{"id":776,"date":"2008-10-16T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2008-11-18T01:02:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T05:02:39","slug":"design-explorations-for-the-creative-quilter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1571204555\/glorihanseartisw\/104-6342261-2981530\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-780 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"katie1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/katie1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1571204555\/glorihanseartisw\/104-6342261-2981530\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Designing Explorations for the Creative Quilter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>80 pp, paperback,\u00a0 C&amp;T Publishing<br \/>\nKatie Pasquinin Masopust\u2019s latest book is a winner.<\/p>\n<p>I have all of Katie\u2019s books, going back to her Mandala-creation days, probably some 20 years ago.\u00a0 Although I only know Katie from seeing her on occasion at shows, I know her through her work and books.\u00a0 As her style grew over the years, so did mine.\u00a0 However, she was always leaps and bounds ahead of my abilities and her work always inspired me.<\/p>\n<p>Her latest book is a doorway into her latest approach to quilt design.\u00a0 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.<br \/>\nTaking the time to do the lessons can result in original work that can push you as an artist.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of the book, Katies goes through tools and supplies, composition,\u00a0 and color.\u00a0 The \u201cmeat\u201d 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.\u00a0 The explorations include shapes, lines, details, repetition, blind painting, watercolor painting, watercolor vignettes, linear reflections, palette knife painting, and the freeze frame.<\/p>\n<p>While there is a section on quilt construction, it\u2019s\u00a0 brief.\u00a0 The designs you create, however, can be translated into whatever style you\u2019re comfortable working in (for example, fusing).<\/p>\n<p>Design Explorations gives you the tools to learn principales of design and apply them to your quilt making, regardless what technique you prefer.\u00a0 if you have any interest at all in learning pushing yourself as an \u201cart\u201d quilt maker, get this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing Explorations for the Creative Quilter 80 pp, paperback,\u00a0 C&amp;T Publishing Katie Pasquinin Masopust\u2019s latest book is a winner. I have all of Katie\u2019s books, going back to her Mandala-creation days, probably some 20 years ago.\u00a0 Although I only know Katie from seeing her on occasion at shows, I know her through her work and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}