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Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community
	Title: Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community Author: May, Rachel Released: 2014-01-28 Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC - North Adams, MA ISBN: 9781612120638 Format: Paperback Category: Crafts, Hobbies & Home Last Updated: 2018-06-17 Rating: -1 Pages: 224 Description: Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to expand on traditions and use fabrics, patterns, colors, and stitching innovatively to create exciting fresh designs. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles, methods, and aesthetics. Their ideas, quilts, tips, tutorials, and techniques will inspire you to try something new and follow your own creativity -- wherever it leads. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly May, a founder of the Boston Modern Quilt Guild, has created an encyclopedia of modern quilting. So-called "modern" quilting labels the latest category of quilting, following "traditional" and "art." Modern quilting--admittedly hard to pin down, but proudly inclusive--is a hybrid of the other two, resulting in quilts that "perform both a design and functional purpose." May divides her book into seven sections with titles that reflect the whimsy and experimentation that help define modern quilting, including "A Sense of Play," "Improv," and "For the Love of Color." Within those chapters, she presents modern quilters ("Meet"), such as Angela Walters, David Butler, and Caro Sheridan; offers directions ("Project") for techniques like paper piecing and for quilts, like Sherri Lynn Wood's modern t-shirt quilt; and covers history and museums. Sidebars cite quilters' blogs and places to donate quilts, among other information. Crawls at the bottom of pages define words ("Quilt Lingo") and blurbed quotes from quilters and their blogs are scattered throughout for encouragement. Like a good host, May serves as an enthusiastic introducer, teacher, and cheerleader. (Feb.)

Title: Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community
Author: May, Rachel
Released: 2014-01-28
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC - North Adams, MA
ISBN: 9781612120638
Format: Paperback
Category: Crafts, Hobbies & Home
Last Updated: 2018-06-17
Rating: -1
Pages: 224
Description:
Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to expand on traditions and use fabrics, patterns, colors, and stitching innovatively to create exciting fresh designs. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles, methods, and aesthetics. Their ideas, quilts, tips, tutorials, and techniques will inspire you to try something new and follow your own creativity -- wherever it leads.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

May, a founder of the Boston Modern Quilt Guild, has created an encyclopedia of modern quilting. So-called "modern" quilting labels the latest category of quilting, following "traditional" and "art." Modern quilting--admittedly hard to pin down, but proudly inclusive--is a hybrid of the other two, resulting in quilts that "perform both a design and functional purpose." May divides her book into seven sections with titles that reflect the whimsy and experimentation that help define modern quilting, including "A Sense of Play," "Improv," and "For the Love of Color." Within those chapters, she presents modern quilters ("Meet"), such as Angela Walters, David Butler, and Caro Sheridan; offers directions ("Project") for techniques like paper piecing and for quilts, like Sherri Lynn Wood's modern t-shirt quilt; and covers history and museums. Sidebars cite quilters' blogs and places to donate quilts, among other information. Crawls at the bottom of pages define words ("Quilt Lingo") and blurbed quotes from quilters and their blogs are scattered throughout for encouragement. Like a good host, May serves as an enthusiastic introducer, teacher, and cheerleader. (Feb.)