Creating Art Quilts with Panels: Easy Thread Painting and Embellishing Techniques to Create Your Own Colorful Piece of Art from Panels [Paperback]

Discover how to transform premade fabric panels and thread into one-of-a-kind art quilts! Award-winning quilter and fiber artist Joyce Hughes uses free motion quilting, thread painting, trapunto, overlay, three-dimensional effects, machine techniques, and a variety of embellishments to create stunning pictorial quilts. In this book, she shows you how to take an ordinary fabric panel and turn it into a beautiful work of art with dimension and texture. Complete 6 step-by-step projects with full-color photography and learn to make seasonal panels, beautiful florals, holiday designs, and gorgeous landscapes. Joyce presents her techniques clearly and concisely with detailed photographs in an easy-to-follow format. Sure to please both traditional and contemporary artists,?Creating Art Quilts with Panels?also features a photographic gallery of inspirational art quilt masterpieces.

Discover how to transform premade fabric panels and thread into one-of-a-kind art quilts! Award-winning quilter and fiber artist Joyce Hughes will show you how to use a variety of decorating and customizing techniques  from thread painting to trapunto  to add dimension and texture. Complete 6 step-by-step projects with full-color photography that feature seasonal panels, beautiful florals, holiday designs, and gorgeous landscapes.

The book details many techniques and gives the reader a host of ideas.

Bolstered by six projects, including an ornamented Christmas tree and a serene heron, Hughess appealing resource will persuade traditional and modern quilters alike to try quilting with panels.

Thoroughly user friendly in organization and presentation, Creating Art Quilts with Panels will prove to an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal, professional, and community library quilting/needlecraft instructional reference collections.

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