Thread Stories: A Visual Guide to Creating Stunning Stitched Portrait Quilts

By Jennifer Day

Book Overview

A picture is worth a thousand threads

Tell captivating stories in fabric and thread Acclaimed quilting artist Jennifer Day invites you to create realistic portrait quilts with thread painting. Turn your own photos of people and animals into one-of-a-kind story quilts, as you learn to masterfully stitch in the details. This step-by-step visual guide takes you from photo selection to editing, printing on fabric, thread painting, and free-motion quilting. With just a home sewing machine, quilters of all experience levels can capture and quilt life's precious memories.

- Step-by-step visual guide to realistic portrait quilts, using your home sewing machine
- Print your own photos on fabric and tell one-of-a-kind thread stories
- Thread painting techniques anyone can apply to get that WOW factor
- From award-winning quilter, artist, and teacher Jennifer Day

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617450537
• ISBN13: 9781617450532
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: C&T Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.5"