Sandra Meech

Following on from her bestselling first book 'Contemporary Quilts', award-winning contemporary quilt artist Sandra Meech explains how to harness your own creativity to add innovation and depth to your quilt and embroidery work. In 'Creative Quilts', she shows you how to take inspiration from a wealth of sources, including art, textiles and architecture, and gives special emphasis to journals and sketchbooks. The book contains full instructions for a range of exciting techniques, including surface embellishment, mixed-media techniques, and taking quilt work into three dimensions, plus practical advice on exhibiting work. Special 'Creativity Plus' and 'Design Workshop' exercises help you to develop confidence in your own creativity.Illustrated with work from the world's leading quilt and textile artists, this book is both a practical workbook and a precious source of inspiration.

A practical and inspirational guide to understanding and using good design practice in stitched-textile work, packing with the author's workshops and practical exercises.

This book is an essential tool for quilters and stitched textile artists who want to break away from traditional designs and develop their own creativity and take their work to a whole new level. This invaluable resource includes:• Inspiration: how to interpret sources of inspiration found in the world around us to provide themes for quilts• Surfaces: creative ways to experiment with surface effects• Design: an overview of the all-important rules of design and how they can be applied to quilts• Colour: explains the basic principles to give the reader colour confidence• Stitch: discusses modern approaches to traditional techniques such as piecing and appliqué, free machine embroidery, mark-making and embellishment.The author's unique Design Classes and worksheets help to increase confidence through practical exercises, and the book contains over 200 stunning quilts, including examples from the best quilt artists working today.