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QUILTING AND QUILT-RELATED BOOKS COMPILED FOR QUILTNETTERS
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(by Subject)
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** Amish **
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AMISH ADVENTURE, AN (A Workbook for Color in Quilts) ($15.95)
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by Roberta Horton
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C&T Publishing, Lafyette, CA 1983
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Very good book.
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AMISH QUILT, THE ($45)
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by Eve Wheatcroft Grannick
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1989, Good Books, Intercourse Pennsylvania
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Not only beautiful Amish quilts, but also their stories and a view on the
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communities and eras from which they come. A great body of information about
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the Amish and their textile traditions. Facts presented through interviews and
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conversations with Amish families and with people whose lives have touched the
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Amish people, including many who sold fabrics to these seamstresses.
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GALLERY OF AMISH QUILTS, A ($9.95)
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(Design Diversity from a Plain People)
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by Robert Bishop and Elizabeth Safanda
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E.P. Dutton, NY 1976 (first published)
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Great collection (150) of Amish quilts in color. Splendid black-and-white
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photographs of the Amish people and countryside. Also, a comprehensive
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introduction provides the cultural and aesthetic background for viewing
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these quilts.
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SMALL AMISH QUILT PATTERNS
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by Rachel Pellman
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Good Books, Intercourse, PA 1985
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Patterns for making small amish quilts.
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PLAIN AND SIMPLE
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by Sue Bender
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She tells of her fascination with the vibrant colors and stunning geometric
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simplicity of the Amish quilts. The quilts "spoke directly to me...they went
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straight to my heart." I highly recommend the book. It was after reading her
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book that I started learning how to quilt.
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** Applique **
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APPLIQUE: 12 EASY WAYS
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by Elly Sienkiewicz
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Excellent book on various applique techniques. She starts out with basic
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methods and moves on to more specialized techniques. This books gives you
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a solid foundation in applique.
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APPLIQUE PATTERNS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN BEADWORK DESIGNS ($14.95)
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by Dr. Joyce Mori
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AQS, Paducah, KY
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Great for anyone interested in this subject matter. Most of the designs in
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this book are adapted from beaded objects made by members of Native American
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Indian tribes located in five major regions in North America.
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL APPLIQUE & EMBROIDERY ($24.95)
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by Anita Shackelford
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A beautiful book!! For those of you interested in these two subjects this is a
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wonderful book. Good instructions, illustrations and patterns.
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It is hard back, 151 glossy pages and 9-1/4 x 12-1/4 in size
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** Beginners **
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUILTING TECHNIQUES, THE ($24.95)
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by Katherine Guerrier
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Running Press, Philadelphia, PA 1994
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Excellent book. Colorful. Describes: techniques, block construction (she
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gives you step by step instructions on how to make some of the more common
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blocks (with color illustrations of each step) rotary cutting, special effects,
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applique, quilting, finishing, etc. Toward the back of the book are gorgeous
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quilts to truly inspire you.
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This is a great reference book, great for beginners but can be used by
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seasoned quilters as well. A must for every quilter's library.
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FAST PATCH - A TREASURY OF STRIP QUILT PROJECTS ($17.95)
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by Anita Hallock
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Chilton Book Co., Radnor, PA 1989
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This is a very good book for beginners and everyone else. A new strip
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technique for making triangles.
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Step-by-step instructions. By making a checkerboard and turning it on the
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bias, you can learn to cut strips of triangles, opening up a whole range of
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traditional blocks like the Ohio Star and sawtooth borders.
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HAPPY ENDINGS
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(Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt)
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by Mimi Dietrich
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That Patchwork Place 1987
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Great book for ideas and instructions on finishing your quilt.
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This book belongs in every quilter's collection.
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MACHINE PIECING & QUILTING (Teach Yourself)
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by Debra Wagner
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Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA
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Beginning with guidelines for choosing a sewing machine, using templates,
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selecting and preparing fabrics for quilting; guides you with friendly,
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step-by-step instructions.
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QUILTING BY MACHINE ($19.95)
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Singer
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Cy DeCosse Inc., Minnesota 1990
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Beginner's book. (not machine quilting). Quite pictorial. Instructions are
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very easy to follow.
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Can be used as a learning tool if you are sewing your first quilt or as a
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reference if you have had quilting experience. The piecing, applique, and
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quilting techniques that are included in this book are quick, easy machine
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methods. If more than one technique is shown, the easier technique is first.
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** Borders **
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SETS & BORDERS
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by Marston & Cunningham, AQS
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I have had this book a long time. It has lots of good photos, border ideas and
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charts for planning them. I have found it inspirational and helpful.
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QUILTER'S ALBUM OF BLOCKS AND BORDERS
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Jinny Beyer
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Great black and white illustrations of blocks to give you ideas for blocks and
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the shading of the blocks. (re: question on black and white quilts).
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BRAID & CHEVRON UPDATED
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by Camille Remme
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ME Publications Santa Monica, CA 1993
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45 variations of making braid and chevron borders from one traditional pattern.
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PAINLESS BORDERS
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by Sally Schneider
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This book presents 16 cleverly designed quilts and borders in which the border
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is pieced along with the quilt. My favorite is the twisted ribbon border
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which looks like a double sided twisted ribbon cascading along the border.
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She provides lots of suggestions for clever and fast cutting/piecing.
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** Children **
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TENDER LOVING COVERS
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by Toni Phillips and Juanita Simonich
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This is a WONDERFUL book of children's quilts with great designs,
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mostly pieced. They are crib/wall quilt size but there is no reason
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they could not be incorporated into a large quilt, if you wish. One
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quilt is called Wheels & More Wheels and has a tow truck, fire
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engine, ambulance, and police car, so it is not strictly trucks. In
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addition to this, there are the following: Astronaut, farm, cowboy,
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circus, zoo, christmas, a school quilt.
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GO WILD WITH QUILTS ($19.95)
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by Margaret Rolfe
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That Patchwork Place
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This book has a lot of North American wildlife -- birds, squirrels, owls, black
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bears etc.
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It uses straightline piecing methods (no inset pieces) to create realistic
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looking animals and birds (cardinal, beaver, racoon etc.)
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PATCHWORK QUILTS TO MAKE FOR CHILDREN
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by Margaret Rolfe
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Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. New York
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I can attest to both of these books as great sources for easily
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pieced animal blocks. The GO WILD book was a great hit when we
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had it for the book draw at our guild meeting. It contains 14
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North American Animals (racoon, beaver, ducks etc).
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My favorite for children. This book hasas a whole zoo, patterns for many
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dinosaurs, farm animals, etc. In my opinion they are more fun than
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traditional blocks and make finding naturalistic fabrics fun too.
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QUILT A KOALA
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by Margaret Rolfe.
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Sterling Publishing
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Another fun book. This one has patterns for pieced blocks featuring native
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Austrailian birds and animals.
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** Color **
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COLOR CONFIDENCE FOR QUILTERS ($24.95)
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by Jinny Beyer
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The Quilt Digest Press, 1992
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This is Jinny's color system based on the use of a master palette of fabric
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colors that span the spectrum. By following the instructions in this book, you
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create your own master palette that you can use as a tool for color choices
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for all of your future quilting projects. After creating your own color
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palette, you will learn how to create countless color schemes just by taking
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small sections of the palette, or by rearranging portions of it.
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COLOR DESIGN IN PATCHWORK
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by Paula Nadelstern
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Dover Publications 1991
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Explores how color can be used to vary one and the same patchwork
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configuration. Depending on the placement of color and the resulting degree of
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contrast, different shapes in a pieced pattern are emphasized and visually
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linked. Usually some shapes combine to form the main unit of design, while
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remaining ones are interpreted as background.
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COLOR AND CLOTH: THE QUILTMAKER'S ULTIMATE WORKBOOK ($19.95)
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by Mary Coyne Penders
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The Quilt Digest Press, 1989
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This is another good "color confidence" book. Underrated, probably because of
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Jinny Beyer's.
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STRIPS THAT SIZZLE
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by Margaret Miller
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My first B&W quilt was made using this book. It is a book primarily meant for
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working in color, but I thought the technique worked extraordinarily well for
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black and white. I believe that almost any quilt pattern could be used if you
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watch your placement as to shading.
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** Design/Designing **
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SENSATIONAL SETTINGS
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(Over 80 ways to arrange your quilt blocks) ($9.95)
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by Joan Hanson
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That Patchwork Place 1993
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Good book offering a lot of ideas/suggestions for arranging quilt blocks.
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QUILTING BY DESIGN
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by Marston and Cunningham
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Linda asked about how to arrive at quilting designs. I had many of the same
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questions, and kept looking for the right book to answer them. This book does
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so. I highly recommend it.
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ONE-OF-A-KIND QUILTS
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(Simple Steps to Individual Quilts) ($16.95)
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by Judy Martin
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That Patchwork Place 1989
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One-of-a-Kind Quilts are structured scrap quilts--everyday quilts that feature
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a planned theme or focal area surrounded by blocks made in a variety of
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patterns, with the overall design developing as the piece is made.
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This book takes you step-by-step through the theme blocks and the background
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blocks, covering everything from cutting and construction techniques to the
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creative decisions that are made along the way. Suggestions for completing the
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quilts are included. Master templates and quick-cutting information for the
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background blocks are provided toward the end of the book. An excellent book.
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN ($18.95)
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by Katie Pasquini
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C&T Publishing, Lafayette, CA 1988
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Detailed discussion of how to make objects appear three-dimensional.
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Lots of her quilts (in color).
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SPEED CUTS
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by Donna Poster
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Chilton for the Creative Machine Arts Series.
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In it there are 1200 quilt blocks (although I would say that there
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are only 500 designs but each can be constructed in one of three
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sizes 10" 12" and 14"). Also, there is a quilt layout section that
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shows how many blocks you will need for each size quilt depending on
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whether you are putting the blocks together on point, straight set,
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with lattice or any combination of these.
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Of course, also included is a yardage chart based on the templates to
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be used. And the templates themselves are in the back, numbered.
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Note: Blocks are all in black and white.
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WALL QUILTS
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by Marsha McCloskey
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That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA
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A step-by-step guide on how to make wall hangings that will add bold and
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beautiful accents of folk art design to many areas throughout the home. It
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contains complete instructions and full-size pattern pieces for creating ten
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wall quilts based on traditional pieced designs, several of them with matching
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patchwork pillows. Directed to both beginning and advanced quilters, it
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includes detailed instructions on all special techniques involved, from
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template making, machine-piecing, and hand-quilting to mounting and hanging.
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PATCHWORK PATTERNS ($18.95)
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Jinny Beyer
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EPM Publications, Inc., McLean, VA 1979
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This book is written for those who have an interest in using traditional
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geometric designs or a desire to create their own original motifs.
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It explains in a systematic manner a method of drafting patterns which has, in
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large, been put aside, and about which no comprehensive book has been written.
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She also explains a few simple drafting techniques which are particularly
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useful in making geometric designs.
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PATTERN PLAY: CREATING YOUR OWN QUILTS ($24.95)
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by Doreen Speckmann
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C & T Publishing, Lafayette, California 1993
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(Not for beginners)
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Introduces you to an easy and fun way to design your own blocks on graph paper,
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then put those blocks into interesting quilt designs. Discusses fabric
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selection and the techniques necessary for turning graph paper quilts into real
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ones. Provides scale drawings and photos of some of her favorite quilts,
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complete with yardages and size-change options.
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Down to earth, easy-to-understand method to making your own designs.
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Excellent, excellent book. She writes with a sense of humour and
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shows loads of examples to get you thinking. It's an excellent back
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door entrance to a more "creative" side of quilting for those technician
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types who don't think they "have" creativity.
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BLOCKBUSTER QUILTS
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by Margaret Miller
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An unusual approach to setting odd blocks (i.e., block of the month,
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friendship blocks, good bye blocks, or blocks that are not all quite the same
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size) into a quilt top. More for the advanced piecer. Very original.
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HOW TO DESIGN AND MAKE YOUR OWN QUILTS ($19.95)
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by Katharine Guerrier
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Mallard Press, 1991
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Good book.
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MEMORY QUILTS: DELIGHTFUL WAYS TO CAPTURE TODAY FOREVER
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by Nancy Smith and Lynda Milligan
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I picked up a couple books to give me ideas when I was designing and
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constructing one for my parents' 50th wedding anniversary.
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PATTERN ON PATTERN
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by Ruth McDowell
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This is an excellent book.
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** Fast Piecing/Rotary Cutting Techniques **
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TIMELESS TREASURES, A Complete Guide to Rotary Cutting
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by Nancy Johnson-Srebo
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RCW Publishing
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Nancy's instructions are clear and concise, and she shows readers how
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to cut almost any shape, while using your rotary cutter and ruler. Also
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included are instructions for specific 6", 8", and 10" blocks.
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I have found the info in this book really helpful. She goes through how to cut
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a number of pieces: trapezoids, parallelograms, hexagrams, octograms, etc. The
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nice thing about the book, too, is that she shows you how to do it for right
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handed or left handed cutters. There is also a section in the book for those
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who use metric measurements.
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I find [this book] indispensable.
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She gives clear instructions and illustrations to cut any
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shape with the rotary cutter. Both right and left handed illustrations are
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given. In the middle of the book there is a chart for adding on seam
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allowances to any shape. It gives both the English and Metric measurements.
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There are also good directions on pressing.
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The last part of the book has color photos of blocks and complete directions
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for them including cutting, sewing, and pressing. She includes which direction
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to press the seams. (It was great help to me when I was beginning to make
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blocks for the first time.) My only complaint was that there were a couple of
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mistakes in the placement of the color photos to the directions. Some of them
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didn't match but were found somewhere else in the book.
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BTW, I took the book to a printer and had them put a spiral binding on it so
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that it lays flat and stays open when I am using it.
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SPEED CUTS
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by Donna Poster
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Chilton for the Creative Machine Arts Series.
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In it there are 1200 quilt blocks (although I would say that there
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are only 500 designs but each can be constructed in one of three
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sizes 10" 12" and 14"). Also, there is a quilt layout section that
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shows how many blocks you will need for each size quilt depending on
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whether you are putting the blocks together on point, straight set,
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with lattice or any combination of these.
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Of course, also included is a yardage chart based on the templates to
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be used. And the templates themselves are in the back, numbered.
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Note: Blocks are all in black and white.
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ANGLE ANTICS ($18.95)
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by Mary Hickey
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That Patchwork Place, 1991
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Explores the design potential of a rectangle constructed of two contrasting
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triangles (called bias rectangle). It also provides you with a technique for
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constructing this rectangle quickly and accurately. (Most patterns are star
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patterns.)
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BACK TO SQUARE ONE ($17.99)
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by Nancy J. Martin
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That Patchwork Place 1988
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Great book featuring Nancy Martin's personal quiltmaking techniques (template-
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free approach).
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She shows how to make what she calls a Square 1, Square
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1.5 or Square 2. Square 1 is made of 2 triangles. This is what you need for
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Ocean Waves. Square 1.5 is made of one big triangles and 2 little ones. Square
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2 is made of 4 little triangles. I am making a huge wall hanging that uses all
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of these different squares and it is working wonderfully!
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STRIP QUILTING ($14.95)
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by Diane Wold
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TAB Books, Div. of McGraw Hill 1987
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I love this little book. It's perfect for those who are into piecing and
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repiecing (seminole patchwork take off). It's very easy to follow.
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It contains complete instructions, including diagrams, cutting instructions,
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and a shopping list, for each of the projects illustrated. Pointers are given
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for modifying projects, for adapting patterns from other sources and for
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creating your own designs.
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SHORTCUTS: A Concise Guide to Rotary Cutting
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by Donna Thomas
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That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA 1991
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Basic quick-cutting techniques plus a number of techniques that are expansions
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of the basics.
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QUILTER'S GUIDE TO ROTARY CUTTING, THE ($17.95)
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by Donna Poster
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Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA 1991
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Good technical reference book on rotary speed cutting ; Over 1,000 speed-cut
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shapes.
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ROTARY ROUNDUP
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Judy Hopkins & Nancy Martin
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That Patchwork Place
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Both books (Rotary Riot below) have about 40 color prints of quilts. These
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quilts are made from traditional block patterns and have instructions for
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rotary cutting and quick piecing. Nancy Martin owns the publishing company
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that published these two books.
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I had Rotary Riot, so I had to buy this one too and I'm not one bit sorry. I
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love to get ideas and inspiration from these books and this one is full of
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great colors,beautiful quilts. Their books are the only ones I use when I need
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to make bias binding as it shows the flat cut method. The only times I tried
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to do the continuous circle, it ends up in a mess.
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ROTARY RIOT: 40 Fast & Fabulous Quilts ($21.95)
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by Judy Hopkins and Nancy J. Martin
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That Patchwork Place 1991
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The authors of this book take 40 traditional blocks that appeal to many
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quiltmakers and adapted their construction to template-free techniques. Begins
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with Nancy's basic review of rotary-cutting techniques and information on
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multi-fabric quilts. The pattern section includes step-by-step directions for
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forty favorite quilts, all clearly illustrated and written in a Template-Free
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format. Some of the patterns feature bias squares, some cut with 8" Bias
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Square and several use simple strip-piecing techniques. The patterns are
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graded with symbols as to difficulty (beginner, intermediate, advanced). Judy
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has written a section on Finishing Your Quilt and has included some of the
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overall repeat quilting patterns for which she is known. Also included is
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information on crow footing, utility quilting and other tacking techniques.
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||
COLORFUL ANGLES
|
||
(Triangles, Diamonds & Hexagons With a Contemporary Look)
|
||
by Susan Stein
|
||
EZ International 1993
|
||
|
||
This book combines the use of applique, traditional blocks, hand
|
||
dyed fabrics and the EZ tools (EZ Angle, Companion Angle, Easy Eight, Easy
|
||
Hexagon, Speed grids, trapezoids) to create very contemporary designs. 16
|
||
projects. I think this is a good book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUICK & EASY QUILTMAKING ($26.95)
|
||
by Mary Hickey, Nancy J. Martin, Marsha McCloskey and Sara Nephew
|
||
That Patchwork Place, 1993
|
||
|
||
This book introduces cutting techniques originated by each of the authors.
|
||
Teaches the authors' special techniques for making quilts with a variety of
|
||
triangular shapes. Organized for easy use. Good for a beginner. 26 projects
|
||
featuring speedy cutting and piecing methods
|
||
|
||
Tips are presented on various pages throughout the book to help clarify a
|
||
technique or to teach a fast (er) way to do something. This book worth it just
|
||
for the tips presented throughout.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COUNTRY QUILTS IN A DAY ($14.95)
|
||
by Fran Roen
|
||
Sterling Publishing Co, NY 1991
|
||
|
||
This book uses strip quilting and other speed techniques.
|
||
Very simplistic. Good for a person interested in teaching themselves
|
||
how to quilt.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ON TO SQUARE TWO ($17.49)
|
||
by Marsha McCloskey
|
||
That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA 1992
|
||
|
||
Thirty pieced block designs that contain the Square Two unit (a continuation of
|
||
Back to Square One) and related bias strip-pieced units. Also contains a how
|
||
to section on the construction details of bias strip piecing half-square units
|
||
(Square One), quarter-square units (Square Two) and two other related pieced
|
||
units. General instructions for machine piecing and rotary cutting are
|
||
provided in the back of the book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PAINLESS PATCHWORK ($14.95)
|
||
by Rosemary Donoughue
|
||
Sally Milner Publishing, Australia 1991
|
||
|
||
Quick modern methods for traditional quilts. This is a very good book for
|
||
making the following quilts: log cabin, irish chain (double and triple), lone
|
||
star, and trip around the world. Instructions are very easy to follow.
|
||
Great for beginners. No color.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUICK COUNTRY QUILTS
|
||
by Debbie Mumm
|
||
|
||
Very explicit instructions using quick piecing methods, well laid out book,
|
||
lots of photos and diagrams. Apples, leaves, cows, sewing machines, sheep,
|
||
cats, bunnies, tulips, hearts, houses, etc etc all in the "country" style.
|
||
----
|
||
This book has lots of "cute" small projects that are relatively easy to make.
|
||
I made the "Alley Cats" as a going away present a few years ago and the
|
||
recipient loved it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Finishing **
|
||
|
||
HAPPY ENDINGS
|
||
(Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt)
|
||
by Mimi Dietrich
|
||
That Patchwork Place 1987
|
||
|
||
Great book for ideas and instructions on finishing your quilt.
|
||
This book belongs in every quilter's collection.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Foundation Piecing **
|
||
|
||
|
||
EASY MACHINE PAPER PIECING
|
||
by Carol Doak
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
I surrender -- I am a believer. I attended a workshop last night on
|
||
foundation/paper piecing based on this book. It works, by golly, it works.
|
||
What a treat -- and I can turn out such perfectly precise blocks. It's
|
||
wonderful. If you haven't tried it, you should -- attending a class really
|
||
helps because you see how it's done live.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PRECISION PIECED QUILTS USING THE FOUNDATION METHOD
|
||
by Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood
|
||
|
||
I like this book because it offers a good history, well-described theory and
|
||
practical examples of piecing on a variety of foundations. It's well
|
||
written and very nicely illustrated with b&w photos, color plates and
|
||
instructional line drawings.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** General/Miscellaneous **
|
||
|
||
|
||
SENSATIONAL SCRAP QUILTS
|
||
by Darra Duffy Williamson
|
||
|
||
I like this book, particularly the section on selecting fabrics for scrap
|
||
quilts. I used her idea of making a reference card of all the colors in the
|
||
quilt (you take a small piece of each and organize them on a card in a
|
||
continuous line from light to dark, ignoring color) and it worked a treat on a
|
||
planned scrap quilt I made using about 40 pinks and greys.
|
||
|
||
QNM did a review and hated it, they said there was nothing new in it. I think
|
||
it is well laid out and gives you lots to think about.
|
||
----
|
||
I learned a lot from this book. First, I discovered D.D. Williamsons theory of
|
||
the "Maverick" block in quilts using repeating blocks! That has helped me to
|
||
add more fun and excitement to my quilts. It also has a section on color use
|
||
and drafting patterns. I find I go back and read this book over and over.
|
||
Wonderful!
|
||
|
||
|
||
ROMANCE OF THE PATCHWORK QUILT IN AMERICA, THE
|
||
by Hall and Kretsinger
|
||
|
||
(answer to question on pattern for Seven Sisters) Thi book has a picture of a
|
||
"Seven Stars" block on p. 54 that appears to be a similar, if not identical,
|
||
pattern.
|
||
|
||
|
||
STRIPS THAT SIZZLE
|
||
by Margaret Miller
|
||
|
||
My first B&W quilt was made using this book. It is a book primarily meant for
|
||
working in color, but I thought the technique worked extraordinarily well for
|
||
black and white. I believe that almost any quilt pattern could be used if you
|
||
watch your placement as to shading.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTMAKER'S GUIDE: Basics and Beyond
|
||
by Carol Doak
|
||
|
||
There is a neat pieced maple leaf pattern in this book. It shows four standard
|
||
pieced maple leaves set in a block so that each maple leaf is pointing towards
|
||
a different corner.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING WITH STYLE ($24.95)
|
||
by Marston & Cunningham
|
||
|
||
I would like to list this as a book that several people in my guild highly
|
||
recommend as a "every quilter must have" book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT ALMANAC 19xx
|
||
by Oxmoor House
|
||
|
||
These are some of my favorites too. The quilts range from very simple
|
||
to very difficult. The patterns are good and I enjoy the biographies.
|
||
There's a chapter each year on group quilts or guild quilts and someday
|
||
I expect I'll see a QuiltNet quilt featured there!
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS AND QUILTING ($17.95)
|
||
by Threads magazine
|
||
The Taunton Press, 1991
|
||
|
||
Series of articles drawn from the first 35 issues of Threads magazine, more
|
||
than two dozen master quiltmakers share their ideas and techniques.
|
||
|
||
Great collection!
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Hand Quilting **
|
||
|
||
ESSENTIAL QUILTER, THE
|
||
by Barbara Chainey ($29 .95)
|
||
|
||
A wonderful book. It is a complete course in the lost art of hand quilting. It
|
||
covers everything you might need to know, and the clear photos show you how to
|
||
hold the needle, etc. The quilts are all Welsh or English, many are
|
||
"whole-cloth" (all-quilted) quilts with beautiful feathers, scrolls, etc. Very
|
||
inspirational.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING STITCH, HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR
|
||
by Ami Simms
|
||
Mallery Press, Flint, Michigan
|
||
|
||
Great instructional book on perfecting hand quilting stitch.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Inspirational **
|
||
|
||
AMERICA'S TRADITIONAL CRAFTS ($95)
|
||
by Robert Shaw
|
||
Macmillan, N.Y. 1993.
|
||
|
||
Wonderful book. Wonderful color photos...quilts and a lot more...
|
||
very oversize... BEAUTIFUL...
|
||
|
||
|
||
COLLECTOR SCRAP QUILTS
|
||
(Book II in the Collector Quilt Series)
|
||
by Marti Michell
|
||
American School of Needlework, San Marcos, CA 1992
|
||
|
||
Second book in the collector series that features design inspiration from
|
||
antique quilts.
|
||
|
||
Pretty good instructional book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
GALLERY OF AMERICAN QUILTS: 1860-1989: Book 2
|
||
American Quilting Society
|
||
|
||
If you want inspiration and if only American quilts will do, this is the book!
|
||
|
||
|
||
JAPANESE QUILTS ($24.95)
|
||
by Jill Liddell & Yuko Watanabe
|
||
E.P.Dutton, NY 1988
|
||
|
||
Beautiful collection of Japanese quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING AND INFLUENCES ($29.95)
|
||
by Nancy Crow
|
||
AQS, Paducah, KY
|
||
|
||
Nancy, with the help of lots of pictures, explains how she uses her
|
||
instinctive eye for color and design to create quilt art. 256 pages offer
|
||
more than 300 photos, most in full color arangement showing Nancy's use
|
||
of color and unusual fabrics. She also talks about her family and how
|
||
they influenced her life as far as quilting is concerned.
|
||
|
||
Good coffee table book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Machine Quilting **
|
||
|
||
COMPLETE BOOK OF MACHINE QUILTING, THE
|
||
by Robbie and Toby Fanny
|
||
(Chilton Needlework Series), 1980
|
||
|
||
Good book. Discusses frame basting on pages 58-65, with ilustrations on pages
|
||
60 and 62 of the materials, the components, the frame set up and in use.
|
||
|
||
|
||
HEIRLOOM MACHINE QUILTING
|
||
by Harriet Hargrave
|
||
|
||
This is probably the best book available on machine quilting.
|
||
A must!!
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Miniature/Crib **
|
||
|
||
|
||
TWENTY LITTLE PATCHWORK QUILTS
|
||
by Gwen Marston and Joe Cunningham
|
||
Dover Publications, NY 1990
|
||
|
||
Miniatures quilts. Includes templates and quilting designs
|
||
|
||
|
||
SMALL TALK
|
||
by Donna Thomas
|
||
That Patchwork Place.
|
||
|
||
I am very impressed with the progressive directions (from easiest to more
|
||
difficult) they are easy to follow and the pictures were inspiring. I would
|
||
highly recommend it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMISH CRIB QUILTS
|
||
by Rachel and Kenneth Pellman
|
||
Good Books Publishers 1985
|
||
|
||
Beautiful quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SMALL AMISH QUILT PATTERNS
|
||
by Rachel Pellman
|
||
Good Books, Intercourse, PA 1985
|
||
|
||
Patterns for making small amish quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
CRIB QUILTS AND OTHER SMALL WONDERS ($29.50)
|
||
by Thos. K. Woodward & Blanche Greenstein
|
||
Bonanza Books, New York 1988 edition
|
||
|
||
Lots of colorful quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WORKING IN MINIATURE ($15.95)
|
||
by Becky Schaefer
|
||
C&T Publishing, Layayette, CA 1987
|
||
|
||
A machine piecing approach to miniature quilts.
|
||
Good book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Nine Patch **
|
||
|
||
|
||
NIFTY NINE PATCHES
|
||
by Carolann M. Palmer
|
||
|
||
If anyone ever thought ninepatches were humdrum, this should change their mind.
|
||
This book also has good instructions on quick rotary cutting and piecing
|
||
techniques.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NINE PATCH WONDERS
|
||
by Blanche Young and Helen Young Frost
|
||
First Star publishers, Tucson, Arizona 1991
|
||
|
||
Shows what can be done with a nine patch block (interesting color plays,
|
||
optical illusions, three dimensional woven effects).
|
||
|
||
The best of traditional designs as well as some original variations. Some
|
||
quilts are made with all Nine Patch blocks; others combine the pieced blocks
|
||
with background blocks. Others are variations on the Double Nine Patch design,
|
||
where pieced blocks are joined with plain squares to form large Nine Patch
|
||
blocks. Combining the 9Patch with other shapes, such as rectangles or
|
||
triangles, creates even more variations.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Patterns/Blocks **
|
||
|
||
|
||
ULTIMATE BOOK OF QUILT BLOCK PATTERNS, THE
|
||
by Judy Martin
|
||
Crosley-Griffith Publishing 1988
|
||
|
||
Excellent book, lots of of various sizes.
|
||
----
|
||
This book is my most favorite, and most used, of all time.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS! QUILTS!! QUILTS!!! ($21.95)
|
||
The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking
|
||
by Diana McClun and Laura Nownes
|
||
The Quilt Digest Press, 1988
|
||
|
||
Great book.
|
||
|
||
Includes patterns that beginning quiltmakers can complete successfully, as well
|
||
as designs an experienced quiltmaker will enjoy working with. Popular and
|
||
traditional patterns--and all the instructions for the techniques required to
|
||
make them.
|
||
|
||
The patterns are arranged in a progressive sequence, incorporating new designs
|
||
and utilizing more difficult techniques as you move from the simpler patterns
|
||
to the more complex. Some patterns require more precise work than others, but
|
||
with careful work all can be completed by the quiltmaker who begins with the
|
||
simpler patterns, moving onward as experience warrants.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS, QUILTS, AND MORE QUILTS
|
||
by McClun and Nownes.
|
||
|
||
This book is just as good as their first book (see above).
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTER'S COLOR WORKBOOK: Unlimited Designs from
|
||
Easy-to-Make Quilt Blocks ($12.95)
|
||
by Kirstin Olsen
|
||
Sterling Publishing Co., INc., New York 1990
|
||
|
||
For a beginner: shows multiple color combinations for a number of quilt
|
||
patterns; provides ten or twenty starting points. Lots of quilt blocks in a
|
||
variety of color combinations: pinwheel, ohio star, chimney sweep, mosaic,
|
||
triangles, wrench, double-nine patch, rabbit's paw, bow-tie, hexagon, pineapple
|
||
log cabin, log cabin, lone star, tumbling blocks, and irish chain.
|
||
|
||
Also provides piecing instructions for each block.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTER'S PATTERN WORKBOOK ($12.95)
|
||
by Kristin Olsen
|
||
|
||
This book has templates for the bow tie block and demonstrates how the block
|
||
can be arranged with different colors at least 10 times. I've yet to read the
|
||
book in detail, but she does this with many patterns and it looks really neat!
|
||
|
||
|
||
TEMPLATES FOR 171 NINE-PATCH QUILT BLOCKS
|
||
by Rita Weiss
|
||
American School of Needlework 1989
|
||
|
||
Good book of 9-patch blocks in 10, 12 and 14 inch sizes
|
||
|
||
|
||
SCRAP QUILTS
|
||
by Judy Martin
|
||
Moon Over the Mountain Publishing, Wheatridge, Colo 1985
|
||
|
||
Techniques plus patterns old and new for making quilts a from collected
|
||
fabrics.
|
||
Very nice, colorful quilts. I bought this book because I saw her quilt
|
||
"Tennessee Waltz" on display at the Great American Quilt Festival 1993 in New
|
||
York.
|
||
|
||
|
||
RADIANT STAR
|
||
by Eleanor Burns
|
||
Quilt in a Day Series 1990
|
||
|
||
Good book for making stars.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT PROJECTS BY MACHINE
|
||
by Singer, 1992
|
||
|
||
There is a small section on Bow Ties (about a half doz or so pages) in this
|
||
book. It shows several arrangements: traditional, zigzag, octagonal,
|
||
staggered.
|
||
There are a couple of neat arrangements using color (oh, no, I'm starting
|
||
to write "American"!) gradations, as well as scrap, necktie fabrics and
|
||
amish colours. It gives a couple of ideas for borders and sashings as well.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS SEW QUILT
|
||
by Nancy J. Smith and Lynda Milligan
|
||
|
||
This is the one that has the Ivy Trellis Pattern in it that I asked about on
|
||
QuiltNet last fall and noone could find the pattern for. It has a number of
|
||
other interesting patterns in it for large print fabrics.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT ALMANAC 19xx
|
||
by Oxmoor House
|
||
|
||
These are some of my favorites too. The quilts range from very simple
|
||
to very difficult. The patterns are good and I enjoy the biographies.
|
||
There's a chapter each year on group quilts or guild quilts and someday
|
||
I expect I'll see a QuiltNet quilt featured there!
|
||
|
||
|
||
120 Patterns for Traditional Patchwork Quilts
|
||
by Maggie Malone
|
||
Sterling Publishing, NY 1983
|
||
|
||
Patterns range from easy to hard; from well-known designs to more obscure
|
||
patterns. Some of the patterns you may have never seen before since they were
|
||
reproduced from museum quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
BEST OF THE CLASSIC QUILT SERIES, THE
|
||
by Laura Nownes.
|
||
|
||
This book is chock full of great photos and patterns (and instructions) for
|
||
many "classic" quilt designs (cathedral windows and grandmother's flower garden
|
||
to name only two).
|
||
|
||
|
||
COUNTRY QUILTS BY COUNTRY LIVING ($25.00)
|
||
Text by Eleanor Levie, Jennifer Place and Mary Seehafer Sears
|
||
Hearst Books, New York 1992
|
||
|
||
More than 10 years worth of Country Living's favorite country quilts, offering
|
||
instructions and pattern pieces for making twenty of them. Over 100 examples
|
||
of how quilts can personalize every room in the house, adding color and graphic
|
||
impact to any space.
|
||
|
||
|
||
EAST QUILTS WEST ($24.95)
|
||
by Kumiko Sodo
|
||
|
||
It is wonderful!!! She has many patterns that have instructions for an
|
||
average to advanced quilter. Her patterns are not, on the most part, for the
|
||
faint of heart. The best part, is the ideas which spring forth from her many
|
||
designs. I very, very seldom use a design, even if given permission - I like
|
||
to make my own designe. Her book is an inspiration. I hate to piece curves,
|
||
so I have been appliqueing them down on top of the under piece after turning
|
||
under the edge. This is how she "pieces" her curves. The book is rich in
|
||
color and in interestingly narrated. Her use of color is wonderful.
|
||
It is not a cheap book, but I would definitely recommend it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Reference (Historical) **
|
||
|
||
|
||
CONTEMPORARY QUILTS FROM TRADITIONAL DESIGNS ($9.50 used)
|
||
by Carolyn L. Mosey
|
||
E. P. Dutton Publishers, New York 1988
|
||
|
||
This book takes a comparative look at the physical changes in the art of
|
||
quilting through the years. While the overall appearance of quilts has
|
||
changed, many contemporary quiltmakers keep coming back to traditional
|
||
patterns. The artists represented in this book share their feelings on the
|
||
history of quilting, the direction in which it is going and their viewpoints on
|
||
several quilt-related topics.
|
||
|
||
Interesting. Provides a traditional quilt on one side of the page and a
|
||
quilter's contemporary rendition of the same pattern on the other.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FABULOUS FABRICS OF THE 50s (And Other Terrific Textiles of the
|
||
20s, 30s, and 40s)
|
||
by Gideon Bosker, John Gramstad, Michele Mancini
|
||
Chronicle Books, San Francisco.
|
||
|
||
This one focuses on drape/upholstry fabrics of those years and is great for the
|
||
history and wonderful (often weird) color combinations of the fabrics.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS: African Images in African-American Quilts ($24.00)
|
||
by Maude Southwell Wahlman
|
||
Studio Books in association with Museum of American Folk Art, New York
|
||
|
||
This book introduces the art of African-American quiltmaking to the general
|
||
public. Her thesis is that most African-American quiltmaking derives its
|
||
aesthetic from various African traditionsk, both technological and ideological.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Provides an abundance of detailed information on African textiles, the history
|
||
of quiltmaking in India, Europe and the Americas and extensive interviews with
|
||
quilters.
|
||
|
||
Excellent.
|
||
|
||
|
||
STAR QUILTS ($20)
|
||
by Mary Elizabeth Johnson
|
||
Clarkson Potter Publishers
|
||
|
||
Good collection of star quilts.
|
||
----
|
||
I like this book. She is well organized and gives you some good photos and
|
||
directions. Haven't tried anything from it yet. (I got it from a closeout
|
||
catalog for under $10. It's a good deal at that price. Not sure if I'd pay
|
||
$20 for it though.)
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT STORIES
|
||
by Cecilia Macheski, editor
|
||
Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1994.
|
||
|
||
This wonderful book is a collection of poems, short stories, and other prose
|
||
works by various authors over the past 150-200 years, all dealing somehow with
|
||
quilts and quilting. The book is divided into 5 sections ("blocks"), each
|
||
named for specific quilt blocks: Memory Blocks ("Stories of Remembrance and
|
||
Meaning"), Double Wedding Ring ("Stories of Community and Courtship"), Radical
|
||
Rose ("Stories of Struggle and Change"), Wheel of Mystery ("Stories of Murder
|
||
and Mystery"), and Old Maid's Ramble ("Stories of Age and Wisdom"). The
|
||
introduction explains the blocks and the stories a bit, and the editor explains
|
||
how quilting provided an important link in literature written by women
|
||
(although there are a couple of selections from male authors).
|
||
|
||
|
||
REMEMBER ME; Women and their Friendship Quilts
|
||
Lipsett, Linda Otto.
|
||
San Francisco, Quilt Digest Press, 1985.
|
||
Pb, 140 p, col & b/w ill.
|
||
|
||
One of the very best quilt books ever Linda Otto Lipsett began with her own
|
||
collection of 19th century friendship quilts. Her book tells the stories of
|
||
eight women and eight quilts made between 1840 and 1895. Many of the stories
|
||
are sad stories of leaving family and comfortable homes in the East to
|
||
undertake arduous journeys in pursuit of new homes in the West. Using letters,
|
||
diaries, interviews and the quilts themselves the author unfolds the everyday
|
||
lives of eight real women, following them from youth to old age. Photos show
|
||
the women, their families, their homes, and especially their quilts. The
|
||
excellent color photographs show full quilts, details of blocks, signatures
|
||
and ornaments, and the best close-ups of 19th century fabrics I have seen.
|
||
There are also pictures of other typical friendship quilts, patterns for three
|
||
quilts prepared by Laura Nownes, and complete references and bibliography.
|
||
|
||
|
||
MY MOTHER'S QUILTS/DESIGNS FROM THE THIRTIES
|
||
by Sara Nephew,
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
I love this one -- it really got me into 30s quilts -- and it's my inspiration,
|
||
since I just purchased two 30s tops that need batting, backing,etc.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FOLK QUILTS AND HOW TO RECREATE THEM ($14.95)
|
||
by Audrey & Douglas Wiss
|
||
Sterling/Main Street, NY 1990
|
||
|
||
This book presents a wide selection of traditional designs for the modern
|
||
quilter which have been tested over time. They are presented in their original
|
||
colors and special configurations. Some date back as far as the 18th century;
|
||
others became popular as late as the 1930s. A few are worked in wool or silk;
|
||
most are piecd of plain or printed cottons. All were made in America and
|
||
display a variety of piecing, applique and quilting techniques.
|
||
I like this collection.
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN QUILT: A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750-1950, $60
|
||
Text: Roderick Kiracofe with Mary Elizabeth Johnson
|
||
Photos: Sharon Risendorph
|
||
Published by Clarkson Potter, New York
|
||
|
||
Buy it, it's gorgeous and you will learn a ton of stuff about
|
||
quilting that you never know--extremely well researched, beautifully
|
||
designed book, nice typefaces, photography excellent of course--
|
||
----
|
||
This is a beautiful book. It has several features I like, including
|
||
a time line about quilt styles and fabrics. The photographs are
|
||
unusually clear and brilliant. It is expensive; however, you
|
||
will find it sold by the discount retailers. I have seen it listed
|
||
for $48.
|
||
|
||
|
||
BITS AND PIECES, TEXTILE TRADITIONS
|
||
by Jeanette Lasansky
|
||
|
||
This books contains essays/thesis on history and other aspects: the
|
||
relationship between late 19th c. dress fabrics & quilt devel., other
|
||
fascinating things.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Reference (Technical) **
|
||
|
||
|
||
TAKING THE MATH OUT OF MAKING PATCHWORK QUILTS ($6.95)
|
||
by Bonnie Leman & Judy Martin
|
||
Leman Publications 1981
|
||
|
||
Charts, tables, measurements, sizes, facts, figures, and helpful information
|
||
for planning quilts. A must for every quilter.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS! QUILTS!! QUILTS!!! ($21.95)
|
||
The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking
|
||
by Diana McClun and Laura Nownes
|
||
The Quilt Digest Press, 1988
|
||
|
||
Great book.
|
||
|
||
Includes patterns that beginning quiltmakers can complete successfully, as well
|
||
as designs an experienced quiltmaker will enjoy working with. Popular and
|
||
traditional patterns--and all the instructions for the techniques required to
|
||
make them.
|
||
|
||
The patterns are arranged in a progressive sequence, incorporating new designs
|
||
and utilizing more difficult techniques as you move from the simpler patterns
|
||
to the more complex. Some patterns require more precise work than others, but
|
||
with careful work all can be completed by the quiltmaker who begins with the
|
||
simpler patterns, moving onward as experience warrants.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS, QUILTS, AND MORE QUILTS
|
||
by McClun and Nownes.
|
||
|
||
This book is just as good as their first book (see above).
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUICK & EASY QUILTMAKING ($26.95)
|
||
by Mary Hickey, Nancy J. Martin, Marsha McCloskey and Sara Nephew
|
||
That Patchwork Place, 1993
|
||
|
||
This book introduces cutting techniques originated by each of the authors.
|
||
Teaches the authors' special techniques for making quilts with a variety of
|
||
triangular shapes. Organized for easy use. Good for a beginner. 26 projects
|
||
featuring speedy cutting and piecing methods
|
||
|
||
Tips are presented on various pages throughout the book to help clarify a
|
||
technique or to teach a fast (er) way to do something. This book worth it just
|
||
for the tips presented throughout.
|
||
|
||
|
||
TIPS FOR QUILTERS
|
||
by Rachel Pellman
|
||
Good Books, Intercourse, PA 1993
|
||
|
||
A handbook of hints, shortcuts, and practical suggestions from experienced
|
||
quilters.
|
||
-----
|
||
This is a great book full of all sorts of useful ideas. BUT don't read
|
||
it at bedtime or you will quilt ALL night long and not get any sleep!!! I
|
||
recommend this book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUILTING TECHNIQUES, THE ($24.95)
|
||
by Katherine Guerrier
|
||
Running Press, Philadelphia, PA 1994
|
||
|
||
Excellent book. Colorful. Describes: techniques, block construction (she
|
||
gives you step by step instructions on how to make some of the more common
|
||
blocks (with color illustrations of each step) rotary cutting, special effects,
|
||
applique, quilting, finishing, etc. Toward the back of the book are gorgeous
|
||
quilts to truly inspire you.
|
||
|
||
This is a great reference book, great for beginners but can be used by
|
||
seasoned quilters as well. A must for every quilter's library.
|
||
|
||
|
||
HAPPY ENDINGS
|
||
(Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt)
|
||
by Mimi Dietrich
|
||
That Patchwork Place 1987
|
||
|
||
Great book for ideas and instructions on finishing your quilt.
|
||
This book belongs in every quilter's collection.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING & PATCHWORK DICTIONARY ($12.95)
|
||
by Rhoda Ochser Goldberg
|
||
1988 Crown Publishers, Inc.
|
||
|
||
Good reference book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
CLUES IN THE CALICO; A Guide to Identifying and Dating
|
||
Antique Quilts ($39.95)
|
||
by Barbara Brackman.
|
||
EPM Publications, 1989.
|
||
|
||
There are black and white and color pictures and examples and descriptions of
|
||
quilts characteristic of different periods. It is one of the best researched
|
||
and written quilt books I have encountered, and I have more than 300 books. I
|
||
put this in the top ten. Libraries and quilt guilds should have it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUILTING TECHNIQUES, THE ($24.95)
|
||
by Katherine Guerrier
|
||
Running Press, Philadelphia, PA 1994
|
||
|
||
Excellent book. Colorful. Describes: techniques, block construction (she
|
||
gives you step by step instructions on how to make some of the more common
|
||
blocks (with color illustrations of each step) rotary cutting, special effects,
|
||
applique, quilting, finishing, etc. Toward the back of the book are gorgeous
|
||
quilts to truly inspire you.
|
||
|
||
This is a great reference book, great for beginners but can be used by
|
||
seasoned quilters as well. A must for every quilter's library.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEW QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY, THE ($12.95)
|
||
by Goldberg, Rhoda Ochser
|
||
New York: Crown, 1988.
|
||
|
||
This should be in EVERY quilter's library. It has 1,740 illustrations, which
|
||
includes all the "classics" of our repetoire plus many charming original
|
||
designs (a baby bottle block, international signal flags, a pieced panda,
|
||
etc.)All black and white illustrations, but so comprehensive most people won't
|
||
even notice!
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS: Identification and Price Guide
|
||
by Liz Greenbacker and Kathleen Barach. ($14.00 paper).
|
||
|
||
(340 pages). This book include such topics as: why collect quilts, how to start
|
||
a collection, history of quilts and quilting, dating a quilt (about30 pages
|
||
devoted to this chapter), condition, workmanship, repair and finishing,
|
||
care/cleaning/storage/display, trends in the marketplace, and seven chapters
|
||
under the heading of PRICE LISTINGS, such as antique pieced quilts,
|
||
contemporary quilts, art quilts, African American quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK ($10.00)
|
||
by Ami Simms
|
||
Mallery Press, Flint, MI 1990
|
||
|
||
Over 500 tricks, tips, and tidbits for quilters .
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Special Interest **
|
||
|
||
COMPLETE BOOK OF SEMINOLE PATCHWORK, THE ($7.95)
|
||
Rush, Beverly with Lassie Wittman
|
||
New York: Dover, 1993.
|
||
|
||
This is the book for anyone interested in Seminole patchwork. I have two other
|
||
books on the topic and have seen others at the library--THIS is the one to buy.
|
||
|
||
----
|
||
It's a reprint of the 1982 edition which has been out of print for some time.
|
||
It's just $7.95 from I was born and raised in S. Florida and just adore the
|
||
Seminole patchwork. This is the first book I've seen that's had something of
|
||
an accurate history, too.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT CLIP ART ($10.95)
|
||
by Cheryl Petersen
|
||
Quiltessence/Fine Publications
|
||
|
||
It's a nice little book that has all kinds of sewing-related images, quilt
|
||
borders, the word QUILT in various fonts and stylings, little quilts
|
||
flying pigs, thimbles and thread.
|
||
|
||
The nice part about this publisher is that you can order DISKS of
|
||
all the clip art (a necessity if you don't own a scanner!) The clip
|
||
art is available for MACs in pict form on 3.5" disks. It is also
|
||
available for the IBM or clone, but you must call or write to them and
|
||
give them your graphic requirements.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COLOR WASH WORKBOOK ($12.95)
|
||
by Shirley Liby
|
||
Graphics Unlimited, 1993
|
||
|
||
This book is the result of Liby's creative play and her approach to the process
|
||
of color wash through a series of modules that seemed to simplify the whole
|
||
idea for her.
|
||
|
||
I like this book because it is in black and white and, therefore, easier to
|
||
separate values. There are also a lot of grids that you can copy and play
|
||
around with your own designs.
|
||
|
||
|
||
STAR QUILTS ($20)
|
||
by Mary Elizabeth Johnson
|
||
Clarkson Potter Publishers
|
||
|
||
Good collection of star quilts.
|
||
----
|
||
I like this book. She is well organized and gives you some good photos and
|
||
directions. Haven't tried anything from it yet. (I got it from a closeout
|
||
catalog for under $10. It's a good deal at that price. Not sure if I'd pay
|
||
$20 for it though.)
|
||
|
||
|
||
RADIANT STAR
|
||
by Eleanor Burns
|
||
Quilt in a Day Series 1990
|
||
|
||
Good book for making stars.
|
||
|
||
|
||
CONWAY ALBUM (I'M NOT FROM BALTIMORE) QUILT
|
||
by Irma Gail Hatcher
|
||
|
||
This is a Baltimore style quilt done in a blue design scheme. Each of
|
||
the blocks in her design could be used to make a wonderful quilt of that
|
||
block alone. However, the whole quilt is a stunner. It's the one that
|
||
won first place for Innovative Applique, large quilt AND the Founders
|
||
Award at the American International Quilt Show in Houston.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FIT TO BE TIED
|
||
by Judy Hopkins
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
There is a whole (wonderful) book of bow tie quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING: Techniques and Inspiration for Writing on Quilts
|
||
by Susan McKelvey
|
||
|
||
Another helpful book for anyone who wants to write on quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SASHIKO FOR MACHINE SEWING
|
||
by Janet K. Rostocki
|
||
Summa Design
|
||
|
||
These designs are cleverly constructed so that they can be continuously
|
||
sewn on the machine. Five classic designs are included and 8 new designs.
|
||
They could all be handsewn if you wanted to do that. Each is given in
|
||
two sizes.
|
||
|
||
|
||
JACKET JAZZ ($21.95)
|
||
by Judy Murrah
|
||
AQS
|
||
|
||
One woman in my guild made a jacket in it and just raved about
|
||
the book. She said it was totally lucid, thorough, etc.
|
||
----
|
||
This book has a nifty way to make Prairie Points from a strip of fabric. I've
|
||
tried it for trim on a vest and it was very easy.
|
||
----
|
||
This book has 5 wonderful jacket patterns in it. In the book, she shows how to
|
||
do 36 different things to put on a jacket. A few will look very familiar to
|
||
most quilters such as a strip of flying geese, though making it without cutting
|
||
any triangles may be a new technique. Some such as woven prairie points I had
|
||
never seen or heard mentioned before, though I know we have mentioned the
|
||
standard prairie points before.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEW JERSEY QUILTS 1777 to 1950
|
||
by the Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey
|
||
|
||
I have a number of state-oriented quilt history books and this one, which
|
||
focuses more on the quilts than the makers, I find to be outstanding.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WATERCOLOR QUILTS ($24.95)
|
||
by Pat Maixner Magaret & Donna Ingram Slusser
|
||
That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA 1993
|
||
|
||
Great instructional book on making watercolor quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WEEKEND LOG CABIN QUILTS
|
||
by Marti Michell
|
||
American School of Needlework (quilt as you go books)
|
||
|
||
|
||
TEXTILE DESIGNS ($65.00)
|
||
Susan Meller and Joost Elffers
|
||
AQS, Paducah, KY
|
||
|
||
This book is expensive but worth it if you are a fabric collector. This book
|
||
has some introductory discussion of the the production of types of textiles,
|
||
and then the rest is color plates of examples from a collection that has over
|
||
5,000,000 "fabrics of the common man" - not the fancy brocades, etc., but
|
||
paisleys, calicoes, leaves and foliage, conversationals, block prints, and on,
|
||
and on - the kind of stuff that many of us in our quilts.
|
||
------
|
||
Most of its 461 pages are filled with excellent color pictures (1,823
|
||
illustrations in color) of fabrics we'd all like to have. Color reproduction is
|
||
good and the pictures are large so that you can see the pattern detail. My only
|
||
serious criticism of the book is that reproductions are not all full-size or
|
||
even to the same scale. Page layout seems to have dictated the scale of
|
||
reproduction, and on the same page there are illustrations at 50%, 68% and 70%
|
||
full size, on other pages 27%, 100%, 120% and 150%. I suppose we should
|
||
appreciate the indication of scale included for each sample.
|
||
|
||
Although the book is expensive, it is not overpriced for a large format
|
||
art book with full-color illustrations on good quality paper. It has a
|
||
sewn binding and is very sturdily put together.
|
||
|
||
QUILTING AND QUILT-RELATED BOOKS COMPILED FOR QUILTNETTERS
|
||
(An alphabetical listing)
|
||
|
||
|
||
120 Patterns for Traditional Patchwork quilts
|
||
by Maggie Malone
|
||
Sterling Publishing, NY 1983
|
||
|
||
Patterns in this book range from easy to hard; from well-known designs to more
|
||
obscure patterns. Some of the patterns you may have never seen before since
|
||
they were reproduced from museum quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMERICA'S TRADITIONAL CRAFTS ($95)
|
||
by Robert Shaw
|
||
Macmillan, N.Y. 1993.
|
||
|
||
Wonderful book. Wonderful color photos...quilts and a lot more...
|
||
very oversize... BEAUTIFUL...
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN QUILT: A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750-1950, $60
|
||
Text: Roderick Kiracofe with Mary Elizabeth Johnson
|
||
Photos: Sharon Risendorph
|
||
Published by Clarkson Potter, New York
|
||
|
||
Buy it, it's gorgeous and you will learn a ton of stuff about
|
||
quilting that you never know--extremely well researched, beautifully
|
||
designed book, nice typefaces, photography excellent of course--
|
||
----
|
||
This is a beautiful book. It has several features I like, including
|
||
a time line about quilt styles and fabrics. The photographs are
|
||
unusually clear and brilliant. It is expensive; however, you
|
||
will find it sold by the discount retailers. I have seen it listed
|
||
for $48.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ANGLE ANTICS ($18.95)
|
||
by Mary Hickey
|
||
That Patchwork Place, 1991
|
||
|
||
Explores the design potential of a rectangle constructed of two contrasting
|
||
triangles (called bias rectangle). It also provides you with a technique for
|
||
constructing this rectangle quickly and accurately. (Most patterns are star
|
||
patterns.)
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMISH ADVENTURE, AN (A Workbook for Color in Quilts) ($15.95)
|
||
by Roberta Horton
|
||
C&T Publishing, Lafyette, CA 1983
|
||
|
||
Very good book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMISH QUILT, THE ($45)
|
||
by Eve Wheatcroft Grannick
|
||
1989, Good Books, Intercourse Pennsylvania
|
||
|
||
Not only beautiful Amish quilts, but also their stories and a view on the
|
||
communities and eras from which they come. A great body of information about
|
||
the Amish and their textile traditions. Facts presented through interviews and
|
||
conversations with Amish families and with people whose lives have touched the
|
||
Amish people, including many who sold fabrics to these seamstresses.
|
||
|
||
|
||
APPLIQUE: 12 EASY WAYS
|
||
by Elly Sienkiewicz.
|
||
|
||
Excellent book on various applique techniques. She starts out with basic
|
||
methods and moves on to more specialized techniques. This books gives you
|
||
a solid foundation in applique.
|
||
|
||
|
||
APPLIQUE PATTERNS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN BEADWORK DESIGNS ($14.95)
|
||
by Dr. Joyce Mori
|
||
AQS, Paducah, KY
|
||
|
||
Great for anyone interested in this subject matter. Most of the designs in
|
||
this book are adapted from beaded objects made by members of Native American
|
||
Indian tribes located in five major regions in North America.
|
||
|
||
|
||
BACK TO SQUARE ONE ($17.99)
|
||
by Nancy J. Martin
|
||
That Patchwork Place 1988
|
||
|
||
Great book featuring Nancy Martin's personal quiltmaking techniques (template-
|
||
free approach).
|
||
----
|
||
She shows how to make what she calls a Square 1, Square
|
||
1.5 or Square 2. Square 1 is made of 2 triangles. This is what you need for
|
||
Ocean Waves. Square 1.5 is made of one big triangles and 2 little ones. Square
|
||
2 is made of 4 little triangles. I am making a huge wall hanging that uses all
|
||
of these different squares and it is working wonderfully!
|
||
|
||
|
||
BEST OF THE CLASSIC QUILT SERIES, THE
|
||
by Laura Nownes.
|
||
|
||
This book is chock full of great photos and patterns (and instructions) for
|
||
many "classic" quilt designs (cathedral windows and grandmother's flower garden
|
||
to name only two).
|
||
|
||
|
||
BITS AND PIECES, TEXTILE TRADITIONS
|
||
by Jeanette Lasansky
|
||
|
||
This books contains essays/thesis on history and other aspects: the
|
||
relationship between late 19th c. dress fabrics & quilt devel., other
|
||
fascinating things.
|
||
|
||
|
||
BRAID & CHEVRON UPDATED
|
||
by Camille Remme
|
||
ME Publications Santa Monica, CA 1993
|
||
|
||
45 variations of making braid and chevron borders from one traditional pattern.
|
||
|
||
|
||
BLOCKBUSTER QUILTS
|
||
by Margaret Miller
|
||
|
||
An unusual approach to setting odd blocks (i.e., block of the month,
|
||
friendship blocks, good bye blocks, or blocks that are not all quite the same
|
||
size) into a quilt top. More for the advanced piecer. Very original.
|
||
|
||
|
||
CONWAY ALBUM (I'M NOT FROM BALTIMORE) QUILT
|
||
by Irma Gail Hatcher
|
||
|
||
This is a Baltimore style quilt done in a blue design scheme. Each of
|
||
the blocks in her design could be used to make a wonderful quilt of that
|
||
block alone. However, the whole quilt is a stunner. It's the one that
|
||
won first place for Innovative Applique, large quilt AND the Founders
|
||
Award at the American International Quilt Show in Houston.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COUNTRY QUILTS IN A DAY ($14.95)
|
||
by Fran Roen
|
||
Sterling Publishing Co, NY 1991
|
||
|
||
This book uses strip quilting and other speed techniques.
|
||
Very simplistic. Good for a person interested in teaching themselves
|
||
how to quilt.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COUNTRY QUILTS BY COUNTRY LIVING ($25.00)
|
||
Text by Eleanor Levie, Jennifer Place and Mary Seehafer Sears
|
||
Hearst Books, New York 1992
|
||
|
||
More than 10 years worth of Country Living's favorite country quilts, offering
|
||
instructions and pattern pieces for making twenty of them. Over 100 examples
|
||
of how quilts can personalize every room in the house, adding color and graphic
|
||
impact to any space.
|
||
|
||
|
||
CRIB QUILTS AND OTHER SMALL WONDERS ($29.50)
|
||
by Thos. K. Woodward & Blanche Greenstein
|
||
Bonanza Books, New York 1988 edition
|
||
|
||
Lots of colorful quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COMPLETE BOOK OF MACHINE QUILTING, THE
|
||
by Robbie and Toby Fanny
|
||
(Chilton Needlework Series), 1980
|
||
|
||
Discusses frame basting on pages 58-65, with ilustrations on pages 60 and 62 of
|
||
the materials, the components, the frame set up and in use.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COMPLETE BOOK OF SEMINOLE PATCHWORK, THE ($7.95)
|
||
Rush, Beverly with Lassie Wittman
|
||
New York: Dover, 1993.
|
||
|
||
This is the book for anyone interested in Seminole patchwork. I have two other
|
||
books on the topic and have seen others at the library--THIS is the one to buy.
|
||
|
||
----
|
||
It's a reprint of the 1982 edition which has been out of print for some time.
|
||
It's just $7.95 from I was born and raised in S. Florida and just adore the
|
||
Seminole patchwork. This is the first book I've seen that's had something of
|
||
an accurate history, too.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT CLIP ART ($10.95)
|
||
by Cheryl Petersen
|
||
Quiltessence/Fine Publications
|
||
|
||
It's a nice little book that has all kinds of sewing-related images, quilt
|
||
borders, the word QUILT in various fonts and stylings, little quilts
|
||
flying pigs, thimbles and thread.
|
||
|
||
The nice part about this publisher is that you can order DISKS of
|
||
all the clip art (a necessity if you don't own a scanner!) The clip
|
||
art is available for MACs in pict form on 3.5" disks. It is also
|
||
available for the IBM or clone, but you must call or write to them and
|
||
give them your graphic requirements.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COLOR WASH WORKBOOK ($12.95)
|
||
by Shirley Liby
|
||
Graphics Unlimited, 1993
|
||
|
||
This book is the result of Liby's creative play and her approach to the process
|
||
of color wash through a series of modules that seemed to simplify the whole
|
||
idea for her.
|
||
|
||
I like this book because it is in black and white and, therefore, easier to
|
||
separate values. There are also a lot of grids that you can copy and play
|
||
around with your own designs.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COLOR CONFIDENCE FOR QUILTERS ($24.95)
|
||
by Jinny Beyer
|
||
The Quilt Digest Press, 1992
|
||
|
||
This is Jinny's color system based on the use of a master palette of fabric
|
||
colors that span the spectrum. By following the instructions in this book, you
|
||
create your own master palette that you can use as a tool for color choices
|
||
for all of your future quilting projects. After creating your own color
|
||
palette, you will learn how to create countless color schemes just by taking
|
||
small sections of the palette, or by rearranging portions of it.
|
||
|
||
This book definitely helps you to gain confidence in choosing colors for your
|
||
projects.
|
||
|
||
|
||
CONTEMPORARY QUILTS FROM TRADITIONAL DESIGNS ($9.50 used)
|
||
by Carolyn L. Mosey
|
||
E. P. Dutton Publishers, New York 1988
|
||
|
||
This book takes a comparative look at the physical changes in the art of
|
||
quilting through the years. While the overall appearance of quilts has
|
||
changed, many contemporary quiltmakers keep coming back to traditional
|
||
patterns. The artists represented in this book share their feelings on the
|
||
history of quilting, the direction in which it is going and their viewpoints on
|
||
several quilt-related topics.
|
||
|
||
Interesting. Provides a traditional quilt on one side of the page and a
|
||
quilter's contemporary rendition of the same pattern on the other.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COLLECTOR SCRAP QUILTS
|
||
(Book II in the Collector Quilt Series)
|
||
by Marti Michell
|
||
American School of Needlework, San Marcos, CA 1992
|
||
|
||
Second book in the collector series that features design inspiration from
|
||
antique quilts. Pretty good instructional book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COLOR AND CLOTH: THE QUILTMAKER'S ULTIMATE WORKBOOK ($19.95)
|
||
by Mary Coyne Penders
|
||
The Quilt Digest Press, 1989
|
||
|
||
This is another good "color confidence" book. Underrated, probably because of
|
||
Jinny Beyer's book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COLOR DESIGN IN PATCHWORK
|
||
by Paula Nadelstern
|
||
Dover Publications 1991
|
||
|
||
Explores how color can be used to vary one and the same patchwork
|
||
configuration. Depending on the placement of color and the resulting degree of
|
||
contrast, different shapes in a pieced pattern are emphasized and visually
|
||
linked. Usually some shapes combine to form the main unit of design, while
|
||
remaining ones are interpreted as background.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COLORFUL ANGLES
|
||
(Triangles, Diamonds & Hexagons With a Contemporary Look)
|
||
by Susan Stein
|
||
EZ International 1993
|
||
|
||
This book combines the use of applique, traditional blocks, hand
|
||
dyed fabrics and the EZ tools (EZ Angle, Companion Angle, Easy Eight, Easy
|
||
Hexagon, Speed grids, trapezoids) to create very contemporary designs. 16
|
||
projects. I think this is a good book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
CLUES IN THE CALICO; A Guide to Identifying and Dating
|
||
Antique Quilts ($39.95)
|
||
by Barbara Brackman.
|
||
EPM Publications, 1989.
|
||
|
||
There are black and white and color pictures and examples and descriptions of
|
||
quilts characteristic of different periods. It is one of the best researched
|
||
and written quilt books I have encountered, and I have more than 300 books. I
|
||
put this in the top ten. Libraries and quilt guilds should have it.
|
||
|
||
Barbara Brackman also writes articles on quilt history for Quilters Newsletter
|
||
magazine. During the past year or so she has been writing about fabrics and how
|
||
to date them. I think she has done something on fabrics of the '40s, '50s and
|
||
later, but I can't locate the issue at the moment.
|
||
|
||
|
||
EAST QUILTS WEST ($24.95)
|
||
by Kumiko Sodo
|
||
|
||
It is wonderful!!! She has many patterns that have instructions for an
|
||
average to advanced quilter. Her patterns are not, on the most part, for the
|
||
faint of heart. The best part, is the ideas which spring forth from her many
|
||
designs. I very, very seldom use a design, even if given permission - I like
|
||
to make my own designe. Her book is an inspiration. I hate to piece curves,
|
||
so I have been appliqueing them down on top of the under piece after turning
|
||
under the edge. This is how she "pieces" her curves. The book is rich in
|
||
color and in interestingly narrated. Her use of color is wonderful.
|
||
It is not a cheap book, but I would definitely recommend it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUILTING TECHNIQUES, THE ($24.95)
|
||
by Katherine Guerrier
|
||
Running Press, Philadelphia, PA 1994
|
||
|
||
Excellent book. Colorful. Describes: techniques, block construction (she
|
||
gives you step by step instructions on how to make some of the more common
|
||
blocks (with color illustrations of each step) rotary cutting, special effects,
|
||
applique, quilting, finishing, etc. Toward the back of the book are gorgeous
|
||
quilts to truly inspire you.
|
||
|
||
This is a great reference book, great for beginners but can be used by
|
||
seasoned quilters as well. A must for every quilter's library.
|
||
|
||
|
||
EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK ($10.00)
|
||
by Ami Simms
|
||
Mallery Press, Flint, MI 1990
|
||
|
||
Over 500 tricks, tips, and tidbits for quilters .
|
||
|
||
|
||
EASY MACHINE PAPER PIECING
|
||
by Carol Doak
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
I surrender -- I am a believer. I attended a workshop last night on
|
||
foundation/paper piecing based on Carol Doak's book "Easy Machine Paper
|
||
Piecing". It works, by golly, it works. What a treat -- and I can turn
|
||
out such perfectly precise blocks. It's wonderful. If you haven't tried
|
||
it, you should -- attending a class really helps because you see how it's
|
||
done live.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ESSENTIAL QUILTER, THE
|
||
by Barbara Chainey ($29 .95)
|
||
|
||
A wonderful book. It is a complete course in the lost art of hand quilting. It
|
||
covers everything you might need to know, and the clear photos show you how to
|
||
hold the needle, etc. The quilts are all Welsh or English, many are
|
||
"whole-cloth" (all-quilted) quilts with beautiful feathers, scrolls, etc. Very
|
||
inspirational.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FOLK QUILTS AND HOW TO RECREATE THEM ($14.95)
|
||
by Audrey & Douglas Wiss
|
||
Sterling/Main Street, NY 1990
|
||
|
||
This book presents a wide selection of traditional designs for the modern
|
||
quilter which have been tested over time. They are presented in their original
|
||
colors and special configurations. Some date back as far as the 18th century;
|
||
others became popular as late as the 1930s. A few are worked in wool or silk;
|
||
most are piecd of plain or printed cottons. All were made in America and
|
||
display a variety of piecing, applique and quilting techniques.
|
||
I like this collection.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FAST PATCH - A TREASURY OF STRIP QUILT PROJECTS ($17.95)
|
||
by Anita Hallock
|
||
Chilton Book Co., Radnor, PA 1989
|
||
|
||
This is a very good book for beginners and everyone else. A new strip
|
||
technique for making triangles.
|
||
|
||
Step-by-step instructions. By making a checkerboard and turning it on the
|
||
bias, you can learn to cut strips of triangles, opening up a whole range of
|
||
traditional blocks like the Ohio Star and sawtooth borders.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FABULOUS FABRICS OF THE 50s (And Other Terrific Textiles of the
|
||
20s, 30s, and 40s)
|
||
by Gideon Bosker, John Gramstad, Michele Mancini
|
||
Chronicle Books, San Francisco.
|
||
|
||
This one focuses on drape/upholstry fabrics of those years and is great for the
|
||
history and wonderful (often weird) color combinations of the fabrics.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FIT TO BE TIED
|
||
by Judy Hopkins
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
There is a whole (wonderful) book of bow tie quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING: Techniques and Inspiration for Writing on Quilts
|
||
by Susan McKelvey
|
||
|
||
Another helpful book for anyone who wants to learn the techniques of writing
|
||
on quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
GALLERY OF AMERICAN QUILTS: 1860-1989: Book 2
|
||
American Quilting Society
|
||
|
||
If you want inspiration and if only American quilts will do, this is the book!
|
||
|
||
|
||
GALLERY OF AMISH QUILTS, A ($9.95)
|
||
(Design Diversity from a Plain People)
|
||
by Robert Bishop and Elizabeth Safanda
|
||
E.P. Dutton, NY 1976 (first published)
|
||
|
||
Great collection (150) of Amish quilts in color. Splendid black-and-white
|
||
photographs of the Amish people and countryside. Also, a comprehensive
|
||
introduction provides the cultural and aesthetic background for viewing
|
||
these quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
GO WILD WITH QUILTS ($19.95)
|
||
by Margaret Rolfe
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
This book has a lot of North American wildlife -- birds, squirrels, owls, black
|
||
bears etc.
|
||
----
|
||
It uses straightline piecing methods (no inset pieces) to create realistic
|
||
looking animals and birds (cardinal, beaver, racoon etc.)
|
||
|
||
|
||
HAPPY ENDINGS
|
||
(Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt)
|
||
by Mimi Dietrich
|
||
That Patchwork Place 1987
|
||
|
||
Great book for ideas and instructions on finishing your quilt.
|
||
This book belongs in every quilter's collection.
|
||
|
||
|
||
HEIRLOOM MACHINE QUILTING
|
||
by Harriet Hargrave
|
||
|
||
This is probably the best book available on machine quilting.
|
||
A must!!
|
||
|
||
|
||
HOW TO DESIGN AND MAKE YOUR OWN QUILTS ($19.95)
|
||
by Katharine Guerrier
|
||
Mallard Press, 1991
|
||
|
||
Good book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR QUILTING STITCH
|
||
by Ami Simms
|
||
Mallery Press, Flint, Michigan
|
||
|
||
Great instructional book on perfecting hand quilting stitch.
|
||
|
||
|
||
JACKET JAZZ ($21.95)
|
||
by Judy Murrah
|
||
AQS
|
||
|
||
One woman in
|
||
my guild made a jacket in it and just raved about
|
||
the book. She said it was totally lucid, thorough, etc.
|
||
----
|
||
This book has a nifty way to make Prairie Points from a strip of fabric. I've
|
||
tried it for trim on a vest and it was very easy.
|
||
----
|
||
This book has 5 wonderful jacket patterns in it. In the book, she shows how to
|
||
do 36 different things to put on a jacket. A few will look very familiar to
|
||
most quilters such as a strip of flying geese, though making it without cutting
|
||
any triangles may be a new technique. Some such as woven prairie points I had
|
||
never seen or heard mentioned before, though I know we have mentioned the
|
||
standard prairie points before.
|
||
|
||
|
||
JAPANESE QUILTS ($24.95)
|
||
by Jill Liddell & Yuko Watanabe
|
||
E.P.Dutton, NY 1988
|
||
|
||
Beautiful collection of Japanese quilts, along with great stories.
|
||
|
||
|
||
MACHINE PIECING & QUILTING (Teach Yourself)
|
||
by Debra Wagner
|
||
Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA
|
||
|
||
Beginning with guidelines for choosing a sewing machine, using templates,
|
||
selecting and preparing fabrics for quilting; guides you with friendly,
|
||
step-by-step instructions.
|
||
|
||
|
||
MY MOTHER'S QUILTS/DESIGNS FROM THE THIRTIES
|
||
by Sara Nephew,
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
I love this one -- it really got me into 30s quilts -- and it's my inspiration,
|
||
since I just purchased two 30s tops that need batting, backing,etc.
|
||
|
||
|
||
MORE LAP QUILTING
|
||
by Georgia Bonesteel
|
||
|
||
There is an "Offset Maple Leaf" pattern in this book also complete with
|
||
templates. This particular block contains one large maple leaf and three little
|
||
maple leaves, all pointing in the same direction. Personally, I think she does
|
||
one odd thing with this block, namely leveling off the bottom of the leaves.
|
||
But that's easily fixed. And as a definite amateur, I probably shouldn't be
|
||
questioning the wisdom of quilting teacher.
|
||
|
||
|
||
MEMORY QUILTS: DELIGHTFUL WAYS TO CAPTURE TODAY FOREVER
|
||
by Nancy Smith and Lynda Milligan
|
||
|
||
I picked up a couple books to give me ideas when I was designing and
|
||
constructing one for my parents' 50th wedding anniversary.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEW SAMPLER QUILT, THE
|
||
by Diane Leone
|
||
|
||
I was flipping through this book yesterday and I found what I thought to be a
|
||
great tip. She suggests that early in the day (or whenever you have a minute)
|
||
to thread a bunch of betweens with quilting thread. That way when you sit down
|
||
to quilt, they will all be ready to go, no stopping to thread and knot!
|
||
|
||
|
||
NIFTY NINE PATCHES
|
||
by Carolann M. Palmer
|
||
|
||
If anyone ever thought ninepatches were humdrum, this should change their mind.
|
||
This book also has good instructions on quick rotary cutting and piecing
|
||
techniques. My two favorites in this book were the Trellis Garden which looks
|
||
like a trellis of interlocking rings with a bright flower garden growing
|
||
through it and Morning Dew which I would have called Mideastern Fruit Salad. If
|
||
anyone knows the name and maker of the brightly colored fruit fabric used in
|
||
this example, I would love to know.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NINE PATCH WONDERS
|
||
by Blanche Young and Helen Young Frost
|
||
First Star publishers, Tucson, Arizona 1991
|
||
|
||
Shows what can be done with a nine patch block (interesting color plays,
|
||
optical illusions, three dimensional woven effects).
|
||
|
||
The best of traditional designs as well as some original variations. Some
|
||
quilts are made with all Nine Patch blocks; others combine the pieced blocks
|
||
with background blocks. Others are variations on the Double Nine Patch design,
|
||
where pieced blocks are joined with plain squares to form large Nine Patch
|
||
blocks. Combining the 9Patch with other shapes, such as rectangles or
|
||
triangles, creates even more variations.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEW QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY, THE ($12.95)
|
||
by Goldberg, Rhoda Ochser
|
||
New York: Crown, 1988.
|
||
|
||
This should be in EVERY quilter's library. It has 1,740 illustrations, which
|
||
includes all the "classics" of our repetoire plus many charming original
|
||
designs (a baby bottle block, international signal flags, a pieced panda,
|
||
etc.)All black and white illustrations, but so comprehensive most people won't
|
||
even notice!
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEW JERSEY QUILTS 1777 to 1950
|
||
by the Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey
|
||
|
||
I have a number of state-oriented quilt history books and this one, which
|
||
focuses more on the quilts than the makers, I find to be outstanding.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ON TO SQUARE TWO ($17.49)
|
||
by Marsha McCloskey
|
||
That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA 1992
|
||
|
||
Thirty pieced block designs that contain the Square Two unit (a continuation of
|
||
Back to Square One) and related bias strip-pieced units. Also contains a how
|
||
to section on the construction details of bias strip piecing half-square units
|
||
(Square One), quarter-square units (Square Two) and two other related pieced
|
||
units. General instructions for machine piecing and rotary cutting are
|
||
provided in the back of the book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ONE-OF-A-KIND QUILTS
|
||
(Simple Steps to Individual Quilts) ($16.95)
|
||
by Judy Martin
|
||
That Patchwork Place 1989
|
||
|
||
One-of-a-Kind Quilts are structured scrap quilts--everyday quilts that feature
|
||
a planned theme or focal area surrounded by blocks made in a variety of
|
||
patterns, with the overall design developing as the piece is made.
|
||
|
||
This book takes you step-by-step through the theme blocks and the background
|
||
blocks, covering everything from cutting and construction techniques to the
|
||
creative decisions that are made along the way. Suggestions for completing the
|
||
quilts are included. Master templates and quick-cutting information for the
|
||
background blocks are provided toward the end of the book. An excellent book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PAINLESS BORDERS
|
||
by Sally Schneider
|
||
|
||
This book presents 16 cleverly designed quilts and borders in which the border
|
||
is pieced along with the quilt. My favorite is the twisted ribbon border
|
||
which looks like a double sided twisted ribbon cascading along the border.
|
||
She provides lots of suggestions for clever and fast cutting/piecing.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PATCHWORK PATTERNS ($18.95)
|
||
Jinny Beyer
|
||
EPM Publications, Inc., McLean, VA 1979
|
||
|
||
This book is written for those who have an interest in using traditional
|
||
geometric designs or a desire to create their own original motifs.
|
||
|
||
It explains in a systematic manner a method of drafting patterns which has, in
|
||
large, been put aside, and about which no comprehensive book has been written.
|
||
She also explains a few simple drafting techniques which are particularly
|
||
useful in making geometric designs.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PATCHWORK PLANNER, THE: 350 Original Designs for Traditional Patchwork $27.95
|
||
by Birte Hilberg, 1993
|
||
David & Charles, Brunel House, Newton, Abbot, Devon.
|
||
|
||
She did seven years in research and development, using a specially devised
|
||
computer program (help from her husband), and presents 350 new designs, using
|
||
combinations of these simple blocks. "This collection provides a rich source
|
||
of fresh and original ideas to delight all patchworkers, and all designers who
|
||
use geometric patterns."
|
||
|
||
I found it very interesting and expect to read it again and again, and will use
|
||
it when attempting to design quilts of my own using Adobe Illustrator. She has
|
||
come up with figures, circular designs, lots in color, lots in black and white
|
||
that could be colored in wonderful ways. She presents her "Tile Library," which
|
||
could easily be duplicated on the computer (so you could manipulate your own).
|
||
The blocks/tiles are simple. She hand pieces, but most can be machine pieced
|
||
easily.
|
||
|
||
Lots of ideas for developing one's own original designs.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PATTERN PLAY: CREATING YOUR OWN QUILTS ($24.95)
|
||
by Doreen Speckmann
|
||
C & T Publishing, Lafayette, California 1993
|
||
(Not for beginners)
|
||
|
||
Introduces you to an easy and fun way to design your own blocks on graph paper,
|
||
then put those blocks into interesting quilt designs. Discusses fabric
|
||
selection and the techniques necessary for turning graph paper quilts into real
|
||
ones. Provides scale drawings and photos of some of her favorite quilts,
|
||
complete with yardages and size-change options.
|
||
------
|
||
Down to earth, easy-to-understand method to making your own designs.
|
||
Excellent, excellent book. She writes with a sense of humour and
|
||
shows loads of examples to get you thinking. It's an excellent back
|
||
door entrance to a more "creative" side of quilting for those technician
|
||
types who don't think they "have" creativity.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PATTERN ON PATTERN
|
||
by Ruth McDowell
|
||
|
||
This is an excellent book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PRECISION PIECED QUILTS USING THE FOUNDATION METHOD
|
||
by Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood
|
||
|
||
I like this book because it offers a good history, well-described theory and
|
||
practical examples of piecing on a variety of foundations. It's well
|
||
written and very nicely illustrated with b&w photos, color plates and
|
||
instructional line drawings.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PIECES OF THE PAST
|
||
by Nancy Martin
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
|
||
PLAIN AND SIMPLE
|
||
by Sue Bender
|
||
|
||
She tells of her fascination with the vibrant colors and stunning geometric
|
||
simplicity of the Amish quilts. The quilts "spoke directly to me...they went
|
||
straight to my heart." I highly recommend the book. It was after reading her
|
||
book that I started learning how to quilt.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PATCHWORK QUILTS TO MAKE FOR CHILDREN
|
||
by Margaret Rolfe
|
||
Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. New York
|
||
|
||
I can attest to both of these books as great sources for easily
|
||
pieced animal blocks. The GO WILD book was a great hit when we
|
||
had it for the book draw at our guild meeting. It contains 14
|
||
North American Animals (racoon, beaver, ducks etc).
|
||
----
|
||
My favorite for children. This book hasas a whole zoo, patterns for many
|
||
dinosaurs, farm animals, etc. In my opinion they are more fun than
|
||
traditional blocks and make finding naturalistic fabrics fun too.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PAINLESS PATCHWORK ($14.95)
|
||
by Rosemary Donoughue
|
||
Sally Milner Publishing, Australia 1991
|
||
|
||
Quick modern methods for traditional quilts. This is a very good book for
|
||
making the quilts. Instructions are very easy to follow. Great for beginners.
|
||
|
||
No color.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS: Identification and Price Guide
|
||
by Liz Greenbacker and Kathleen Barach. ($14.00 paper).
|
||
|
||
(340 pages). This book include such topics as: why collect quilts, how to start
|
||
a collection, history of quilts and quilting, dating a quilt (about30 pages
|
||
devoted to this chapter), condition, workmanship, repair and finishing,
|
||
care/cleaning/storage/display, trends in the marketplace, and seven chapters
|
||
under the heading of PRICE LISTINGS, such as antique pieced quilts,
|
||
contemporary quilts, art quilts, African American quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING BY MACHINE ($19.95)
|
||
Singer
|
||
Cy DeCosse Inc., Minnesota 1990
|
||
|
||
Beginner's book. (not machine quilting). Quite pictorial. Instructions are
|
||
very easy to follow.
|
||
|
||
Can be used as a learning tool if you are sewing your first quilt or as a
|
||
reference if you have had quilting experience. The piecing, applique, and
|
||
quilting techniques that are included in this book are quick, easy machine
|
||
methods. If more than one technique is shown, the easier technique is first.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS AND QUILTING ($17.95)
|
||
by Threads magazine
|
||
The Taunton Press, 1991
|
||
|
||
Series of articles drawn from the first 35 issues of Threads magazine, more
|
||
than two dozen master quiltmakers share their ideas and techniques.
|
||
|
||
Great collection!
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS AMONG THE PLAIN PEOPLE
|
||
by Rachel T. Pellman and Joanne Ranck
|
||
Good Books, Lancaster, PA 1981
|
||
|
||
Very good study of the amish and their quilts
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING & PATCHWORK DICTIONARY ($12.95)
|
||
by Rhoda Ochser Goldberg
|
||
1988 Crown Publishers, Inc.
|
||
|
||
Good reference book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING AND INFLUENCES ($29.95)
|
||
by Nancy Crow
|
||
AQS, Paducah, KY
|
||
|
||
Nancy, with the help of lots of pictures, explains how she uses her
|
||
instinctive eye for color and design to create quilt art. 256 pages offer
|
||
more than 300 photos, most in full color arangement showing Nancy's use
|
||
of color and unusual fabrics. She also talks about her family and how
|
||
they influenced her life as far as quilting is concerned.
|
||
|
||
Good coffee table book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS SEW QUILT
|
||
by Nancy J. Smith and Lynda Milligan
|
||
|
||
This is the one that has the Ivy Trellis Pattern in it that I asked about on
|
||
QuiltNet last fall and noone could find the pattern for. It has a number of
|
||
other interesting patterns in it for large print fabrics.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT ALMANAC 19xx
|
||
by Oxmoor House
|
||
|
||
These are some of my favorites too. The quilts range from very simple
|
||
to very difficult. The patterns are good and I enjoy the biographies.
|
||
There's a chapter each year on group quilts or guild quilts and someday
|
||
I expect I'll see a QuiltNet quilt featured there!
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT STORIES
|
||
by Cecilia Macheski, editor
|
||
Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1994.
|
||
|
||
This wonderful book is a collection of poems, short stories, and other prose
|
||
works by various authors over the past 150-200 years, all dealing somehow with
|
||
quilts and quilting. The book is divided into 5 sections ("blocks"), each
|
||
named for specific quilt blocks: Memory Blocks ("Stories of Remembrance and
|
||
Meaning"), Double Wedding Ring ("Stories of Community and Courtship"), Radical
|
||
Rose ("Stories of Struggle and Change"), Wheel of Mystery ("Stories of Murder
|
||
and Mystery"), and Old Maid's Ramble ("Stories of Age and Wisdom"). The
|
||
introduction explains the blocks and the stories a bit, and the editor explains
|
||
how quilting provided an important link in literature written by women
|
||
(although there are a couple of selections from male authors).
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING WITH STYLE ($24.95)
|
||
by Marston & Cunningham
|
||
|
||
I would like to list a book that several people in my guild highly recommend as
|
||
a "every quilter must have" book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTING BY DESIGN
|
||
by Marston and Cunningham
|
||
|
||
Linda asked about how to arrive at quilting designs. I had many of the same
|
||
questions, and kept looking for the right book to answer them. This book does
|
||
so. I highly recommend it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUICK COUNTRY QUILTS
|
||
by Debbie Mumm
|
||
|
||
Very explicit instructions using quick piecing methods, well laid out book,
|
||
lots of photos and diagrams. Apples, leaves, cows, sewing machines, sheep,
|
||
cats, bunnies, tulips, hearts, houses, etc etc all in the "country" style.
|
||
----
|
||
This book has lots of "cute" small projects that are relatively easy to make.
|
||
I made the "Alley Cats" as a going away present a few years ago and the
|
||
recipient loved it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTMAKER'S GUIDE: Basics and Beyond
|
||
by Carol Doak
|
||
|
||
There is a neat pieced maple leaf pattern in this book. It shows four standard
|
||
pieced maple leaves set in a block so that each maple leaf is pointing towards
|
||
a different corner.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT PROJECTS BY MACHINE
|
||
by Singer, 1992
|
||
|
||
There is a small section on Bow Ties (about a half doz or so pages) in this
|
||
book. It shows several arrangements: traditional, zigzag, octagonal,
|
||
staggered.
|
||
There are a couple of neat arrangements using color (oh, no, I'm starting
|
||
to write "American"!) gradations, as well as scrap, necktie fabrics and
|
||
amish colours. It gives a couple of ideas for borders and sashings as well.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILT A KOALA
|
||
by Margaret Rolfe.
|
||
Sterling Publishing
|
||
|
||
Another fun book. This one has patterns for pieced blocks featuring native
|
||
Austrailian birds and animals.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTER'S PATTERN WORKBOOK ($12.95)
|
||
by Kristin Olsen
|
||
|
||
This book has templates for the bow tie block and demonstrates how the block
|
||
can be arranged with different colors at least 10 times. I've yet to read the
|
||
book in detail, but she does this with many patterns and it looks really neat!
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTER'S GUIDE TO ROTARY CUTTING, THE ($17.95)
|
||
by Donna Poster
|
||
Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA 1991
|
||
|
||
Good technical reference book on rotary speed cutting ; Over 1,000 speed-cut
|
||
shapes.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTER'S COLOR WORKBOOK: Unlimited Designs from
|
||
Easy-to-Make Quilt Blocks ($12.95)
|
||
by Kirstin Olsen
|
||
Sterling Publishing Co., INc., New York 1990
|
||
|
||
For a beginner: shows multiple color combinations for a number of quilt
|
||
patterns; provides ten or twenty starting points. Lots of quilt blocks in a
|
||
variety of color combinations: pinwheel, ohio star, chimney sweep, mosaic,
|
||
triangles, wrench, double-nine patch, rabbit's paw, bow-tie, hexagon, pineapple
|
||
log cabin, log cabin, lone star, tumbling blocks, and irish chain.
|
||
|
||
Also provides piecing instructions for each block.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUICK & EASY QUILTMAKING ($26.95)
|
||
by Mary Hickey, Nancy J. Martin, Marsha McCloskey and Sara Nephew
|
||
That Patchwork Place, 1993
|
||
|
||
This book introduces cutting techniques originated by each of the authors.
|
||
Teaches the authors' special techniques for making quilts with a variety of
|
||
triangular shapes. Organized for easy use. Good for a beginner. 26 projects
|
||
featuring speedy cutting and piecing methods
|
||
|
||
Tips are presented on various pages throughout the book to help clarify a
|
||
technique or to teach a fast (er) way to do something. This book worth it just
|
||
for the tips presented throughout.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS! QUILTS!! QUILTS!!! ($21.95)
|
||
The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking
|
||
by Diana McClun and Laura Nownes
|
||
The Quilt Digest Press, 1988
|
||
|
||
Great book.
|
||
|
||
Includes patterns that beginning quiltmakers can complete successfully, as well
|
||
as designs an experienced quiltmaker will enjoy working with. Popular and
|
||
traditional patterns--and all the instructions for the techniques required to
|
||
make them.
|
||
|
||
The patterns are arranged in a progressive sequence, incorporating new designs
|
||
and utilizing more difficult techniques as you move from the simpler patterns
|
||
to the more complex. Some patterns require more precise work than others, but
|
||
with careful work all can be completed by the quiltmaker who begins with the
|
||
simpler patterns, moving onward as experience warrants.
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTS, QUILTS, AND MORE QUILTS
|
||
by McClun and Nownes.
|
||
|
||
This book is just as good as their first book (see above).
|
||
|
||
|
||
QUILTER'S ALBUM OF BLOCKS AND BORDERS
|
||
Jinny Beyer
|
||
|
||
Great black and white illustrations of blocks to give you ideas for blocks and
|
||
the shading of the blocks. (re: black and white quilts).
|
||
|
||
|
||
ROMANCE OF THE PATCHWORK QUILT IN AMERICA, THE
|
||
by Hall and Kretsinger
|
||
|
||
(answer to question on pattern for Seven Sisters) Thi book has a picture of a
|
||
"Seven Stars" block on p. 54 that appears to be a similar, if not identical,
|
||
pattern.
|
||
|
||
|
||
RADIANT STAR
|
||
by Eleanor Burns
|
||
Quilt in a Day Series 1990
|
||
|
||
Good book for making stars.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ROTARY ROUNDUP
|
||
Judy Hopkins & Nancy Martin
|
||
That Patchwork Place
|
||
|
||
Both books (Rotary Riot below) have about 40 color prints of quilts. These
|
||
quilts are made from traditional block patterns and have instructions for
|
||
rotary cutting and quick piecing. Nancy Martin owns the publishing company
|
||
that published these two books.
|
||
----
|
||
I had Rotary Riot, so I had to buy this one too and I'm not one bit sorry. I
|
||
love to get ideas and inspiration from these books and this one is full of
|
||
great colors,beautiful quilts. Their books are the only ones I use when I need
|
||
to make bias binding as it shows the flat cut method. The only times I tried
|
||
to do the continuous circle, it ends up in a mess.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ROTARY RIOT: 40 Fast & Fabulous Quilts ($21.95)
|
||
by Judy Hopkins and Nancy J. Martin
|
||
That Patchwork Place 1991
|
||
|
||
The authors of this book take 40 traditional blocks that appeal to many
|
||
quiltmakers and adapted their construction to template-free techniques. Begins
|
||
with Nancy's basic review of rotary-cutting techniques and information on
|
||
multi-fabric quilts. The pattern section includes step-by-step directions for
|
||
forty favorite quilts, all clearly illustrated and written in a Template-Free
|
||
format. Some of the patterns feature bias squares, some cut with 8" Bias
|
||
Square and several use simple strip-piecing techniques. The patterns are
|
||
graded with symbols as to difficulty (beginner, intermediate, advanced). Judy
|
||
has written a section on Finishing Your Quilt and has included some of the
|
||
overall repeat quilting patterns for which she is known. Also included is
|
||
information on crow footing, utility quilting and other tacking techniques.
|
||
|
||
|
||
REMEMBER ME; Women and their Friendship Quilts
|
||
Lipsett, Linda Otto.
|
||
San Francisco, Quilt Digest Press, 1985.
|
||
Pb, 140 p, col & b/w ill.
|
||
|
||
One of the very best quilt books ever Linda Otto Lipsett began with her own
|
||
collection of 19th century friendship quilts. Her book tells the stories of
|
||
eight women and eight quilts made between 1840 and 1895. Many of the stories
|
||
are sad stories of leaving family and comfortable homes in the East to
|
||
undertake arduous journeys in pursuit of new homes in the West. Using letters,
|
||
diaries, interviews and the quilts themselves the author unfolds the everyday
|
||
lives of eight real women, following them from youth to old age. Photos show
|
||
the women, their families, their homes, and especially their quilts. The
|
||
excellent color photographs show full quilts, details of blocks, signatures
|
||
and ornaments, and the best close-ups of 19th century fabrics I have seen.
|
||
There are also pictures of other typical friendship quilts, patterns for three
|
||
quilts prepared by Laura Nownes, and complete references and bibliography.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SMALL AMISH QUILT PATTERNS
|
||
by Rachel Pellman
|
||
Good Books, Intercourse, PA 1985
|
||
|
||
Patterns for making small amish quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
STRIP QUILTING ($14.95)
|
||
by Diane Wold
|
||
TAB Books, Div. of McGraw Hill 1987
|
||
|
||
I love this little book. It's perfect for those who are into piecing and
|
||
repiecing (seminole patchwork take off). It's very easy to follow.
|
||
|
||
It contains complete instructions, including diagrams, cutting instructions,
|
||
and a shopping list, for each of the projects illustrated. Pointers are given
|
||
for modifying projects, for adapting patterns from other sources and for
|
||
creating your own designs.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS: African Images in African-American Quilts ($24.00)
|
||
by Maude Southwell Wahlman
|
||
Studio Books in association with Museum of American Folk Art, New York
|
||
|
||
This book introduces the art of African-American quiltmaking to the general
|
||
public. Her thesis is that most African-American quiltmaking derives its
|
||
aesthetic from various African traditionsk, both technological and ideological.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Provides an abundance of detailed information on African textiles, the history
|
||
of quiltmaking in India, Europe and the Americas and extensive interviews with
|
||
quilters.
|
||
|
||
Excellent.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SCRAP QUILTS
|
||
by Judy Martin
|
||
Moon Over the Mountain Publishing, Wheatridge, Colo 1985
|
||
|
||
Techniques plus patterns old and new for making quiltsa from collected fabrics.
|
||
Very nice, colorful quilts. I bought this book because I saw her quilt
|
||
"Tennessee Waltz" on display at the Great American Quilt Festival 1993 in New
|
||
York (quilt on page 60).
|
||
|
||
|
||
SHORTCUTS: A Concise Guide to Rotary Cutting
|
||
by Donna Thomas
|
||
That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA 1991
|
||
|
||
Basic quick-cutting techniques plus a number of techniques that are expansions
|
||
of the basics.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SASHIKO FOR MACHINE SEWING
|
||
by Janet K. Rostocki
|
||
Summa Design
|
||
|
||
These designs are cleverly constructed so that they can be continuously
|
||
sewn on the machine. Five classic designs are included and 8 new designs.
|
||
They could all be handsewn if you wanted to do that. Each is given in
|
||
two sizes.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SENSATIONAL SETTINGS
|
||
(Over 80 ways to arrange your quilt blocks) ($9.95)
|
||
by Joan Hanson
|
||
That Patchwork Place 1993
|
||
|
||
Good book offering a lot of ideas/suggestions for arranging quilt blocks.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SPEED CUTS
|
||
by Donna Poster
|
||
Chilton for the Creative Machine Arts Series.
|
||
|
||
In it there are 1200 quilt blocks (although I would say that there
|
||
are only 500 designs but each can be constructed in one of three
|
||
sizes 10" 12" and 14"). Also, there is a quilt layout section that
|
||
shows how many blocks you will need for each size quilt depending on
|
||
whether you are putting the blocks together on point, straight set,
|
||
with lattice or any combination of these.
|
||
|
||
Of course, also included is a yardage chart based on the templates to
|
||
be used. And the templates themselves are in the back, numbered.
|
||
|
||
Note: Blocks are all in black and white.
|
||
|
||
|
||
STRIPS THAT SIZZLE
|
||
by Margaret Miller
|
||
|
||
My first B&W quilt was made using this book. It is a book primarily meant for
|
||
working in color, but I thought the technique worked extraordinarily well for
|
||
black and white. I believe that almost any quilt pattern could be used if you
|
||
watch your placement as to shading.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SMALL TALK
|
||
by Donna Thomas
|
||
That Patchwork Place.
|
||
|
||
I am very impressed with the progressive directions (from easiest to more
|
||
difficult) they are easy to follow and the pictures were inspiring. I would
|
||
highly recommend it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SETS & BORDERS
|
||
by Marston & Cunningham, AQS
|
||
|
||
I have had this book a long time. It has lots of good photos, border ideas and
|
||
charts for planning them. I have found it inspirational and helpful.
|
||
----
|
||
Wonderful color photos of quilts with comments about their settings/borders.
|
||
Also, a good look at how different borders can change a quilt. Finally,
|
||
patterns and ideas for a variety of borders. Really stimulatd my thinking and
|
||
I'm looking forward to trying some of the ideas.
|
||
----
|
||
This'un shows lots'n'lots of possible ways to set blocks, and also a goodly
|
||
number of border possibilities. There are several cases where the book shows
|
||
essentially the same blocks in more than one quilt, but the borders and/or
|
||
setting vary. It's one I use as an imagination trigger when I need to decide
|
||
on a border.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SENSATIONAL SCRAP QUILTS
|
||
by Darra Duffy Williamson
|
||
|
||
I like this book, particularly the section on selecting fabrics for scrap
|
||
quilts. I used her idea of making a reference card of all the colors in the
|
||
quilt (you take a small piece of each and organize them on a card in a
|
||
continuous line from light to dark, ignoring color) and it worked a treat on a
|
||
planned scrap quilt I made using about 40 pinks and greys.
|
||
|
||
QNM did a review and hated it, they said there was nothing new in it. I think
|
||
it is well laid out and gives you lots to think about.
|
||
----
|
||
I learned a lot from this book. First, I discovered D.D. Williamsons theory of
|
||
the "Maverick" block in quilts using repeating blocks! That has helped me to
|
||
add more fun and excitement to my quilts. It also has a section on color use
|
||
and drafting patterns. I find I go back and read this book over and over.
|
||
Wonderful!
|
||
|
||
|
||
STAR QUILTS ($20)
|
||
by Mary Elizabeth Johnson
|
||
Clarkson Potter Publishers
|
||
|
||
Good collection of star quilts.
|
||
----
|
||
I like this book. She is well organized and gives you some good photos and
|
||
directions. Haven't tried anything from it yet. (I got it from a closeout
|
||
catalog for under $10. It's a good deal at that price. Not sure if I'd pay
|
||
$20 for it though.)
|
||
|
||
|
||
TEXTILE DESIGNS ($65.00)
|
||
Susan Meller and Joost Elffers
|
||
AQS, Paducah, KY
|
||
|
||
This book is expensive but worth it if you are a fabric collector. This book
|
||
has some introductory discussion of the the production of types of textiles,
|
||
and then the rest is color plates of examples from a collection that has over
|
||
5,000,000 "fabrics of the common man" - not the fancy brocades, etc., but
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paisleys, calicoes, leaves and foliage, conversationals, block prints, and on,
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and on - the kind of stuff that many of us in our quilts.
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Most of its 461 pages are filled with excellent color pictures (1,823
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illustrations in color) of fabrics we'd all like to have. Color reproduction is
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good and the pictures are large so that you can see the pattern detail. My only
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serious criticism of the book is that reproductions are not all full-size or
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even to the same scale. Page layout seems to have dictated the scale of
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reproduction, and on the same page there are illustrations at 50%, 68% and 70%
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full size, on other pages 27%, 100%, 120% and 150%. I suppose we should
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appreciate the indication of scale included for each sample.
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Although the book is expensive, it is not overpriced for a large format
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art book with full-color illustrations on good quality paper. It has a
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sewn binding and is very sturdily put together.
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL APPLIQUE & EMBROIDERY ($24.95)
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by Anita Shackelford
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A beautiful book!!
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For those of you interested in these two subjects this is a
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wonderful book. Good instructions, illustrations and patterns.
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It is hard back, 151 glossy pages and 9-1/4 x 12-1/4 in size
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN ($18.95)
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by Katie Pasquini
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C&T Publishing, Lafayette, CA 1988
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Detailed discussion of how to make objects appear three-dimensional.
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Lots of her quilts (in color).
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TENDER LOVING COVERS
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by Toni Phillips and Juanita Simonich
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This is a WONDERFUL book of children's quilts with great designs,
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mostly pieced. They are crib/wall quilt size but there is no reason
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they could not be incorporated into a large quilt, if you wish. One
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quilt is called Wheels & More Wheels and has a tow truck, fire
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engine, ambulance, and police car, so it is not strictly trucks. In
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addition to this, there are the following: Astronaut, farm, cowboy,
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circus, zoo, christmas, a school quilt.
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||
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TAKING THE MATH OUT OF MAKING PATCHWORK QUILTS ($6.95)
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by Bonnie Leman & Judy Martin
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Leman Publications 1981
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Charts, tables, measurements, sizes, facts, figures, and helpful information
|
||
for planning quilts. A must for every quilter.
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||
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TWENTY LITTLE PATCHWORK QUILTS
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by Gwen Marston and Joe Cunningham
|
||
Dover Publications, NY 1990
|
||
|
||
Miniatures quilts. Includes templates and quilting designs
|
||
|
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|
||
TEMPLATES FOR 171 NINE-PATCH QUILT BLOCKS
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||
by Rita Weiss
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||
American School of Needlework 1989
|
||
|
||
Good book of 9-patch blocks in 10, 12 and 14 inch sizes
|
||
|
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||
TIPS FOR QUILTERS
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||
by Rachel Pellman
|
||
Good Books, Intercourse, PA 1993
|
||
|
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A handbook of hints, shortcuts, and practical suggestions from experienced
|
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quilters.
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This is a great book full of all sorts of useful ideas. BUT don't read
|
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it at bedtime or you will quilt ALL night long and not get any sleep!!! I
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||
recommend this book.
|
||
|
||
|
||
TWENTIETH CENTURY QUILTS 1900-1950
|
||
by Thos. K. Woodard & Blanche Greenstein
|
||
|
||
|
||
TIMELESS TREASURES, A Complete Guide to Rotary Cutting
|
||
by Nancy Johnson-Srebo
|
||
RCW Publishing
|
||
|
||
Nancy's instructions are clear and concise, and she shows readers how
|
||
to cut almost any shape, while using your rotary cutter and ruler. Also
|
||
included are instructions for specific 6", 8", and 10" blocks.
|
||
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|
||
I have found the info in this book really helpful. She goes through how to cut
|
||
a number of pieces: trapezoids, parallelograms, hexagrams, octograms, etc. The
|
||
nice thing about the book, too, is that she shows you how to do it for right
|
||
handed or left handed cutters. There is also a section in the book for those
|
||
who use metric measurements.
|
||
----
|
||
I find [this book] indispensable. She gives clear instructions and
|
||
illustrations to cut any shape with the rotary cutter. Both right and left
|
||
handed illustrations are given. In the middle of the book there is a chart
|
||
for adding on seam allowances to any shape. It gives both the English and
|
||
Metric measurements. There are also good directions on pressing.
|
||
|
||
The last part of the book has color photos of blocks and complete directions
|
||
for them including cutting, sewing, and pressing. She includes which direction
|
||
to press the seams. (It was great help to me when I was beginning to make
|
||
blocks for the first time.) My only complaint was that there were a couple of
|
||
mistakes in the placement of the color photos to the directions. Some of them
|
||
didn't match but were found somewhere else in the book.
|
||
|
||
BTW, I took the book to a printer and had them put a spiral binding on it so
|
||
that it lays flat and stays open when I am using it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ULTIMATE BOOK OF QUILT BLOCK PATTERNS, THE
|
||
by Judy Martin
|
||
Crosley-Griffith Publishing 1988
|
||
|
||
Excellent book, lots of of various sizes.
|
||
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|
||
This book is my most favorite, and most used, of all time.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WALL QUILTS
|
||
by Marsha McCloskey
|
||
That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA
|
||
|
||
A step-by-step guide on how to make wall hangings that will add bold and
|
||
beautiful accents of folk art design to many areas throughout the home. It
|
||
contains complete instructions and full-size pattern pieces for creating ten
|
||
wall quilts based on traditional pieced designs, several of them with matching
|
||
patchwork pillows. Directed to both beginning and advanced quilters, it
|
||
includes detailed instructions on all special techniques involved, from
|
||
template making, machine-piecing, and hand-quilting to mounting and hanging.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WATERCOLOR QUILTS ($24.95)
|
||
by Pat Maixner Magaret & Donna Ingram Slusser
|
||
That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA 1993
|
||
|
||
Great instructional book on making watercolor quilts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WORKING IN MINIATURE ($15.95)
|
||
by Becky Schaefer
|
||
C&T Publishing, Layayette, CA 1987
|
||
|
||
A machine piecing approach to miniature quilts.
|
||
Good book.
|
||
|
||
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