Quiltmaking, Stenciling

American Stenciled Quilts: New Projects from Traditional Techniques

Name: American Stenciled Quilts: New Projects from Traditional Techniques
Author: Vicki Garnas
ISBN: 9781564774613

by Vicki Garnas

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Overview

Discover a lost quiltmaking art that you can easily re-create with today's streamlined tools and techniques. With fabric-friendly paints and pens, you can quickly produce elaborate, appliqué-style motifs that hail back to this inspired time in quiltmaking history. Seven quilts filled with flowers, birds, leaves, and fruits include templates and complete step-by-step instructions Discover the history behind these rare folk-art pieces with a retrospective of nineteenth-century stenciled quilts Instantly achieve an antique look by "aging" fabric with tea and coffee dyes
About the Author

Hometown: Granada Hills, California
Quilt historian, designer, and two-time author Vicki Garnas has shared her designs as a guest on HGTV's The Carol Duvall Show and has had her stenciled quilts featured in American Patchwork and Quilting. Also by Vicki Garnas: Fast-and-Fun Stenciled Quilts