Brave New Quilts
12 Projects Inspired by 20th-Century Art From Art Nouveau to Punk & Pop
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Publisher Description
The beloved quilt artist explores the use of line, color, motif, and text in this quilting guide featuring 12 projects inspired by modern art movements.
Kathreen Ricketson was one of Australia’s most popular modern quilt artists and bloggers. In Brave New Quilts, she combines her fine art background with her love of craft to offer a series of quilts evoking the aesthetics of Art Deco, Bauhaus, Abstract Expressionism, and even Dada. Each chapter focuses on a different design principle with 3 quilt projects presented with 2 alternate design options.
Kathreen shares a historical overview of each art movement, giving essential context to each project. A must-have for fans of the modern quilt movement, Brave New Quilts includes expert information on color, fabric selection, inspiration, and mood boards. A comprehensive appendix and in-depth information on tools and finishing techniques round out this inspiring book.
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Ricketson (Little Bits Quilting Bee), an Australian blogger (whipup.net) and quilt columnist, marries her interest in art to her creativity as a quilter. The result is colorful quilts of varying degrees of difficulty and derivative design. She admits an attraction to opposites in designs that reveal her "little spark of quirkiness." In particular, she is drawn to 20th-century art and social movements, from art deco and Bauhaus to punk; she extracts the essence of each via color, text, line, and motif. Ricketson teaches design principles, such as space, color, and mood, before laying out 12 designs, each augmented with suggestions for the reader/quilter (her commonest verb is "try"). To teach use of line, she offers the quilt "Intersections." "Weave," its horizontal lines jabbed by a wedge of complementary lines, manifests Bauhaus ideals. Cubist concepts play in "Rhythm." Each quilt design includes a chart detailing size of blocks and finished quilt, degree of difficulty, and techniques. Throughout, Ricketson offers tips, such as tracing fonts right off the computer screen for "Frothy Nothing," a fabric tribute to dada.
