Calendar Kids: Handprint Quilts Through the Year [Paperback]

Marcia L. Layton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2007

Turn children's handprints into fabulously fun keepsake quilts! In this follow-up to "Handprint Quilts", there's an adorable block to make for every month of the year. Get kids quilting with 14 new projects - simply "stamp" kids' hands on fabric with fabric paints; then embellish with rickrack, googly eyes, and more. Transform little handprints into creepy spiders, funny reindeer, springtime kites, and summer flip-flops. One main quilt features a sampling of blocks, while smaller quilts spotlight each season.

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About the Author

Marcia L. Layton has been the assistant director of a preschool for over 20 years. This is her second book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: That Patchwork Place (January 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564777022
• ISBN-13: 978-1564777027
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memory quilts for young and old alike, May 24, 2007

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Barbara Rhoades "Jackie of all Trades" (O'Fallon, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Calendar Kids: Handprint Quilts Through the Year (Paperback)

I remember making "hand turkeys" as a craft project in Kindergarten. I was so proud to bring it home to Mom. Now you can go back to your childhood with Marcia Layton's book "Calendar Kids".

With a little bit of paint, some fabric and a small child, you can make wonderful quilts. Aww heck - why not a big child??? Use your own handprints! Either way, this book gives you ideas for quilts to make for every month of the year. Make seasonal quilts - like the four seasons; make a whole year quilt - something for each month of the year or use your imagination and make themed quilts such as beach or a Christmas quilt. Anyway you choose to do it you will have a quilt full of memories.

The first twelve pages give you all your basic instructions such as the best way to create the handprint itself and then ideas on embellishments and how to finish the quilt. Then come the quilts themselves. Each quilt, of which there are a Baker's Dozen, has a color photo, a materials list, fabric measurements, which handprint block to use and the best way to put the quilt together all the way through to finishing it.

There are "Special Design Tips" scattered throughout the book to give you some extra ideas on using the handprints to make other themes for the quilts. There is a four page gallery of quilts which will add even more ideas to your list of "want to makes". Whether you make the quilts as a project to include your child or grandchild or make them as a memory quilt using your own hands, they will be ones full of memories to keep forever.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Ideas for Children's Quilts, March 8, 2007

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This review is from: Calendar Kids: Handprint Quilts Through the Year (Paperback)

Our elementary school is celebrating 50 years of learning this year. We are in the process of creating a commemorative quilt to be hung in the school. The ideas in this book are outstanding! Instead of designing the squares ourselves, we selected areas of learning for each classroom and asked the children to submit their ideas. The outcome was incredible. The committee plans to use the ideas in this book to embellish childrens' handprints for the classroom squares designed by the students.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars +Invaluable resource and design inspiration -be careful with glue!, May 24, 2008

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AMP (Los Gatos, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calendar Kids: Handprint Quilts Through the Year (Paperback)

This was a great book to extend handprint artwork from our Kindergarten class towards a quilted school auction project. We were unable to find the novelty prints for each handprint picture, but the pictures in the book gave us inspiration for solid colors to use in our project. The pictures and design ideas were great ideas for handprints on paper too.

However, instructions on detailing included using glue before assembling the pieces within the quilt. It would have been better to assemble the quilt, quilt some areas, THEN glue items such as rick-rack and google eyes. The rick-rack was difficult on some machines to quilt through or around; the google eyes did not do well with the ironing required during quilt assembly.