This image was scanned from the Dianna May Martin personal library collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: The Capricious Art of Improvisation
- Preparation: Quilting Supplies and Tools...
- Color Your Quilt Beautiful:
- Elements of Design
- The Properties of Color
- Color Schemes & Combinations
- Shading & Highlights
- Blending
- Color Balance
- Contrast
- Crazy About Curves, Basic Technique:
- My Star Dances
- Interpreting pattern markings
- Marking a template for movement
- Lining a patch
- Clipping curves
- Stitching
- Turning under straight edges and corners
- Enlarging the stabilizer foundation
- Improvisational Quilts:
- Making an improvisational block quilt
- Constructing a freeform basic block
- Sewing down the patches
- Making linings for light-valued improvisational patches
- Making circular and oval-shaped blocks
- Splicing seams
- Improvisational sheer overlay
- Exploring Dimension:
- Fabric manipulations
- Choosing fabric for manipulation
- Simple strips
- Multi-fabric strip units
- Freeform pleats
- Making tubes
- Wrinkling and folding a whole-cloth fabric
- Facing shapes & patches
- Portrait of a Poppy
- New Explorations: Making openings in your quilt
- English Ivy
- Alternate method for making openings
- Random improvisational openings
- Working with openings in your own design
- Latticework
- Improvisational Borders, Finishes and Bindings
- Border options
- Finishing
- Envelope finish
- Binding options
- Hanging sleeve with easement
- Pattern templates
- Resources
- About the Author
- Awards
- Artist's statements
- Quilts