Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community Author: Rachel May | Language: English | ISBN:
B00ESCVNFM | Format: EPUB
Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community Description
Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to play with traditions and take liberties with fabrics, patterns, colors, stitching, and the ways in which they all connect. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles, methods, and aesthetics. Their ideas, their quilts, and their tips, tutorials, and techniques will inspire you to try something new and follow your own creativity wherever it leads.
- File Size: 46953 KB
- Print Length: 224 pages
- Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 28, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ESCVNFM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,942 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Sewing - #56
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I sent for this book from the American Amazon website, not the UK one, because I had won an online voucher which was only redeemable from the former site. I had doubts as to whether it would arrive safely, or even at all, across the Atlantic, but it made it before the predicted time of arrival in pristine condition! It is not available here yet, so felt doublely excited!
In fact I first discovered quiltmaking when my husband came back from the USA on a business trip with a copy of "Quilts, Quilts, Quilts!" for me in his suitcase as a gift, in the late 80s, which shows how old I am, 60 next week! Until then, I had made clothes (since a young girl) and some English paper pieced patchwork, then the perennial curtains (drapes), blinds, cushions (pillows) and so on after marriage. I was so excited by that book and sent for a rotary cutter and ruler/mat set via details in the back of the book - nothing like that was available here and no one I knew made patchwork in that way in blocks here in the UK at the time. It felt so much more creative than making clothes following patterns (which were becoming cheaper to purchase anyway) and I was totally hooked. I helped to start a local quilt group in the early 90s, was spurred from that into starting to draw and eventually made it all the way to art school to study Textiles part time (ending with an MA - "Master of Arts" degree) to my utter surprise! I taught Textiles on a degree course for 10 years following that until recent retirement, wrote a "serious" blog and took an academic view of all things Textile.
The point of this long winded story is to prove - quilting changes lives! True, here in the UK art schools don't do much quilting, if at all, they take a more conceptual approach to textiles.
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