Monday is giveaway day!

KatiePMCoverI’m so lucky to be Katie Pasquini Masopust’s Editor. It’s so inspiring working on her books!

Her new book, Inspirations in Design for the Creative Quilter: Exercises Take You From Still Life to Art Quilt is no exception.

Katie begins by explaining how to set up an all-white still life that is the starting point for the explorations in the book. The still lifes are easy to set up using every-day items that you paint white.

I was totally amazed by how many different approaches there are to using the still lifes as a starting point for a design: contour drawing, painting with shadows, repeat, and more.

Still_Life_SetUp

Setting up a white still life

I think one of my all-time favorite Katie quilts is Dancing, created using the fast blind contour drawing method. And I love how she shows the steps she used to create the quilt.

dancing quilt

Dancing by Katie Pasquini Masopust

Fast blind contour drawing

Selecting area of interest with L-shaped cropper

Simplified drawing

Playing with colors

In addition to Katie’s stunning work, the book includes many student works showing how successful anyone can be by following Katie’s instructions. Be inspired!

One lucky person will win their very own copy of Inspirations in Design for the Creative Quilter! To enter, leave a comment at the end of this post. Comments will be closed at 6:00 pm PST on Sunday, August 28, 2011—the winner will be contacted via email and their name will be posted here on the blog next Monday.

Increase your chances to win! Enter an extra comment for each of the actions you take below. Tell us what you did and thanks in advance for spreading the word!

Congrats to Gil whose name was drawn at random from the comments on last week’s post! Gil won a copy of Felt Wee Folk by Sally Mavor.

 

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