num_pages: 128
description: Drafting and Design Simplified (edited by Sarah Sacks Dunn) is your Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting &amp; DesignDeclare your independence and find out how to draft and design your own quilts! A dream team of quiltmaking experts shares the latest and greatest techniques. There's no need to be a whiz at numbers! With clear, step-by-step directions and more than 350 photos and illustrations, you'll quickly learn the tricks, from resizing blocks to creating an original-- and wonderful-- quilt design.Discover how * Put design principles to work for you* Take inspiration from photos or pictures to design original pictorial quilts* Make your computer your favorite quilt design tool* Create perfect circles, diamonds, hexagons, octagons, apple cores, clamshells, and kites* Play with an image, adding, repeating, stretching, skewing, or curving it for a whole new look* Draft dozens of patterns such as Stars, Mariner's Compass, Pineapples, Curved Flying Geese, Fans, Orange Peel, and many more
language: English
title: Drafting and Design Simplified
titlecomplete: Drafting and Design Simplified
genres: Quilting
ratings_count: 10
series: Rodale's Successful Quilting Library
publisher: Rodale Books