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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- Introduction: The Story of Colourwash
- PART ONE: Design and Planning
- Preliminary Thoughts
- Practical Aids for Designing
- Elements of Design
Symmetry and Asymmetry
Value
Shapes and Grids
Scale
- Planning the Borders
- Texture
- Working Drawings and Construction Plans
- Design Etiquette
- Color
- Fabrics for Colourwash
- Fabric Preparation
- Storage
- Extending Your Fabric Palette
- PART TWO: Technique and Construction
- From Design to Fabric
- Making Templates
- Cutting to Make the Most of Prints
- Laying Out Your Palette of Patches
- Creating Colourwash: Getting Started
- Assembling a Colourwash Quilt
- Border Assembly
- Quilting
- Finishing
- PART THREE: Projects
- Colourwash Cushions
- Crib Quilt for a Summer Baby
- Miniature Wall Hanging: Colourwash Framed X
- Group Quilt: Sweet Pea Pinwheel
- Wall Hanging: Colourwash and Blue Triangles
- Bed Quilt: Log Cabin Colourwash
- Mosaic Patchwork
- PART FOUR: General Instructions
- Making Templates
- Sewing the Pieces Together
- Adding the Borders
- Quilting
- Finishing the Edges
- Finishing Touches
Hanging Sleeves
Labels
- APPENDIX: Design Aids
Grids
Scales and Windows
Templates
- Book List
- Biography
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Title: Colourwash Quilts: A Personal Approach to Design & Technique
Author/Designer: Deirdre Amsden
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1994
Publisher: That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA
Language: English
Page Count: 148
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 1564770516
SUMMARY- This isn't scrap quilting - very close attention is paid to the value(how strong or weak the color is) of the fabric and not the color itself - although that is important too. But it's the attention to value that makes the quilts here pop. I find it fascinating. If you want that extra step of sophistication in your quilting, you may want to try this out. The instructions are clear and well presented. I think I'd add this one to the pile of books
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