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Now available from Gecko Gully! Ruth B. McDowell's latest book, Piecing Workshop. THE Reference Guide to Piecing Like a Master!
Read what Ruth says about her book: From ancient times people have been joining together small pieces of fabric to get larger ones, recycling scraps from other projects to make usable sized pieces of material. The scraps of different fabrics often made an attractive design in the process. Taking advantage of this, patchworkers have been intentionally cutting up larger pieces of cloth and re-sewing them in deliberate patterns to please the eye. In America, this process eventually resulted in what we know as traditional patchwork blocks, usually designed from a geometric base. As the quiltmaking community pursued this art, the desire to piece more elaborate or creative quilts has continually advanced the craft of sewing bits of cloth together. I have been fascinated by this process for 25 years. My artistic medium is patchwork, assembled on a home sewing machine, and quilted to sculpture the final surface. In order to produce the images I have in mind, I have pushed myself to try to find my limits in piecing, then to work against those limits in developing my pieces.
Over the years, I have done some hard thinking about the process of pieced design. The choices I make in setting out the piecing design have implications for the visual impact of the quilt. Making minor changes in the way most traditional blocks are set up can have a significant impact on the final design. The design of the piecing is just the initial step. It is followed by the much more complicated business of selecting a fabric for each piece. With the completion of the pieced top, the design and execution of the quilting stitches hold the layers together and sculpture the surface. Ruth B. McDowell's Piecing Workshop focuses on the piecing part of the process, trying to show both the technical piecing techniques and some of the design choices (and their implications) that quiltmakers might consider in laying out original designs of their own.
Ruth B. McDowell is an internationally known professional quilt artist, teacher, lecturer, and author. She has made over 300 quilts during the last two decades. Her quilts have been seen in many solo shows, as well as in dozens of magazines and books. Ruth resides in Massachusetts.
Price includes postage within Australia. Please enquire about overseas postage costs.
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