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Thread Magic Garden: Create Enchanted Quilts With Thread Painting & Intuitive Applique
Ellen Anne Eddy
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Description for Thread Magic Garden: Create Enchanted Quilts With Thread Painting & Intuitive Applique
Paperback.
A flower garden is a place to daydream, make wishes, quiet the mind, or spark imagination. Bring this special space indoors by making a floral art quilt using fusible appliqué and machine embroidery techniques. Learn how to develop your own vivid designs and then choose the best fabrics, threads, and embellishments to create special effects that bring your flowers to life. With Ellen's innovative no-pattern approach, you'll be on your way to becoming a master art quilter just like her!
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
C & T Pub
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Concord, United States
ISBN
9781607052616
SKU
V9781607052616
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Ellen Anne Eddy
Ellen Anne Eddy is an internationally known fiber artist whose wall art goes beyond the traditional concept of quilting. Fish, bugs, birds, and frogs are found throughout her art, blending her dreams and vision with the natural world. She uses hand-dyed fabrics, lames, machine embroidery, cut-away applique, and layered sheers to create the illusion of flames, water, and mist in her work. Visit Ellen Anne on the Web at: www.EllenAnneEddy.com.
Reviews for Thread Magic Garden: Create Enchanted Quilts With Thread Painting & Intuitive Applique
June 12 With Ellen's expert guidance, learn to construct enchanted flowers by looking at their basic shapes, compositions and color makeup. She demonstrates how to bring these flowers alive with machine embroidery and thread painting. The color theory section shows how different threads interact to achieve shadows and balance, thereby producing "shockers" and "shaders". By using Ellen's stabilizer sandwich technique as the foundation of each flower, applique motifs can be created without puckers or distortion. A gallery of "fantasy flower" quilts will pique your interest in trying this technique.
Machine Quilting Unlimited
June 12 Ellen's first book Thread Magic was just that, magic, so I am very interested to see what this new book has to offer. I am not disappointed becuase there is so much more information on techniques, colour decisions within design, intuititve applique and how to bind quilts with irregular edges just for starters. There are more than 20 exquisite floral studies that help you to see the simple shapes within flowers such as hearts, bells, teardrops and spirals and then guide you through the interpretation of these images through the painting by machine method. The photography and featured quilts are sumptuous and even if you don't want to design a quilt right now then just curl up with a coffee or tea and enjoy this inspirational read.
Fabrications
Sept 12 Award-winning quilter and 2012 Teacher-of-the-Year nominee Ellen Anne Eddy is well known for her free-motion thread work. In this book, she teaches you how to thread paint your own beautiful garden of flowers and some surprise creatures. At first glance, it’s clear that Ellen is a teacher. Using simple step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn basic skills that build upon each other, for example, special stitch techniques, building edge-to-edge color and progressive shading. Then she offers more than 20 floral studies to understand the shapes of the flowers. She notes that you cannot create a flower through fabric without first seeing and studying a real one, so she includes close-up photographs for this purpose. She also includes a good discussion on color theory. If you are interested in learning or expanding your skills at machine embroidery, you’ll enjoy this book and appreciate Ellen’s attention to detail.
Professional Quilter
Machine Quilting Unlimited
June 12 Ellen's first book Thread Magic was just that, magic, so I am very interested to see what this new book has to offer. I am not disappointed becuase there is so much more information on techniques, colour decisions within design, intuititve applique and how to bind quilts with irregular edges just for starters. There are more than 20 exquisite floral studies that help you to see the simple shapes within flowers such as hearts, bells, teardrops and spirals and then guide you through the interpretation of these images through the painting by machine method. The photography and featured quilts are sumptuous and even if you don't want to design a quilt right now then just curl up with a coffee or tea and enjoy this inspirational read.
Fabrications
Sept 12 Award-winning quilter and 2012 Teacher-of-the-Year nominee Ellen Anne Eddy is well known for her free-motion thread work. In this book, she teaches you how to thread paint your own beautiful garden of flowers and some surprise creatures. At first glance, it’s clear that Ellen is a teacher. Using simple step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn basic skills that build upon each other, for example, special stitch techniques, building edge-to-edge color and progressive shading. Then she offers more than 20 floral studies to understand the shapes of the flowers. She notes that you cannot create a flower through fabric without first seeing and studying a real one, so she includes close-up photographs for this purpose. She also includes a good discussion on color theory. If you are interested in learning or expanding your skills at machine embroidery, you’ll enjoy this book and appreciate Ellen’s attention to detail.
Professional Quilter