Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design

Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design

by Amy Friend
Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design

Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design

by Amy Friend

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Overview

Love to create repeating blocks in your quilts but tired of the same patterns? Step away from the ordinary and try your hand at a new technique-based approach to improvisation. Gorgeous photographs illustrate 10 beautiful projects where Amy Friend seamlessly bridges the gap between improvised design and technical execution. Discover a unique approach to creating one-of-a-kind blocks with guided exercises that explore scale, symmetry and alternate gridwork. Then, with Amy's help, you'll have the opportunity to design your own patterns. You really can have a dash of the unexpected through improv with the precision of paper piecing and still create those secondary patterns we all love in quilts made using traditional blocks. With a modern spin, Improv Paper Piecing gracefully guides the reader, step-by-step, through improvisationally designing your own paper piecing patterns to strategically setting the grid—-so that the end result is a masterful, unique quilt of repeated blocks. If you're looking for a fun exciting challenge, the party is here. Step over and stitch outside the box.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781940655239
Publisher: Lucky Spool
Publication date: 03/27/2017
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Amy Friend is an award-winner quilter and a former museum curator. A member of the Modern Quilt Guild, Amy enjoys paper piecing and modern quilt design. She blogs at www.duringquiettime.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

What Is Improv Paper Piecing? 8

Paper-Piecing Essentials 12

Getting into the Improv Mindset 17

Chapter 1 Be Inspired by Tradition 23

Exercise 1 A Little to the Left Black Magic 26

Exercise 2 Improv Triangles Sixty Seconds 32

Exercise 3 Asymmetry Revolution 38

Chapter 2 Shape-Based Designs 45

Exercise 4 Symmetry Peacock Crossing 46

Exercise 5 Scale Sea Glass, 52

Exercise 6 Wonky Catawampus 58

Chapter 3 Object-Based Designs 64

Exercise 7 Signage Upsetting the Balance 66

Exercise 8 Architecture Paper Trail 72

Exercise 9 Nature Luminous 78

Bonus Pattern: Kite Tails 84

Exploring Different Layouts 90

Fabric Selections 104

Finishing Design Touches 106

Traditional Block-Based Design Prompts 114

Shape-Based Design Prompts 116

Object-Based Design Prompts 118

Templates 120

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