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How Not to Make a Prize-Winning Quilt

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This is an awesome book! Any person who appreciates quilting will have fun reading this book! Every new quilter MUST READ this book before they run to the fabric store. I only wish that I'd read it years ago. I laughed so hard at Ami Simms' vivid descriptions of "How NOT to Make a Prize-Winning Quilt" that I could hardly contain myself. She verbalized every thought new quilters may have had about their own quilting experiences. I am NOT a great quilter and after reading her book, I've come to appreciate my first (utility) quilt because I had quilted it for the love of it and not it's technique. Now she's given me inspiration to work on my technique.

I absolutely LOVED this book. Ami Simms writes with such honesty about how she got started and makes you realize that you have to start somewhere and to not give up if your first quilt doesn't turn out quite like you expected. She makes you laugh and I will read and reread this book til it falls apart, and I will keep on quilting. Thanks Ami.

Three cheers to Ami Simms for "coming clean" with the truth about quilting! And what is that truth? It's a journey, one to be enjoyed and cherished along the way. Every step doesn't have to be perfect. Thanks, Ami, for brightening my day with your quilt catastrophe confessions!

This author is just flat out funny while throughly communicating how to avoid common pitfalls in quilting, how to do it right--or what to do after you run out of beds. She clearly has passion and deep knowledge of her craft. This is not the only book you'll need to get started, but I think it's probably a must have for someone in the beginner to intermediate range. Or someone who wants to compare nuggets of advice with another quilting nut.

This is a great book for begining and experienced quilters. As soon as I started reading I was sure that Ami Simms wrote this book for me! She writes about all of the little mistakes quilters make and how they do things to save time, but instead diminsh quality. I laughed throughout the whole book, and recommend it to anyone who knows too well the problems of being a beginning quilter!

If you're a beginner you won't really understand this book but buy it anyway!! After you've made around 10 quilts then read it!! Then you'll "get it"!! Very funny!! Ami Simms' humor keeps you reading from start to finish!!!

This book was cute and as a beginner quilter, I understand it perfectly. Its an adventure to say the least! From misinterpreting patterns to taking up the diningroom with a quilt stretcher is all things we can relate to.

I have never laughed so hard. Although trashing 20 years of her quilting she has the ability to make you see the funny side of the situation. I found myself able to relate as I have done many of the same things growing as a quilter. Not a book about patterns but about a quilter!