Art Quilt Maps

"e;Working with paint, collage, and stitch, Valerie encourages readers to integrate poetry, memory, and personal experience into quilt maps that tell a story."e; -Quilting Arts MagazineTransform the places you love and places you've always wanted to see into hypnotic art quilts. Award-winning artist Valerie Goodwin shows you how to make quilted maps with easy fabric collage techniques and innovative designs based on maps of your favorite places. The book features a large photo gallery of quilt maps by Valerie and her students. - Find inspiration in real and imaginary sites, in old maps, in poetry, and in memories- Transform a place's essential lines and shapes into quilt design- Fully illustrated guide covers a variety of basic mixed-media techniques- Make luminous textures with fabric layering, paints, stamps, stencils, drawing, and applique"e;She teaches readers how to use road maps, tourist maps, utility company maps, as well as imaginary maps in quilting . . . At the end, she offers three treats: embellishing with haiku, designing travel maps with stones and shadows, and mapping memories and landscapes of families and homes."e; Publishers Weekly"e;Her style here is collage a blend of texture, material and manipulation and her theme is the map. Each quilt in her collection reflects a broad range of approaches to the maps she was inspired by. (Bonus: Her students' gallery is total eye candy!) Delightful!"e; Generation Q Magazine"e;This book is bound to appeal to the fiber artists among us . . . This book is a certified spring board to creativity. All I need now is some time!"e; The Canadian Quilter Magazine