The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously

Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, Sherri Lynn Wood presents a flexible approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms. Instead of traditional instructions, she presents 10 frameworks (or scores) that create a guiding, but not limiting, structure. To help quilters gain confidence, Wood also offers detailed lessons for stitching techniques key to improvisation, design and spontaneity exercises, and lessons on color. Every quilt made from one of Wood's scores will have common threads, but each one will look different because it reflects the maker's unique interpretation. Featured throughout the book are Wood's own quilts and a gallery of contributor works chosen from among the hundreds submitted when she invited volunteers to test her scores during the making of this groundbreaking work.

Author: Sherri Lynn Wood
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Published: 04/28/2015
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.90h x 8.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781617691386
ISBN10: 1617691380
BISAC Categories:
- Crafts & Hobbies | Quilts & Quilting
- Crafts & Hobbies | Sewing
- Crafts & Hobbies | Needlework | General

About the Author
Sherri Lynn Wood is an artist working in Oakland, CA. She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors, and a two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow. She has been making and improvising quilts as a creative life practice for twenty-five years, and blogs about it at daintytime.net. Teaching credits include Penland School of Craft, QuiltCon, and numerous modern and traditional guilds across the country.