What's the secret to a show-stopping art quilt? Take a tactile adventure as you interpret the world through line, form, texture, color, and most importantly, value. Play with the unexpected and making your quilt becomes a dream-like experience...where the sea ebbs and flows in shades of fire, and feathered creatures evoke cotton candy softness. Set your imagination free! • Discover how value creates a focal point, develops dimensionality, and lends a painterly effect to your quilt • 5 projects with full-size patterns feature 3 appliqué styles: turned-edge, raw-edge, and free-edge • Learn how to choose fabrics with value in mind to achieve different effects Impressionist Appliqué Exploring Value & Design to Create Artistic Quilts by Grace Errea and Meridith Osterfeld. Begin with a study of value, then move on to create realistic, detailed pictorial quilts following step-by-step instructions. Five patterns with full-size pattern sheets feature three appliqué styles: turned-edge, raw-edge, and free-edge. Discover how value creates a focal point, develops dimensionality, and lends a painterly effect. Learn how to choose fabrics with value in mind to achieve different effects. Hundreds of step-by-step photos help with the how to and provide project inspiration. Published by C&T Publishing, 96 pages, soft cover, $29.95 USD. www.ctpub.com. You can study with Grace Errea and learn her techniques first hand! Grace will return to Quilting in the Desert, Phoenix, January 2013. Registration is open at www.quiltcamp.com ― Arizona Quilter's Hall of Fame ‘Impressionist Applique’ by Grace Errea and Meredith Osterfeld is a unique book, where the quilts are centered on value rather than color, and three different appliqué techniques are used to stitch the fabric onto a thin foundation. Impressionist Applique centers on the use of color values, the same color of fabric family, with a difference in how light or dark a fabric is. Using tone-on-tone fabrics, Errea and Osterfeld lead in exercises in making quilt fabric charts for fabric shopping and organizing. Several projects are demonstrated throughout the book, and Errea and Osterfeld take you on a journey in making these quilts. These are very beautiful small, art quilts with a lot of fabric choices included. After fusing or gluing these pieces to a foundation, the book teaches three different appliqué methods. They have chosen to teach raw edge appliqué, turned edge and free edge appliqué. After completing your art quilt, Errea and Osterfeld, help you finish the quilt with assistance in adding your backing, and how to quilt your art. It is very comprehensive. I like this book because it goes so much into learning about fabric value, and the quilts are really beautiful! If you would like to learn a new technique, and aren’t concerned about what color your swan or parrot is, this is a great book! http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=2513 -- Judy Bowers A very unusual and intriguing book. It's not a series of projects, although patterns and guidelines for making five quilts - including the swan shown on the front cover - have been included. This is more a primer on the method that Grace and Meridith use to plan their work before starting to actually cut or sew fabric. Their very strong emphasis is on value and they take a highly analytical, almost mathematical approach that we believe will appeal to quiltmakers who feel most comfortable with plans, sturcture and precision. We might have expected working in this way would lead to exacting geometric quilts, but Grand and meredith's quilts are quite "painterly" landscapes and animal portraits that are absolutely stunning. ― Austalian Homespun Would you like to discover what the secret is to a show-stopping art quilt? If so, read on! Setting out ot make a quilt is like embarking on a jouney; filled with unexpected surprises, some frustration and, hopefully, a really satisfying end product. To quote the Chinese proverb of Lao-tzu 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with one single step' and this book encourages you to join the journey and take pleasure in a piece of work that reflects your visions and dreams. There are 5 projects with full-size patterns featuring three appliqué styles: turned edge, raw edge and free edge, so you can choose the method of appliqué that you are most comfortable with. One of the most interesting elements of this book, for me, is the instruction on how value creates a focal point, develops dimension and lends a painterly effect to your quilt. This book is more than just and appliqué instruction book. -- Jennifer Trollope ― Fabrications Quilting For You The beguiling beauty of Grace Errea's appliqué quilts demonstrates that her emphasis on the use of value in design achieves incredible results. WRitten with the help of Meridith Osterfield, she gives invaluable advice on creating successful compositions and well-illustrated instructions for three appliqué techniques. Patterns for fi