French Braid Obsession: New Ideas for the Imaginative Quilter [Paperback]

Jane Hardy Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 16, 2009

Take your French braid quilts in dramatic new directions with bold new shapes and sizes, techniques, and colors. 8 projects.

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About the Author

Jane Hardy Miller has more than 40 years of quilting experience. She currently works and teaches in her local quilt shop.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing (May 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571205268
• ISBN-13: 978-1571205261
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jane Hardy Miller was born and raised in California, where she eventually attended college and law school. Her mother, a home economics teacher, taught her to sew by hand and machine, beginning at age five. Jane made her first quilt in 1968, and for the next ten years, she made about one per year, inventing techniques as she went along. She practiced law briefly in Hawaii and California before moving to Miami in 1979, where she married, had two children, and finally took a beginning quilting class. She has been working and teaching in a local quilt shop since 1987.

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, October 22, 2009

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Susie Sews (Illinois) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: French Braid Obsession: New Ideas for the Imaginative Quilter (Paperback)

Now understand, I am an experienced quilter and have made many quilts simply from written directions, but this has to be the worst quilt book I've ever bought. I bought it for the directions on how to make a French Braid Christmas Tree Skirt, which was one of the featured projects. I already knew how to sew a French Braid. This book has you flipping back and forth for every step and when you refer to the page mentioned they are talking about a regular quilt and not the wedge shapes in a tree skirt. The final straw is tonight when I started sewing the completed wedges together and some of the strip sizes she had you cut were incorrect! I feel like I not only wasted money on this book but if I can't save this mess I'll also have wasted all the money I spent on fabric for this project. Not good at all! Grrr!!!!!

46 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A lot of repeat of first book, April 25, 2009

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B. Burke "Editor, college professor" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: French Braid Obsession: New Ideas for the Imaginative Quilter (Paperback)

I have the first book by this author and have made two quilts from it. They are fun and impressive in their construction. I was hoping for many more new ideas with her second book and was disappointed to find that the first 37 pages repeat methods from the first book. So if you don't own the first book, you really can get away with buying just this second book. And if you already own the first book, just be forewarned that the second one repeats a LOT of the first one!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars French Braid Obsession, May 9, 2009

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Stephanie Poet Cohen - See all my reviews
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This review is from: French Braid Obsession: New Ideas for the Imaginative Quilter (Paperback)

I have this book as well as the first book French Braid Quilts. Anytime you follow an author there is a certain amount of repetition, but French Braid Obsession stands alone as a wonderful manual for making colorful and creative quilts like no other. When I am making one of these quilts and I have to refresh my knowledge I am grateful that I don't have to run find "the other book." I am so inspired just from the examples. The details on each quilts construction are superb. If you thought you were obsessed with these designs before, this is just the ticket to keep you satisfied!