Starter Guide to Creating Art Quilts

An accessible starter guide to creating landscape-style art quilts!

• 3 step-by-step designs of varying size: a bookmark, a card, and an 8 x 10 landscape scene
• Easy-to-follow techniques, perfect for both beginner and experienced quilters alike, to infuse art quilts with splashes of intense color
• Expert insight on composition, design rules, tips, basic tools, and more
• Gallery of examples featuring completed art quilts to help jump-start your creative process
• Author Dr. Susan Kruszynski is an award-winning quilted landscape fabric artist and educator

An inspiring and accessible guide to creating landscape-style quilts, Starter Guide to Creating Art Quilts is the perfect introduction to art quilting!

Featuring three stunning yet simple landscape quilt projects, including a bookmark, card, and 8 x 10 scene, inside this compact 48-page booklet, author Dr. Susan Kruszynski offers easy-to-follow techniques and tutorials that infuse art quilts with splashes of intense color that both beginner and experienced quilters can achieve and will love! Also included are insightful sections on planning your quilt, mapping a design, design rules, guidelines, tips, and basic tools, so you'll come to understand the entire art quilt process from start to finish before you begin.

The author, Dr. Susan Kruszynski, is an award-winning quilted landscape fabric artist and educator. She uses her 40 years of teaching to provide a fun and easy learning experience for her students. Susan splits her time between creating original fabric landscape designs, teaching the art of quilted fabric landscaping, marketing fabric art shows, running her Quilting Fabrics in Time business, and teaching at Muskegon Community College.

Grow your skills, try something new, and quilt beautiful works of art with the beginner-friendly information inside Starter Guide to Creating Art Quilts!

Dr. Susan Jenae Kruszynski lives in Muskegon, Michigan, and is an art quilt designer, teacher, and gallery artist. At the age of 8, Susan's maternal grandmother handed her an embroidery project. That initiated her over 50-year experimentation with fabrics to produce colorful artistic creations. She began landscape fiber art design with collage art quilts in 2014. A native of Michigan, her works are often inspired by the trees and woodlands along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Susan currently divides her time between creating original collaged art quilt designs, teaching art quilting classes in and around the state of Michigan, marketing her fiber art at shows and exhibitions, and running her Quilting Fabrics in Time business; she only just recently retired from a job as a literacy specialist at Muskegon Community College. Susan uses her 40+ years of K–College level teaching experience and her Ph.D. in Education to provide fun and easy learning experiences in classes and with online instruction.