Cultural Fusion Quilts: A Melting Pot of Piecing Traditions • 15 Free-Form Block Projects
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| Title | : | Cultural Fusion Quilts: A Melting Pot of Piecing Traditions • 15 Free-Form Block Projects |
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (404 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 160705809X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-01 |
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Bold, vibrant, strikingand amazingly easy to make! This collection of 15 modern quilts draws on handmade crafts from India, the American South, and Africa to create a style that's at once traditional and contemporary, artistic and practical. A simple stack, cut, shuffle, and stitch technique makes the sewing fun for quilters of any level, and also makes every quilt a one-of-a-kind creation. No two are ever alike! The author provides alternate settings, plus an inspiring photo gallery of the crafts that shaped her style. Use these projects to enrich your quilting by bringing in textures, patterns, and colors from around the world.
Editorial : We've featured an extract from this book on page 60 of this month's issue; if you've already looked over Sujata Shah's Crazy Quilt then you'll know that the author is an inspired designer. Sujata has a unique perspective on the craft, being born in Mumbai and moving to the USA later. She describes in her introduction how as an adolescent she would love fabrics but found sewing crushingly dull, telling her mother she would ‘rather die than hold a needle'! Later in life, after moving to the States and getting married, she discovered a love of quilting, luckily for us, and took much inspiration from fusing the styles of her native India and American folk art and Amish quilting. The resulting projects are a sight to see! The 15 free form block projects featured in this book are a celebration of this “melting pot,” and brim with ideas. The book is accompanied, refreshingly, with photographs illustrating some of the inspirations and stories behind the projects, and it's a p
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