Product Description

In this practical and inspiring book, award-winning contemporary quilt artist Sandra Meech explains how to harness your own creativity to add innovation and depth to your quilt and embroidery work. It follows on from her bestselling first book, "Contemporary Quilts". In "Creative Quilts", she shows you how to take inspiration from a wealth of sources, including art, textiles and architecture, and gives special emphasis to journals and sketchbooks. The book also contains full instructions for a range of exciting techniques including surface embellishment, mixed-media techniques, and taking quilt work into three dimensions, plus practical advice on exhibiting work. Special 'Creativity Plus' and 'Design Workshop' exercises help you to develop confidence in your own creativity. Illustrated with work from the world's leading quilt and textile artists, this book is both a practical workbook and a precious source of inspiration. The subjects covered include: Exploring Creativity; Finding a Theme; Design, Pattern and Composition; Texture and Dimension; and a Professional Approach.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144218 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

About the Author
Award-winning quilt artist Sandra Meech is an experienced teacher and lecturer who works with quilting, embroidery and textile groups in the UK and around the world. She is from Canada, and most of her work is inspired by the Arctic landscape. She is a member of Quilt Art, an international group of contemporary quilt artists, and exhibits widely in the UK, Europe and North America, where many of her quilts are in private collections. She is the author of Contemporary Quilts: Design, Surface and Stitch, also published by B T Batsford. She lives in Binfield, Berkshire.