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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • Saying What You Want to Say
  • What's to Know? What's to Teach?
  • How Can You make a Quilt That's Unique?
  • Design Comes from What You Perceive
  • How to Use This Book
  • A Design from Nature:
    • Developing the Idea
    • Finalizing the Size
    • Cutting Templates
    • Selecting Fabrics
    • Laying Out a Few Blocks
    • Finalizing the Design Details
    • Piecing the Swans
    • Viewing the Pieced Quilt Top
    • Planning the Quilting Lines
    • Choosing a Border
    • Summary
  • Designing Quilts:
    • Learning from Nature
    • Using the Elements of Design
    • Choosing Color and Fabric
  • The Quilts:
    • Tree Birds
    • Surf Fish
    • Sea Birds
    • Trumpeter Swans
    • Herons
    • Dusty Circles in the Corral
    • Carousel Friendship Quilt
    • The Rescue of the SEven Princesses
    • I Dreamed I Danced in Marbled Halls
    • Sighted at Samish, January 1992
  • A Few Quiltmaking Basics
  • Your Quilt Art- Process or Product?
  • Afterword

Title: Quilts from Nature
Author/Designer: Joan Colvin
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1993
Publisher: That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA
Language: English
Page Count: 112
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 1564770265

SUMMARY- I am in awe of this woman's talent for translating nature shots into amazing pieced quilts. She has a great love of beige and tans, and I don't care one whit. If you prefer pieced blocks over applique, but want to do something other than a traditional block, shop no further. I can't imagine anyone not loving this book, and being inspired to try her process for designing these blocks yourself.

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