The handmade quilt : a skill-building sampler

The handmade quilt A skill-building sampler

Carolyn Forster

Book - 2018

Skill-building: The handmade quilt features a 21-block sampler that starts with the easiest techniques and progresses to more challenging skills--with no need for a sewing machine! Comprehensive: the book is a complete learning experience for a new quilter and a stunning sampler project for experienced stitchers. Unique: no other book available today covers the how-to of hand-stitching blocks in such a thorough manner. Portable: you can hand-stitch anywhere! Carolyn even shows you color options and how to re-arrange blocks to make the quilt your own. [The book includes]: 21 block designs; templates for every block; how-to finish the sampler from beginning to binding; learn to stitch set-in seams and curves; step-by-step photographs and illu...strations; gallery of block color options.

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Subjects
Quilting > Patterns.
Patchwork > Patterns.
Appliqué > Patterns.
Published
Ubrandale, IA : Landauer Publishing LLC 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Carolyn Forster (author)
Physical Description
144 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN
9781935726968
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Review by Booklist Review

Anyone but the most experienced stitcher might be overwhelmed by tackling even a crib-sized quilt. Working block by block, on the other hand, isn't such a daunting task, which is exactly how UK-based quilter-author Forster (One-Patch Quilts, 2017) approaches the craft. Her 15 block designs don't require a sewing machine, only an eagerness to learn and the ability to follow fairly simple directions. After the warm-up instructions (i.e., lessons on equipment, templates, and preparation), Forster gently eases into two specific projects a quick block roll and a finger pincushion that enable sewers to more efficiently assembly the 21-block designs. Ordered in terms of difficulty, from Chinese Coins to Hands All Around, each block is visually explained with cutting and stitching references by page number and numbered instructions shown by template and assembly. Once individual blocks are completed, easy-to-understand directions feature quilt-top assembly, layering and basting, quilting, and, finally, the various stitching options. Forster's thorough crafts education will quell novice nerves. Includes a list of supply sources.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2010 Booklist

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