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The Art of Quilting
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Judy Woodworth gives us this valuable machine quilting resource. Her designs are focused on radial composition and mirror image designs. She's won several awards with both the American Quilter's Society and the International Quilt Festival. With The Art of Quilting, you will be able to make your quilting stand out by utilizing the basic elements of art (line, texture, value, shape, and color). Explore different quilting composition strategies including: radial, circular, grid, and spiral. Learn how Judy focuses on color theory and the use of both positive and negative space to make her quilts extraordinary.

Techniques: machine quilting
25 quilting patterns, 96 color pgs.
Item no. 46371

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Judy Woodworth is an amazing quilter, long arm quilter, designer, author, and instructor. After taking a machine quilting class from her, I was eager to review her new book The Art of Quilting. Expecting content on practicing and improving machine quilting skills, I was delighted to find additional content on the quilting design process itself. She discusses types of composition such as vertical, horizontal, diagonal, S-shaped, framed, spiral, grid block, circular, radiating, constellation, Z-shaped, and symmetrical.

In addition, basic art principles such as line, texture, value, shape, color, unity, variety, focal point, rhythm, motion, balance, space, depth, scale, and proportion are applied to designing a quilting design that honors the quilt. The author provides a whole section of machine quilting hints and techniques. The section on free-motion quilting combinations shows several quilt designs with step-by-step illustrations and photos - breaking down the steps makes the designs seem doable! The final section contains a selection of intricate quilting designs by the author for use by the reader. I recommend The Art of Quilting for any quilter wanting to explore answers to the question “How do I quilt this quilt?” as well as improving their machine quilting skills.