art quilts
Ricky Tims’ Convergence Quilts
Ricky Tims’ Convergence Quilts: Mysterious, Magical, Easy, and Fun (Paperback) by Ricky Tims - Wow! This is one of the best quilt books I’ve read cover-to-cover. It’s filled with eye-candy and laced with a humorous story. Tims brings the art quilt out of the museum and into the home, where explanations are clear and easy […]
Designing Tessellations
Designing Tessellations: The Secrets of Interlocking Patterns (Hardcover) by Jinny Beyer - What’s a tessellation, you might ask? Think MC Escher, where interlocking geometric patterns bend back into themselves to create double designs. Beyer makes this artistic form easy to learn with more than 125 color photographs and 2,000 step-by-step color drawings. Don’t worry if […]
Quilt Artistry
Quilt Artistry: Inspired Designs from the East by Yoshiko Jinzenji - The artist-technician Jinzenji combines her past love of Amish and Mennonite quilts with the patchwork altar cloths of her native Japan. Throw in a little Bali dyeing tradition, and a true blend of East meets West occurs. No matter the mix, the results are […]
