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Learn how to unravel the mysteries of creating space, depth, and perspective in your quilts - textile pictures that play tricks on your eyes! Optical Illusions for Quilters contains full-size patterns for 12" quilt blocks showing illusions, and complete instructions for the cover quilt using isometric perspective.


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Optical Illusions for Quilters

Author: Karen Combs
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Pages: 166
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4L0930
Weight: 1.40 lb

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Learn how to unravel the mysteries of creating space, depth, and perspective in your quilts - textile pictures that play tricks on your eyes!

Author Karen Combs reveals these secrets by examining masterpiece quilts, created by well-known quilt artists, and explains their use of optical illusion. Each section explores different visual illusions, Hundreds of illustrations and traditional block designs are used to show how dimension and movement can be added to quilts and wallhangings. Chapter 8, Illusions of Color contains information helpful in producing all types of illusions.

This book contains full-size patterns for 12" quilt blocks showing illusions, and complete instructions for the cover quilt using isometric perspective.

Begin today creating your own masterpieces of illusions!

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Devices to Show Depth

7

Chapter Two: Using Depth

31

Chapter Three: Perspective

47

Chapter Four: Isometric Perspective

64

Chapter Five: Motion As An Illusion

78

Chapter Six: Ways to Suggest Motion

98

Chapter Seven: Color Making Space

115

Chapter Eight: Optical Illusions Using color

126

Block & Quilt Patterns

138

Conclusion

160

Glossary

161

Bibliography

162

About the Author

163

Index

164

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Optical Illusions for Quilters

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Design Explorations fo the Creative Quilter
Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter
by Katie Pasquini Masopust
Easy Pieces
Easy Pieces
by Margaret M. Miller
Shifting Perspective
Shifting Perspective

by Lorraine Torrence
Smashing Sets
Smashing Sets

by Margaret J. Miller

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3-D Explosion
by Cara Gulati

Book of Optical Illusions
Book of Optical Illusions
by Michael DiSpezio

Optical Illusions for Quilters
Optical Illusions for Quilters

by Karen Combs

 
  Ambiguous Optical Illusions
Ambiguous Optical Illusions
by Al Seckel
Action Optical Illusions
Action Optical Illusions
by Al Seckel
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Geometric Optical Illusions
by Al Seckel
Impossible Optical Illusions
Impossible Optical Illusions
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Seven Sisters
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One-Block Wonders Encore!

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Optical Illusions for Quilters
Optical Illusions for Quilters

by Karen Combs

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