No-Sew (well, almost!) Art Quilts That YOU Can Create! YES YOU CAN create an art quilt this weekend! Engage your right brain with freewheeling collage techniques. Give your sewing machine a rest: no sewing needed except for quilting and binding. Design as you go - no measuring, no math! You can even fuse your way to finishing, binding, and displaying your art! PLUS find fun, no-quilt fabric collage projects. Eye-popping gallery of quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert, Jane A. Sassaman, David Walker, and MORE.
Leading-edge organizations have discovered that fun can--and does--translate into bottom line success. By harnessing the power of fun, companies find they can better retain employees and customers, motivate teams, improve productivity, increase innovation, and create a sense of community. Leslie Yerkes details precisely how eleven successful companies--including Southwest Airlines, Pike Place Fish, Isle of Capri Casinos, EmployEase, and Prudential--have integrated fun into the normal course of business. This new edition provides updates on how these same companies have grown, prospered, and continued to thrive--in spite of national tragedies, natural disaster, growing competition, and changing economic conditions--in part because of the culture they have created through what Yerkes calls "The Fun/Work Fusion." Yerkes illustrates eleven principles--from capitalizing on the spontaneous to hiring good people and getting out of their way--that will inspire you to inject a sense of playfulness and joy into your workplace. Full of real-life examples, strategies, ideas, resources, tools, tips, and techniques, Fun Works will help any company in any industry become a place where people love to work.
Gopulu, a celebrity Tamil caricaturist, created all-time classics for about 20 years in the popular Tamil weekly Ananda Vikatan. Being pantomimes, silent jokes, they could be enjoyed in magazines of any language. With Dr. R. Natarajan’s crisp, humorous one-liners, they are transformed here as illustrated management lessons. There do exist illustrated books in the management den. But this is genetically different. While cartoons of other books depict management thoughts of an author, here a cartoonist’s silent impressions of the behaviour of people are articulated by an author from the management angle. This revival of a celebrity’s jokes of the past, infused with modern managerial bearings, will serve as a pictorial guide to practising managers and also as an effective, illustrated textbook to the students in business schools.
From Journal or Sketchbook to Whimsical Art Quilts. Turn your favorite life moments into charming little fused quilts. Get started with 6 complete projects, then make your own one-of-a-kind creations. Put them together fast with easy fusing techniques: no-sew appliqué, no-baste quilting, even no-sew binding! Easy enough for kids to make on their own. Do you keep a diary or sketchbook? Transform your musings, doodles, and snapshots into these small, fun-to-make journal quilts. They're so easy, it takes just a few hours to go from inspiration to finished quilt. Try Laura's new fusible techniques-bias fusing, cheesecloth, trapunto, even fusible binding. A fun new way to use fast2fuse® Double-Sided Fusible Stiff Interfacing!
Discover how to create stunning appliqué quilts with these easy-to-follow projects from the author of Joyful Stitching. Laura shows quilters how to make bright, cheerful fused applique quilts. Along the way, she shares 17 different hand stitches that add unique color and dimension, that help the quilter tell a story with each design. The small, take-along size of these projects makes them perfect for your classes or clubs. • 11 fun and easy projects-make an assortment of whimsical houses with full-size templates • Take your art quilts to the next level by hand quilting and embellishing in one step • Learn how to make wavy bindings
