Fabulous Facades-Create Breathtaking Quilts with Fused Fabric

by Gloria Loughman

Overview

Capture your favorite places in fusible applique! Your childhood home, an old family caravan, the incredible skyscraper in your city - these are all wonderful subjects that deserve to be re-created in fabric. This simple technique is easy to master, yet yields stunning results that resemble woodblock prints. Draw from your own photo or memory, 3 included projects, and downloadable bonus patterns to assemble graphic quilts that are captivating, vivid, and full of character.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617453441
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	10/07/2017
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Gloria Loughman's vivid landscape quilts depicting the Australian bush have won major awards internationally. She teaches quilting both in Australia and overseas. Her most recent body of work has been based on architecture. Gloria lives in Victoria, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction How To Use This Book Design Old Buildings • New Buildings • Choosing Your Facade Elements of Design Line • Shape • Texture Using the Elements of Design Editing • Exaggeration • Unity and Harmony • Repetition • Balance • Focal Point • Movement • Contrast Finding an Image Cropping • Backgrounds • Scale • Light and Shadows Color Color and Culture The Art of Color Color Combinations The Color Wheel • Color Schemes Color Balance Working with the Original Color Scheme Color and Perspective Fabric Dark Fabrics for the Base Fabrics for Walls Fabrics for Trims Fabrics for Glass Fabrics for Sky Fabrics for Foreground and Water Overpainting Commercial Fabrics Creating Textured Fabrics Steps to Prevent Fraying Creating the Pattern Drawing the Design Using Perspective Photocopying and Using Your Computer Photocopying and Tracing • Using Apps Construction Preparing Freezer-paper Patterns for Bases Basic Construction Information Seaside Cottage Multiple Buildings Special Features Stone Walls • Windows • Wrought Iron Backgrounds and Foregrounds Background—Sky Commercial Sky Fabric • Painted Sky • Collage Sky • One Piece of Fabric Sky Background—Forest Printed Fabric Forest • Abstract Forest Foreground Paved Footpath • Water Doorways Design Preparation Construction Special Doorways Skyscrapers Other Facades—Boats and Cars Finishing Faced Edges Projects Old Doorway Italian Village Campervan About the Author

Editorial Reviews

08/07/2017
In her latest quilting manual, Loughman (Luminous Landscapes) draws inspiration from the architectural treasures she and her photographer husband, Tony, encountered on various trips to countries all over the world. The featured quilt designs are modeled after structures including a mosque in Abu Dhabi; a mansion in Newport, R.I.; the Ponte Vecchio in Florence; and even a hippie’s Volkswagen bus, all of which are presented alongside her husband’s photos of the originals. Before getting to the specifics of construction, Loughman lays out basic elements of design (shape, texture, repetition, and balancing), color (on wheels and in schemes), and fabric (for walls, bricks, and skies). Then she addresses fundamentals of fused fabrics, from creating the pattern, with an emphasis on perspective, to preparing freezer paper for bases and exploiting computers and apps. Although Loughman includes a quilt made by her 11-year-old granddaughter, this style of quilting suits advanced sewers who can follow detailed directions. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Gloria Loughman is well known for her fabulous art quilts featuring Australian landscapes and, more recently, Australian buildings. In this book, she shows you how you can immortalise a favourite building in fabric using fusible-web appliqué. She assures us that her techniques make it easy and, by way of proof, she's included photos of two architectural quilts made by one of her granddaughters when she was only 11 and 12 years old—and they're both fabulous. There is a wealth of information in this book, covering everything from elements of design, colour theory, choosing fabrics for your quilt and drawing up a pattern through to construction guidelines and how to render particular parts of the design, such as sky, doorways and windows. Lots and lots of photos—lots!—along with detailed notes on three projects, so you can see exactly how they were created. If you've ever dreamed of recreating your home or an architectural masterpiece in fabric, this book is a 'must have'.

October 2017 Homespun

Gloria Loughman began making large landscape quilts for the Australian bush after completing her studies in art and design in 1996. In Fabulous Facades, she explores how to create graphic quilts that resemble woodblocks and linocuts in a change of direction inspired by her daughter's study of architecture and her husband's photos of buildings. Each main shape is outlined with fine dark lines adding strength to the composition in a series of projects that include doorways, skyscrapers and even a cargo ship and camper van. As a trained secondary school teacher, Gloria is adept at making the process of design and construction easy to understand. She talks of design elements, colour balance, choice of fabrics, and how to create textures and layers in a way that is straightforward and enthusiastic. The idea is to get you to a place in which you can dig out photos of favourite places and create your own unique design using her tried and tested methods. This informative book will inspire fans of travel and architecture.

January 2018 Popular Patchwork

Filled with fantastic photos from the author's worldwide travels, this title teaches how to convert architectural imagery into fused-fabric quilting creations. Art principles of colors, shadows and perspective are detailed along with how to choose fabrics for the facade elements such as windows and doors. There's also extensive information on making the pattern for your city- or country-scape, followed by basic constructions techniques.

December 2017 American Quilt Retailer