The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously

The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously

by Sherri Lynn Wood
The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously

The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously

by Sherri Lynn Wood

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Overview

Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, artist Sherri Lynn Wood presents a flexible approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms.

Instead of traditional instructions, Sherri Lynn Wood presents 10 frameworks (or scores) that create a guiding, but not limiting, structure. To help quilters gain confidence, she also offers detailed lessons for stitching techniques key to improvisation, design and spontaneity exercises, and lessons on color.

Every quilt made from one of Wood’s scores will have common threads, but each one will look different because it reflects the maker’s unique interpretation. Featured throughout the book are Wood’s own quilts and a gallery of contributor works chosen from among the hundreds submitted when she invited volunteers to test her scores during the making of this groundbreaking work.

“Wood offers a series of techniques, guidelines and lessons on color choice for those ready to explore improvisational quilting. Her book is loaded with full-color photos and examples to inspire.” —Dallas Morning News

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781617691386
Publisher: STC Craft/A Melanie Falick Book
Publication date: 04/28/2015
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 226,560
Product dimensions: 8.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sherri Lynn Wood is an artist working in Oakland, CA. She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors, and a two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow. She has been making and improvising quilts as a creative life practice for twenty-five years, and blogs about it at daintytime.net. Teaching credits include Penland School of Craft, QuiltCon, and numerous modern and traditional guilds across the country.
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