Colorful Batik Panel Quilts: 28 Quilting & Embellishing Inspirations from Around the World

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15 Hand Stitches

One of the easiest ways to embellish your Batik quilt is with hand stitches. Learn over a dozen stitches with step-by-step illustrated instructions including:

Straight stitch Running stitch French Knot Stem Stitch Blanket Stitch Detached Cross Stitch Rice Stitch Fly Stitch

Batik Quilting & Embellishing Inspirations

One-of-a-Kind Fiber Art

Learn how to make bold, graphic, and joyous art quilt projects and home décor using free trade batik panels created by Indonesian artisans!

Inside this book, talented fabric artist Judy Gula shows you how to use hand-made batik panels in traditional quilt settings—or turn them into works of art with the addition of your own unique embellishment.

Explore the many creative possibilities of working with fabric panels with this inspirational book as your guide!

3 step-by-step batik quilt projects Inspirational photo gallery of 24 quilts Easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step stitching 28 inspirations for using batik fabric panels Embellish with borders, beading, free-motion quilting, and more

Easy Step-by-Step Projects & Techniques using Handmade Batik Fabric from Indonesian Artisans

The Basics

Batik is a technique of wax-resist and dyeing, starting with a freehand sketch or an illustration traced onto white, tightly woven cotton fabric. It’s an art form of intricate design and brilliant colors that reflect the culture and environment of Indonesia.

Border Inspirations

Follow illustrated, step-by-step instructions to square up panels, add borders, flange borders, make a piano keys border, and more. You’ll also learn multiple ways to finish your projects and how to utilize log cabin blocks.

Embellishing Inspirations

Find inspiration and add beautiful details to your Batik quilts with hand stitches, metal stampings, charms, outline quilting, intuitive quilting, fill shapes, meandering, pebbling, and many other techniques!

Projects & Gallery Tour

Enter the world of bright, colorful batik panels with artist, author, and teacher Judith Vincentz Gula! Judith’s passion for vivid and intricate panel designs inspires beautiful art quilts and home décor that celebrate the fair trade movement.

Inside Colorful Batik Panel Quilts, Judy shows you how to apply your own personal vision and creativity to make bold, graphic, and joyous projects!

“There are so many inspiring projects and original ideas in this book that your creative juices will be overflowing.”

—Liz Kettle, co-author of Fabric Embellishing

“With Colorful Batik Panel Quilts even the most novice of quilting enthusiasts will learn how to make one-of-a-kind art quilts and home decor with instructions for embellishing with borders, beading, free-motion quilting, and more—plus a step-by-step guide to 15 hand stitches!”

—Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Fabric artist Judy Gula is the owner of Artistic Artifacts in Alexandria, Virginia, which sells products for sewing plus a full range of supplies and materials for fiber art and embellishment. Judy loves to share her wealth of knowledge and textile travel experience with quilt guilds and art groups.

She finds inspiration in new and vintage materials, her interactions with other artists, and in surprising and unexpected experiences. Her lectures and workshops highlight how today’s artists are using materials from many different disciplines to create mixed media collage work and fiber art.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08TZ1RRR4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Landauer; First edition (January 22, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 22, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 47507 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 201 pages