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Another dazzling production from Gwen and Freddy!, April 15, 2009
This review is from: Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again: Freewheeling Twists on Traditional Quilt Designs (Paperback)
Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran have produced another wonderful, inspirational quilt book. Suggestions and possibilities are offered rather than straight, how to instructions. Gwen reminds us of how we can learn so much from looking at older quilts and Freddy serves up her usual saturated color blast. This book is a real feast for the eyes, and the mind as well. It is filled with wonderful photos and personal stories from Gwen and Freddy both. This is a fine companion to their Collaborative Quilts.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Best quilting book for me this year!, May 17, 2009
This review is from: Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again: Freewheeling Twists on Traditional Quilt Designs (Paperback)
This second book may even be better than the first. More creative process quilting by Gwen and more knockout color by Freddy. But now these two are blending, expanding and embellishing their styles more. :) The color plates of the new quilt experiments are pure eye candy. The construction tips in the back of the book are really helpful and well explained.
This time, Gwen and Freddy have enlarged many of the basic process blocks in the workshop and they have incorporated the process technique into medallion quilts. Many, many, ideas about how to take quilting ideas from the 19th century and step them into 21st century colors, fabrics, and designs that IMHO--most of our quilting foremothers would have been delighted to try.
I regularly read and look through this new book as well as Gwen and Freddy's first book. (which I also just bought) for ideas on how to assemble assorted blocks I have lying around.
I also arranged some appliqued blocks in a medallion pattern and tried some different color arrangements on my niece's wedding quilt I would not have tried if I had not studied these books. It has also enouraged me to put up quilts on design walls again to play with the arrangement. :) When I showed the new quilt at a quilt club--someone asked me if my niece was Italian since it has lots of green and red like an Italian flag. She is not--but I have to admit that I put the blocks together on the design board on the evening of Cinco de Mayo after a couple margaritas and it does look a bit like a Mexican flag--except with flowers. :)
Great fun and great quilting. You won't regret purchasing this book!
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Freddy and Gwen...freewheelers, June 7, 2009
This review is from: Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again: Freewheeling Twists on Traditional Quilt Designs (Paperback)
Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again: Freewheeling Twists on Traditional Quilt Designs
A colorful, engaging ride...moves one into a new age of color and form. Encourages the quilter to draw upon the old traditional blocks and other major influences such as the rich African-American tradition and the vast, colorful fabrics that abound today. Using old blocks in new ways, dazzling quilts fill the pages. Try 'em...you just might love 'em!
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