Fibre Art, Color & Embellishment Books

Some books just push your creativity along! These are full of ideas for design, embellishing, manipulating fabric ... they are all great reads! Need color theory? It's here!

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  A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color & Design

  • From the language of color - to the principles of design - to examples of fabulous fiber art creations and 12 workshop lessons. This new book has been developed to help YOU become a better quilt artist!
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  A Field Guide to Fabric Design

  • Make your fabric dreams come true! This book is a comprehensive resource for fabric design and printing, including tips from today's premier fabric designers. There are step-by-step tutorials for creating repeat patterns with your computer or by hand. Explore different ways to transfer your designs to fabric, from screen printing to getting licensed with a fabric company!
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  Bold & Beautiful

  • Combine stitching with fabric inks, pens and paint to create marvelous works of art! Also offered as a class this fall, so be sure to check it out under the Class heading!
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  colour in art quilts

  • This hard-cover book is a fascinating and inspirational guide to using color in quiltmaking. Let Janet Twinn guide you in how to identify the colours that inspire you and how to go beyond your "colour comfort zone". This book is illustrated with stunning images from today's best quiltmakers, showing how colour can be harnessed to create atmosphere and convey emotion in your work.
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  color works

  • This book emphasizes that "successfully working with color is a skill anyone can learn". Not only in quilting, this book includes knitting, spinning, weaving, surface design, hand -and machine - embroidery, beadwork and paper collage in its discussion of color. There are more than 270 hand0crafted swatches that bring color palettes to life in all nine mediums. This is an EXCELLENT book!
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  Confetti Naturescapes

  • Noriko Endo is an award-winning quilter, born and raised in Japan. Her unique perspective makes this one of the most interesting quilting books on the market. Noriko writes about the inspiration she finds everywhere in nature and the techniques she employs to create her masterpieces.
  • Noriko's naturescapes have the look of impressionist paintings and feature trees, leaves, flowers, lakes, small forest creatures, mushrooms, spider webs, and more. Shapes and images are created using her confetti technique.
  • Noriko's enthusiasm for quilting is infectious. She has taught classes about her innovative techniques throughout the world. This book will dazzle the casual reader and inspire quilters to capture all the beauty of the outdoors within the layers of a quilt.
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  Connecting Quilts, Art & Textiles

  • M. Joan Lintault is an internationally renowned quilt artist. In this greatly illustrated book, she shares the philosophies and techniques she uses to create amazing art quilts. Quilters and art lovers alike will be awed and inspired by the amazing quilts featured throughout this book. She really pushes the envelope of quilt making.
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  Create with Transfer Artist Paper

  • TAP into creativity with clever products from Lesley Riley and her friends! Learn to use Transfer Artist Paper for quiltmaking, fiber arts, mixed media and paper crafts. Use your photographs to make beautiful fabric images that stay vibrant and colorfast, even after washing.
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  Creative Quilts from your Crayon Box

  • Melt-n-Blend Meets Fusible Applique! Anyone can create beautiful applique designs with a dimensional, hand-painted look that brings quilts to life!
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  Design Magic

  • Use Shiva Paintstiks and yin/yang stencils to create a one-of-a kind quilt! Check out our class on this under the Class section!
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  Drafting for the Creative Quilter

  • This is the drafting book that every quilter needs. Simple step-by-step instructions for drafting grid-based blocks, star blocks, circular blocks and more are included. Three projects are included from start to finish, each with a varying level of difficulty. Learn to recognize the underlying architecture of patchwork so you can recreate any block you like in any size you choose.
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  Fabric Color Magic

  • Stamp, Stencil & Brush your art out with deColourant! Add or remove color as desired with this new product on the market (and available at Quilter's Dream!). This book is full of great ideas for you.
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  Fabric To Dye For

  • Finally! A book that makes fabric dyeing sound like a breeze! Step-by-step instructions are given for everything from preparing your work area to mixing the dyes, to washing and drying your hand-dyed fabrics. There are easy-to-follow charts for dyes, colors and gradations. Dye formulas use standard measurements like cups and spoonfuls, instead of grams and ounces.
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  Freestyle Machine Embroidery

  • "Explore the possibilities of freestyle machine embroidery as an artistic medium with this inspirational guidebook. Studio artist Carol Shinn teaches basic methods and stitches accompanied by step-by-step photographs and dozens of stitched examples to bring the techniques to life. Learn the impact of color, layout, and content decisions and how to apply them to your own work, plus how to use texture creatively, professionally finish a project, and more."
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  It's a Wrap II

  • Sew new shapes! Explore new techniques! Start with simple clothesline, wrap it with fabric strips, and coil it into a work of art! This exciting collection offers 20 fresh projects plus handle and lid variations, and introduces new shapes, including the triangle, heart, and figure eight.
  • Learn to embellish your unique creations with buttons, yarns, coils and dimensional flowers. It's easy!
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  Photo-Inspired Art Quilts

  • Discover your inner quilt artist! Starting with nothing but fabric and a photo for inspiration, learn to create Photo-Inspired Art Quilts! Author and art quilter Leni Levenson Wiener gives you the tools you need for the entire process - from composition to a bound and finished piece - to help you develop our own artistic voice. Learn how to explore the elements of good design and bring them to your own work! Develop a pattern for your art quilt from a photograph and create a fabric collage! Add detail with self-expressive thread painting and raw edge applique. Finish your quilt with the right edging!
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  Point, Click, Quilt!

  • Go from fabulous photo to dramatic quilt. This book contains 16 artful applique projects inspired by digital photographs! You will learn how to shoot better photos and turn them into art quilt designs while you boost your creativity with new tools and techniques!
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  Printmaking+ Mixed Media

  • You too can create mixed-media art with easy printmaking techniques! No printing press or toxic materials are required and adding content, color, texture and interest to your work is simple and straightforward.
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  Quilting by Improvisation

  • * Explore curves, openwork and dimension! Follow Vikki as she leads you on an exciting journey through an array of quilting revelations. Discover surprisingly stress-free techniques to tame curves and sharp angles that anyone can master. Explore "no rules" improvisational methods to incorporate dimension and texture in your quilts. Transform the ordinary into unique and distinctively shaped quilts with innovative fast finishes and bindings.
  • * Vikki Pignatelli is an award-winning art quilter, designer, author and international teacher. Her quilts and how-to articles have appeared in numerous quilting books and publications.
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  Skyquilts

  • Mickey Lawler has done it again - another great fabric painting book! Master 12 different fabric painting techniques with detailed, step-by-step photos. Build your own stunning stash of fabrics with painted landscapes, water scenes and dreamy skies.
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  Speaking in Cloth

  • This small book is an exciting compilation of works by six recognized quilt artist, who explore the magical alchemy between dye, cloth, and transformation. Get inspired today!
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  The Quilter's Color Club

  • Discover a practical approach for using color to bring your quilts to life! Learn how to use "magic" fabrics that give your quilts movement and depth. Why not start your own Quilter's Color Club? Experiment together, swap fabrics and creatively challenge your fellow quilters! This book contains 12 hands-on exercises as well as 8 projects.
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  Visual Coloring

  • The second book by Joen Wolfrom.