Applique Outside the Lines with Piece O'Cake Designs: No Rules-No Ruler [Paperback]

Becky Goldsmith (Author), Linda Jenkins (Author)

Book Description

Series: Piece O Cake Designs | Publication Date: August 16, 2009

Put down your ruler and create beautiful, freeform quilts with Piece O' Cake's new improvisational applique and piecing techniques.

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About the Author

Becky Goldsmith & Linda Jenkins are the brains behind the hugely successful Piece O' Cake Designs company in the USA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing; Pap/Pstr O edition (August 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571206094
• ISBN-13: 978-1571206091
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #493,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born and raised in Oklahoma City. My husband, Steve, and I met at the University of Oklahoma. We married in 1978, at the end of our senior year at OU when we each completed our degrees, mine in interior design and his in zoology. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Zoology at Arizona State University. His career has taken us to Tempe, AZ, Tulsa, OK, and most recently to Sherman, TX, where he is currently chair of the Biology Department. Luckily, I can make quilts anywhere!

Our boys, Chris and Jeff, were born while Steve was in graduate school. I discovered quilting when the boys were young and needed comforters for their bunk beds. I have not put my needle down since!

I met Linda Jenkins, my partner in Piece O' Cake Designs, not long after I started quilting at a meeting of the Green Country Quilters' Guild in Tulsa. We've been friends ever since. We started Piece O' Cake in 1994. I could not ask for a better partner.

Making quilts is interesting, fulfilling, and challenging. Running the business with Linda is exhilarating. Although not what I thought I would be doing with my life when I graduated from college, this is so much better!

Our son, Chris, married Lorna in 2001. They presented us with our first grandchild, Elanor Cecelia, November 6, 2002 and John Patrick Kelly "Jack" Goldsmith was born October 24, 2007. Being a "Nana" is truly wonderful.

Jeff married Celia in the summer of 2009. I am blessed - I have two daughter-in-laws that I both love and respect. Life it good!

Customer Reviews

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book!, September 6, 2009

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Mom Michele (Northeast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Applique Outside the Lines with Piece O'Cake Designs: No Rules-No Ruler (Paperback)

An unconventional approach to quilting, "No Rules, No Ruler". Love it! There are eight different projects included and each are simply stunning. Once again Becky and Linda have assembled an eye catching array of fabrics and so perfectly arranged them into beautiful quilts, what fabulouse inspiration. I'm hooked on Piece O' Cake Designs! As with their other books, instructions are very clear and all templates are provided for the quilts included in the book. They also include discussions on fabric choices and hints along the way. Bird on a Branch is my first project from the book. I have all my fabrics and can't wait to get started!

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars crazy new ideas, October 7, 2009

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Sharon K. Hall "quilting diva grammy" (portland Or USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Applique Outside the Lines with Piece O'Cake Designs: No Rules-No Ruler (Paperback)

Due to the fact that I add applique to every quilt I make, I purchased this book. I have to say that as I read the book, cover to cover, (unusual for me), I got excited and confused at the same time. My brain was in the "applique traditional method" mode. Soo0oo I read it two more times. By the time I was finished, I had decided that this was the way I would go with the next few quilts that are on my list........I am very excited...the book is illustrated beautifully and is going on my "favorite books" shelf.....I recommend it to anyone who love new challenges and beautiful quilts, whether original or not.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Applique Outside the lines, August 20, 2009

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This review is from: Applique Outside the Lines with Piece O'Cake Designs: No Rules-No Ruler (Paperback)

I love this book. Great ideas and patterns. Unique ideas that can be transformed into quilts, wall hangings etc. Pictures and colour examples really helps gets the imagination going.