Quilt Studio : Innovative Techniques for Confident and Creative Quiltmaking and Design

By Pauline Burbidge and Pauline Burbridge

Suitable for beginners who are fast learners with a background in art of crafts, Quilt Studio combines simple quiltmaking methods with unusually inventive techniques, all illustrated through stunning... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844220825
• ISBN13: 9780844220826
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Ntc Pub Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant, practical and stylish

As a new quilter, I've been collecting books for some months, but this is the best I've found. Not only does it give good basic techniques for beginners, but it takes you rapidly from attempting mundane, predictable quilts to designing originals with artistic flair and inspiration. For beginners or advanced quilters who want to make quilts removed from the traditional, this books provides all the practical and design skills you need to get there. A brilliant book.

A Magnificent Book on Contemporary Quiltmaking

This inspiring analysis of the discipline and potential of quiltmaking from a leading European designer will be valued by both amateur and professional textile artists. Pauline Burbidge demonstrates a freedom of expression that can only be achieved through artistic sincerity and a complete mastery of technique. The book is richly illustrated with examples from her studio and gives an insight into both the practicalities and the philosophy of her work.

Includes steps basic to both pieced and appliqued quilts

Quilt Studio is organized as part of a two-part series of workshops and provides a source of design and quilt making options which include steps basic to both pieced and appliqued quilts by machine and by hand. Workshops in Part 2 outline how to build on these techniques to make customized quilts. Quilt Studio is an excellent introduction for all skills levels.

A Quilting Workshop in a Book

For the experienced and novice quilter alike, this book takes you step by step through the process Pauline Burbidge uses in creating her spectacular quilts. Both innovative piecing techniques and quilting ideas are included, along with color workshops, some dyeing and painting tips and collage work. The book itself is slick, beautifully produced and full of lively, inspiring color photography. For contemporary and traditional quilters, this book would is a great at home workshop to follow chapter by chapter. Learning just one or two of her techniques or concepts would make investing in this book worthwhile.

Unique insights to a unique quilter

Quilt Studio is a wonderful book. I have known and loved Pauline Burbidge's work for a long time and I particularly admire its sheer professionalism and clarity. In this book Pauline gives you technique after technique which provides you, the quilter, with an amazing insight into her methods and a superb array of tools for your own work. Her voice is very clear in all that is written here. She doesn't tell you how to go out and make copies of her work. She explains the processes and inspires you to run with them. It is methodical, it is inspirational and if you end up wishing you could have the dedication and the rugged life that Pauline and her husband, Charlie, have in the Scottish borders, so be it.