Fabulous FacadesCreate Breathtaking Quilts with Fused Fabric [Paperback]

Gloria Loughman is well known for her fabulous art quilts featuring Australian landscapes and, more recently, Australian buildings. In this book, she shows you how you can immortalise a favourite building in fabric using fusible-web appliqu??. She assures us that her techniques make it easy and, by way of proof, she's included photos of two architectural quilts made by one of her granddaughters when she was only 11 and 12 years old???and they're both fabulous. There is a wealth of information in this book, covering everything from elements of design, colour theory, choosing fabrics for your quilt and drawing up a pattern through to construction guidelines and how to render particular parts of the design, such as sky, doorways and windows. Lots and lots of photos???lots!???along with detailed notes on three projects, so you can see exactly how they were created. If you've ever dreamed of recreating your home or an architectural masterpiece in fabric, this book is a 'must have'.Gloria Loughman began making large landscape quilts for the Australian bush after completing her studies in art and design in 1996. In Fabulous Facades, she explores how to create graphic quilts that resemble woodblocks and linocuts in a change of direction inspired by her daughter's study of architecture and her husband's photos of buildings. Each main shape is outlined with fine dark lines adding strength to the composition in a series of projects that include doorways, skyscrapers and even a cargo ship and camper van. As a trained secondary school teacher, Gloria is adept at making the process of design and construction easy to understand. She talks of design elements, colour balance, choice of fabrics, and how to create textures and layers in a way that is straightforward and enthusiastic. The idea is to get you to a place in which you can dig out photos of favourite places and create your own unique design using her tried and tested methods. This informative book will inspire fans of travel%