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Flying Colors: Design Quilts with Freeform Shapes & Flying Geese - 5 Paper-Pieced Projects, Full-Size Foundations
Learn how to make intriguing quilts with techniques for how to use free-form strips and shapes to create dimension, illusion, and flow. There's no limit to the designs you can invent!
- GenresQuilting
80 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2010
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September 12, 2010
Flying Colors
by Gail Garber
Here are the step by step instructions for conceiving, sketching and sewing compositions like Gail’s of wonderful sweeping curves, circles and forms freed from the strictures of blocks and geometry. With generous lessons on shapes, tools and construction and illustrations and photos, her guidance is an irresistible invitation to try it out. Her take on color and contrast is great and her instructions on freezer paper piecing remove the roadblocks even for a beginner. There is a photographic quilt gallery and five projects complete with all you need to succeed. If you’ve gotten bored with coloring inside the lines, try this appealing guide to break out into free form design and construction.
Catherine Smith
September 13, 2010
by Gail Garber
Here are the step by step instructions for conceiving, sketching and sewing compositions like Gail’s of wonderful sweeping curves, circles and forms freed from the strictures of blocks and geometry. With generous lessons on shapes, tools and construction and illustrations and photos, her guidance is an irresistible invitation to try it out. Her take on color and contrast is great and her instructions on freezer paper piecing remove the roadblocks even for a beginner. There is a photographic quilt gallery and five projects complete with all you need to succeed. If you’ve gotten bored with coloring inside the lines, try this appealing guide to break out into free form design and construction.
Catherine Smith
September 13, 2010
March 21, 2011
I borrowed this book from my quilt guild library.
It's a very good guide to how to design your own paper-pieced flying geese quilts.
This weekend, I decided to put the techniques to use and made the Star Fragments wall hanging. Now I remember why I so seldom make paper-pieced quilts. ;-)
Nevertheless, there are some things that can best be achieved by paper piecing and this book will give you a great deal of useful design advice and techniques.
Even if you are primarily a garment seamster rather than a quilter, it's worth looking at this book. Can you imagine a curved line of flying geese (or other paper-pieced motif) inserted in a art garment? It could be fun and a small area wouldn't be a huge time commitment.
It's a very good guide to how to design your own paper-pieced flying geese quilts.
This weekend, I decided to put the techniques to use and made the Star Fragments wall hanging. Now I remember why I so seldom make paper-pieced quilts. ;-)
Nevertheless, there are some things that can best be achieved by paper piecing and this book will give you a great deal of useful design advice and techniques.
Even if you are primarily a garment seamster rather than a quilter, it's worth looking at this book. Can you imagine a curved line of flying geese (or other paper-pieced motif) inserted in a art garment? It could be fun and a small area wouldn't be a huge time commitment.
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