Here is the book to help you create strip-pieced fabric landscape quilts that reflect the ever-changing moods of nature. With clear, precise information on color and fabric, learn to create visual illusions of depth, luminosity, reflections, or mist that add drama and emotion to your scenic imagery.

Joen Wolfrom broadens your color experience and stretches your imagination with creative color play. Now selecting colors for your quilt designs will be fun, and your quilts will always live up to their visual potential! • Chapters featuring 24 colors, their characteristics, and the combinations that make them look fabulous in a quilt design • Sample fabric arrangements make color concepts easy to understand • Learn about color "scales" - the variations of pure color, tints, shades, and to...

Bring more beauty and balance to your quilt designs • Everything you need to know about the essentials of good design from an internationally reknowned expert • Learn about the key elements of design and how to apply strategies for success • Practice what you've learned with exercises at the end of each chapter • An inspiring gallery illustrates design concepts by many prominent quilters and artists - including Alex Anderson, Paula Nadelstern, and Ricky Tims - with over 150 images showcasi...

New and improved! The essential guide to the art of color Color. It has the power to set a mood, make a statement, bring a design vividly to life. Now Joen Wolfrom's classic guide to creating with color has been completely updated to make it easier than ever to enhance your creative work with the beauty of well-chosen colors. Joen covers it all, from color combining basics to how to use nature's tricks to create an illusion of depth, reflections, shadows, and highlights. Learn the emotiona...

A quilter's color and design reference from the author of the popular quilting guide, Landscapes & Illusions.Joen Wolfrom follows up her landscape quilitng book with a textile craft guide exploring luminosity, highlights, reflections, and transparency in both traditional and contemporary quilts.Joen Wolfrom discusses the color wheel, explains various visual effects, and encourages observations of nature. Wolfrom also provides info...

Color Inspiration to Make Every Quilt a Knockout • Develop a keen color sense with Joen's easy visual coloring technique • Learn to use this foolproof technique to select your quilt's colors and fabrics Do you get stuck when choosing colors and fabrics for your quilts? Joen comes to your rescue with this amazingly simple, practically foolproof technique. Using visual coloring, you'll learn to select colors you love in nature and duplicate the effect in your work. ...

An exciting journey into the world of design, The Visual Dance is a presentation of nature's design basics to help you build a foundation for your own style. This inspiring book clearly explains the how-tos of design for quilters and artists alike. Gallery of spectacular quilts, hundreds of detailed drawings, and 11 of Joen's original designs illuminate the discussion. Exercises guide you in understanding and using the design principles.

Pick a Bouquet of Garden Quilts • Color expert Joen Wolfrom shows you great color choices for spectacular flower quilts • From traditional tulips to whimsical modern florals — let these blooming beauties grow in your own quilt garden! • 7 stunning flower quilt projects • These fabulous flowers are completely machine pieced! • Projects for quilters of all levels

Get into shape: The ultimate visual guide for free-motion quilting in specific geometric shapes • Follow step-by-step illustrations to create more than 70 free-motion quilting designs to use in specific shapes, negative space, and borders • Features full-page quilt photos, close-up details of stitched designs, and a comprehensive visual index • Best-selling author Angela Walters takes you to the next level in free-motion quilting by showing you how to manipulate shapes into modern designs ...

Bring sleek, modern aesthetics to your quilts with 20 "stylish yet deceivingly simple quilt patterns" in this "must-have book" ( Modern Patchwork).A co-founder of The Modern Quilt Guild, Alissa Haight Carlton has been at the forefront of this exciting movement in quilting. In Modern Minimal, she shares twenty original patterns that use negative space and bold colors to make gorgeously elegant—and surprisingly simple—quilts.Along with these p...

Photo tutorials show you stitching in actionPicture this - more than 50 quilting designs to create modern quilts with classic style! Natalia's instructions are illustrated with detailed photos that make it much easier to get beautiful results on your home sewing machine. Tips for choosing batting and thread, layering and basting, starting and stopping, and prepping your machine are included. After you've practiced, show off your new free-motion skills with ...

To make a larger quilt it isn't always necessary to use many blocks. The 4 quilts in this pattern use 1 big block to make quilts that are about 45 inches square finished. The units for these quilts include four patches, nine patches, half square triangles and tri square triangles.