Here are a few of the new books in the shop. Here are the lastest book reviews from the last month's newsletters. Look at the Newsletter archives for previous book reviews.
A fabulous quilt book if you love your scrap quilts, lots of designs with requirements for lap, twin and queen sizes. The cutting instructions are clear so you can get all of that out of the way before you begin to sew.
If you love gardening have a look at this book. It’s probably a good one to remind you of spring and summer in the long winter months ahead. Lots of appliqué flowers lovely soft spring colours to inspire you.
Eleven quilt patterns from a variety of authors from The Patchwork Place with a heart theme. A variety of techniques are used, this book will suite any skill level. There are traditional, contemporary, country and folk-art styles as well as a wonderful whimsical quilt for cat lovers.
Three spectacular album quilts showcase 16 blocks that blend today’s colours with antique styles. Tricks are explained to give your flawless appliqués in this sequel to Artful Appliqué.
15 beautiful Amish Quilts for you to make and an explanation of the Amish Communities and their quilt making characteristics.
Have you ever wanted to immortalise a photo in a quilt, this book shows you how. It’s about appliqué pictures not the photo transfer method that a lot of people use. It explains how to make a pattern from a photo choose your fabric then construct the image. The book has six projects and step by step walk through of the technique, which shows you how to get the detail, depth and perspective of the original photograph into your quilt.
You may have seen the cards in the shop featuring these wonderful appliqué quilts, lovely bright cats, dogs, horses, birds, fish and more. The book is full of inspirational pictures and then goes through the various techniques used to create the quilts, wall hangings and cushions there are even no-sew options for embellishment.
The book has well illustrated directions for hand or machine piecing Dresden Plates but these are Dresden Plates with a bit more wow factor than the ones your grandma may have made. By using careful template placements the Plates are transformed into wonderful works of art. You can use florals for formal quilts through to novelty prints, which add a touch of whimsy to this classic quilt block.
Rod Buffington is a watercolour quilt painter. He approached some of America’s leading quilt artists to collaborate in an exhibition and this resulting book. He interviewed each of the artist and they came up with the basics for a block and a concept for the quilt. The quilt artist went away and chose their fabrics, they sent samples of the fabric to Rod and that was the end of the collaboration. Rod created painting based on his interpretation of the quilt’s concept and the quilters made their quilts. The back of the book features each of the quilt artist with the original concept that they went away with, it is amazing how the quilts and pictures grew.
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