Easy Stash Quilts [Paperback]

Carol Doak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1999

Is your fabric collection collecting dust? Here's the perfect excuse to use it! Learn to use your stash fabrics to create wonderfully dramatic quilts that are surprisingly easy to make. Each quilt recipe is based on simple squares, rectangles, and triangles. With your stash, dazzling one-of-a-kind results are guaranteed every time! Learn how with:

· 15 quilt patterns (7 using traditional machine piecing and 8 using machine paper piecing), ranging in size from wall hangings to bed quilts

· Easy-to-follow lessons on grouping your stash fabrics by color, value, and texture

· Step-by-step sections on rotary cutting, machine piecing, paper piecing, and finishing

PLUS, the book includes a bonus CD-ROM! Watch as Carol walks you step by step through her unique Easy Stash Quilts technique, right on your computer screen.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The concept of a stash quilt is beautifully illustrated...this is Carol's best book to date. -- The Foundation Piecer

About the Author

Carol Doak's accomplishments include a sizeable collection of popular books--including the bestselling Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!) and Easy Paper-Pieced Miniatures--and an impressive range of beautiful blue-ribbon quilts that have appeared on the covers of every major quilting magazine in the U.S. Her books have sold more than 500,000 copies to date.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: That Patchwork Place (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564772640
• ISBN-13: 978-1564772640
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #784,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As a best-selling author, celebrated teacher and lecturer and award-winning quiltmaker, Carol Doak has geatly influenced the art and craft of quiltmaking for more than a decade, both in the U.S. and internationally. Her accomplishments include a sizable collection of popular books - Easy Machine Paper Piecing, Easy Paper-Pieced Keepsake Quilts, Easy Mix & Match Machine Paper Piecing, Show Me How to Paper Piece, Easy Reversible Vests, Easy Paper-Pieced Miniature Quilts, Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!), Easy Stash Quilts, 50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars, Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilt, 40 Bright and Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks, 300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks, Simply Sensational 9-Patch Stars and her recent release, Mariner's Compass Stars, is receiving rave reviews . Carol also recently released an updated version of her best-selling Easy Reversible Vests and 50 Little Paper-Pieced Blocks. With over one million books in print, it is no secret that Carol has raised the popularity of paper piecing, her trademark technique, to heights never before seen in the world of quiltmaking.

Carol's Carol Doak Foundation Paper and Carol Doak's Keepsake Frame Cards are very popular items for paper piecers around the world.

An impressive range of her beautiful blue-ribbon quilts have been featured in several books, such as Great American Quilts 1990 and The Quilt Encyclopedia and on the cover's of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, Quilt World, Quilting Today, Ladies' Circle Patchwork and McCall's Quilting.

Carol's lighthearted approach and ability to teach have earned her high marks and positive comments from workshop participants worldwide and at national shows such as the Houston International Quilt Festival and the American Quilter's Society Show. If you have ever taken a class from Carol, you know that her enthusiasm for quiltmaking is infectious. Carol has a gift of sharing her inspiring ideas with her students in such a positive and unique way. Carol travels to teach extensively through the United States including Alaska and Hawaii and as far away as England and Australia.

In April 1999, Carol was awarded the 8th Honors Award from the Eastcoast Quilters Alliance in recognition of her outstanding influence in the field of quilting. In September 1999, her book, Easy Machine Paper Piecing, was named by Quilter's Newsletter Magazine as one of the 30 most influential books in the past 30 years. She was also nominated as one of 24 All-American Quilters in 2004 and 2005 Professional Quilter of the year.

Carol's history in the quiltmaking is nothing short of remarkable, and the future of quiltmaking will benefit from her generous knowledge, enthusiasm, and most of all from her love of quilts.

Carol lives in New Hampshire, where she claims the cold winters give her plenty of reason to stockpile a fabric stash for insulation purposes!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

69 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book - but not for the weekend quilter, April 2, 2000

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AnnaMaria - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Stash Quilts (Paperback)

Easy Stash Quilts is full of eye candy - each page will have your mouth watering and your fingers itching to dig through your fabric stash. But... Carol is a master of her craft, and this book is more suited for the advanced quilter or someone who has to have at least a yard of EVERYTHING at your quilt store. Beginners and those low on fabs will feel a little in over their heads - especially with instructions like "pull out 15 medium fushias". (And God help you if you only figured there were two in existance)

Beautiful book - filled with inspiration and quilts that we all like to aspire to make one day - a must for advanced quilters. Beginners, start out with her "Your First Quilt Book : (Or It Should Be!)" and work your way up to Easy Stash Quilts.

48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Stash Quilts is a winner!, March 30, 2000

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BrendaLou Scott - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Stash Quilts (Paperback)

I perused this book and found it to be very interesting. Then I noticed that in the back of the book there was a CD rom. WOW! This was a fabulous addition to the book. On it is a half hour workshop with Carol Doak and Nancy Martin, showing you exactly how to choose fabrics from your stash for absolutly stunning quilts. I canot tell you what a wonderful addition this CD rom is to help visually explain the information included in the book. The patterns are exciting, the pictures are great. Some of the blocks are traditionally pieced and some are foundation pieced. This is a fabulous book. I'm a quilting teacher and I plan to encourage my students to buy this book.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas - but not for the weekend quilter, April 2, 2000

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AnnaMaria - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Stash Quilts (Paperback)

The quilts in this book are visual candy - each page will have your mouth watering and fingers itching to dig through your fabric stash. But... Carol is a master of her craft, and if you are not a serious fabric-aholic, this one is going to go way over your head. Average instructions call for you to pull "15 differnt medium fushias" out of your stash. God help you if you only thought there were two in existence.

So - excellent book for a gormet selection of ideas and beautiful piecework, perfect for an advanced quilter or someone who buys a yard of EVERYTHING at the quilt store. For beginners, work your way up to this one (maybe with a copy of her 'Your First Quilt Book : (Or It Should Be!)'.