Creating Art Quilts with Panels: Easy Thread Painting and Embellishing Techniques to Create Your Own Colorful Piece of Art from Panels

by Joyce Hughes

Overview

Discover how to transform premade fabric panels and thread into one-of-a-kind art quilts! Award-winning quilter and fiber artist Joyce Hughes uses free motion quilting, thread painting, trapunto, overlay, three-dimensional effects, machine techniques, and a variety of embellishments to create stunning pictorial quilts. In this book, she shows you how to take an ordinary fabric panel and turn it into a beautiful work of art with dimension and texture. Complete 6 step-by-step projects with full-color photography and learn to make seasonal panels, beautiful florals, holiday designs, and gorgeous landscapes. Joyce presents her techniques clearly and concisely with detailed photographs in an easy-to-follow format. Sure to please both traditional and contemporary artists, Creating Art Quilts with Panels also features a photographic gallery of inspirational art quilt masterpieces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947163164
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	01/08/2019
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Joyce Hughes is an award-winning quilter, McCall’s Quilting Quilt Design Star, and fabric industry consultant. A self-taught fiber artist, she has single-handedly elevated printed panels to quilt art. Her very first art quilt won a blue ribbon when it was entered into competition, an honor that has since led to dozens of awards, recognitions and opportunities in the quilting world. Joyce continues to create and design one-of-a-kind quilts and handbags, while maintaining an active schedule of lectures and workshops teaching her designing and quilting techniques.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

Chapter 1 Panels 6

Why Use Panels? 6

What Makes a Good Panel? 7

Chapter 2 Getting Started 12

Supplies 12

Prepping for a Panel Project 20

Chapter 3 Techniques 24

Free-Motion Quilting 25

Thread Painting 28

Trapunto 39

Overlay 42

Three-Dimensional Effects 46

Machine Techniques 48

Embellishments 55

Finishing a Quilt Project 60

Chapter 4 Projects 68

Euphoria Flower 70

Embellished Tree 76

Celebration Flag 82

Flowing Dreamscape 88

Snowy Winter Birds 96

Serene Heron 104

Chapter 5 Gallery 112

About the Author 126

Resources 127

Index 128

Editorial Reviews

10/15/2018
In this richly illustrated guidebook, Hughes, a self-taught fabric artist, shows how to decorate ready-printed swaths of fabric with custom-made embellishment. As she points out, by adding quilting to fabric panels with printed designs on them, crafters can jump right into what she calls the “fun part” of creating art quilts, bypassing the design stage to concentrate creative energy on the quilting itself. Despite the word “easy” in the subtitle, this is not for the beginning sewist, nor the unadventurous crafter. After listing supplies and demonstrating how to prepare a panel, Hughes presents machine-sewing techniques, including creating an overlay and sewing with bobbin thread. Throughout her lessons, Hughes adds cautions, such as when not to use “trapunto,” a way of creating a “raised and puffy surface” on a piece of fabric, which for some projects can add extra visual impact, and for others can be “overkill.” Bolstered by six projects, including an ornamented Christmas tree and a serene heron, Hughes’s appealing resource will persuade traditional and modern quilters alike to try quilting with panels. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Whether you are new to quilting, or a master quilter this book is just the thing to add to your library.

Designing for Plenty

Thoroughly ‘user friendly’ in organization and presentation, “Creating Art Quilts with Panels” will prove to an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal, professional, and community library quilting/needlecraft instructional reference collections.

The Midwest Book Review

Creating Art Quilts with Panels by Joyce Hughes showed me how marvelous preprinted panels can be as the basis for art quilts.

The Literate Quilter

The book details many techniques and gives the reader a host of ideas.

US Army MWR Libraries - Stehanie Rowsey

Hughes shows how to select designs ripe for creativity.

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Hughes shows how to select designs ripe for creativity.

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