Creating Quilts with Simple Shapes [Paperback]

Ann Castleberry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2001

Simplify the process of designing quilts!

If you dream about designing but shy away when it's time to put stitches to fabric, you'll love these simple, straightforward methods for creating dazzling, original quilts! Smart, savvy techniques rely on trouble-free shapes that are easy to cut and sew, so you're free to enjoy the design process.

· More than a dozen smashing quilt patterns and a step-by-step, start-to-finish formula will give you the know-how you need to start developing your own designs

· Surefire fabric-selection secrets reveal how choices in color, value, and texture can make or break your quilt design

· Special foreword! Popular author and teacher Mary Ellen Hopkins shares why she loves these easy-to-learn, dependable design techniques

Follow this fun approach and soon you'll be creating beautiful, visually exciting quilts like a pro!

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About the Author

Hometown: Gainesville, Fla.

The design team of Ann Castleberry and Mischele Hart have nearly 20 years of combined quilting experience between them. Mischele is the co-owner of The Quilted Sampler quilt shop in Tampa, Florida. This is their first book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Martingale and Company; First Edition edition (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156477371X
• ISBN-13: 978-1564773715
• Product Dimensions: 20 x 11 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,212,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 14 quilt projects with simple shapes but complex in appearance, February 2, 2009

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C. Turner (Central California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Quilts with Simple Shapes (Paperback)

This book is predominantly about utilizing the design in your fabric to create a more complicated appearing quilt, but using only simple shapes. About 3/4 of the book adresses design, choosing fabrics, and techniques in quilting. Directions include nice color diagrams so you can visualize the steps in order to assemble pieces into blocks and then rows. There are 14 specific quilt projects, with color pictures, cut lists, diagrams and directions. Variety of patterns combining nine-patch, four-patch, dugout, tampa, and star point blocks. Helpful for those who learn visually, and want their directions concise.