Free-Style Quilts: A "No Rules" Approach [B0261]

2000 PB. Susan Carlson's incredible quilts of underwater landscapes, floral designs, fish, and portraits come to life as she shares her easy, "no rules" fabric collage technique and shows how to create your own beautiful free-style quilt designs. Includes step-by-step instructions and 3 different patterns for Susan's fish designs, as well as how-to's for making flowers and butterflies. No limits, no rules to follow. The technique is fun and easy, and you don't need a degree in art to produce images that are imaginative, creative, and artistic. Using Susan's collage technique, cut fabric shapes freehand or use a pattern, building up layers as you go. Once your design in in place, you're ready to machine quilt. Provides helpful hints for choosing fabric, drawing your own patterns, and finishing as a bound quilt or framing under glass.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This quilts in this book are AMAZING - gorgeous, colorful, fanciful, detailed, breathtaking works of art. I never even knew quilts could be this gorgeous or inspirational. And that is what this book is to me - an amazing inspiration: the great photography of these amazing quilts, what inspires her (a lot of fish! [hence a lot of fish quilts]), and the value of letting go when trying to create"; "I enjoyed the photos of the students projects. The coral reef wall hanging was spectacular."