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More Lap Quilting With Georgia Bonesteel

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I found this book to be well written and informative. The quilt patterns range from simple to complex for beginners and the more experienced quilter. For those of you who are beginners, invest in a rotary cutter system for this will make redundant cutting of pieces much faster and easier. I did find that I needed to purchase some extra yardage of fabrics due to my choice in color and arrangements, keep this in mind if you should chose to vary from the colors used in the book. I would have liked to see pointers on how to handle complex intersections in some of the star patterns that would have made them lay nicer. I had to learn by trial and error. (Practice with scraps on these until you feel you have it down.) All in all I found this volume to be well laid out with beautiful photography and helpful. The abundance of available pattern pieces was generous and should keep the reader busy attempting to recreate the wonderful quilts depicted in the book.

I first purchased this book about 15 years ago, Georgia use to do a show on my local PBS station and I had started to quilt with a church group. Time goes by, rotary cutters and mats all make sewing our little projects so much more enjoyable. I love her BIG designs that work up so nicely. Lots of room for creativity.

I love Georgia's books and have been using them for years. I am not interested in creating a few intricate artsy masterpieces, but, rather many beautiful, fun, useful quilts. Georgia's books are filled with ideas to make that happen. I used to hit the library looking for Georgia's books when inspiration was needed. Finally, I realized these were books I well worth owning. Whether you lap quilt a block at a time (and each book in the series gives great instructions for this) or quilt after piecing the entire top, these books will provide more ideas and direction than you can imagine.

I have been looking for this book for a long time. Shows exactly how to do lap quilting.

This is a book that can be saved and enjoyed over and over.

Georgia's clear instruction and pictures made the quilt-making so easy. It's much easier to work with a small block, quilt it, and then join the blocks together. All the bulk of the quilt is to the left of the sewing machine, so there is no fighting with all that fabric under the machine arm. She also has great instructions for almost any favorite block that can be incorporated with this technique.

This book is very informative and has some good patterns in it. Although I do not quilt the same way as directed in this book, I was able to get some great ideas from it.

I started with this book oh so many years ago. Somewhere, about a thousand quilts and a couple of moves across the country I lost it. I am so glad to get another copy. Even though I have made all types of quilts from arty farty to completely complex, I find myself drawn back to the old traditional favorites. So if you are a new quilter I recommend it or if you are a long time quilter I think you will find it still inspires.

A bit outdated information. However, useable. Got here fast and in good shape