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Beautifully Embellished Landscapes: 125 Tips & Techniques to Create Stunning Quilts
- Paperback
- Author: Joyce R. Becker
- Publisher: C&T Publishing
- Release Date: August 2006
- ISBN-10: 1571203605
- ISBN-13: 9781571203601
- List Price: $26.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
Summary• Unusual techniques for realistic results Who wouldn’t like a quilt that features a portrait of a favorite place? Show a home, a lake view, or a cityscape using paint, markers, photo printing, thread and lace, sheer overlays, and exotic fibers to make water, reflections, skies, snow gardens, and buildings. Eight complete projects come to life in more than 200 photos and illustrations, and detailed directions make it easy to make a cherished heirloom or priceless gift. |
Customer Reviews
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Clear and Practical and VARIED
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One of the strongest aspects of this book -- what sets it apart from many others on landscape quilting -- is the use of work by a variety of artists and quilters. Most of the newer landscape quilting books are filled with excellent and beautiful illustrations, but they are often the work of a single person or, perhaps, two. Few quilters who take the time to write books also range widely in the style of their own work...so including many other quilters gives a variety that is helpful to the designer.
Chapter 9 includes clear instructions to reproduce a number of the quilts in both an "original" and an "easy" version. For those people who feel more comfortable working from a pattern, this is the book for you. Not quite "paint by number," but a reasonable quilting version of that. Since the quilts themselves are quite nice, it will result in something more artsy than craftsy.
Becker gives a number of quick and easy techniques that she has discovered over the years which can add options for one's own quilting, even if you do work quite different in style from hers. I also loved pp. 43-49 which gave some easy patterns for several types of trees...a great jump off point that helps a quilter LOOK at trees as blocks of color and shapes.
Equally helpful are the closeups of Becker at work, showing how a piece sits in the machine and the final product when applied to a quilt.
Perhaps the best part of this book, however, is that the quilts Becker has chosen to showcase are not way out on the cutting edge of design or technique, making it a good book for a novice or someone with less confidence in her or his own design ability. Anything here would fit in most homes -- especially since a large number of quilts are in the 15 inch X 20 inch range (or, at least, under 2 feet square). There are larger quilts, as well, but a good variety of sizes makes this a book for those with small work spaces as well as those with more spacious ones.
Beautifully Embellished Landscapes
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Highly recommended book that is great for anyone wanting details on how to take their landscape quilts to a new level. Joyce has shown what and how she is inspired and how this is translated into a beautiful quilt. Great book for teachers and students.
Clear, Easy steps and Idea...
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I bought this for a friend who has never quilted, but had an idea of a landscape quilt in her head. After reading it, I realized that this is just the right book to start-jump a "newbie" from the starting point to where ever her imagintation will take her. Also, after reading it I am buying another copy for myself. I quilt and do some art quilts also, and this book gave me many wonderful ideas. . Highly recommended [[ASIN:1571203605 Beautifully Embellished Landscapes: 125 Tips & Techniques to Create Stunning Quilts
Landscape quilting
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This is my favourite book on this subject - heaps of ideas, tips and assistance to inspire me on a landscape quilt. Everything is well set out and clearly explained. Lots of examples to try out too.
Tips and Techniques
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Easy to read and full of excellent information for the Landscape Quilting Artist
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