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Borders The basics & beyond

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This book is well presented and has great photos on how to put blocks together. I think this would be a good book for beginners, but I was expecting to see somthing more and something new and was disapointed to find the standard type of borders I have seen before.
Had I seen the book prior to purchasing I probably would have passed.

I was very excited when I saw this book. I am always looking for suggestions for borders. The four chapters provide a lot of great information but I found some of the information to be repeated several times over which was disappointing. I felt that once it was stated, it didn't need to be restated twice more in later chapters. If I wanted to review that information, I could look back.

Chapter one goes over the basic tools and contains large photos of the items described. Things like tools, appliqués, making corners and a vocabulary list are included. Chapter two jumps right in and let's you start creating a border. It also describes sixteen types of blocks you can use to create borders.

Chapter three is where it becomes repetitious. The first half of this chapter has new information and even three wall hangings to create. Then it repeats itself with describing the same sixteen borders and how to put them onto a quilt. In all fairness, it describes the size block to make to place on a particular sized top but since there is a Size Chart on page 90 and 91, all you would need to do is the math to figure out the block size for the border you need. All the appliqués talked about in the book are given at full size which is very nice since you don't have to run out to the copy shop to enlarge them to correct size.

The final chapter is almost the best part because that is where you will find four wonderful projects that you can create to practice your new border techniques. One quilt and three table runners let you use the borders/blocks you learned about to make gifts or home decoration.

The best part of the book is that it is spiral bound so you don't have to weigh down the pages or lose your place because the book closes when you walk away to sew. In my opinion, all sewing books should be bound in this fashion.

A hardcover book with a spiral binding enabling it to lay flat for easy reference, Borders: The Basics & Beyond is the latest in the award-winning "basics & beyond" series. Borders: The Basics & Beyond focuses on border designs, and how to create borders with eye-catching color and contrast. Featuring twelve projects and dozens of suggested border designs, Borders: The Basics & Beyond is a superb mix-and-match resource for quilters of all skill and experience levels. Full-color photography of each of the step-by-step instructions makes Borders: The Basics & Beyond extremely easy and helpful to use. Highly recommended.

This book does not go beyond basics and barely covers borders at all! It is more about piecing BASIC blocks such as 4 patch, sawtooth, and flying geese and using these as a border. She uses several borders of basic blocks to add variety to the overall quilt. Not very creative. Her projects are also unimaginative. The one useful inclusion is tables which provide optional sizes for 10 blocks. This book is definitely OVERPRICED with information found in most beginner quilting books.

This book is a great idea book. Not only does is have several quilt possibilities starting with a center block and using several borders to build the top, but the book offers many blocks and ideas to use for the borders. The possibilites in this book can jump start many, many quilts. Just pick and choose and start sewing.

This is a very good reference for beginners. I am a novice to quilting although I have been sewing for years. I will definitely try the projects.

It arrived in a very timely fashion and in good condition as advertised. I would order again.

The book is just what I was looking for and the transaction could not have been better.