Celebrate Kaleidoscope Quilts With the Master Kaleidoscope Artist. Career retrospective of Paula Nadelstern's awe-inspiring quilts is packed with photos, design insights, and tips for making your own kaleidoscope quilts. Huge gallery with photos and in-depth, behind-the-scenes commentary on 19 quilts. Chapters with detailed explanations of Paula's design strategies and construction methods. The astonishing quilts that spring from Paula Nadelstern's passion for kaleidoscopes will change your view of what a quilt can be. This book highlights Paula's life work and shows how you can use her techniques to create your own unique fabric art.

The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to create a stunning snowflake quilt, including how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully. Paula’s incredible quilts capture the delicate, three-dimensional effect of winter’s snowflakes. Learn how to create the endless variations found in snowflakes using the techniques and materials of quilt making! • Full-size patterns for making 11 of the snowflake designs from Paula’s quilts • Step-by-step instructions explain how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully • Paula reveals her strip-piecing techniques for “Power Stitching” • Learn methods for using your fabrics to create “Seemingly Seamless Seams” “Paula explores the collision of precise geometry and lush splinters of color and pattern. In this book, she reveals her unique technique with characteristic intelligence and humor.” —Stacy C. Hollander, Senior Curator, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City “Much like a child mesmerized by fireflies, I cannot get enough of looking when I see [Paula’s] quilts. Riveting, dazzling, hypnotizing—these are the words that spring to mind when I behold Paula’s art.” —Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to use simple piecing to create spectacular quilts that are a feast for the eyes. Imagine a traditional quilt, its ordinary shapes gift wrapped with intricate fabrics. Celebrated author, teacher, and fabric designer Paula Nadelstern shows you how to design simple but stunning quilts with the help of vivacious fabric prints. Analyze fabrics to uncover their piecing potential for color and symmetry. Make your own cutting templates and learn how to get the “seemingly seamless” look made famous by Paula’s kaleidoscopic quilts. Example piecing diagrams show just how easy it is to quilt a visual spectacle. • Fabricadabra! Discover your fabric’s hidden potential and sew complex-looking quilts that are easy to piece with industry leader Paula Nadelstern • Understand symmetry in fabrics and fool the eye with daring design strategies • Fussy cut prints to perfection with self-drafted templates and camouflage seams for luminous effects

Kaleidoscope - the very word promises surprise and magic, chance and change. Exploding with visual excitement, a kaleidoscope design organizes an abundance of light, color, form, and motion into a complex and coherent image, capturing a moment of infinity. This book is jammed with how-to's and why-not's, process and product, and an abundance of text and photos that explains elements of design and technique for creating the multifaceted, luminous, and random nature of a kaleidoscope's interior on the flat surface of a quilt. The kaleidoscope configuration and its symmetrical repetition allows the quiltmaker to explore a variety of design possibilities using intricately printed fabric. With Paula as your guide, you will find that making kaleidoscope quilts is like making magic with fabric.

Learn Tims’ innovative techniques step-by-step to create a stunning kaleidoscope quilt of your own. • An inspirational gallery of 26 student quilts • Like snowflakes, each quilt you make with this technique will be unique • Includes easy steps to enlarge or reduce the size of your quilt Create a spectacular kaleidoscope quilt with Ricky's unique strip-piecing method for making a multi-faceted pattern. You'll see impressive and intricate results from simple sets of strips; it’s foolproof with little need for pre-planning. The beauty lies in the unpredictability of how the fabric unfolds—just like a real kaleidoscope!

Say goodbye to your seam ripper, backwards blocks, and mismatched seams with Easy Precision Piecing—the pathway to flawless patchwork. This comprehensive system starts with picking the right tools and prepping your fabric for the best results. Learn to get organized so you can easily set aside projects without losing your place. Practice your cutting, sewing, and pressing with foolproof Quilt Block Builder blueprints, then use your newfound skills to make 6 stunning quilt projects.

Put a new twist on your favorite traditional quilt designs with this guide featuring creative fabrics and modern, time-saving techniques! Legendary quilters Blanch Young and Dalene Young-Stone present a new twist on traditional quilt patterns including Boston Commons, Trip Around the World, Sunshine and Shadow, Nine Patch, Irish Chain, and more using new construction methods and composing with an exciting palette of contemporary fabrics. The authors introduce the basics of working with fabric to create strip sets to easily construct magnificent quilts. Their streamlined techniques were developed to get traditional quality results using the tools of today, such as rotary cutters and cutting mats.

"Piecing meets fast and easy fusible wool appliqué in this follow-up to the best-selling Kim Schaefer's Calendar Quilts. Start a family tradition by hanging a new mini quilt in your home each month! Twelve seasonal wall quilts--one for each month of the year--are perfect for quick projects, gifts, scrap-busting, and block-of-the-month clubs. Cheerful motifs in Kim's signature style come with full-size appliqué patterns. Each block in this pattern pack measures 10 1/2" x 18 1/2"."--Publisher

More than 200 how-to illustrations and dozens of color plates detail the process fully. In addition to covering fabric selection, the chapters provide step-by-step cutting and piecing directions for seven different blocks, and yardage and assembly directions for 14 projects ranging from small wall quilts to queen-sized bed quilts. A chapter on quilting includes designs and strategies to bring out all the beauty of these magical quilts.