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The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters

A Guide to Creating, Quilting & Living Courageously

by Sherri Lynn Wood
Sara Remington
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An exciting new approach for beginning to advanced quilters who want to improvise on their own, with a friend, or with a community of fellow makers.
Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, Sherri Lynn Wood presents a flexible approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms. Instead of traditional instructions, she presents 10 frameworks (or scores) that create a guiding, but not limiting, structure. To help quilters gain confidence, Wood also offers detailed lessons for stitching techniques key to improvisation, design and spontaneity exercises, and lessons on color. Every quilt made from one of Wood's scores will have common threads, but each one will look different because it reflects the maker's unique interpretation. Featured throughout the book are Wood's own quilts and a gallery of contributor works chosen from among the hundreds submitted when she invited volunteers to test her scores during the making of this groundbreaking work.
"Wood offers a series of techniques, guidelines and lessons on color choice for those ready to explore improvisational quilting. Her book is loaded with full-color photos and examples to inspire." —Dallas Morning News
"Despite how it may "seam," quilting isn't all about rules! Quilting can be an exhilarating way to channel your creativity and express yourself. This book is focused more on exploration than explanation—a perfect mindset for beginners!" —Powell's Books Staff Pick

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    March 31, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781683351887
      • File size: 29360 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781683351887
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      May 15, 2015

      If the quilts shown at the Modern Quilt Guild's 2015 QuiltCon are any indication, improvisational piecing is a major trend within the modern quilting movement. Quilter Wood brings together her inspirations, which include the well-known Gee's Bend quilts, modern dance, and jazz, in this guide to improvisation in quilting. Each of the projects in the book is presented as a "score" containing steps to take quilters from selection of fabrics to piecing to finishing in a thoughtful progression. Wood also includes a variety of mind-body exercises intended to engage mindfulness in the process of improvisation. The book closes with a step-by-step guide to techniques commonly used in improv piecing, such as piecing curves and ruler-free cutting and piecing. VERDICT Improv quilting may not be to everyone's taste--it can be visually jarring at times--but many who love this style are downright passionate about it, and Wood provides a comprehensive overview of improvisational techniques.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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