Positively Postcards: Quilted Keepsakes to Save or Send (That Patchwork Place) [Paperback]

Bonnie Sabel (Author), Louis-Philippe O'Donnell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 16, 2007

A small-sized commitment of time is all you need to create these picture-perfect postcard quilts! Give, trade, or treasure these 4" x 6" mini-greetings--and make a one-of-a-kind quilt in an evening.

* Follow one step-by-step project to learn the technique; then get inspired by more than 85 creative variations, all shown in close-up photos

* Choose a novelty fabric to start; then learn to develop your own themes with photos of fabric and embellishment collections

* Embellish postcards with machine satin stitching, ribbons, yarns, buttons, beads, rubber stamps, costume jewelry--there's no limit to what you can use!

Fabric postcards * Fiber postcards * Artist postcards * Trading cards

Editorial Reviews

Review

Whether you give these quick and easy projects as gifts or use them as decorations, mini postcard quilts are ideal projects for busy folks. With this simple and easy guide, anyone can learn to create unique four-by-six inch fabric cards using various sewing and quilting techniques. The authors explain how to choose the fabric and create different styles. There are color illustrated, easy to follow directions for each technique, such as appliqué. This provides no fail instructions from beginning to end. Readers can learn all about the different piecing options. The authors offer various ways to finish the edges and embellish the cards. They explain how to choose designs for the fronts and backs of the cards. There are detailed instructions for a spring birdhouse project that will have special appeal to gardeners.
This has an extensive quilt gallery with over 85 breathtaking fabric cards made with various techniques and details on how each card was created. Many of these designs feature flowers, plants, and nature themes. One of my favorites is the flower fairies card. --Connie Krochmal, Bellaonline.com

About the Author

Home: Portland, Oregon
The work of Bonnie Sabel has been juried into several national shows. Louis-Philippe O'Donnell has enjoyed a successful career in electronic design, management, and marketing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: That Patchwork Place (April 16, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564777324
• ISBN-13: 978-1564777324
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #662,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally! A postcard book for fiber artists!, May 16, 2007

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Chris F. Willis "Media1der" (West Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Positively Postcards: Quilted Keepsakes to Save or Send (That Patchwork Place) (Paperback)

Our art quilters group recently started making quilted postcards as a way to help us become more prolific in our work and give us a quick, low stress place to learn new techniques -- and where we could practice working our way out of those little challenges that come up in every art quilt project! I've been looking for an inspirational book, but found that many of the fiber/quilt postcard books out there were highly templatized and simplistic; I wanted something that focused more on helping you bring your own original ideas to life. This book is exactly what I was looking for! The author makes great use of those fun novelty prints that we all purchase on impulse but never know what to do with ... and she shows you how to embellish and change them up to make them your own. Building on the ideas in this book, you'll soon be making -- and mailing! -- your own little quilted gifts for friends and family, or for the many charitable art card projects going on right now.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Positively Postcards, May 18, 2007

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Fiberphyl (Great Lakes area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Positively Postcards: Quilted Keepsakes to Save or Send (That Patchwork Place) (Paperback)

This is the best book out on the market for the postcard maker.
I have several books on postcards....all with specific patterns to follow, but none that inspire creativity. This book gives you a place to start, and the means to grow, as your skills improve.
Super book....and the only one you'll need if you are delving into the world of fabric postcards.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Fabric Postcard books, July 30, 2007

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Janis L. Stoker "Janis in Oregon" (Grants Pass, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Positively Postcards: Quilted Keepsakes to Save or Send (That Patchwork Place) (Paperback)

Just Wonderful! Not only has Bonnie come up with new ways of doing fabric postcards, she has injected a whole other level of interface between the fabric and the artist in all of us. With these well-written instructions, anyone can create little pieces of art that pleasure the eyes and warm the soul. Her photographs are sumptuous and plentiful, the text organized and thoughtfully presented. Added to all of that are the very warm and delightful personages of Bonnie and Philippe, both of whom I was happy to have met at the Sisters, Oregon quilt show this year. If you can only buy one fabric postcard book, then this is the one to get.