One-Block Wonders Cubed!: Dramatic Designs, New Techniques, 10 Quilt Projects

by Maxine Rosenthal, Joy Pelzmann

Overview

Add New Dimension to Your Favorite Hexagon Quilts. Your favorite One-Block Wonders authors are back with new graphic techniques using triangles, cubes, and appliqué. Learn how to create optical illusions with your fabrics. Bonus projects include totes, coasters and placemats for using up left-over hexagons. Create interesting shadow effects with clever fabric placement. Try new kinds of borders with uneven edges, creative shapes, and hexagon strips. From the best-selling authors of the One-Block Wonders books. New techniques and design strategies using simple geometric shapes give you dramatic quilt imagery that seems to defy logic! Take the ordinary and turn it into something extraordinary with this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607051329
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	11/05/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	36 MB
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About the Author

Maxine Rosenthal started quilting about fifteen years ago. She used to make clothing, but never anything as large or as time-consuming as a quilt. Maxine did many things before quilting. She had a career writing computer software, and even took a break from that to learn furniture refinishing, which she considered a walk through history. She was commissioned to make a quilt for the movie Grumpier Old Men, and still has a copy of the check from Warner Bros. But, like many, her appearance ended up on the cutting-room floor. Maxine started making kaleidoscope blocks with hexagons and octagons almost as soon as she began quilting. Maxine resides in Minnesota.

Joy Pelzmann has enjoyed a long and varied series of careers. Trained as a researcher in college, she went on to receive a Ph.D. in counseling psychology. Her academic career involved research, teaching, and training. Art and its application to the home arts have been lifelong interests. Now, finally, she is able to devote herself to those on a full-time basis. Immersed in her work as a quilt artist, she returns to teaching and training as a way of sharing her playful approach to art with others. Mother of three and grandmother of four, she sees life as a series of wonderful moments to be enjoyed and sometimes captured, but always appreciated.

Editorial Reviews

Learn how to create interesting shadow effects with cleaver fabric placement and create optical illusions with your fabrics. Drawing from the inspirational designs of the artist M.C. Escher, the authors of this book have devised visual puzzles that engage the viewer by creating optical illusions with 'impossible' structures. Quite a complex reference but some stunning results which can be modified or rearranged to suit the project plus the bonus projects include totes, coasters and place mats for using up left-over hexagons.—Fabrications (12/10)

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