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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface
- Credits
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- The All-American Art
- The Conundrum: What is Art?
- So, What About Quilt Art?
- Design and the New Quilt Surface
- A Personal Note
- 2 FABRIC GEOMETRY: DESIGNING THE PIECED QUILT
- Symmetrical Design
- Asymmetrical Design
- Symmetry vs Asymmetry
- Designing Assymetrical Patterns
- A Selection of Assymetrical Studies
- 3 COLOR DESIGN FOR THE PIECED QUILT
- About Materials for the Color Excercise
- Light and Dark Contrast
- Pure Color
- Value
- Complementary Colors
- Adjacent Colors
- Color Temperature
- The Expressive Factor
- A Spectrum of Contemporary Quilts
- 4 THE CURVED SEAM: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
- Linear Patterns
- An Exercise in Spontaneous Color Selection
- The Craft of the Curved Seam
- A Gallery of Curved-Seam Quilts
- 5 STRIP PIECING THE QUILT SURFACE
- The Technique of Strip Piecing
- Design for Strip Piecing
- The Contemporary Stirp Quilt
- 6 LOG CABIN: NEW WAYS WITH AN OLD FORM
- The Log Cabin Structure
- Color Discoveries with Log Cabin
- Contemporary Log Cabin Techniques
- Contemporary Log Cabin Quilts
- 7 QUILTING: LINE AND TEXTURE IN THE QUILT SURFACE
- The Whole-cloth Quilt
- Notes on Quilting Design for Pieced Work and Applique
- New Explorations in Whole-cloth
- APPENDIXES
- Appendix A: The Flowering of Pieced Quilt Design
- Appendix B: Notes on Fabric for Quilts and Its Care
- Appendix C: Notes on Taking Your Quilt's Picture
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX