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Design Essentials: The Quilter's Guide Book

Design Essentials: The Quilter's Guide Book
Item #: DEQGBK

Discover your talent for quilt design!

Learn the key principles of design with award-winning quiltmaker Lorraine Torrence as your guide.

Lorraine provides the techniques needed to turn your unique vision of a quilt into a stunning reality.

You'll find expert, easy-to-follow information on: understanding the roles of color, value, scale, balance, and unity in quilts; successfully using collage curves, checkerboards, and shapes in your quilt designs; creating appealing designs with your favorite blocks and techniques; asking yourself the right questions when concepting a quilt design.

An important resource for all quilters, this book focuses on principles, elements, and technical approaches.

Complete instructions for 5 projects that take you step-by-step through the components of design theory.

Includes chapters on Color, Value, Scale, Balance, and Unity as well as 5 technical approaches: Collage Curves, Designing with a Single Shape, Slash and Sew: Ad lib Piecing for Inlays, Multi-View Images, and Improving the Checkerboard.

Combine your design ideas with Lorraine's techniques to create smashing, original quilts.

Color throughout.

96 page soft-cover book

By Lorraine Torrence

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Nancy Zieman Productions/NZ Productions LLC

Nancy Zieman Productions, LLC was founded in 2007, by Nancy Zieman a businesswoman, author, pattern designer, home economist and national sewing authority. Nancy Zieman Productions (Team NZP) is honored to carry on Nancy’s legacy and love of sewing and quilting through sharing Nancy’s time-saving sewing techniques at the Nancy Zieman Productions Blog, developing sewing notions for Clover Needlecraft, Inc., fashion garment patterns for The McCall Pattern Company, fabric collections for Riley Blake Designs, creating quilt patterns for QuiltWoman, and co-managing The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show with PBS Wisconsin.

Team NZP includes Nancy’s longtime friend Deanna Springer, Vice President of Marketing; Dana Casey, Marketing Coordinator; Denise Abel, Merchandising Coordinator; and Sarah Schulz, Marketing Assistant. Led by Richard E. Zieman, Nancy’s husband and author of Nancy Zieman: The Rest of the Story–A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Friends.