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Celebrate Kaleidoscope Quilts With the Master Kaleidoscope Artist
• Career retrospective of Paula Nadelstern's awe-inspiring quilts is packed with photos, design insights, and tips for making your own kaleidoscope quilts
• Huge gallery with photos and in-depth, behind-the-scenes commentary on 19 quilts
• Chapters with detailed explanations of Paula's design strategies and construction methods
The astonishing quilts that spring from Paula Nadelstern's passion for kaleidoscopes will change your view of what a quilt can be. This book highlights Paula's life work and shows how you can use her techniques to create your own unique fabric art.
Celebrate Kaleidoscope Quilts With the Master Kaleidoscope Artist
I've been told that I write books pretty much the same way that I make quilts. Fabric by fabric. Choice by choice. In a word, slowly. Although my everyday life often rushes past the particulars, my creative life celebrates them. I've found essential words, words I can live by, embedded in my quilting: insight, imagination, nuance, mastery, grace. For me, art is in the details.
I make my quilts on the same block in the Bronx where I grew up. We are three generations living within a block of each other on this most northern New York City street: my daughter, my mother, my mother in-law, my husband, and me. For over twenty-five years, my workspace in our ninth floor, two-bedroom, cram-packed-with-fabric and-sewing-stuff apartment was the 42-inch round kitchen table. Our perpetual dining companion was a Singer Featherweight, purchased for $25 at a yard sale. I used to call it an old machine until I learned it was a year younger than I am. Together we made my first quilt (a comforter cover, really) in 1968 in my college dorm. We continued as a team through the first twenty-seven quilts in my kaleidoscopic series. Today, I work in a 15-by-10-foot studio revamped from my daughter's former bedroom. Picture ceiling-high cupboards stuffed with fabric, drawers overflowing with the paraphernalia quilters collect, 6 feet of design wall, and a Bernina poised for action on a 4-by-6-foot counter.
My interest in things kaleidoscopic began in 1987 when I was struck by a bolt of fabric—a sumptuous, sinfully expensive, bilaterally symmetrical Liberty of London cotton known as Tana Lawn. Little did I know that purchasing a quarter yard would change my life forever, leading me, three years and four quilts later, to the state-of-the-art kaleidoscope and a new career. The insight from this anecdote is obvious: buy that piece of fabric no matter how expensive it is. As I peer through the incredible kaleidoscopes I have garnered over the years, like a sleuth searching for clues, I discover my design inspiration all over again. Who knows what the next turn of the scope will reveal, to me or to you?
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Paula Nadelstern combines the symmetry and surprise of a kaleidoscope with the techniques and materials of quiltmaking. The color and complexity of Paula's quilts invite the reader to return again and again. In addition to her numerous awards, Paula has received Artist's Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts. Her work has also been showcased in publications and exhibits worldwide. Paula designs textile prints exclusively for Benartex. She lives in New York City with her husband, Eric. |
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Career retrospective of Paula Nadelstern's amazing work is packed with photos, design insights, and gallery of 19 quilts.
The astonishing quilts that spring from Paula Nadelstern's passion for kaleidoscopes will change your view of what a quilt can be. This book highlights Paula's life work and shows how you can use her techniques to create your own unique fabric art. 128 pages, #10612 |
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