A Note from Tula Introduction The Basics Choosing Fabrics & Thread Making the Blocks Cutting Pieces for the Blocks Foundation Piecing Curved Piecing Appliqued Center Circles Finishing Techniques Finishing the Quilt Finishing the Pillows Projects Bonus! A quilt project and a pillow project for each! Floating Orbs Pandemonium Twin Dragons Rust Crazy Tula Seeing Spots Foxhole Sorbet Papyrus Wedding Cake Appendix Block Index Foundation Patterns Circle, Background, and Arc Patterns About the Author
Carl Hentsch taught himself quilting in 1997 and now travels nationally speaking and teaching at quilt guilds and shops. He holds degrees in chemistry, biology, linguistics, and accounting and business management. He lives in Missouri with three dogs and a cat.
Carl Hentsch and Tula Pink have their very own mutual appreciation
society. They met several years ago in a New York Fabric store
where her first question to him on seeing his stunning quilt tops
was ‘Who are you?’ (in the same incredulous, slack-jawed way that
you might ask David Blaine after seeing one of his magic tricks).
They are now firm friends; she admiring his patterns for their
architectural and complex beauty and he admiring Tula’s flair for
fabric and colour. Tula has contributed to this book and has waved
her multicoloured fairy dust throughout, but all the patterns
belong to Carl and there are plenty of them. He’s done that very
clever thing of taking one technique and almost deconstructing it;
putting the pieces back together in a whole host of new and
exciting ways. The building blocks are reassuringly familiar and
consist mainly of pieced and plain arcs and fans but the layouts
with their overlapping circles, oversized elements and sinuous
organic flow are something special. All the
designs are variations of the New York Beauty block and you’ll need
to be comfortable with foundation piecing and curved piecing.
Anyone new to these techniques can read through The Basics at the
front of the book. Each quilt pattern comes with an accompanying
cushion pattern based on the same design; useful if you want to try
out the techniques on a smaller scale project. The Twin Dragons
quilt is based on the legend of Yin and Yang and is a free-flowing
design shot through with purposeful Flying Geese to emphasise
movement and direction. The coming together of these two talented
collaborators is a yin-yang moment in itself.
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