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Pieced Borders: The Complete Resource

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This book is by far the best book published on pieced borders. Judy and Marsha are two of America's best quilt authorities and have really put their all into this book. You will find everything from the different types of pieced borders, to hundreds of graphics of different pieced borders to inspirational quilts with pieced borders - at least a dozen of which have complete instructions for several sizes each! As a quilt instructor myself, I find the book an invaluable resource. I have six students starting a Round Robin project this month and their "bible" will be "Pieced Borders" by Martin & McCloskey!

This book you will use, time and time again. Choose from a dozen beautiful, complete quilt patterns or 200 ready-to-use border patterns. Find everything you need to know for planning and making your own pieced borders. How to choose a border, and how wide. What color to choose and how to sew long border strips ( and how not to) . The simplest pieced borders are often the best ones. How to make border patterns to fit diagonal blocks or add dimensions. Complete with color photos, charts, patterns and much more.

This book is great! But it's not for beginners, or timid quiltmakers. Some of the designs are rather complicated and time consuming. But oh boy, what a difference a beautiful border makes to your quilt! You'll find patterns, diagrams, tables of measurements, and colorful before and after pictures of lovely quilts with and without the borders. The authors are two of our most talented and well known teachers, designers, authors and quiltmakers. If you are looking for that perfect border for your newly made quilt you'll find it here. But easier books for new quilters seeking to learn how to make the perfect border are out there.

This book has it all and is for both the novice and advanced quilter! Beautiful color illustrations with clear and concise instructions! I would highly recommend this for yourself or gift! Every quilter should have this book in their library!

This is a top quality how-to quilt book for everyone who love to add pieced borders to their quilt tops. Instruction on design, fit and piecing are all excellent and indepth. Both templates & rotary cutting methods are included for many, many shapes & sizes. This book inspired me to create original quilts based on some of my favorite blocks! If you like to design your own quilts, you just have to own this book!!

This book is an excellent example of how the intermediate level quilter can add additional zing to their quilts. Many beautiful borders have been given and offer a great deal of excitement for quilting borders.

I could not figure out what to do to make my Friendship Star quilt zing. When I received this book, I found out - it has so many great ideas to make a boring quilt look great just by adding a marvelous border. You can always depend on Judy Martin to get it right.

I checked out several other books from the library on pieced borders and I decided this one was probably the best. Diagrams and directions are good, and there are some awesome quilts in this book!

This book will teach you to think of quilt borders as an integral part of quilt design. It is truly imaginative and has many wonderful photos of quilts to inspire the quilter. However, I found the instructions very complicated and not for those with mathphobia. Still, I have used many of the book's border designs and just winged it with the calculations...still worked out fine.

This book is now out of print, so of course, I wanted a copy! After seeing the high prices of a new edition, I opted for a used one. The description was very positive so I took a chance. I was enormously pleased! The book is like new. This seller offered a very accurate description of the book. It arrived sooner than expected, too. I've been disappointed with other used books that I purchased, but not in this case. Kudos to the seller!