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Welcome to the Quilt Book Review Corner |
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Looking for a great
quilting book? Check here to see if
one of your CFQG sisters has reviewed a book that
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PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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Saveing |
PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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Lesson |
PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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Scrap Quilts |
PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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Title: Nickel Quilts: Great Designs from 5-Inch
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Author(s): Pat Speth and Charlene Thode |
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ISBN: 1-56477-416-3 |
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Publisher: 2002
Published by That Patchwork Place/Martingale & Company |
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Availability: Amazon Barnes & Noble |
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By: PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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This
book is an excellent source for those who wonder what to do with, or how to
keep their scraps and stash. You have
to love a book that starts out making a comparison between scrap quilting and
pot-luck suppers! The
layout of the book is easy to follow and takes you step by step through the
process of cutting, trading for and collecting the 5”scrap squares
needed to complete the many patterns provided. Also included are charts to convert yardage
to 5” squares, and finished sizes of units used throughout the book if you
have been collecting 4” or 6” squares instead of 5”. Scattered
through the pages of
instructions are Nickle
Tips. These little boxes contain
handy hints that we may have known and forgotten, or that have never occurred
to us. The authors make no assumptions
as to your knowledge and skill levels, and provide easy to follow
instructions beginning with rotary cutting.
All the quilt patterns in the book are broken down into basic units
such as two-patch, four-patch, half-square-triangle units, flying geese,
hourglass etc. There are easy piecing
methods included that teach you how to sew the eight different units which
make up the quilts. Following the
unit instructions the reader is given photographs of and the instructions to complete 20
quilts. They are all beautiful! If you
are like I am and love the look of scrap quilts, you will mark several of the
quilts and add them to your own “gotta do” list. |
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Author(s): Nancy J. Martin |
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ISBN: 1-56477-291-8 |
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Publisher: 2000 Published by That
Patchwork Place/Martingale & Company |
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Availability: Amazon Barnes & Noble |
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Submitted By: PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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This book is a wealth
of information if you don’t have time to quilt. Time crunch features include using theme
prints for patterns like Courthouse Steps or Attic Windows to bring your
quilt together without spending hours coordinating prints. The use of large blocks and wide sashings to best advantage, and easiest speed piecing
techniques are discussed. For the new
sewer there is a discussion of fabric, supplies, rotary cutting, some basic patch shapes
and the very basic methods of piecing and finishing. There are 20 very
different and very pretty quilts to choose from to make. Beyond the creative names such as “Wasting
away in Margaritaville” and “Quilts in the Attic”,
there are lovely pictures of colors and color combinations that inspire! As another way to
beat the “time crunch” the author tells us and shows us a variety of ways to
use buttons to tack your quilts, which I find very interesting |
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Author(s): Mary Mashuta |
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ISBN: 1-57120-153-x |
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Publisher: C&T Publishing |
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Availability: Amazon Barnes & Noble |
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Submitted By: PeggyinMaine
- Peggy L Murray, |
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This book provides a brief history
lesson in what we today call “vintage fabrics”, as well as quilts that were made
from them. The reader is told about floursack and feedsacks and is
shown examples of the fabrics available during the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. The author presents us with beautiful
examples of quilts which served as inspiration for both updated versions and
honest replicas. She presents us with
questions and observations on the patterns, fabrics, and construction which
will lead us to look at quilts, both historical and modern, with a more
curious eye. Many of the quilts presented for the
reader’s view are elegant in their simplicity. This simplicity serves all
the better to showcase the wonderfully complicated fabrics. Other quilts are complicated, busy, and so
full of motion that it makes one’s head spin to consider working on
them. Each picture is accompanied by a caption
detailing the origin of the quilt and often included is the author’s
observation of the “rule” that the maker
followed in executing the pattern’s
plan. Finally there are seven (7) patterns
given which will encourage the reader to use her collection of vintage
fabrics or her stash of
“Aunt Grace” reproductions. All in all, Cotton Candy Quilts is eye
candy that is hard to resist. |
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Author(s): Pat Speth |
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ISBN 1-56477-552-6 |
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Publisher: C&T Publishing |
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Availability: Amazon
Barnes & Noble |
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Submitted By: PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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This book features
another 20 designs based solely on 5” squares. While all these are made from only 5”
scrappy squares, the author also provides a chart with unit dimensions using
4”, 5” or 6” squares. As with the
first “Nickel” book, this one begins with helpful discussions on creating a
design wall, fabric value, and general instructions for each of the basic
construction units used to create the blocks in each project. 2-patch units, 4-patch units, half-square
triangle units, small wonders units (which are nothing more than chopped up
half square triangle squares, combination units, hourglass units, picket fence
units, and flying geese. Six of the twenty
featured quilts are rated as “intermediate”. Because all the quilts are
various arrangements of the basic units, the only difference between “easy”
and “intermediate” seems to be in the number of different units used for the
design, and the attention required for value placement. Of the 20 different
quilt projects shown, there were only 4 or 5 that didn’t catch my eye! OH SO LITTLE TIME! |
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Title: Phenomenal fat quarter quilts |
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Author(s): M’Liss Rae
Hawley |
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Publisher: C&T Publishing |
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Availability: Amazon Barnes & Noble |
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Submitted By: PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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This book gives
advice on working with Fat Quarter Packets, coordinating your own “packets” and
using Fabric Lines; those fabrics specifically designed to “go
together”. She begins with the basics
with a less than 1 page list of the tools you’ll need, pins, scissors and can
you believe she even lists a seam ripper…although I cannot imagine why! She then explains the concept of a Fat
Quarter. She talks a little about
machine embroidery, rotary cutting (strips and squares). Then on page 29 of the book, she gets to
the good stuff. The projects! The basic impression left by the book as a
whole, is that ANY pattern that is attractive as a scrap quilt, or that
depends on color or value for the pattern can be made effectively with FQs. Pin wheels Her
pinwheel quilt is obviously made with several different fabrics, however it
is planned and uses different prints of the same basic
color to deceive the viewer into thinking it is all the same. Quilt Interrupted
looks on the surface to be the basic hourglass four patch
separated by sashings and set on point. In reality, it is 2 half-square triangles
sewn on the diagonal with a separating strip from corner to corner. My personal favorite
is Portuguese Tiles, which is a rectangle block with one corner done as a
snowball type corner. Four of these
same blocks are matched with opposite colors so that the little squares on
the corners come together in the middle to make an hourglass shape. London Roads , Embellished Braids, Serendipity which is a five
patch made of a middle square surrounded by railfence
blocks and put together like my pansy door hanging. In all 8 different
projects are presented. She ends the
book with something she calls “Eye Candy” which is a gallery of quilts made
from the patterns presented. It always
amazes us how different quilts made from the same pattern can appear when
various fabrics, colors, values, textures and visions are used. Some of these patterns/ideas would make great mystery projects! Stay tuned. |
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Title:
Disappearing Nine Patch |
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Author(s): Nancy Brenan
Daniel |
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Availability: Soft Expressions |
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Submitted By: PeggyinMaine - Peggy L Murray, |
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What’s any simpler to
make than a nine patch block? Think there are only
a couple of ways to put them together? Think again! For one variation,
you make the nine-patch blocks using medium valued Bali/mottled fabric for
the four outside corners, a solid bright for the middle, and black for the
remaining pieces. So your first and
third rows of nine-patch will be Med-Black-Med, middle row is
Black-Bright-Black. Strip piece these
using 3-1/2” strips. You then chop the
nine-patch down the middle both vertically and horizontally, giving you 4
alike patches. These “patches” will be
4-1/4”. Assemble these patches into
rows, orienting the patch so the small bright square is in the lower right.
After you have re-assembled into rows, sew the rows together. You will now need to make a sashing strip
for the top and left side to complete the look. Using 1-3/4” x 3-1/2” Black rectangles and
1-3/4” squares of the Brights assemble a sashing to
match the number of rows you made. Using this method is
a fast and easy way to get a complicated look. The final look of this quilt will be medium
squares bordered with black and bright sashing, but much easier than working
with all those little pieces. |
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