Creative Quilt Challenges

Take the Challenge to Discover Your Style & Improve Your Design Skills

Pat Pease, Wendy Hill

• Publisher: C&T Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781617450662
• Year: 2016

Spark Your Creativity with Inventive Challenge Quilts Are you ready to take the challenge? Embark on a creative journey to design the kind of quilts you've always wanted to make! Proving that two minds are better than one, experienced quilters Wendy Hill and Pat Pease take on 7 quilt challenges, including designing a new twist on an old block and quilting with unconventional materials. Sew alongside them—by yourself, with a friend, or in a group—as you nurture your own voice of self-expression. Learn new tools, tricks, and techniques, including two-sided binding for two-sided quilts and satin stitching that is sure to impress! • Explore your creativity! 7 quilt challenges to help you design your own quilts, with 2 unique perspectives on each • Tools, tricks, and techniques, including quilting-as-you-sew that really looks good and facing finishes with smooth corners • Pat Pease and Wendy Hill help you develop your own style and improve your technical skills

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Challenge Yourself
• The Challenges of Challenge Quilts
• Challenge #1: Reimagine an Old Block with a New Twist
• Challenge #2: The Value of Value
• Challenge #3: Unlikely Materials
• Challenge #4: Pass It Back and Forth and Do Not Speak
• Challenge #5: The Collection
• Challenge #6: Invent Your Own Challenge
• Challenge #7: Mix It Up
• Special Techniques
• More Quilts
• About the Authors
• Resources
• Personal Legal