Radiant Quilts: Stunning Quilts from Simple Shapes [Paperback]

Radiant Quilts offers a complete guide to making gorgeous scrap quilts using just one, two, or three simple repeated shapes. Renowned author and quilt designer Elsie M. Campbell uses triangles, clamshells, half-hexagons, strips, and diamonds to make nine start-to-finish, stash-busting projectsfrom stunning table runners to a gorgeous king-sized quilt. With simplicity as the basis for each piece or block, Elsie shows how color, value, and contrast can work together to create the illusion of depth and light. She explains how to make fabric decisions that produce wonderfully luminescent quilts. Her book provides cutting instructions for three methods: cutting with scissors and templates; rotary cutters and rulers; and die cutters.

Make dazzling scrap quilts using simple repeated shapes that create the illusion of depth and light. Nine stash-busting projects from table runners to a king-sized quilt include instructions for three different cutting methods.

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??? Design emphasis on color and value working together to create the illusion of depth and light.
??? Comprehensive information about tools and techniques.
??? Instructions on 3 cutting methods: cutting with scissors and templates, rotary cutters and rulers, and die cutters.
??? Guidance on both hand- and machine-piecing.
??? Author Elsie M. Campbells numerous prestigious awards include International Quilt Festival; Quilt America; National Quilting Association Show; and American Quilters Society.

Elsie M. Campbell began exhibiting her quilts nationally in 1992 and has won numerous prestigious awards. In the pages of Radiant Quilts: Stunning Quilts from Simple Shapes she offers a complete guide to making gorgeous scrap quilts using just one, two, or three simple repeated shapes. Of special nolÏ