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Artful Improv: Explore Color Recipes, Building Blocks & Free-Motion Quilting
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Learn simple design principles to create unique improvisational quilts. Working without patterns, add 5 easy techniques to your improv toolbox (including circles, blocks, and strips), and watch the art unfold before your eyes. Focus on color combos and negative space to discover your personal style, and then add dazzling texture with free-motion quilting. Includes Cindy Grisdela's tips to hang finished art quilts without a sleeve, plus tried and true improv quilting tips to encourage creative play.
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Cindy Grisdela
Cindy Grisdela is an award-winning fiber artist with over 30 years of experience creating eye-catching quilts. She travels extensively all over the country teaching and lecturing to guilds and groups, and her quilts have been published in books and magazines. She lives in Reston, Virginia. cindygrisdela.com
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The most useful part of this book for me was improvising 'on the fly' with offcuts from other projects. As well, the value of negative space plus adding texture with free-motion quilting was very well-illustrated. Many snippets of valuable advice for working improvisionally, such as giving the design time to develop. Since I own Collaborative Quilting, by Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston (2006), this book held many repetitive descriptions and ideas.