Quilting Daily Offers Free eBook of Memory Quilt Ideas

Sept. 2, 2010 - PRLog -- Loveland, Colo: Quilting Daily recently introduced a new free eBook  to help quilters design personalized quilts, using: photos, scraps, paper, fabric, stitch, and more. In this free eBook, Quilting Daily presents creative memory quilt ideas to honor someone’s accomplishments, remember a loved one, or celebrate a special occasion.  

Download the free eBook online: http://www.quiltingarts.com/Making-Memory-Quilts/

This free eBook is a valuable resource for quilters worldwide.  It is full of a wide variety of designs that will inspire every quilter whether contemporary or traditional.  The expert quilt artists at Quilting Daily have developped  this free downloadable eBook using insightful images and descriptive how-to techniques.

“At Quilting Daily, we’re known for our nontraditional approach to quilting, so of course we wanted to think of how we could enliven the concept of a memory quilt. In this free eBook, we’ve assembled some of our favorite articles from past issues of Quilting Arts Magazine that incorporate personal images, writings, and mementos in artful and unusual ways,” says Pokey Bolton, Editorial Director of Quilting Arts.

Memory Quilt #1: Scrap Wisdom: Collage Journal Quilting by Margaret Applin

This project allows the quilter to experiment with paper and paint techniques, applying them to collage and journaling. These techniques are inspired by the mixed-media world and play with backgrounds of photos, paint, stamping, images, screen printing, and pieces of scrap.

Memory Quilt #2: Holographic Memories by Wen Redmond

With a computer, printer, digital camera, and imagination, today’s quilter can learn to create the effect of holographic pictures and design beautiful photo memory quilts. These unusual pictures are multi-level so when they are displayed, the viewer sees a 3-D image. The top layer is a photograph printed on transparent silk organza. The bottom layer has the very same photograph transferred onto a backing. The top layer and the bottom layer seem to move separately, giving the appearance of depth.

Memory Quilt #3: A Memory Narrative by Judy Murrah

This is a perfect photo memory quilt project for beginner quilters who are still getting used to working with fabric and batting. Since these collages require minimal measuring and precision, they’re a fun and easy way to experiment with fabrics.

Memory Quilt #4: Canvas Books by Alisa Burke

This project presents the creation of a book full of photos and mementos with canvas. The versatility of canvas makes it the perfect material to use for numerous projects. It can be painted, layered with collage, cut, ripped, sewn, treating each page like a work of art by adding layers of paint and even printing photos onto the canvas.

Memory Quilt #5: Stitched Layers by Patricia Gaigna

This approach blends mixed media with stitch to record treasured memories. The artist experiments with some canvas, gesso, and paint to design out of the ordinary custom quilts, incorporating memories, souvenirs and feelings into a piece of art.

Download the free eBook online: http://www.quiltingarts.com/Making-Memory-Quilts/

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