Floral Illusions for Quilters
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Book Description
A delightful sensory experience awaits as you transform intriguing designs and fabric into a vision of garden grandeur! *A dozen quilt projects are laced with motion, luminosity, and secondary designs. *Choose from traditional piecing or papaer piecing with Karen's super-easy technique. *Easy-to-read charts make quick work of fabric cutting and color placement. *Numerous block settings expand the possibilities of each project. *The blocks have roots in traditional design, with blooms that nod toward a contemporary sky. *Dozens of floral and garden photographs to inspire! AUTHORBIO: Karen Combs is an internationally-known quilter, teacher, author, and designer whose students nominated her for Quilt Teacher of the Year in 1995 and 2000. In high demand as a teacher (she began teaching quilting in 1989), Karen encourages her students, makes learning fun, and makes the complex easy to understand! Karen is fascinated with optical illusions in quilts, a fascination that has become the subject of her many workshops, magazine articles, and books. REVIEW: Karen's quilts offer a delightful sensory experience. Foliage, blooms, shape, shadow, and light are wonderful tools for playing optical tricks with flowers.
About the Author
Karen Combs is known for her pieced quilt designs, and especially her "Quilts of Illusion." Her designs encourage quilters to explore visual tricks like transparency, motion and depth. Karen is a frequent contributor to the quilting magazines, and is much in demand as a teacher who makes design concepts such as color easy and fun, even for artistically intimidated quilters. Karen is the author of "Optical Illusions for Quilters" and "Combing Through Your Scraps." "Floral Illusions is Karen's third book with the American Quilter's Society.
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