- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Potter Craft (1 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0307381226
- ISBN-13: 978-0307381224
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 2 x 27.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 938,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1999, fiber artist Jeanne Williamson decided to expand her creative horizons by making one small quilt a week. She placed no limits on what materials she could use - in fact, she created her quilts almost exclusively from found objects, incorporating everything from newspaper and cupcake wrappers to fall leaves and funky yarns into her mixed-media art quilts. The goal was simply to create. Years later, Williamson now has 365 varied and intriguing quilts full of personal stories, experiences and observations. She also discovered that she had succeeded in expanding her creative horizons - and her artwork has flourished as a result. Now, in The Uncommon Quilter, Williamson provides quilters, sewers, paper crafters, and mixed-media mavens with 52 projects for creating unique small quilts. The book is divided by the type of medium or technique used in each project - Plastic, Paper, Surface Design and Fiber - and each contains innovative ideas for using everyday materials and found objects. Projects take anywhere from 20 minutes to a few days to make, ensuring that artists can fit creative time into their busy lives. With charming anecdotes and clear, step-by-step instructions, The Uncommon Quilter is an inspiring, insightful guide to creating unique small quilts for self-expression, creativity and personal and artistic growth.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Great resource for ideas
17 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
This book is a product of a great experiment: how to use quilting and fiber craft to create a multimedia journal of your everyday life. The author created a small quilt a week for seven years, and the book contains many beautiful examples. Rather than just being an artist's retrospective, however, the book shows you how to work in a similar fashion. I doubt that many people will actually follow the step-by-step instructions to recreate the specific quilts shown here, but the book is a gold mine of ideas about how to use fun, "found" objects (e.g., dryer lint, onion bags, plastic sushi grass, shredded paper) in creating quilts and small works of art. My one quibble with the book is that it would have been better with a spiral binding (so it would lie flat and make it easier to consult while you are working). But all in all, it's a brilliant and very user friendly guide showing you how to incorporate elements of your everyday life in your art.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
A creative license for quilt makers
16 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
Very inspiring. The book details the thinking behind and instructions for each of the 52 small quilts in the book.
I found a line in the book that sums it up best:
"whether certain quilts were good or bad is not the point; the point is that I made the time to try new things, that I took risks, and that I learned a lot. It was one of the best things I ever did for myself, both artistically and personally."
The book is a creative license of sorts to think small, experiment, and not worry if a piece is a success or not.
I found a line in the book that sums it up best:
"whether certain quilts were good or bad is not the point; the point is that I made the time to try new things, that I took risks, and that I learned a lot. It was one of the best things I ever did for myself, both artistically and personally."
The book is a creative license of sorts to think small, experiment, and not worry if a piece is a success or not.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
The Art of the Ordinary
13 Nov 2007
Format:Paperback
The pleasures of this more-than-a-how-to book run deep. Each small quilt (paired with clear directions) is one of dozens of weekly 'entries' in Jeanne Williamson's fabric-art journal. The works are interesting, often beautiful, in their own right - but even more so when taken together as byproducts of Williamson's year of noticing. She chronicles events, small finds, shapes, colors; and invites the reader to do the same. In a wonderfully unassuming way, Williamson takes the significance of the ephemeral and discarded - well-charted territory in the art world - and entrusts it to the reader. The Uncommon Quilter is a practical, unsentimental testament (and guide) to connecting with the ordinary, and to making of that connection art that is indeed anything but common.
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