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Designing Explorations for the Creative Quilter

80 pp, paperback,  C&T Publishing
Katie Pasquinin Masopust’s latest book is a winner.

I have all of Katie’s books, going back to her Mandala-creation days, probably some 20 years ago.  Although I only know Katie from seeing her on occasion at shows, I know her through her work and books.  As her style grew over the years, so did mine.  However, she was always leaps and bounds ahead of my abilities and her work always inspired me.

Her latest book is a doorway into her latest approach to quilt design.  While the results of her designs are often translated into exquisite works, the instruction she shares genuinely encourages readers and quilt makers of any level to understand the concepts and apply them to their own work.
Taking the time to do the lessons can result in original work that can push you as an artist.

In the beginning of the book, Katies goes through tools and supplies, composition,  and color.  The “meat” of the book is methods of exploring design approaches through using paper, paint, and eventually fabric, should you want to convert a design exercise into a quilt.  The explorations include shapes, lines, details, repetition, blind painting, watercolor painting, watercolor vignettes, linear reflections, palette knife painting, and the freeze frame.

While there is a section on quilt construction, it’s  brief.  The designs you create, however, can be translated into whatever style you’re comfortable working in (for example, fusing).

Design Explorations gives you the tools to learn principales of design and apply them to your quilt making, regardless what technique you prefer.  if you have any interest at all in learning pushing yourself as an “art” quilt maker, get this book.

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