Dena Dale Crain

Darned Quilts (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Darned Quilts is the outcome of one quilter's journey. A simple, basic need coupled with a few sparks of inspiration led to this entirely new way to think about patchwork quilt design. Growing out of a real-life situation, the design methods you will discover here developed over time. The journey began with experimental attempts to create increased visual interest in a single-layer composition. Learn to work with color gradations in patchwork quilt design. See how one set of colors can make a background from which identical shapes can be cut and repositioned to create eye-catching pops of color contrast that generate an imaginary three-dimensional design space. Play with all kinds of trims and specialized treatments that add color, texture, and interest to the background and the shapes cut from it. Finally, discover how sewing machine darning holds the work together to make a long-lasting work of art that is uniquely yours! The Darned Quilts ebook contains step-by-step illustrated instructions. It is full of good general sewing advice and peppered with anecdotes that make for interesting reading and great fun in patchwork quilting. As the work unfolds, your mind will jump to other possibilities suitable for your first Darned Quilt or others to come. One Darned Quilt follows another, and the possibilities are endless. Dena's innovative ideas shine through, but you can be proud of your original design art quilt--it's a "one-of-a-kind!" Darned Quilts went on to become one of Dena Dale Crain's most popular online quilt classes. Dena taught Darned Quilts in live classrooms in Canada, Houston, New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere. Its popularity has never waned! Get your copy of Darned Quilts now, and let the fun begin!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dena Dale Crain
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005625016
• Artikelnr.: 74349071

Autorenporträt

Dena Dale Crain relocated from the USA to Kenya in 1990, then returned to the USA in 2023. She spent most of her time in Kenya, living on the shore of Lake Baringo, two hundred miles and a five-hour drive north of Nairobi, with her partner Jonathan Leakey.

Dena saw patchwork quilting as a way to employ local women, taught herself the basics, and began a small production quilting business in her home. With advanced degrees in design, anthropology, and textiles, she was uniquely positioned to help. As her experience and confidence increased, she began producing "one-off" works of art. Dena's innovative art quilts were the subject of several solo art exhibitions and group quilt shows in Africa.

Dena helped found the Kenya Quilt Guild and keeps a pulse on its activities. She helps educate members of the society at large about quilts as art. She has written magazine articles and lectured at quilting and non-quilting functions.

Teaching in Cape Town, South Africa, for the Good Hope Quilters Guild National Quilt Festival in July 2002 moved Dena into the ranks of international quilting teachers. Since then, she taught art quilting at such prestigious venues as the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England; the European Patchwork Meeting in Val d'Argent, France; and the International Quilt Festivals in Houston and Chicago in the USA. In 2011, she earned South Africa National Quilt Guild Certification. In 2018 she became a Recommended Teacher for the same guild.

In 2004 Dena joined the faculty of Quilt University, the first major online educational facility for patchwork quilters, later teaching for QuiltEd Online and the Academy of Quilting. An inventive and creative mind coupled with top-notch sewing skills makes Dena Dale Crain an educator of high merit in the world of patchwork quilting.

Find links to Dena's patchwork quilt ebooks, live and virtual quilt classes, original pattern downloads, and more on her website.