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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Tools and Materials:
    • Tools
    • Materials
  • Basic Procedures:
    • Quilting Designs
    • Marking the Top
    • Preparing to Quilt
    • The Quilting Stitch
    • The Quilting Frame
    • Machine Quilting
    • Tying and Tufting
    • Joining Pre-quilted Units
    • Finishing
    • Lining
    • Signing Your Work
  • Patchwork:
    • Origins
    • Materials
    • Traditional Patchwork
    • Free Patchwork
    • Crazy Patchwork
    • Borders and Strips
    • Enlarging a Patchwork Block
    • Puff Patchwork
    • Baasic Patchwork Procedures
    • Special Fabrics
    • Finishing
    • Demonstration: A Crib Blanket
    • Gallery
  • Applique:
    • Origins
    • Materials
    • Designing for Applique
    • The Applique Procedure
    • Machine Applique
    • Stuffed Applique
    • Reverse Applique
    • Demonstration: A Voodoo Mask
    • Gallery
  • Trapunto:
    • Origins
    • Trapunto Today
    • Materials and Tools
    • Trapunto Techniques
    • Cord-Quilting
    • Trapunto on a Sewing Machine
    • Demonstration: A Face Pillow
    • Gallery
  • Clothing:
    • Origins
    • Contemporary Applications
    • Recycling
    • Quilting with a Pattern
    • Tailoring a Garment
    • Making Clothing from Blocks and Strips
    • Piecing the Whole Garment
    • Trapunto on Clothing
    • Finishing
    • Demonstration: A Quilted Vest
    • Gallery
  • Printed, Painted, and Dyed Fabrics:
    • Origins
    • Contemporary Applications
    • General Procedures
    • Stamping and Printing Methods
    • Painting and Dyeing Methods
    • Gallery
  • Ideas and Design:
    • Designing
    • Line
    • Form
    • Texture
    • Color
    • Rhythm and Balance
    • Enlarging a Design
    • Design Sources
    • Gallery
  • Suppliers List
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Title: Creative Quilting: Tools and Materials, Basic Techniques, Printed, Painted, and Dyed, Ideas and Design
Author/Designer: Elsa Brown
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1975
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications, NY
Language: English
Page Count: 146
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 10 1/4" x 7 1/4"
ISBN: 0823011054

SUMMARY- This is an early book on soft sculpture and creative quilting techniques. The art shown screams 1960s - when you see it you can instantly name the time period. It's an interesting time period, and the author's exploration of it makes it an interesting read.