Baltimore Bride's Quilt Designs (Dover Pictorial Archives) [Paperback]

Doreen Lynn Saunders (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dover Pictorial Archives | Publication Date: June 25, 1993

Rich selection of album quilt designs known as Baltimore Bride's designs, ideal not only for quilting but for a variety of arts and crafts purposes. This book contains designs, mostly florals, for 81 different quilt blocks and borders, offering quilters, artists, and craftspeople a dazzling selection of motifs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (June 25, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486276104
• ISBN-13: 978-0486276106
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,366,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great addition to Baltimore patterns, June 21, 2000

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"quiltermom" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baltimore Bride's Quilt Designs (Dover Pictorial Archives) (Paperback)

This book is a great addition to the Baltimore Album style patterns you already have. There are no instructions just blocks showing the patterns. I enlarged them to fit my block size and many of them I have not seen any where else. There are also border ideas shown toward the back. I think this is a good book and a wonderful asset to any quilter's library.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good depending on your use, April 6, 2004

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Jerilea Hendrick "duncanje" (Northwood, Iowa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baltimore Bride's Quilt Designs (Dover Pictorial Archives) (Paperback)

I was hopeful that this book might add a different aspect to my other quilting books. There are no instructions for the patterns...though any quilter with any experience could easily put the designs together. Also, the patterns are not to size, that is unless you prefere miniature quilts. All of the designs are sketched on a page, some have 2 to a page, and are all in black and white. There are no pictures of any of the completed designs. If you plan to use this book for quilting it would make for a complicated quilting motif.

Here is what I will probably do with it:
1. Make a copy of a design so that I can use colored pencils to help me visualize the pattern I want to make. (Keep the book clean!)
2. Make an enlarged copy (or 2) to make freezer paper templates to use in the applique design.

Someone only interested in the designs could also use them to make cards, embroidery, quilting motifs, and possibly decorate other artful crafts.

Having said that, had I seen this book in the store I would most likely NOT have purchased it but since I have I will make the most out of it. This is definitely not for a beginner quilter who would need and appreciate directions and guidance on putting the designs together. However, I think that it will be a helpful aid in the future.