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| Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jane Davila, Elin Waterston
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 25000
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.2
ISBN: 157120377X
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.46041
EAN: 9781571203779
ASIN: 157120377X
Publication Date: June 12, 2007
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Product Description
Part quiltmaking workbook, part business guide, Art Quilt Workbook shows how to take quilting in a creative new direction through art--then sell the quilts at craft fairs and other venues. Lessons and homework teach the basics of good design with simple step-by-step exercises, then encourage the reader to add personal touches with fabric collage, thread painting, innovative piecing, and photo imagery. A bonus guide to exhibiting and selling quilts reveals how to join arts and crafts exhibits and how to market handmade quilts. Develop the inner artist (and the inner business tycoon) with Art Quilt Workbook!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Great book September 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A well written book and very easy to follow projects and practice pieces. Will often refer back to. Very clear pictures and great art works to drool over!
 art quilt workbook August 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A real WORKbook, lots of interesting little challenges to creativity, the book itself is a work of art. I only wish the author had given tips on how to adjust and make these jewels smaller/larger but in general, a thumbs up!
Fabulous Book for Art Quilters July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jane and Elin have outdone themselves with this beautiful book. It is spectacular in scope, along with being very organized and motivating. There is much to learn here and the process is fun! The suggested artists to study in each section are very helpful and inspiring, a very nice addition to the book as a whole. The instructions and steps are very clear and will be helpful to the beginning art quilter as well as those who are more experienced. I highly recommend this book as the best instructional book on art quilting I have yet seen. In addition, I recommend their new companion art quilting DVD. It is amazing and a "must have" for your quilting library. I hope Jane and Elin collaborate on still more DVD's and books.
wonderful book March 19, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book will get your imagination going. When I sat down with this book I was at a standstill for new ideas, but the exercises started me thinking of so many new ideas I couldn't do them fast enough. I like the way each project is done the same size because when you get done with all of them you have a great set of little art quilts for your walls. I learned so many new techniques that I thought would be so hard, but were actually easy. This is a great book and I'm so happy I got it. I have been doing traditional quilting for a long time and I enjoy them but now I know art quilts are even more fun!
 inspiring pictures March 14, 2008
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this book on the strength of other reviews and I was a bit disappointed. If you are an artist, formally trained or self-taught, most of the concepts will be familiar to you: ideas like negative space, the use of color, and perspective are not really useful to most people who have been doing art for a while. I tried to go through the exercises that were suggested and quickly got bored and skipped ahead to see what I could use. What I did really like were the pictures of the artists' work. Just seeing what other people have done was inspiring to me. But you don't need to buy a book to have access to pictures of artists' works. All you need to do is a search on flickr to find pictures of inspiring art. I would give this book two and a half stars. It's not useless but I don't think I would have bought it if I had perused it in a bookstore.
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