Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity

by Jane Davila, Elin Waterston

The hands-on workbook format guides motivated quilters through basic concepts and skills for developing the quilt artist within.

Genres: Quilting, Crafts, Sewing

98 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars. If you're interested in moving into quilt art or quilt journaling, this book will give you lots of information and inspiration. Basic principles of design and color are discussed, and you'll learn how to add foil, embellishments, paper, found objects, etc. to your quilts. The book is designed to take readers through the process of creating a series of 9 x 12" quilts, joined by a theme.

[Jeannine · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is great for anyone new to art quilting. I've been doing art quilts for awhile, so was hoping this book would provide intermediate-advanced lessons.

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jane has given us another wonderful resource for expanding our knowledge and skills for creative art.
Very Good!

[Susie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great well explained lessons to inspire art quilting. If you are curious about art quilting, this book will guide you into personal growth in that area.

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I purchased Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity by Jane Davilla as part of a quilt group activity. It's a good introduction to some basic techniques for creating nontraditional art quilts. The book is short. Many of the projects are very basic and can be completed quickly. The instructions for each activity are clear and are accompanied by photos of techniques and finished samples. I did some of the activities with the group and plan to do more on my own. The Art Quilt Workbook is a good addition to my quilting library.

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great How To book about how to move your creative side as an artist towards making fiber arts.
I took a collage class with Lisa Thorpe at the Minnesota Quilters retreat and there is a section of this book that totally applies to this.
There is information about copyright and how to avoid violating it in your work, which I have not seen much in books related to quilting.
This is more about the art than the quilting.
There is no instruction on how to piece or sew contained within it, it is all about making your art on fiber--so painting on fabric, dying fabric, printing on fabric, and how to put it all together--with examples from the both of the author's own works--which are very different from each other, so very helpful in the visualization of how it would translate depending on the artist.
Recommended if this is a direction you want your quilting to take!

[Clangelelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my favorite things about this book is the list of artists at the end of each chapter I could further explore.

[Kelly (Maybedog) · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are much better than their second book. I would definitely classify most of these as quilts. But unfortunately, most aren't that creative. They're pleasant, but just not that interesting. I wish they'd take their creativity from the second book and put it with the skill from this first book. Then they'd have something. There aren't a lot of instructions--it's more of a free for all, which is fine. But it just didn't work that well for me.

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall interesting for sparking creative ideas and highlighting some new techniques, but a bit too structured for me to ever follow the exercises as suggested ;o)

[Misspennylane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm reading this because I'm taking a week-long class from Jane at Asilomar next week. The book is divided into exercises, and I'm guessing that's what we will do in class.