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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- How to Use This Book
- DESIGN:
- Old Buildings
- New Buildings
- Choosing Your Facade
- Elements of Design
- Line, Shape, Texture
- Using the Elements of Design
- Editing, Exaggeration, Repetition, Balance, Focal Point, Movement, Contrast
- Finding an Image
- Cropping, Backgrounds, Scale, Light and Shadows
- COLOR:
- Color and Culture
- The Art of Color
- Color Combinations
- The Color Wheel, Color Schemes
- Color Balance
- Working with the Original Color Scheme
- Color and Perspective
- FABRIC:
- Dark Fabrics for the Base
- Fabrics for Walls
- Fabrics for Trims
- Fabrics for Glass
- Fabrics for Sky
- Fabrics for Foreground and Water
- Overpainting Commercial Fabrics
- Creating Textured Fabrics
- Steps to Prevent Fraying
- CREATING THE PATTERN:
- Drawing the Design
- Using Perspective
- Photocopying and using Your Computer
- Photocopying and Tracing, Using apps, Outline details on tracing paper
- CONSTRUCTION:
- Basic Construction Notes
- Preparing Freezer-paper Patterns for Bases
- Seaside Cottage
- Prepare the base pieces, Add fabric, Make the main wall, Add stitching, Add background and foreground, Make the qilt sandwich, Put it together, Quilt and finish
- Special Features
- Multiple buildings, Stone wall, Windows, Wrought iron
- BACKGROUNDS AND FOREGROUNDS:
- Background- Sky
- Commercial Sky Fabric, Painted Sky, Collage Sky, One Piece of Fabric Sky
- Background- Forest
- Abstract Forest
- Foreground
- Water, Paved Footpath
- DOORWAYS:
- Design
- Preparation
- Construction
- Prepare the base pieces, Add fabric, Add stitching, Put it together, Quilt and finish
- Special Doorways
- OTHER FACADES:
- Cargo Ship Design
- Preparation
- Construction
- Make the Ship, Make the containers, Make the lettering, Make the ship trim, Make the background and foreground
- Put it Together
- Quilt, Finish
- SKYSCRAPERS:
- Design
- Block Construction
- Prepare the bases, Make the outside window frames, Make the glass windows, Make the vertical and horizontal beams, Stitch
- Put It Together
- Prepare the quilt sandwich, Join the blocks, Quilt, Add borders, Alternative fabric choice
- Alternative Blocks
- Other Designs
- FINISHING:
- Faced Edges
- PROJECTS:
- Old Doorway
- Italian Village
- Campervan
- STUDENT GALLERY QUILTS
- About the Author