Creative quilt challenges : take the challenge to discover your style & improve your design skills

Content: Front Cover
 Dedication
 Acknowledgments
 Contents
 Introduction: Challenge Yourself
 The Challeneges of Challenge Quilts
 Challenge #1
 Reimagine an Old Block with a New Twist
 Bright Hopes 2: Using Bright Hopes block improvisationally
 Stepping Out: Deconstructing White House steps blocks
 Challenge #2:
 The Value of Value
 ColorBlind: Using value to create and play with pattern
 Marsh Scene: Using value to set the mood
 Challenge #3:
 Snow Strings: Using a monochromatic color scheme to incorporate the unlikely material
 Cairn Study 3: Using color to accentuate the unlikely material. Challenge #4:Pass it Back and Forth and Do Not Speak
 Silent Reflection: Using repetition to unify the elements in one quilt
 Square Dance: Using repetition to unify the elements in a triptych
 Challenge #5
 The Collection
 Echino Yet Again: Using a collection of Echino fabrics
 Ripple Effect: Using a collection of contemporary Japanese fabrics
 Challenge #6
 Invent Your Own Challenge
 Color Blinded Again: Keeping it simple
 One Orange Dot: Focusing on circles
 Challenge #7
 Mix It Up
 Cut Up: Painting, stamping, and raw-edge construction. Confluence: Surface stitching, thread, texturing, and creating new fabricSpecial Techniques
 Reversible Double-Fold Binding
 Machine Topstitched Binding
 Facing Finish
 Free-Form Sawtooth Stars
 Inset Squares
 Pressing Advice and Seam Treatments
 Quilting-As-You-Sew:Two Ways
 Quilting-as-You-Sew with Seam Covers
 Quilting-as-You-Sew to Batting
 Professional-Looking Satin-Stitched Edge Finish
 Thread Texturing, Surface Stitching, and Satin-Stitched Triangles
 Using Zippers in Your Quilts
 More Challenge Quilts
 About the Authors
 Resources
 eMarketing Pages
 eLegal Page
 Back Cover.