Dream Landscapes:

Art ful Quilts Made with Fast-Piece Appliqué

Have you ever looked at a beautiful scene or a wonderful design, noted curves or irregular angles and said to yourself, “there's no way I could ever make that out of fabric”?  When the beauty of the landscape filled author Rose Hughes' imagination she set out gathering valuable information in order to find a way to create a technique that provides us with freedom from squares and blocks.

In this book Rose shares her simple and highly sought-after technique, Fast-Piece Appliqué™. It combines simple straight-stitch piecing methods with machine appliqué to produce shapes that are normally very difficult to piece. Curves and circles are now easily added to your work. “With this method the doors are opened to creating both the larger landscapes we travel through and the inner landscapes we create in our hearts.”

This book begins with a primer on selecting fabrics, yarns and beads. You get illustrated step-by-step instructions to learn Fast-Piece Appliqué™, couching yarns, and how to stitch and bead by machine and hand so you will transform fabric easily and create sparkle, texture and dimension, achieving wondrous effects found in the landscape.

The five quilt projects build upon the basics of Fast-Piece Appliqué™ and continue to provide guidance and ideas that add layers of excitement and life to your quilts. In the final chapter Rose shares her method of creating quilt art designs from photographs and life, captured in her journals. You'll go on to create your own personal journals , capturing the fine details to include in your own Dream Landscapes.

An inspirational gallery of Rose 's landscape quilts and those of several of her students all using the Fast-Piece Appliqué™ method of construction is also included, and giving readers ideas and confidence to make the quilts they envision.

Paperbound, 8.5 x 11, 96 pages

$26.95

October 2008 *

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