A Perfect Match: A Guide to Precise Machine Piecing (The Joy of Quilting) [Paperback]

Donna Lynn Thomas (Author)

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Thomas, who has published extensively on quilting, here revises a 1994 edition. Her revision pays close attention to sewing-machine instruction and technique, incorporating diagrams and illustrations. The bulk of the book is detailed instruction, with six project quilts; a few templates and color photos of these quilts are provided. A very good, very basic book; recommended for public libraries.?KE
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Martingale & Co Inc; Revised edition (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564771539
• ISBN-13: 978-1564771537
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,654,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Donna has been sewing since the age of four and quilting since 1975. It has carried her happily through her earlier years as an Army wife and the many years and moves since. Having taught nationally and internationally, she is the author of many previous quilt titles with Martingale, Inc. teaching precision rotary cutting and machine piecing: Small Talk, Shortcuts (imperial and metric versions, and four foreign language translations), A Perfect Match, Shortcuts to the Top, Stripples, Stripples Strikes Again!, Scrappy Duos, and the designer of the Bias Stripper™ ruler. Portable Patchwork: Who Says You Can't take it With You!, about integrating hand and machine piecing, was published by Kansas City Star books in 2008. She earned her National Quilting Association certification for basic quilt making (NQACT) in 1988.

Her newest book to be released in spring 2011 by Martingale, Inc., titled "Flip Your Way to Great Quilts: Taking Folded Corners to New Heights", takes the idea of folded corners and adapts it to lots of fun new uses. Most quilters are familiar with the basic concept of folded corners where a smaller square is sewn onto the corner of a larger square or rectangle and then folded over to form a triangle on the corner. Applying this idea to squares, rectangles and triangles, Flip Your Way to Great Quilts, teaches quilters how to make all kinds of new striped shapes and fun quilt blocks from folded layers.

Donna, currently living in Kansas with her husband, provides staff assistance to three cats and a dog. All her quilts are lovingly pre-furred!

Visit Donna's website at www.donnalynnthomas.com

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4.0 out of 5 stars quilting, May 1, 2009

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This review is from: A Perfect Match: A Guide to Precise Machine Piecing (The Joy of Quilting) (Paperback)

Looks like a lot of great ideas. I have not had time to use it yet but am looking forward to using the book.