JenMcManus Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 I just discovered Dover design books. Thank you very much Cheryl Uribe for getting me started on yet another quilty thing to collect!!!!!! How do you all use these books? Do you just use them for inspiration, or do you enlarge the images and print them out? Some of the books come with CD-ROMs also. I got Decorative Ornaments and another one called Flower Motifs. Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Dawn C. teaches a class and uses those books to get your creative juices flowing. They are great, great books. I don\'t have any yet....but..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 I love Dover publications! A $50 order gets you free shipping. The books range in price from $1.95 to about $30. Everything from Celtic (probably 10 books to choose from!) to Victorian, silhouettes, art deco and nouveau, flowers, birds, on and on and on. My latest is architectural details from Victorian buildings which I am using to draft a center frame for a wholecloth. I have quite a library and use them a lot. An order will get you catalogs forever. Thanks for the tip, Jen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenMcManus Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Linda, When you draft from one of these books, how do you do it? Thanks, Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Hi Jen, For some floral designs I needed, I printed the design from the CD, enlarged it slightly to fit the space by scanning, traced over it to figure the closest to a continuous line, and refined it for ease of stitching. Sounds like a long process, but really only about half an hour. You can kinda look at a picture and see if it is a good candidate for a con.line. Then to get the design on the fabric, 1---either a home-made stencil ( I use Dawn\'s technique of drawing on construction paper, stitching through the design on my DSM with a larger unthreaded needle, and pushing pounce chalk through with a foam brush.) 2---outer edge of the design trimmed on the line to trace the outer edge and interior lines filled in free-hand with a marker or chalk, or 3--- draw on tear-away paper to stitch over and tear off. I managed lots of different sea shells from a Dover book simply by a straight copy onto the fabric with a wash-away marker. After you stitch three starfish or seahorses, it sticks in your brain and gets easier each time. As for the wholecloth, I drafted an oval and will use the design for the frame by enlarging a few elements and using a light box to trace onto a piece of paper. I will only do one quarter of the oval and one full motif for the top and bottom center design. After I am happy with the quarter design, I will take it to Kinko\'s to have it enlarged. Then I will use that to trace the full oval on the fabric using a light box and mirror-imaging the design where necessary. Whew! I hope I wrote this so you can understand it! I counted my Dover library and I have 22 books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyeQ Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 I took 2 designs and combined them by using my printer/copier. I printed the butterflies and put them where I wanted on the floral frame then copied it on clear/transparency paper. I then put it on my overhead projector to enlarge it and traced it onto the red fabric. I layered the other fabrics underneath it and did reverse applique like Linda Taylor shows on her PBS show. I love their designs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyeQ Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Here\'s a closeup. It still needs to be trimmed up and fluffed a bit more in this pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramona-quilter Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Tracye, Wow, I love this. It is ingenious how you designed and layered these fabrics and thread. It is so unique. This is yours, yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajab Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Great quilting, I love it. Such detail. Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenMcManus Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Tracye, That\'s beautiful! I was looking at the butterfly Dover book, too. Linda, Thanks for the instructions. Very helpful. I\'m going to try enlarging some tomorrow. Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 For anyone attending MQS, who might be interested in these publications, there is a booth where you can look at these books and decide what you want. And no shipping!! Unless of course you purchase too much and need to mail them home;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagecl Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Jen, I take my books to Staples or Kinkos and have them increase the picture to the size I need. It saves me a lot of time and keeps the picture intact. Cheryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Jen you\'re a trouble maker...I just ordered over $50! Great source though thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrat Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Tracye, This is beautiful. I have to get me some of these books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenMcManus Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Heidi, Hehe, I know! My local Barnes and Noble carries a bajillion of these books, and no shipping. Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiefly Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Proven once again what a great source of information this site is. I also just spent 50.00 on these books. It was easy to do. Thanks Katie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Jen you\'re killing me...I\'m sure if I head to the bookstores here I\'ll find a few more I need . I think I got 6 of them this morning and since I was over $50 I didn\'t have to pay shipping :cool: Now if I can intercept the package before hubby...my excuse is usually mental health but boy he is going to think I\'m ready for a rubber room for sure :mad:! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattyJo Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 For those who don\'t want to buy a book, but just see what is available, google "Dover Publications" and you can ask for a catalog to see what they sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhappy Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 I too love those books I use alot of the designs for the label as well!! don\'t forget about the back of your quilt!! Sewhappy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyeQ Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Thank you guys for the kind words. Linda I made this for my cousin. She is the only person I made a quilt for, when I first started quilting, that never took it off their bed so she got new one now that I better and have a big fancy machine. :cool: It did me a good turn though to make if for her, she\'s the one that has since sent me all the antique blocks/tops & feedsacks as well as other antique fabric to make quilts for her family for money. It\'s her DH\'s family\'s stuff and I think that quilt convinced him that he could trust me with them. Hey I didn\'t know I could get these books at B&N! I\'ve been saving the catalogs or waiting for a quilt show where they have a booth. Cool! I know that there are some that are similar at Joanns, I can\'t think of the brand name. I think those are what I used for the floral frame on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Jen, I got my books yesterday and holly cow they are awesome! I can\'t wait to get drafting! I already came up with the new center on my baby quilt to be made into a big quilt for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 After reading this thread I jumped over to Dover Publications and now have 7 books/cds on order. I promised myself that I wouldn\'t spend any money on quilt related items this month. What a joke that went out the window in about 3 seconds. DB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 DB I don\'t think I could ever make that promise to myself! Thats as bad as saying I wouldn\'t have chocolate for a month!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenMcManus Posted February 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Ha! I told myself that I shouldn\'t be buying anything until MQS. But I really think that\'s being unreasonable. Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonwoman Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 I have several of dovers books on historical ornament (like iron fences) that get me thinking about doing a wholecloth. I have a bunch of different ones. I love them:P I recently put a rose (times 36) in the middle of the carpenter wheels on a king-size quilt by tracing the design after sizing it onto golden threads paper and stitching through the paper. I bought this nifty gizmo called an elmer\'s sticky dot dispenser. you just press down and a little tacky dot appears on the paper, then it sticks wherever you want the paper to the quilt top and comes right off when you are done sewing. For the small center sections I used regular wide masking tape to pull the paper out worked like a champ!! I\'m still paranoid about marking on somebody elses quilts. Another cool thing is Dover\'s "Sampler of the Week" newsletter on their website. They send an email once a week with a bunch of samples from various books that you can download and save to your computer. but watch out, It sure makes it easy to BUY more books. later folks mwl !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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