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The Fabric Makes the Quilt

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This is my absolute favorite quilt book! If you are interested in learning to move forward with your quiltmaking to make your quilts unique, this is the book for you. Roberta will show you how to use fabrics in ways you never thought of, and the results are awesome. This is a must have book for any non-traditional quilter's library!

This is a wonderful book that helps you become more creative in your color choices and fabric choices, and thus in designing a quilt. These are not traditional quilts, with organized patches. These are inspirational groupings of fabrics which tell a story, capture an emotion, or remind one of a particular place. Horton's fabrics come from all over the world, and from every style from calico to decorator to specialty. Includes discussions about using fabric and color techniques to reach your goals in quiltmaking.

Ms. Horton has put together one of the most inspirational and attractive quilting books that I've ever seen. I was a beginning quilter and a long-time artist, and this book helped "set me free" in this medium of fabric. It's packed with diverse examples, both culturally and stylistically. The compositions transcend their more traditional counterparts with a jaw-dropping alchemy of colour, texture, design and the spirit of creation. A must for any quilter with a rogue spirit and/or an interest in personalizing the quilt art form for certain visions!

This is the way a fine artist quilts! No little squares and boxes and even steven ness allowed. This book is worth it's price by illustrating how to turn a pictoral element into a Hogarth curve. (the rooster on page 50 and the dancer on page 69.) If you are interested in bringing creativity to ethnic designs--this is the book for you. Roberta gives some timely tips on machine applique and constructing unique applique patterns that are helpful when you beginning planning your own unique quilt.

Here is another great book from Roberta Horton. This is not a book of patterns for you to copy, but rather ideas and concepts to use when creating your original work of art. Her "gallery" of quilts is exciting and motivating to look at.

If fabric intimidates you and you want to create quilts with your own signature - this book is a required reference guide for your bookshelf. Roberta is a world class author and teacher - who writes books that are timeless.

This is an excellent book for quilters starting out. It gets to the basics of quilting - that the fabric is the most important selection for a quilt. The merging of colours and textures is what makes a successful quilt. This is my favourite quilting book.

The colors are beautiful and lush. The lessons are great. But this book is not for beginning quilters, at least not ALL beginning quilters. It's an art quilt book, and if that's what you are looking for, this is a wonderful one. The only gripe I have, and it's not a big one, is that the fabrics she shows us, and works with, are almost all from other countries. As such, it's very exotic looking. You could eat your heart out over this. For instance the "Kente Cloth" from Ghana is to die for, and I haven't seen anything like it in my LQS. But luckily for us we have no shortage of beautiful fabrics in our shops, so we can use substitutes. I think you'll want to read this book from cover to cover, it's that intriquing.