Paula Nadelsterns Kaleidoscope Quilts

Author : Paula Nadelstern
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607052821

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Paula Nadelsterns Kaleidoscope Quilts by Paula Nadelstern Pdf

Celebrate Kaleidoscope Quilts With the Master Kaleidoscope Artist. Career retrospective of Paula Nadelstern's awe-inspiring quilts is packed with photos, design insights, and tips for making your own kaleidoscope quilts. Huge gallery with photos and in-depth, behind-the-scenes commentary on 19 quilts. Chapters with detailed explanations of Paula's design strategies and construction methods. The astonishing quilts that spring from Paula Nadelstern's passion for kaleidoscopes will change your view of what a quilt can be. This book highlights Paula's life work and shows how you can use her techniques to create your own unique fabric art.

Author : Paula Nadelstern
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781617451898

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Fabricadabra: Simple Quilts, Complex Fabrics by Paula Nadelstern Pdf

The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to use simple piecing to create spectacular quilts that are a feast for the eyes. Imagine a traditional quilt, its ordinary shapes gift wrapped with intricate fabrics. Celebrated author, teacher, and fabric designer Paula Nadelstern shows you how to design simple but stunning quilts with the help of vivacious fabric prints. Analyze fabrics to uncover their piecing potential for color and symmetry. Make your own cutting templates and learn how to get the “seemingly seamless” look made famous by Paula’s kaleidoscopic quilts. Example piecing diagrams show just how easy it is to quilt a visual spectacle. • Fabricadabra! Discover your fabric’s hidden potential and sew complex-looking quilts that are easy to piece with industry leader Paula Nadelstern • Understand symmetry in fabrics and fool the eye with daring design strategies • Fussy cut prints to perfection with self-drafted templates and camouflage seams for luminous effects

Author : Paula Nadelstern
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781571207746

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Snowflakes & Quilts by Paula Nadelstern Pdf

The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to create a stunning snowflake quilt, including how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully. Paula’s incredible quilts capture the delicate, three-dimensional effect of winter’s snowflakes. Learn how to create the endless variations found in snowflakes using the techniques and materials of quilt making! • Full-size patterns for making 11 of the snowflake designs from Paula’s quilts • Step-by-step instructions explain how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully • Paula reveals her strip-piecing techniques for “Power Stitching” • Learn methods for using your fabrics to create “Seemingly Seamless Seams” “Paula explores the collision of precise geometry and lush splinters of color and pattern. In this book, she reveals her unique technique with characteristic intelligence and humor.” —Stacy C. Hollander, Senior Curator, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City “Much like a child mesmerized by fireflies, I cannot get enough of looking when I see [Paula’s] quilts. Riveting, dazzling, hypnotizing—these are the words that spring to mind when I behold Paula’s art.” —Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Author : Paula Nadelstern
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607050278

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Kaleidoscopes And Quilts by Paula Nadelstern Pdf

Kaleidoscope - the very word promises surprise and magic, chance and change. Exploding with visual excitement, a kaleidoscope design organizes an abundance of light, color, form, and motion into a complex and coherent image, capturing a moment of infinity. This book is jammed with how-to's and why-not's, process and product, and an abundance of text and photos that explains elements of design and technique for creating the multifaceted, luminous, and random nature of a kaleidoscope's interior on the flat surface of a quilt. The kaleidoscope configuration and its symmetrical repetition allows the quiltmaker to explore a variety of design possibilities using intricately printed fabric. With Paula as your guide, you will find that making kaleidoscope quilts is like making magic with fabric.

Author : Paula Nadelstern
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607053965

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Puzzle Quilts by Paula Nadelstern Pdf

A Puzzle Quilt is a Sampler with a Secret! Finally...Paula Nadelstern's signature look in blocks any quilter can create. Choose special fabrics to create a variety of effects. The PUZZLE is in the PAIRS-identically pieced blocks look amazingly different! Everyone loves Paula's complex, optically challenging quilts. Now, Paula strips construction down to the bare bones, so you can focus on fabric selection, then use special techniques like symmetry, mirroring, and seam blending to create stunning, exciting designs. The six blocks are featured in a sampler, or combine them with your own ideas to create unlimited projects.

Author : Ricky Tims
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607051633

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Ricky Tims' Kool Kaleidoscope Quilts by Ricky Tims Pdf

Learn Tims’ innovative techniques step-by-step to create a stunning kaleidoscope quilt of your own. • An inspirational gallery of 26 student quilts • Like snowflakes, each quilt you make with this technique will be unique • Includes easy steps to enlarge or reduce the size of your quilt Create a spectacular kaleidoscope quilt with Ricky's unique strip-piecing method for making a multi-faceted pattern. You'll see impressive and intricate results from simple sets of strips; it’s foolproof with little need for pre-planning. The beauty lies in the unpredictability of how the fabric unfolds—just like a real kaleidoscope!

Author : Deborah Kemball
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607051671

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Beautiful Botanicals by Deborah Kemball Pdf

“A wonderful way to bring more beauty into your life . . . sophisticated floral appliqué projects, varying in size from pillows to quilts.” —The Professional Quilter Magazine Plant an indoor garden with a bounty of lyrical appliqué designs. All the project patterns are interchangeable, so you can create endless combinations of flowers and leaves. See how color-saturated cottons, vibrant silks, and tone-on-tone chintzes breathe new life into botanical appliqué. • 14 sophisticated floral appliqué projects include pillows, table runners, and small tapestry-style quilts and wall hangings • Full-size templates for 45 appliqué flowers, 2 butterflies, and 5 borders • Stitch up the projects as shown, or mix-and-match patterns to create your own masterpiece

Author : Jan Krentz
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607053811

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Lone Star Quilts & Beyond by Jan Krentz Pdf

Explore the world of Lone Star quilts! Expert teacher Jan Krentz shows you how to use today’s techniques to simplify this intricate design. 6 colorful projects - you’ll want to get started right away! Rotary cutting saves you time, while imaginative additions such as appliqué and “designer diamonds” give these Lone Stars a fresh, updated look. Jan teaches you everything you’ll need to know to make the Lone Star quilt of your dreams, from fabric choices to finishing touches. A gallery of eye-catching Lone Star quilts to inspire your creativity

Author : Paula Nadelstern
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607051831

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Kaleidoscope Quilts by Paula Nadelstern Pdf

The magic is revealed! Never before have there been this many kaleidoscope projects from the award–winning and bestselling author in one book. This collection of kaleidoscope blocks made a stunning display on museum walls; now you can make them for your own walls too! In this workbook, you’ll go “behind the seams” to learn Paula’s design approach and fabric selection process, as well as her drafting and construction methods. Includes patterns you can follow for all twelve one-block quilts! Twelve projects—each one makes an artistic 20” square kaleidoscope block Introducing 22.5˚ wedges (her narrowest wedges yet!) to increase the beauty and intricacy of each kaleidoscopic pattern Includes a gallery of the quilts from Paula’s exhibit at the Museum of American Folk Art, plus candid shots of the opening reception

Author : Cheryl Brickey,Paige Alexander
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781617455704

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Modern Plus Sign Quilts by Cheryl Brickey,Paige Alexander Pdf

Add to your quilting repertoire with the universally popular plus sign! These 16 bold, graphic designs range from modern to traditional, with something for every skill level and style. Detailed instructions and illustrations walk confident beginners and intermediate quilters through traditional piecing, paper piecing, and fusible machine appliqué to create baby quilts, throw quilts, bed quilts, and more. Use your favorite types of fabric—solids, prints, precuts, or scraps—to make the projects your own.

Author : Margaret Evans
Publisher : Search Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Pastel drawing
ISBN : 1844489086

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Pastels Unleashed by Margaret Evans Pdf

Margaret Evans uses fantastically innovative techniques with pastels, including wet techniques as well as dry. Here she shows pastel artists how to unleash their pastels and really get creative.

Author : Annette Plog
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781617453410

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True Blue Quilts by Annette Plog Pdf

Turn something old into something new... with all things blue! The blue-and-white quilt is one of the most desired antiques, and many can still be found in good condition. Preserve and honor history with 15 traditional blue-quilt patterns made from reproduction fabrics. Discover the progression of blue quilts through the Civil War years, from the first indigo fabrics to synthetic dyes. Create heirlooms from traditional blocks with this valuable book of pieced quilts for beginners.

Author : Paula Nadelstern
Publisher : C & T Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1607051796

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Kaleidoscope Quilts by Paula Nadelstern Pdf

This collection of kaleidoscope blocks made a stunning display on museum walls; now you can make them for your own walls too! In this workbook, you'll go behind the seams to learn Paula's design approach and fabric selection process, as well as her drafting and construction methods.

Author : Michael Serra,Key Curriculum Press Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1559535881

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Discovering Geometry by Michael Serra,Key Curriculum Press Staff Pdf

Author : MJ Kinman
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781617459467

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Gemstone Quilts by MJ Kinman Pdf

Piece dazzling diamond and gorgeous gemstone quilts Add dimension and luminosity to your quilts with gorgeous gemstone piecing! Learn the basics of abstraction and color theory as you piece stunning works of art with gem quilt expert MJ Kinman. After years of perfecting her technique, Kinman explains freezer paper piecing in brilliant detail with jewel quilting ideas to help you express your own creativity. Get helpful advice on fabric selection and quilting patterns to illuminate each cut. A sample gem quilt pattern helps you practice as you follow along step by step. Then find your own muse and bring any gemstone to life in exquisite detail. Just as gems can sparkle and glow in a million different ways, you’ll be inspired by the author’s work and a gallery of student quilts to help you let go of perfection and embrace the chaos of color and light. Shine on! Learn to create freezer-paper patterns for your own gemstone quilts Build skills as you sew a sample diamond quilt top, with step-by-step instructions See a gallery of ground-breaking jewel quilts from the author and her students