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Find step-by-step directions and illustrations with rich color photographs making it easy to learn how to take a picture and create a spectacular quilt using Picture Piecing by Cynthia England.

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Picture Piecing
Creating Dramatic Pictorial Quilts

Author: Cynthia England

Pages: 132
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: England Designs
Item Code: 4k0500
Weight: 1.30 lbs.

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Ever visited a pIace or seen a photograph that took your breath away? Became so inspired, that you felt compelled to recreate the vision in fabric. But....where to start?

Let award-winning designer Cynthia England guide you through the process she developed.

  • Cynthia shares countless tricks and tips to make the sewing process easy. Cheating is actually encouraged in this technique!
  • Step-by-step directions along with illustrations with rich color photographs make it easy to learn how to take a picture and create a spectacular quilt.
  • Loaded with ideas on organizing work space, choosing fabrics, and suggestions to simplify drafting for your very own original pictorial quilt!

Author Cynthia England“I have always admired Cynthia’s quilts for their artistry and attention to detail. This book shows the same qualitites. It is full of information and a pure visiual delight!.” — Libby Lehman

“Cynthia England shares her techniques, ideas, and magnificent quilts in this adventure-packed book. Scrumptious quilts, scores of instructional visuals, and wonderful tips fill the pages.” — Joen Woifrorn

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Strawberry PhotographStrawberry Pieced Quilt
Strawberry Photograph and Strawberry Pieced Quilt

Open Season PhotographOpen Season Pieced Quilt
Open Season Photograph and Open Season Pieced Quilt

Blood, Sweat, and FlowersSplit Rail
Blood, Sweat and Flowers and Split Rail

Ambush Black Bass
Ambush and Black Bass

Table of Contents:

Chapter One • Shading  
Planning • Adding Conversation Prints 
• Your Working Space  Chapter Six 
• Helpful Tools  Techniques 
Chapter Two • Altering the Fabric  
Picture Piecing • Buildings  
• Basic Symbols • Windows 
Chapter Three • Trees 
Sewing • Bushes and Flowers  
• Prep Work  
• Organizing the Pattern Pieces • Clouds 
• Construction Methods  • Faces 
• Troubleshooting  • Eyes and Embroidered Details
Chapter Four • Using Photo Transfers  
Designing Chapter Seven 
• Choosing Your Subject  Finishing
• Selecting Fabrics • Squaring the Quilt
Chapter Five • Stabilizing the Edges  
Sectioning • Border Treatments 
• Making a Line Drawing  • Backing  
• Using a Proportional Scale  • Batting  
• Enlarging the Pattern  • Quilting Decisions 
• Sectioning Straight Lines • Binding  
• Sectioning Curved Lines  • Blocking  

• Indicating Movement

 • Quilt Sleeve 
• Multiple Shapes  • Labeling the Quilt 
• Overlapping Shapes
 

 

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Other pictorial books that we carry:

Picture Blocks & Quilts (Mixed Themes)
Pieced &/or Appliqué

Other Pictures categories
Appliqué Pictures (Flowers, Pictorial, Landscape, Mixed, Hearts, Seasonal, Holiday & more)
Quilt Art (pieced & appliqué)
Animals & Birds (pieced)
Embellished Pictorial (paint, stamp, dye, stitch)
Figures, Portraits & Characters
Flowers & Vegetables (pieced)
Folk Art
Fusible Appliqué
Landscapes (pieced)
Mixed Pictorials (pieced)
Paper Piecing Pictures
Seasonal & Holiday (pieced)
Ladies Day Out & Sunbonnet Sue
Women's Accessories


300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks

Blocks on CD ready to print
by Carol Doak

Applique at Play
Applique at Play
by DeElda Wittmack


Photo Fabrication

by Angela Madden

Block Magic
Block Magic

by Nancy Johnson Serbro

Ghost Layers
Ghost Layers
by Katie Pasquini

Pictorial Quilting
Picture Quilting
by Maggie McCormick Gordon

Block Magic, Too!
Block Magic, Too!

by Nancy Johnson-Serbro

Pattern
I Love my 221
I Love my 221


Quilt Your Favorite Photos
Quilt Your Favorite Photos
by Betty Alofs


Quilting the Great Outdoors
Revised Edition
by Debbie Field

Quilt Savvy

by Caryl Bryer Fallert
Shadow Chenille
Shadow Chenille
Designed by Marjorie Webb
Table Toppers
Table Toppers

By Debbie Field
Tropical Paradise
Tropical Pardise
by Judy Hansen

Tammie Bowser's Quilted Photography Series Using Chenille and Piecing Techniques

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Quilted Photo Xpress 3.0
Quilted Photo Xpress
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More Amazing
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amazing chenilled qlt photography
Amazing Chenilled!
Quilted Photography
by Tammie Bowser
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Out of Print

Simply Amazing Quilted Photography
Simply Amazing Quilted Photography
by Tammie Bowser

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Swatch Box Organizer
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13 7/8" x 8 3/4" x 2"
(4) 2" Rows with 20 movable dividers to vary compartment section sizes for Watercolor & Quilted Photography Series
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Extra Wide
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60" x 2 yds
Recommended for use in the Quilted Photography Series
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Gridded Guides
Gridded Guides

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& LITE Steam-A-Seam 2
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