Pieced Vegetables [Paperback]

Ruth B. McDowell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2002

Ruth B. McDowell's clever piecing techniques make garden vegetables come to life. Here are 29 blocks consisting of 22 popular vegetables, many with design and piecing variations. Also includes practical advice on fabric choices and the construction process.

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Amazon.com Review

Brilliant piecework designer Ruth McDowell first shared her particular expertise in Piecing: Expanding the Basics and then revealed more intriguing secrets in Pieced Flowers. Now she turns her skilled hand to the vibrant world of produce in Pieced Vegetables. Artichokes, cabbage, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, and 15 other varieties may at first seem an oddly narrow focus for a whole book, but their rich colors, interesting textures, and widely diverse shapes are well suited to pieced quilt blocks. For each vegetable, McDowell provides detailed block and piecing diagrams, a photo of the finished block, and colored schematics proposing one or two ways that the finished blocks can be arranged into interesting, almost abstract quilts, just by repeating the same vegetable in alternate placements. She also provides a diagram of a very large sampler quilt incorporating one block of each different vegetable. Although written directions are sparse, the diagrams are excellent and the introduction offers solid groundwork on interpreting and enlarging the diagrams, working with templates, and basic piecework sewing. --Amy Handy

About the Author

Ruth B. McDowell is an extraordinary quilt artist whose intricately pieced quilts are exhibited worldwide. Two of her quilts were named to the list of "The 20th Century's 100 Best American Quilts." She lives in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571201408
• ISBN-13: 978-1571201409
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #570,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, September 18, 2008

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Purse Artist (CA United States) - See all my reviews

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If you like Ruth McDowell's work, you will love this book. I have all her books and am glad that I purchased this one too. There are 20 projects, which are presented with design and piecing variations. Most are shown two ways, once with curved seams and again with straight seams. The color photos are wonderful and the directions and templates are clearly presented and easy to follow. Fabric advice and information on the construction process are included.

5.0 out of 5 stars Love This Book, December 30, 2011

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Karen Stephens (Noble, IL United States) - See all my reviews

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I wanted a pattern to make placemats for Christmas this year.

I had looked and looked for something I liked.

I found this book on another site and ordered it only to find they were out of them.

So..Good Ole Amazon to the rescue!

Found it here at a better price of course.

This is a wonderful book. The patterns are detailed but so real looking.

A Great buy for anyone.