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Fabric Silhouettes: Quilted Treasures from the Family Album
Description: 64 pages, color Author: Louise Handley Life's Special Moments, Captured in Fabric! • Start with an ordinary snapshot • Enlarge and transfer key figures to fabric, and stitch to a special fabric background • Quilters & crafters welcome! These projects are suitable for anyone with basic sewing and rotary cutting skills • Tips for taking and selecting photographs to create one-of-a-kind silhouettes • 10 projects to follow step by step-or design your own What a special way to preserve your most precious moments! Like traditional silhouette profile portraits, these quilts create striking likenesses of your loved ones. Use novelty prints to focus on a theme or event and create a beautiful, artistic setting for your contemporary silhouette. Easier than it looks, and the process is fun! The striking black-and-white silhouette art of years gone by and my love of creative quiltmaking have been the inspiration behind Fabric Silhouettes. Silhouette artistry can be traced throughout history - examples have even been found on Stone Age cave walls! In the United States before the emergence of photography, itinerant silhouette artists traveled the cities and back roads, delighting their customers by creating recognizable likenesses. These silhouettes were almost always cut in profile and included only the head and shoulders of the subject. Scenery and houses were also popular subjects. Silhouettes are traditionally created in one of two ways. A truly gifted silhouette artist is able to study the person in profile and cut the silhouette freehand without a pattern or drawing. The entire process can take as little as one and a half minutes. In the cast-shadow method, the artist directs a light source past a seated subject in such a way as to cast a profile on a wall or screen. The artist then outlines the profile while the subject sits perfectly still. The drawing that results can be cut out and mounted on contrasting paper, or it can be filled in solidly with paint or ink. A black silhouette on a white or cream background is the classic look for this fascinating art form.     |
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