Customer Reviews

Adapting Quilt Patterns to Polymer Clay

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I've had this book for over a year and have created several of the complex canes detailed within. The directions are explicit, complete and illustrated and creating the canes has proven to be quite easy with the directions provided. I wouldn't recommend this book to a newbie but you also don't have to be advanced to create the canes described.

I love this book, and the authors. I don't get the comments of the 1st reviewer, as I found it to be extremely informative and helpful. I am not a quilter, so I needed lots of help and guidance, and I found the step by step instructions to be wonderful! Sarajane, and Judith put clay in reach to everyone! thank you for this book!

This book is fantastic. Anybody who uses polymer clay would benefit from having this book in their library. Step by step illustrations which take away the anxiety of building complex extruded canes. I could NOT live without this book - seriously!

I like to do PC mosaics and that is why I purchased this book. I know nothing about quilts, but their designs got my attention. The instructions are easy to follow and the pictures are great. But what I liked most was how everything was laid out, step by step, color by color. This means a lot to me since I am SEVERLY COLOR CHALLENGED. I can see the colors, but I'm not sure what some of them are. This book is wonderful. I won't be making any quilt blocks, but this book gave me a world of new ideas for my mosaics and many other things. I'm sure people who like quilts will love it too.

To the reviewer who didn't like the book: When you change the way you look at something, whatever you are looking at will also change.

Thanks Judith and Sarajane, Sorry I didn't take time to review your book sooner. Jay

I'm so glad I bought this book. I always wanted to try quilt block canes but they looked too complicated and difficult. This book explains how to build canes of traditional and non-traditioal quilt blacks in a way that is easy to understand and copy. It gives a useful technique for precisely and organizing each clay component and color, and also makes it easy to adapt patterns to your own color palate. (I really recommend this book, but one does have to have a rudimentary understanding of how caning works, otherwise the instructions appear to be two dimensional.)

Great book, explaining in detail, how to make complex canes easily. I liked the clear illustrations and instructions. I have been waiting for such a book since I am a quilter who has recently discovered polymer clay.

I wouldn't have given this book one star......I was very disappointed when I received this book in the mail. It is not worth the price I paid for it. It is poorly written and has very poor instructions. I am a quilter who has been working with polymer clay for almost a year. This book only shows quilt blocks in 2 dimension. I have all that information. I need to know how to manipulate the clay to get it into the quilt block formation through the use of a cane. There is little to no information on the process of building the quilt block from clay. The pictures in the book are all 2 dimensional drawings of quilt patterns. There are no 3 dimensional pictures of the clay and how it is formed into the block. The authors assume that you know all of this. I would recommend that you purchase a book on how to form the clay and figure out yourself how to make the quilt blocks. I purchased, "Making Polymer Clay Beads: Step-by-Step Techniques for Creating Beautiful Ornamental Beads" about a year ago and learned much more about polymer clay than "Adapting Quilt Blocks to Clay" has to offer.