Create multi-layer images of a single block! Explore dramatic new horizons for traditional quilt patterns. Look closely at a Shadow Quilt, and discover the multi-layer images of a simple block. You’ll love exploring this easy sleight-of-hand technique! 9 inventive projects with complete instructions from design to binding. Start with an easy Shoo-Fly block and progress to quilts using more complex traditional blocks. Shadow Quilts begin with a basic block and repeat the image in small and large scale to create a layered shadow effect. The secret is in your fabric choices! Guidelines and hints from Donna and Patricia show how to choose the most visually effective blocks, determine a color scheme, and select fabric combinations that result in perfect value contrast. Authors Patricia Maixner Magaret and Donna Ingram Slusser both confess to a lifelong fascination with shadows dating back to shadowplay in early childhood. Naturally, this attraction eventually found its way into their quilts, adding an inventive element to otherwise traditional patterns. Shadow quilts, they explain, combine several visual layers of images to create a design. The smaller individual blocks compose one layer, while the shadow layer is a large motif that hovers in the background of the smaller blocks. Like an optical illusion, this shadow image is not immediately apparent but rewards the careful viewer gradually. Thus, for instance, an autumn leaves quilt consisting of 24 multicolored blocks of similar leaf designs camouflages a huge golden leaf residing behind them. The seemingly complex designs become quite attainable in the authors' capable hands; good directions and photographs ensure that anyone with a working knowledge of traditional piecing and a dose of patience can create these enchanting designs. --Amy Handy Patricia Maixner Magaret and Donna Ingram Slusser enjoy an active quilting partnership that has developed over a period of twenty years. They are the authors of several best-selling books. Pat and Donna both live in Pullman, Washington. Used Book in Good Condition