Quilting Illusions: Create over 40 Eye-Fooler Quilts

by Celia Eddy

Quilting is a fine art, and this instructive, beautifully designed volume carries that art to new heights. Eye-fooler quilts play with our sight and imagination, creating wonderful illusions in shapes and colors. Though complex to look at, these quilts are surprisingly easy to make when quilters are given sound direction. Here are instructions for more than 40 dazzling designs, the patterns falling into the following major * Perspective and 3D effects * Circles * Grids * Interlacing patterns * Counterchange * Transparency effects Here too are general instructions for making any quilt, with details on necessary tools and equipment, suggested fabrics and colors, the use of grids and templates, methods of sew-ing, instruction on assembling pieces, and techniques for finishing. Readers will also find a helpful list of resources for materials, as well as a bibliography and a glossary. Here's a book that deserves a place in every sewing enthusiast's personal library. More than 250 color illustrations.

Genres: Quilting, Reference

128 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 2004

Reviews

[Merran D. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A surprisingly helpful book that goes into the technicalities of making some quilts that look complicated, but are more about colour theory than (mostly) intricate technique. The tips and tricks are things that I would have found really helpful as a beginner, but the drafting info in particular is something I've really appreciated!

[Amberwench · Rating 5 out of 5]

Complete quilting how-to, including drafting your own patterns and templates. Great long term resource book for the dedicated quilter.