Instinctive Quilt Art: Fusing Techniques and Design - Hardcover

Bethan Ash

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849940096 ISBN 13: 9781849940092

Publisher: Batsford, 2011

Synopsis

Bethan Ash's rich, colourful quilts are created using improvisational collage techniques. Working instinctively, she simply layers fabric shapes onto a prepared background and fuses them down, then adds stitching later. Each quilt is cut freehand, without the use of rulers or templates. In this groundbreaking book, she reveals the secrets of how she works, from basic dyeing and fusing techniques to design- and colour-awareness exercises and mixed-media experiments. In clear, easy-to-follow text, she gives the reader invaluable information on method, materials, technique and composition, and shows that improvisational quiltmaking is not merely 'messing about with fabric', but instead can form the basis of working freely and is the optimal way of broadening the reader's artistic talent. Illustrated with the best examples of fused quilts from around the world, this book is a visual feast of colour and pattern, and allows the reader to discover how the boundaries of traditional quiltmaking can be expanded through the use of imagination, inspiration and fusion.

About this title

About the Author:

Bethan Ash is a professional quiltmaker and teacher, with a background in fashion design. She has exhibited widely and her work has been bought by museums in the UK and US, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She is a member of the international Quilt Art group. This is her first book. She lives in Cardiff.

About this edition

• Publisher: Batsford
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849940096
• ISBN 13: 9781849940092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128