| Caliente Quilts: Create Breathtaking Quilts Using Bold Colored Fabrics | 
 enlarge | Author: Priscilla Bianchi
Publisher: Krause Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 226520
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0896893839
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.46041
EAN: 9780896893832
ASIN: 0896893839
Publication Date: October 14, 2007
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Product Description
Features innovative methods for solving a dilemma shared by all quilters - accurately mixing and matching colors and textures Inspires creativity through 120+ color photos of radiant fabrics and quilts There are so many glorious fabrics from around the world, and this easy-to-use guide helps you mix and match these fantastic fabrics for outstanding results! This book helps expand the popularity of contemporary quilting by inspiring innovative and stunning quilt designs using exotic material including Guatemalan fabrics, Indonesian batiks, African mud cloth, Japanese shibori and others.
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 Eye candy May 23, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
First: IANAQ. I knit rugs, using quilt patterns as inspiration. This book has a lot of inspiration.
Next: 67 pages about Guatemala and its textiles and a bit about quilting in general and all illustrated with great photos. 40 pages of specific quilt patterns which, in and of themselves, are readily available elsewhere. The patterns expressed in this fabric, however, are not.
The real power is in the gallery pictures, which are pure inspiration and you are left to work out the patterns yourself (which isn't hard).
The use of color falls in the family of Fassett, Moran and Marston, only a bit easier to live with than M&M, IMO; bolder than Beyer. Make the fabric do the work, rather than the piecing. I am encouraged to shift my knitting in a different direction by looking at these pictures.
If you're thinking you could stand to have your own colorways pulled up a notch or two in the direction of "vibrant," spend some time soaking in these pictures. Good stuff is bound to happen.
(four not five because I would much rather have seen a bigger gallery section, with full-page pictures, instead of the "how to quilt" content which is repeated everywhere.)
Brilliant is the word! May 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brilliant is the word! I just love the colours and patterns in this book! Even tho' I don't have access to South American fabrics, the many striped fabrics I do have enable me to make beautiful visually three-dimensional quilts. This book is worth having, not only for the lovely quilts, but for the history and use of ethnic fabrics.
 Using Bold Color Fabrics in Quilts April 12, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Caliente Quilts will be a useful addition to the library of quilters who are interested in using either stripe fabrics (like those designed by Kaffe Fassett) or ethnic textiles from countries like Guatemala, Mexico, Japan, South Africa, Africa, Indonesia and Thailand in their quilts. Its author, Priscilla Bianchi, is a Guatemalan citizen of Spanish descent who sells Guatemalan textiles from her website at www.priscillabianchi.com. These textiles are not widely available in the international marketplace (there are only a couple of websites that have them) and they are becoming less available now because of increasing pressures from globalization, so visit Priscilla Bianchi's website to get them while you can.
Her book will be useful for many reasons. Many of the quilts are made with stripe fabric because those are the most common fabrics made by the Guatemalan weavers. Some of her work is influenced by Mary Mashuta, who pioneered working with stripes in two books, Wearable Art for Real People and Stripes in Quilts. If you are interested in the optical illusion created when disparate boldly colored stripe fabrics are combined into square blocks shaped with four triangles sewn together, this book will help you visualize what will happen when all the fabrics are combined. The triangles are cut on point perpendicular to the stripe pattern in the fabric. Dazzling graphic effects are created when they are combined. Bianchi's "Holiday in Nebaj" series of quilts explores these effects.
Two other very useful components in the book are the "Resources" section and the bibliography. The "Resources" section lists at least a couple of web sites that I had not known about before that have very beautiful fabrics available, and the bibliography contains a list of the most important books available on Mexican and Guatemalan fabrics and costume. There are also a number of photographs of indigenous textiles and costumes from Guatemala and landscape and outdoor shots that are very beautiful.
 patterns can be found in other books March 18, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I found the photos in this book were absolutely beautiful, but the patterns were nothing out of the ordinary. There are lots of photos of completed quilts and most do not have the patterns for the particular photo. They are just photos and ideas on how to use fabrics from Guatemala. An experienced quilter can take any book and use any fabric for any pattern. Save your money and use it for a better quilt pattern book. Check this one out at the library, just to see the photos.
Buy This January 12, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Informative and interesting inspiration...Pricilla is talented and uses the fabulous resources she has at her fingertips to create bold and beautiful quilts....This would be a must read for the traveler. If you aren't a quilter now, you will want to be.
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