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Creative Quilts: Inspiration, Texture & Stitch

Creative Quilts: Inspiration, Texture & Stitch
By Sandra Meech

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As a sequel to her bestselling Contemporary Quilts, award-winning textile artist Sandra Meech delivers another superlative guide for anyone who’s ever wanted innovative ideas in quilting. Meech’s own work reflects her fascination with the Arctic landscape, but she shows how any needleworker can become an artist, using sketchbooks and journals, and taking inspiration from both commonplace and exotic sources as well as art, architecture, and textiles. The photos of finished projects provide fuel for creativity, the expert instructions show how to turn ideas into reality, and the array of fabulous techniques (surface embellishment, mixed-media, and three-dimensional looks) match the originality of design. Because these quilts deserve to be displayed, tips are provided on how best to showcase the finished item.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #41645 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-09-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 128 pages

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Creative Quilts: Inspiration, Texture & Stitch2
If you want to make quilts that are reminiscent of pages from an altered book then this is the book for you. Unfortunately for me, this style is not one I enjoy. I thought, from the cover and title, that there would be lots of information on free machine embroidery, but there are only 4 half pages of very general text on this topic. A large portion of the book is about choosing and creating a sketchbook for recording your ideas and observations, something, I felt, could have been covered in a page or two. The design section is quite good; it is aimed at designing quilts that are abstract and/or like pages from an altered book. I was hoping to learn techniques from this book that I could apply to my quilts, but I found it too general. Oh well, my loss will be the local libraries gain, and people whose tastes match those of the other reviewers of this book will be very happy.

creative boost4
The gorgeous pictures of these fascinating quilts are an inspiration to get to work on my own creative ideas. I am always amazed at the diversity of the human creative spirit and especially the way people use fiber in making art.

Creative Quilts: Inspiration, Texture & Stitch5
This book is exactly what I hoped to find. It is filled with beautifully illustrated quilts & embroidery with step by step details on design, construction and how it was embroidered. Sandra has detailed her quilt design process giving the reader a clearly demonstrated understanding visually & textually of what inspires her quilts and then firstly how she gets them out of her head and onto paper & then translated into a quilt. Sandras use of sumptuous fabrics showing us how fabrics are combined, moved around and translated into images is wonderful. The embroidery is textual & three dimensional and the magic is nothing you see seems unachievable. Highly recommended for teachers, students and anyone wanting to take their quilt making to a new level.