Artful Log Cabin Quilts: From Inspiration to Art Quilt - Color, Composition & Visual Pathways

by Katie Pasquini Masopust

Overview

Take the first steps to becoming an art quilter with popular teacher and best-selling author Katie Pasquini Masopust. Starting with an inspiration image, choose fabrics to create your own artistic log cabin quilts. Learn to navigate visual pathways and composition, applying easy techniques and experimenting with color. Student work is showcased to prove that anyone can create an art quilt! Design and make your masterpiece with freeform log cabin blocks using this versatile method.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617454509
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Katie Pasquini Masopust's contemporary art quilts have been coveted and collected by admirers. A Houston Quilt Festival Silver Star Award winner and prolific author, she travels the world as a teacher and lecturer. She lives in Northern California.

Table of Contents

History of the Artful Log Cabin Quilt Traditional Log Cabin Quilts: Making Traditional Log Cabin Quilts • My Traditional Log Cabin Quilts Artful Log Cabin Quilts Inspirational Photographs Composition • What is a Good Photograph? • Poor Photographs and How to Improve Them Grids Perpendicular Even Grid • Diagonal Even Grid • Diamond Grid • Random Grid • Open Grid • Variable Grid • Wonky Grid • Radiating Grid • Combination Grid • Other Grids Fabrics Use a Full Range of Values • Types of Fabrics and Fabric Content Cutting, Sorting, and Organizing Strips Cutting: Tools • Technique • Strip Sizes Sorting and Organizing Strips Enlarging the Grid Enlarging a Regular Even Grid • Enlarging All Other Grids • Using a Proportion Scale • Enlarging One Block at a Time Block Construction Regular Even Grids: Using Strips of the Same Width • Using Strips of Various Widths Wonky Grids: Using Strips of the Same Width • Using Strips of Various Widths Cabbage Rose Blocks • Circular Blocks Squaring up the Blocks Squaring Regular Even Blocks • Squaring Wonky or Irregular Blocks Quilt Construction Put Together the Blocks • Artful Log Cabins as a Background for Appliqué Quilting Fill Patterns • Grid Quilting • Spiral Quilting • Other Quilting Patterns • Combination Quilting Patterns Finishing Binding • Sleeve • Label • Hanging Gallery About the Author

Editorial Reviews

So if taking a class with Katie PM is on your bucket list and you just can’t do it, jet over to your LQS and get her latest book. As she demonstrates, a simple log cabin block can become a rich and dynamic fiber art statement through inspired use of color, fabric choices and placement. The options for block sizes and use of color mean you could use pretty much any fabric in your stash. Katie talks about color, design, sorting fabrics and choosing the right fabrics for the quilts. And she knows how to work smart—how about using a wooden drying rack to keep fabrics sorted? #wishwedthoughtofthat

4/14/2017 generationqmagazine.com

Katie Pasquini Masopust is a big name in the art-quilt world. For more than 30 years, she has produced amazing contemporary pieces, has taught and has written many books. Here, she takes her knowledge and expertise and shows how to transform the well-known and much-loved log cabin design into more arty versions. The book as a short section about traditional log cabins, then taking cues from inspirational photographs she steps through the process, from grid options and fabrics, to piecing and appliqué ideas. Her method is sure to result in something that is personal, unique and very satisfying.

28 Down Under Textiles

I love making quilts.. but I have never made a Log Cabin quilt. This book talks about the history of such quilts and also teaches us how to construct and plan a beautiful Artful Quilt. This glossy, informative and inspirational book is a joy and Katie has been making them for over 30 years, so I guess what she doesn’t know isn’t that important. Katie use of fabric is clever and she makes some amazing quilts from photographs. She illustrates certain techniques and I learned a lot from her methods.

6/12/2017 tracyshephard.wordpress.com

Katie is one of my favourite quilt authors. She has the most wonderful ideas. If you are thinking traditional log cabin quilts, think again. This book takes you from inspiration to a modern interpretation of log cabin quilts. Make free-form blocks from any image. Contents include history, inspiration, grids, fabrics, cutting, construction, quilting and finishing plus a gallery. There are lots of ideas for composition. The book has easy to follow instructions and is illustrated throughout with fabulous images of work. A simple design idea that works and will transform your quilting. It doesn’t, however make me think of log cabin quilts, but very very artful, yes. Great designs, great use of colour, fabric and stitch.

6/21/2017 yarnsandfabrics.co.uk

Katie Pasquini Masopust's stunning new book is packed with inspiration and practical advice to help quilters of all abilities create unique abstract art quilts from photographs and images, with fantastic examples to showcase each technique.

June 2017 Pretty Patches

Renowned teacher and author Katie Pasquini Masopust has produced another stunning book. Exploring the traditional Log Cabin block in a new and artful way. Katie walks the reader through the process of creating one of these magnificent quilts. Start with an inspiration photograph, lay a grid over it, and voila—Log Cabin blocks! Katie shows how to choose value and placement to optimize the visual effect, while keeping the piecing basic. A great addition to an experienced quilter's library, or an informational start for a burgeoning art quilter.

August/September 2017 Quilting Arts

Katie takes a unique and artful approach to creating log cabin quilts. She explains how to abstract a photograph by using a grid system and the colors in the photo as design inspiration. Many tips on good photography, fabric selection, and construction technique are included. This is a fascinating approach to creating original designs with traditional piecing methods.

September/October 2017 Machine Quilting Unlimited