• Spectacular, artful quilts are within your reach
• Create a group of identical blocks, then trim and join them to create optical excitement
• Lorraine does the math for you with easy-to-follow cutting tables
• Lots of tips for successful cutting and piecing
• BONUS multi-view tool included
If you're ready to take the plunge into artistic quilting, you'll love Lorraine's shift, trim, and sew approach. Select from a variety of contemporary block designs, sew a stack of them, then trim each to create variations. Once joined, the blocks form stunning visual effects. No-waste approach uses trimmed sections in borders. Use this technique with your own block designs too, or even a traditional block-the possibilities are endless.
Review The Bookwatch - September 1, 2006
Cutting tables simplify the math process, while cutting and piecing tips cover scale, color and value as well as design matching and complimentary piecing techniques.
Review Popular Patchwork - October 1, 2006
I strongly recommend this book for quilters wishing to design their own quilts from blocks, who want a challenge.
Review Les Nouvelles du Patchwork - September 1, 2006
Reviewed in this foreign language publication.
Review quiltswithstyle.com - November 1, 2006
This book is wonderful for quilters looking for a challenge or for those looking to try an intriguing technique.
Review Quiltemqagasinet - May 1, 2006
Reviewed in this foreign language publication.
Review Fabric Trends - September 1, 2006
"If you enjoy creating traditional blocks but want to give them a contemporary twist, you'll like the visual effects created in Shifting Perspectives. Author and designer Lorraine Torrence presents a different way to showcase a common quilting look: repeated blocks. A clear plastic lens with twenty-five etched squares called the Fresnel lens (also known as the Multi-View lens), shows repeated images of a scene viewed through it, shifting that scene to create interesting abstractions. Lorraine shows how looking at a block through the lens creates twenty-five slightly different blocks and a new set of design possibilities.
Walking the reader through the process, Lorraine offers larger sample blocks and shows different ways to trim them to size so each block is unique. Joining these blocks gives even the most traditional of patterns, the Ohio Star, an updated look. She explains what type of blocks work best for the process, how to shift the image using the lens and then recereate that shift by trimming blocks, and how to sew the blocks together to create the optimal design impact. She even suggests using the trimmings in the border, which both unifies the look of the quilt and minimizes waste. The kaleidoscope feel of the quilts Lorraine makes is sure to whet your creative appetite to try something new!"
Review Norsk Quilteblad - April 1, 2006
Reviewed in this foreign language publication.
Review The Professional Quilter - April 1, 2008
"For traditional block quilters interested in breaking away from tradition, Lorraine Torrence shares her concept sparked by the use of the Fresnel lens. Also known as the Multi-View lens, the lens multiplies your original block into many smaller blocks and each is shifted slightly, i.e., the perspective shifts. By using either a traditional block design or one you create, you will end up with an original quilt design. The book includes a Multi-View lens so you can get started right away."
Review Professional Quilter - June 1, 2008
"For traditional block quilters interested in breaking away from tradition, Lorraine Torrence shares her concept sparked by the use of the Fresnel lens. Also known as the Multi-View lens, the lens multiplies your original block into many smaller blocks and each is shifted slightly, i.e., the perspective shifts. By using either a traditional block design or one you create, you will end up with an original quilt design. The book includes a Multi-View lens so you can get started right away."
