Cups and Saucers [Paperback]

Maaike Bakker (Author)

Book Description

Series: That Patchwork Place | Publication Date: December 2000

Cups and Saucers
Paper-Pieced Kitchen Designs
By Maaike Bakker

Transform Your Kitchen Decor

Turn the heart of your home into a cheerful living space with this new collection of paper-pieced quilts with delightful kitchen themes! Block designs feature charming dishes and cups, plus other creative motifs such as colorful vegetables.

· Choose from over 40 fresh, fun block patterns and 10 projects that combine the ease of paper piecing with enchanting designs

· Gather inspiration from beautiful photos filled with ideas for making original quilts

· PLUS--Discover timesaving tips for a stitch-it-up-quick potholder gift set

A warm and welcoming kitchen is just a few stitches away with these simple-to-stitch projects!

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About the Author

Maaike Bakker is a quilt shop owner, teacher, and author of two other books on paper piecing, both published in The Netherlands.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Martingale and Company; First Edition edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564773337
• ISBN-13: 978-1564773333
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #642,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Imagine doing a project featuring YOUR own china!!, November 19, 2003

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Sandra (Toronto :)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cups and Saucers (Paperback)

I'm just delighted with this book! Maaike starts off with instructions on how to paper piece, planning a quilt, assembling the quilt top, finishing the quilt --- I found the quilting instructions particularly useful and well illustrated. The binding section is very thorough as well.

Then its off to the 10+ projects, ranging from fairly simple (4 blocks) to quite detailed (40+ blocks). Even though the blocks themselves are fairly simple (all of the blocks are done in one piece - there don't appear to be any multi-piece patterns - so most of the blocks are doable even by beginners), the projects are well designed, and embellished beautifully with borders, sashings, bindings and quilting. Unlike a lot of quilting books I've seen, I can actually see how these projects were quilted, and quilting patterns are provided.

In the book you'll find blocks for teapots, coffee pots, cups and saucers, milk jugs, mugs, bowls, plates, jam jars, candles, a soup tureen, a cookie tin, a basket, several different fruits and vegetables, and some lovely cabinets - all sewn into delightful projects. Beautiful photographs, beautiful designs - this book is a WINNER :)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cups & Saucers, July 13, 2011

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Dorrie (CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cups and Saucers (Paperback)

This is the best book! Well written, from start to finish. The author explains the very smallest of details, allowing the very novice quilter/sewist the confidence needed to tackle the projects in the book. Paper piecing technique is thoroughly reviewed, a small segment of color theory is included as well as machine quilting and binding techniques. The designs are SUPER cute and aside from what's visible from the cover, there's also an apple, strawberries and other "kitchen-y" designs to piece.

Well worth every penny.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love the book, July 4, 2011

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Glenda Parks "QuiltSwissy" (LA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cups and Saucers (Paperback)

Great book, patterns are easy and instructions are easy to follow. I love the things I have done with this. Very impressive. I collect teapots so it is a "thing" for me!