Paint-by-Number Quilts: 4 Animal Appliqués with Vintage Style

By Kerry Foster

This full-color beginner’s guide lets you create four pictorial animal quilts with easy-to-use, paint-by-numbers color keys!

These beautifully intricate quilts may look complicated, but Kerry Foster makes them easy with this step-by-step guide. By taking the guesswork out of fabric choice, anyone can bring a sophisticated use of light and shadow to these sewn animal portraits. Use the color keys and diagrams to easily choose a palette from your fabric stash and create amazing images with turned-edge machine appliqué. Choose from a fabulous fox, an adorable raccoon, a majestic stag, and a fierce bear!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Sep 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781617455391

Book preview

Publisher: Amy Marson

Creative Director: Gailen Runge

Acquisitions Editor: Roxane Cerda

Managing Editor: Liz Aneloski

Editors: Monica Gyulai and Karla Menaugh

Technical Editor: Linda Johnson

Cover/Book Designer: April Mostek

Production Coordinator: Zinnia Heinzmann

Production Editor: Alice Mace Nakanishi

Illustrator: Aliza Shalit

Photography by Lucy Glover and Mai Yong Vang of C&T Publishing, Inc., unless otherwise noted

Published by Stash Books, an imprint of C&T Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549

dedication

This book is dedicated to my husband, Alex.

acknowledgments

I would also like to acknowledge the East Midlands Modern Quilt Group in the UK, with special mention to Wendy Westby and Angela Lackey, who I miss very much.

Thank you to the ladies I worked with at My Sewing Room in Calgary for their support—and shift swapping—throughout the writing process of this pattern pack: Anne, Barb, Betty, Dawn, Debra, Denise, Dixie, Doris, Gillian, Gwen, Jackie, Leatina, Nancy, Pat, Rebecca, Ruth, Sandy, and Sarah.

Thank you also to the hugely talented Krista Hennebury, whose help kept me to deadline.

To my sewing friends, past and present—Gina Nickerson, Louise Phelps, and Cheryl Swaby—and also my super-helpful developmental editors, Karla Menaugh and Monica Gyulai, who kept me on the right path, thank you.

Many thanks to Tula Pink, Sulky, Aurifil, Trend-Tex Fabrics, Sew Me a Song, and Riley Blake Designs for supplying some of their great products, which I used while making the projects in this pattern pack.

introduction

In 2012, I sent my first-ever pictorial quilt to exhibit in Birmingham’s Festival of Quilts—Europe’s largest quilt festival.

I have continued to refine my techniques, and I share them with you in Paint-by-Number Quilts. My favorite part of the process is removing the freezer paper to reveal a juxtaposition of color, shade, and pattern. Usually I am pleasantly surprised. I have tried to reduce the risk and unpredictability of choosing fabrics by providing color keys for every project.

I love contemporary fabrics—the vast variety of solids and the endless designer collections that we can now cherry-pick from for our stashes. So many awesome blender fabrics can give a modern feel to pictorial quilts. Designers Alison Glass and Carolyn Friedlander are just two of my stash champions.

Perhaps you will be inspired by these designs and create your own Paint-by-Number quilts using the same appliqué technique. Each of these projects started life as a photograph that I simplified by outlining the main shapes, highlights, and shadows. Then I enlarged them to quilt size. I hope you will