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The author of Crazy Quilting shares new techniques for capturing the style of stained glass in cozy quilts, bedcovers, wallhangings, and more.. Quilt designer Allie Aller spent years developing her own techniques for mimicking the look of stained glass. Surprisingly simple and endlessly inspiring, her methods produce stunningly beautiful results. In Allie Allers Stained Glass Quilts, she shares her secrets - from design sources and strategies to step-by-step instruction in various "glass and leading" techniques. Allie also includes six stained glass style quilt projects to get you started.
About the Author
Allison Aller has been stitching, sewing, knitting, and writing since she was a child....and that child is alive and well in the joyful work she creates today as a quilter.After earning her degree in Design and Environmental Analysis from Cornell University in 1977, Allie has been quilting non-stop. She made bed quilts, Broderie Perse, stained glass quilts, and landscape quilts for two and an half decades and these approaches still inform her creativity...for the next fifteen years, the sumptuous and liberating genre of crazy quilting was her focus. It became the first of her three books with C & T Publishing, Allie Aller's Crazy Quilting in 2011. She then became fascinated by the confluence of vintage traditional quilting and crazy quilting. . Her second book, Quilting....A Little Bit Crazy, co-authored with fellow crazy quilter Valerie Bothell, was published in May 2014 and addresses this subject.Most recently she has turned her attention to stained glass quilts, with her new book, Allie Aller's Stained Glass Quilts Reimagined: Fresh Technques and Design, released in April 2017.Her work has appeared in Quilters Newsletter Magazine, American Quilter, the $100,000 Quilt Challenge, Needlepoint Now, and the Way to Womens Wellness Art Bra Calendars (cover, 2007) , as "guest artist" in several books, She is an instructor for www.Bluprint.com and teaches "Crazy Quilting" online for them. Allie has appeared on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims twice.Her awards include:First Place, Crazy Quilts, American Quilters' Society Show in Nashville, TN 2003Second Place, Embellished Quilts, International Quilt Association Show in Houston, TX 2008First Place, Alliance for American Quilts' My Quilts/Our History contest, 2008Second Place, Embellished Quilts, International Quilt Association Show in Houston, TX 2010First Place, The Great Pink Bandana Challenge, Simplicity Creative Group, 2011Grand Prize, DMC Memories Contest, 2013Second Place, Crazy Quilts, American Quilters' Society Show in Lancaster, PA 2015Third Place, Embellished Quilts, International Quilt Assocition Show in Houston, TX 2019Her first commercially produced pattern, "Pretty Crazy", offers an introduction to crazy quilting for those who want to work by machine, not by hand. It is producedby Brookshier Design Studio.Her publisher, C & T, has also come out with a deck of playing cards featuring details from some of her quilts, and included her work in their "Quilted Masterpieces" Datekeeper.Allie has been blogging steadily since 2005 and invites you to come visit her blog, AlliesInStitches, where she posts works-in-progress photos, tutorials, and links to other fine stitchers' works. Note especially the rich archive of subjects in the keywords on the right side of her blog. She has served on the board of the Quilt Alliance (formerly the Alliance for American Quilts) a non profit organization dedicated to documenting, pre
