Some of the other styles were less appealing but the approach steps still added value.

Warm and wonderful---I love it.
This book will give you important information on work safety, image and color selection, and stitching techniques. It also tells the story of a successful artist and how she works. The book has colorful examples of her commissioned work and how she brought them to be. Margaret Cusack's images speak of the loving and supportive family that is literally part of her fiber---and artistic inspiration. I bought three copies and will probably get a few more to give as additional gifts.