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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1: Planning
- Your Working Space
- Helpful Tools
- CHAPTER 2: Picture Piecing
- 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
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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.
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