Product Description

AT HOME WITH THE EXPERTS! Katie Pasquini Masopust Teaches You Simple Steps to Dynamic Art Quilts Katie's innovative techniques Learn everything you need to get started making beautiful quilts Available whenever and wherever it's convenient for YOU! Also Includes: Studio Tour Interview Quilt Gallery Running time: 75 minutes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24744 in DVD
• Brand: C&T PUBLISHING
• Released on: 2007-11-01
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 75 minutes

Features

• How to pick an image to change into an art quilt
• How to make a pattern
• How to choose your fabrics
• How to construct the art quilt

Review
Fiber Art News "This is the seventh in C&T's new DVD series, and it's great. It's like taking a class with an expert, but you can do it in your home, on your own schedule, and you can replay each segment as often as you need to. Katie Pasquini Masopust leads the viewer through the steps that she takes to go from a photo inspiration to a final appliquéd art quilt in a rainbow of colors. Step-by-step, Katie talks you through the process of choosing an inspirational photo, cropping, tracing, enlarging, making templates, using spray starch to turn under the edges, invisible appliqué and free-motion quilting. What was especially fun was the extras: views of her home and studio in Santa Fe, a mini-retrospective of her work and hearing about her family and career, including her time as President of Studio Art Quilt Associates." --Fiber Art News

Review
"AMAZINGLY AWESOME! Some artists don't really want to give away their secrets, not so in this case. I've been a fan of Katie's quilting techniques ever since I saw her demonstrate her ghost layers and color washes technique on Simply Quilts. Her earlier book on this technique didn't go into the same level of detail and depth but the DVD really shows you all the steps to achieve a similiar effect. In this DVD she demonstrates how to transform a photo into a quilt using applique with many of the steps from the ghost layer and color wash book. Katie's genious is in her incredible use of color and knowing how to make selections to trace and transform each portion of a photo to recreate it in fabric and finally a finished fabric composition and work of art. Thank you Katie for this fabulous tutorial and to C&T publishing for the wonderful video series." --Reader review

About the Actor
Fiber artist Katie Pasquini was born and raised in Eureka, California, with her seven brothers and sisters. She graduated from Eureka High School, where her main focus was the arts. After her senior year, Katie lived in Woodside, California, caring for her mother, who had Lou Gehrig's disease. While there, she attended a quilting class, which started Katie on her fantastic journey with cloth. When Katie and her mom returned to Eureka, she opened Katie's Quilt Shop, which she ran for five years. She then began traveling in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, and England, teaching contemporary quilt designing. Katie has changed her style over the years, starting with traditional works, then creating mandalas, followed by dimensional quilts. She is enjoying landscapes and flora and feels as though she has returned full circle to her beginnings as a painter. Now she is painting with fabric. Katie has won many awards throughout her career, including the Penny Nii award at the 1998 Visions Show for her quilt Passages, Chaco Canyon. Her quilt Rio Hondo was chosen as one of the 100 quilts of the twentieth century.

Customer Reviews

Quality video production and expert teacher.
I've taken an all day course from Katie PM and I got a great deal out of the hands on work with her. However in a class setting there is often too much activity so by the time you get home and you put the class project aside you find yourself questioning what the order or the details. You can't take perfect notes and work on the project and gain everything at once. I picked this up as a look see in case there were additional tips I didn't recall from the class.
I found this DVD a good review of each of her steps to accomplish a quilt in her styles. Sure, I would have liked it to go into further depth on color shades and depths. Another persom may want futher explanation on the photo selection. However if you are working with her books as well this can easily get you past any bottlenecks in your understanding.
The quality of the video is excellent. Great lighting and clarity. Katie speaks well into the camera and obviously is at ease with the topic.

Generously shared secrets from a pro!
This DVD is excellent! The production quality is top-notch, the instructions are clear, precise and thorough and Katie comes across as a friendly teacher. Thanks to the techniques I learned on this DVD, I was able to create a fused zebra quilt for my daughter that would be been impossible to piece traditionally! Thanks Katie!

Katie Pasquinu Masopust Teaches you Simple Steps to Dynamic Art Quilts
Katie Pasquini Masopust visually demonstrates the steps for creating and preparing a pattern for your own art quilt. The video made the process seem doable and is a good visual companion for her book Design Explorations for Creative Quilters.