Inspired to Design
Seven Steps to Successful Art Quilts
Published on 12. March 2013
112 pages
978-1-60705-635-5 (ISBN)
Description
Awaken your inner artist with this hands-on, exciting exercise guide that takes you through the seven-step process to design successful art quilts. Celebrated quilter Elizabeth Barton shows you how to master every step, from finding inspiration to creating a design and constructing the final quilt. Before you know it, you'll be designing quilts that are real works of art, even if you've never studied art before. Includes in-depth sections on composing a design, working with color and value, and much more - turns quilters at any level into better quilt designers.
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By Elizabeth Barton
Content
- Front Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Step 1: Inspirations and Design Sketches
- Getting Started
- Exercise: Think about Your Inspiration
- Generating Designs
- Exercise: Discovering Interesting Crops
- Exercise: Crops Multiplied
- Exercise: Using Grids
- Exercise: Cut, Combine, Rearrange
- Exercise: Positive and Negative Shapes
- Exercise: Using Your Favorite Shape
- Exercise: Freehand Drawing
- Exercise: Make it Your Own
- Exercise: Musical Inspiration
- Exercise: Word Games
- Exercise: Take a Walk
- Step 2: Size, Shape, and Structure
- Size and Shape
- Structure
- Designing Structures
- Step 3: Depth and Space
- Deep or Shallow
- Devices for Creating the Illusion of Depth
- Perspective
- Focal Point of Focal Area
- Track of Vision
- Step 4: Value
- The Importance of Value
- Dyeing Fabric in Value Gradations
- Check Your Fabric Values
- Exercise: Using Three Values
- Exercise: Using Four Values
- The Pattern of Light
- One Predominant Value
- Step 5: Color
- The Four Variables of Color
- Exercise: Arranging Fabric by Value
- Exercise: Color Intensity
- Exercise: Color Intensity in Real Life
- Exercise: Color Temperature
- The Importance of Varying Hue, Value, Intensity, and Templerature
- Choosing a Color Scheme
- Exercise: Make Your Own Color Wheel
- Exercise: Color Explorations
- Exercise: Color Inspiration
- The Importance of the Well-Chosen Color Scheme
- How Colors Can Influence One Another
- Exercise: Simultaneous Contrast
- Choosing the Main Color for a Quilt
- The Fabric
- Step 6: Evaluating Designs
- How to Look at Your Sketches
- Eavluating a Design
- The Main Idea
- Using Basic Design Principles
- Step 7: Putting It All Together
- Determining the Actual Size and Shape of a Quilt
- Continuous Eavulation
- Enlarging the Design Using a Grid
- Blocking Out the Quilt in Fabric
- Plumb Line
- Fabric
- Building the Quilt Layer by Layer
- Final Assessment before Sewing
- Construction
- Squaring, Batting, Backing, and Basting
- Quilting
- Ironing, Measuring, and Squaring-Up
- Finishing the Edges
- About the Author
- eLegal Page
- Back Cover
