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Nature Studio	Customer Rating:
I became very excited when I read this one. Great book for fabric lovers and Pictorial quilters. Raylene Wolff

Loved this book

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I was looking for something that would help me expand my creativity along the lines of being 'artistic'. Being of limited talent and budget in the area I needed help! Her techniques and ideas send you in creative directions it might have taken you 20 years to reinvent by yourself. Worth the $. I ended up with a variety of interesting experiments that looked amazingly good when put on the wall. Buy it an go off to 'play' for a while.

More techniques in your armory

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If you like and want to know how to constuct the kind of quilt pictures on the front cover, then this book will show you how, and give you lots of ideas. Joan gives an overview of style, fabric selection, fabric manipulation and construction methods. The major chunk of the book deals with various tree forms and, later, birds and nests. Towards the end there are few examples of Joan's gothic, pre-raphaelite women, and some ideas for finishing. The particular strength of the book is the layering, combination of manipulated and raw edge fabrics, and use of commercial tree fabric and hand-dyes and stamping to create semi-realistic trees. Joan talks us through her process, but she does not teach us how to LOOK at nature. The colour photographs and line illustrations are excellent. It's great to have in your library, if you have already done some pictorial quilts. It is not really suited to a beginner.

A beautiful book	Customer Rating:
I have not made anything yet from this book, but my fingers are itching to. It seems to give very good direction and a good start for your own ideas.

Great stuff	Customer Rating:
If you are looking for inspiration on 'how to' this is the book for you. Very generous with personal techniques develpoed.