This small-but-mighty spiral-bound guide leads to a lifetime of creating your own geometric designs-one of the most popular types in the modern quilt world. "Kudos to Sandra Sider, for bringing simple tools to guide quilters to the playful side of design! Understanding 'the grid' can turn a simple square into a personal expression!" - designer Victoria Findlay Wolfe The resource for a lifetime of planning and designing template-free geometric modern quilts. As a foundational guide, accompanies any other book in the quilter's shopping basket. This compact treasure is like many of the best things in life: simple. Designing a successful geometric quilt can be easy if a proportional sense of design is used, and in these pages, you'll hone that sense and use it for years to come. Tap into the power of grids and color for modern quilts so you can take basic design principles into your own hands. With clear and concise guidance, you'll learn how to build various types of grids and how to subvert them for dynamic compositions. The 50 quilt-top projects serve as learning examples and are very easy to cut and sew. They're constructed by piecing squares and rectangles in horizontal or vertical rows. Thanks to the grid's power, all you need are the required yardages and piecing instructions. Take the grid out to play! AUTHOR: Sandra Sider (New York City) is the editor of Art Quilt Quarterly magazine and former curator of the Texas Quilt Museum. A studio quilt artist, she is the author of many books, including Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos (Schiffer). SELLING POINTS: . An amazingly simple method for gaining a lifelong skill: how to design geometric quilts that don't even require paper templates . A reference-shelf essential for any maker interested in modern quilt design . Spiral-bound format lies flat and holds up to ongoing reference use, no matter where your quilting takes you 60 colour images
