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Fun Photo-Quilts & Crafts

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I bought this book when I agreed to make a class quilt for my daughter's kindergarten, to be auctioned at our schools annual dinner auction. Ami Simms writing style is fresh and down to earth. The clarity of her instructions was very appealing - not only did I follow her instructions for how to transfer photos, I also made the cover quilt. The projects in the book are interesting but not overly intimidating and include transfers on mouse pads as coasters in addition to quilts. I would highly recommend this book for anyone trying photo transfers for the first time.

I bought this book prior to completing my first two memory quilts, and did find it helpful. I really liked the idea of adding the folded "photo corners", found that in this book, and utilized that in one of my quilts. However, I do think this book is lacking in variety -- not that there aren't several examples of quilts, but, in a very general sense, they are all very similar. In large, they represent very symmetrical quilts, done with photos used as part of traditional patchwork blocks. The examples are very beautifully done, and do give some good ideas for color, pieced blocks, etc., but there was just not enough variety to be truly inspirational. But, for me, it was worth the investment just for learning how to do the photo corners. If you are looking for that technique specifically, or are really drawn to one of the patterns, the book may be worth it. But, the limited variety keeps it from being a book I thumb through again and again, and thus I can't really consider it one of my "best bang for the buck" quilting books.

This is a fun book with lots of ideas for photo quilts. I enjoyed the author's sense of humor in all the written sections, and although I have not actually constructed any of the projects in the book (yet), I have enjoyed just drooling over the pictures (I've decided that quilting books are an awful lot like cookbooks!).