The Handbook of Quilting - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1863512802 ISBN 13: 9781863512800

Publisher: Sally Milner Pub, 2001

Both classic and contemporary quilt designs are made accessible to quilters of all levels of ability in this colorful collection. Full-sized templates and patterns, how-to instructions and diagrams, and inspiring photographs are included for 27 projects, including Amish Baskets, Sunflowers, 9-Patch Scrap, and a mini Barrier Reef Sampler. There are projects made in the traditional manner by hand and others that use modern quick-piecing techniques. Try appliqu� and special techniques such as patchwork and shadow trapunto.

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Sally Millner is emerging as a Down Under publisher of top-quality crafts books. First, the approach is different, with expert contributors "drafted" to supply one or more projects, thus imbuing the particular craft with a variety of styles--not just one. Second, basic directions are shunted to the back of the book, with the assumption of an easier-to-reference source. In this handbook, the purview is quilting, traditional and contemporary, hand and machine, and it features 27 very unusual patterns and resurrects some little-known techniques (foundation piecing and broderie perse, to name two). The pattern called In the Red mimics a bargello needlepoint and its undulating waves of graduated color. Amish Baskets, on the other hand, borrows the best of this sect's handiwork and hues. The only problem? It's impossible to produce exact copies of any of these stitched works, since patterned fabrics vary so dramatically from country to country. Barbara Jacobs
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