Creating Art Quilts With Panels

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.

Pick one great fabric to create a stunning block One-Block Wonder expert and best-selling author Maxine Rosenthal, along with fellow quilter Nancy Miller, teach quilters the endless ways to turn preprinted fabric panels into fabulous blocks. Learn how to arrange One-Block Wonder hexagons around a panel, how to blend hexagon colors into the panel, and how to sew it all together. Includes easy-to-follow instructions, no y-seams, and an end result with gorgeous visual effects! Make remarkable kaleidoscope designs by cutting and sewing triangles into hexagons Use fabric panels in a beautiful way—each block is unique to you Simple piecing with NO Y-SEAMS!

1 Great Fabric + 1 Block = 1 Stunning Quilt! • Brand new technique is all about texture, movement, sparkle, and swirl! • Choose hexagons or octagons-you're the designer • Easy random cutting! No planning, no fussy cuts, no mess-ups • Simple piecing with NO Y-SEAMS! Amaze your friends! Maxine shows you exactly how to choose a large-scale print, figure yardage, cut and piece these drop-dead gorgeous quilts. Big pieces and clever short-cut methods make these quilts go together faster than you'd think. Choose one of two projects or use the techniques in any size quilt you can imagine.

Explore all the possibilities you have when you work with fabric panels with this guide. Learn to Quilt with Panels takes quilters on a creative journey showing them step by step how to use panels in quilts or as design elements simply by cutting them apart and incorporating them into quilt setting. This book shows options the quilter may not have thought of and also teaches how to start with an idea, then graph and design it, actually do the math, and finally complete it. This book is destined to be a go-to resource.

Transform your treasured quilt panels into masterpieces with creative techniques! Explore the possibilities of creating small freeform quilts using a montage technique that will help you unleash your artistic flair. Using coordinating blocks like barns and books, you'll discover how to integrate panels into traditional quilt settings like Log Cabin and Irish Chain quilts and make them shine in row-by-row quilts. With step-by-step instructions and practical exercises, you'll learn the concepts and techniques to bring your panel quilt designs to life. From graphing personalized quilt blocks to drawing paper-pieced patterns, you'll have all the tools to create a truly unique masterpiece. Learn how to create a montage with panels and identify styles that work with repeated block settings like the Irish Chain or Storm at Sea Gain practical skills through exercises by piecing together and assembling art quilts from a pre-determined grid to create a unique panel quilt Row by row, make panels the key feature of your new quilt masterpiece by finding your theme and drafting coordinating blocks

Take an in-depth look at the artistry of Angela Walters, a true visionary in the modern quilting movement. This hardcover coffee table book delves into her free-motion quilting journey in gorgeous detail. The best-selling author gives insight into her design process, with full-page photography of her own work and commissioned quilting. Learn the secrets behind Angela's stitching - how she sketches with grand details and lavish texture to complement each quilt's specific design.

Quilting with Panels and Patchwork is the perfect guide for quilters seeking inspiration on how to creatively use quilt panels in their projects! Featuring 15 panel-focused quilts that combine pieced blocks and other elements with panels that result in updated design interest, this book offers a fresh perspective on using panels through the lens of patchwork. Approachable for quilters of all skill levels, this book will help you step up your panel quilts and make them more beautiful and exciting that ever before! Also included are insightful overviews on basic patchwork instruction, guidance on selecting fabrics that enhance and pair perfectly with your panel (including pre-cut fabrics), and tips for selecting complementary quilting designs.

The award-winning art quilter shares her free-form technique for capturing the beauty of nature using collage and fusible web in this step-by-step guide. Two-time ArtPrize-winner Ann Loveless is known for creating stunning landscape quilts depicting the beautiful natural landscapes of her Lake Michigan home. In Landscape Art Quilts, Step-by-Step, she reveals the creative and technical processes behind some of her best-known designs. With step-by-step instructions, Ann demonstrates her free-form method of cutting and placing fabrics on fusible web and finishing with free-motion machine quilting. By learning Ann’s original techniques, you will be able to create your own art quilts based on your favorite landscape photographs.