The Art of Modern Quilling, by Erin Perkins Curet.

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The Art of Modern Quilling
Contemporary Paper Techniques for Captivating Quilled Designs
By Erin Perkins Curet
Quarry Books 2019
Paperback £19.99 UK/ $24.99 US/$24.99 CAN

ISBN 978-1-63159-603-2

Here’s a fab new quilling book from an imaginative and resourceful self-taught quiller. Erin Perkins Curet shares her clever techniques, which include making your own quilling tools (a Stacked Quilling Form Tower) and using cookie cutters as moulds for quilled shapes.

Erin’s projects are colourful and often – useful (in addition to being decorative, as you would expect from a quilled project). There’s a lovely Arching Candle Holder – a quilled construction filled with bubble-like quilled coils, an ornate Mandala Wall Clock, and some Quick Roll Coasters.

Quilling techniques taught include How to Cut Your Own Quilling Paper Strips (more design versatility), Quilling Using Circular Forms, and how to make sphere-shaped beads by joining two domed shapes made using a mould. There’s perhaps a bit less on making basic quilling shapes – but the book provides the know-how to get you started.

If you like your quilling contemporary rather than trad, this new title is for you.

Note: I was supplied with a review copy of this title.