Language:EnglishPublisher:C&T PublishingISBN-13:9781571203663ISBN-10:1571203664UPC:9781571203663Book Category:Crafts & HobbiesBook Subcategory:Quilts & Quilting, NeedleworkBook Topic:EmbroiderySize:11.00 x 8.52 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCD58Y1RY8
Landscape Quilting Book: Transform Photos into Quilted Art
This comprehensive quilting guide by Gloria Loughman teaches you how to create landscape quilts using your own photographs as inspiration. The book bridges photography and textile art, providing practical techniques for translating visual images into fabric compositions.
Photography Techniques for Quilters
Learn essential photography skills tailored specifically for quilt design. The book covers composition principles, lighting considerations, and perspective techniques that translate effectively into fabric art. You'll discover which landscape elements photograph well and how to capture images that work best for quilt interpretation.
Design Composition Methods
Combine elements from multiple photographs to create unique quilt designs. The book demonstrates how to merge different landscape components—foreground details from one photo, background elements from another, and lighting effects from a third—into cohesive quilt compositions. This approach allows you to design ideal landscapes that may not exist in a single photograph.
Color Theory for Landscape Quilts
Master color selection and placement to achieve depth, atmosphere, and visual impact in your landscape quilts. The book provides practical guidance on translating photographic colors into fabric choices, creating color gradations, and using contrast effectively. You'll learn how to capture the mood and lighting of your source photographs through strategic fabric selection.
Paint and Thread Techniques
Explore the combination of painting and quilting techniques that define the luminous quality in landscape quilts. The book covers methods for adding painted details to enhance fabric compositions and integrating thread work to create texture and dimension.
Book Specifications
Paperback format published by C&T Publishing in July 2006. The book provides step-by-step guidance suitable for quilters with basic machine quilting experience who want to expand into landscape design.
What You'll Learn
This resource equips you with skills to photograph landscapes with quilting in mind, select and combine photographic elements for optimal quilt designs, translate colors from photos to fabric selections, and apply techniques that create luminous, dimensional landscape quilts. The methods taught work for various landscape subjects including mountains, seascapes, forests, and gardens.
Language:EnglishPublisher:C&T PublishingISBN-13:9781571203663ISBN-10:1571203664UPC:9781571203663Book Category:Crafts & HobbiesBook Subcategory:Quilts & Quilting, NeedleworkBook Topic:EmbroiderySize:11.00 x 8.52 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCD58Y1RY8
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Landscape Quilting Book: Transform Photos into Quilted Art
This comprehensive quilting guide by Gloria Loughman teaches you how to create landscape quilts using your own photographs as inspiration. The book bridges photography and textile art, providing practical techniques for translating visual images into fabric compositions.
Photography Techniques for Quilters
Learn essential photography skills tailored specifically for quilt design. The book covers composition principles, lighting considerations, and perspective techniques that translate effectively into fabric art. You'll discover which landscape elements photograph well and how to capture images that work best for quilt interpretation.
Design Composition Methods
Combine elements from multiple photographs to create unique quilt designs. The book demonstrates how to merge different landscape components—foreground details from one photo, background elements from another, and lighting effects from a third—into cohesive quilt compositions. This approach allows you to design ideal landscapes that may not exist in a single photograph.
Color Theory for Landscape Quilts
Master color selection and placement to achieve depth, atmosphere, and visual impact in your landscape quilts. The book provides practical guidance on translating photographic colors into fabric choices, creating color gradations, and using contrast effectively. You'll learn how to capture the mood and lighting of your source photographs through strategic fabric selection.
Paint and Thread Techniques
Explore the combination of painting and quilting techniques that define the luminous quality in landscape quilts. The book covers methods for adding painted details to enhance fabric compositions and integrating thread work to create texture and dimension.
Book Specifications
Paperback format published by C&T Publishing in July 2006. The book provides step-by-step guidance suitable for quilters with basic machine quilting experience who want to expand into landscape design.
What You'll Learn
This resource equips you with skills to photograph landscapes with quilting in mind, select and combine photographic elements for optimal quilt designs, translate colors from photos to fabric selections, and apply techniques that create luminous, dimensional landscape quilts. The methods taught work for various landscape subjects including mountains, seascapes, forests, and gardens.
