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Twisted: Modern Quilts with a Vintage Twist
This full-color description of the creation of 22 quilts gives contemporary quilters fresh ideas for injecting their works with energy from repurposed antique textiles, abandoned blocks, and vintage fragments. For each quilt's starting inspiration, a fragment of unfinished vintage quilting was incorporated into a modern quilt aesthetic. The newly-designed "past-combined-with-present" quilt tops were then shipped to one of 22 contemporary quilt artists, each among today's best longarm quilters. The new, innovative quilts serve as a bridge between the vintage past and the modern present. Plus, helpful sections on documentation and on working with vintage fabrics assist readers with combining past and present in their own quilts.
- GenresQuilting
104 pages, Paperback
Published September 28, 2016
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August 12, 2021
Fascinating! I love taking quilt pieces and left over blocks and making something out of them. I've never taken used pieces and worked with them, like this author does. And she adds interest by sending her tops, composed of old and new fabric, off to a modern quilter.
The results are amazing. I was thoroughly absorbed in this book!
The results are amazing. I was thoroughly absorbed in this book!
September 10, 2016
Twisted: Modern Quilts with a Vintage Twist is Mary Kerr's newest publication. Vintage quilt blocks and fragments star in new, modern quilts created by 22 amazing quilt artists.
Beautiful photographs show the original vintage textile, how it was used in the new quilt, and the finished quilt. These are bed-sized quilt projects.
I was impressed by the originality of the final quilts. They have the hallmarks of a Modern Quilt: lots of negative space, use of solid color backgrounds, complicated machine quilting, and an overall graphic quality.
Mary wanted to blur the demarkation between traditional and modern quilts. She distributed the vintage pieces to her artists and allowed them to "work their magic".
Shown in the photo above, Dahlias in the Snow is a remarkable quilt, but you'll have to get the book to see the completed quilt! The use of the original blocks is thoughtful and unusual.
I received a free book from Schiffer Pubications in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
To see photographs read my blog post at
http://theliteratequilter.blogspot.co...
Beautiful photographs show the original vintage textile, how it was used in the new quilt, and the finished quilt. These are bed-sized quilt projects.
I was impressed by the originality of the final quilts. They have the hallmarks of a Modern Quilt: lots of negative space, use of solid color backgrounds, complicated machine quilting, and an overall graphic quality.
Mary wanted to blur the demarkation between traditional and modern quilts. She distributed the vintage pieces to her artists and allowed them to "work their magic".
Shown in the photo above, Dahlias in the Snow is a remarkable quilt, but you'll have to get the book to see the completed quilt! The use of the original blocks is thoughtful and unusual.
I received a free book from Schiffer Pubications in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
To see photographs read my blog post at
http://theliteratequilter.blogspot.co...
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