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To make great art, you've got to start! Make treasured art quilts from bits of cloth, stitched motifs, and painted details. This visual, step-by-step guide will help you dip your toes into the world of art quilting with mixed-media techniques, checklists, and work-along projects presented using 8 design guides. Unlock your own artistic vision as you quilt in a series, finish small art pieces, and incorporate meaningful symbols into your work.

Fully incorporate your head, heart and hands on the way to developing your voice. This 29 page workbook includes exercises to explore how to use all three -- your head, heart and hands -- in your creative pursuits. It includes prompts, lists, check lists, word-webs and other ideas for artistic exploration. There are follow-up tips for every exercise. Plus specific ideas about how to use what you learn by completing the exercises in the workbook.

Twelve by Twelve examines the two-year-long international collaboration between twelve art quilters. Not only does the book showcase the quilts themselves, it also examines the dynamics of developing a vibrant online community of artists. The result is a very personal and unique blend of technique-based text and discussions on challenge, collaboration, and inspiration.