Puzzle Quilts: Simple Blocks, Complex Fabrics

by Paula Nadelstern

Overview

A Puzzle Quilt is a Sampler with a Secret! Finally...Paula Nadelstern's signature look in blocks any quilter can create. Choose special fabrics to create a variety of effects. The PUZZLE is in the PAIRS-identically pieced blocks look amazingly different! Everyone loves Paula's complex, optically challenging quilts. Now, Paula strips construction down to the bare bones, so you can focus on fabric selection, then use special techniques like symmetry, mirroring, and seam blending to create stunning, exciting designs. The six blocks are featured in a sampler, or combine them with your own ideas to create unlimited projects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607053965
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	11/05/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Paula Nadelstern has achieved international recognition for her innovative and complex designs inspired by the bilateral symmetry of kaleidoscopic images, including the American Folk Art Museum's first one person exhibition highlighting the work of a contemporary quilt artist (2009). Honored by inclusion in the Twentieth Century's 100 Best American Quilts, her designs have inspired industrial products including the vast carpet in the Hilton Americas hotel in Houston, TX. Paula is the author of Paula Nadelstern's Kaleidoscope Quilts: An Artist's Journey Continues, Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Workbook (Pub date 2010), Puzzle Quilts: Simple Blocks, Complex Fabric, Kaleidoscopes & Quilts and Snowflakes & Quilts. She was a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1995 and 2001. Paula lives in New York City, designs textile prints exclusively for Benartex, Inc. and travels extensively teaching her unique kaleidoscopic quiltmaking techniques.

Editorial Reviews

Nadelstern (Kaleidoscopes & Quilts) is known for her seemingly complex and visually challenging quilts. Here she reveals that her quilts actually consist of easily constructed blocks and shares the clever tricks of fabric choice, cutting, and placing that make them seem more complicated than they are. A puzzle quilt is a sampler quilt in which each block is used twice but is pieced in such a way that the "puzzle" is to determine which are the two identically pieced squares. This is not a project book but rather a workbook for the quilter who wishes to take quilting from the bed to the art gallery wall. Recommended for large public libraries. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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