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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • CHAPTER 1: Planning
    • Your Working Space
    • Helpful Tools
  • CHAPTER 2: Picture Piecing
    • Basic Symbols
  • CHAPTER 3: Sewing
    • Prep Work
    • Organizing the Pattern Pieces
    • Construction Methods
    • Troubleshooting
  • CHAPTER 4: Designing
    • Choosing Your Subject
    • Selecting Fabrics
  • CHAPTER 5: Sectioning
    • Making a Line Drawing
    • Using a Proportional Scale
    • Enlarging the Pattern
    • Sectioning Straight Lines
    • Sectioning Curved Lines
    • Indicating Movement
    • Multiple Shapes
    • Overlapping Shapes
    • Shading
    • Adding Conversation Prints
  • CHAPTER 6: Techniques
    • Altering the Fabric
    • Buildings
    • Windows
    • Trees
    • Bushes and Flowers
    • Clouds
    • Faces
    • Eyes and Embroidered Details
    • Using Photo Transfers
  • CHAPTER 7: Finishing
    • Squaring the Quilt
    • Stabilizing the Edges
    • Border Treatments
    • Backing
    • Batting
    • Quilting Decisions
    • Binding
    • Blocking
    • Quilt Sleeve
    • Labeling the Quilt
  • INDEX
  • About the Author
  • Resource Listing

Title: Picture Piecing: Creating Dramatic Pictorial Quilts
Author/Designer: Cynthia England
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2002
Publisher: England Design, Houston, TX
Language: English
Page Count: 132
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0972096302

SUMMARY- Instructions are detailed and well broken down, and the landscape quilts made can be extremely detailed. There is a learning curve for her method, but you can't argue with results.