Karen Platt- yarnsandfabrics.co.uk
I love the concept of art quilts. This book is split into three chapters. In chapter one, the author talks about quilt design, layout and colour. In chapter two youll discover a large gallery of completed works, each with a description. In chapter three, youll find out how to create your own art quilt. There are 61 steps including photographs of the entire process. The fusible web method is used. With this book, youll be able to create your own art quilts.
Popular Patchwork
December 2015
Ann Loveless is an award winning art quilter and was the maker of the first textile piece to win first place at Art prize in 2013, a US art competition with a prize of $200,000 so she is exceptionally well qualified to teach us a thing or two about textile landscapes. This is primarily a book about her work; it has a comprehensive gallery section, but it includes some insight into Ann's method of working and very good advice about planning and executing your own piece of landscape art in fabric. There is a great step by step guide to recreating one of Ann's pieces, she bonds freehand cut strips of patchwork fabric to fusible web to build backgrounds and then adds foreground detail with further textures and a form of confetti quilting. There's a lot of free motion embroidery involved in this technique, but it is fairly unstructured, so even if you're a little unconfident in that area you're still likely to achieve a great result.
