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Quilt Toppings: Fun and Fanciful Embellishments

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I recently bought Melody Crust's book after having bought what I thought was a book on applique and having been extremely disappointed and upset. If you wanted a book on brightly colorful quilts that would have been it, but Melody's book was what I was really looking for. If you are looking for a book on embellishing small quilts and wall hangings this is the book for you. It is bright, colorful, and chock full of ideas and techniques for creating and embellishing the quilts. While you could copy some of her creations she encourages you to create your own, and you can. If you have some small amount of sewing skills or none at all you can sew small pieces on your own. No machine is really necessary, though you might want to have an iron on hand. You don't need that much skill to sew beads to fabric, and any block can be hand sewn with just a running stitch. Most of your creations will never see the inside of a washing machine as they are for display only and won't need it. You don't even need to buy fabric if you have some old clothing you can wash, iron and cut into sheets for your squares, any fabric will do. If you just want some small pieces of handwork to do while you think or to teach yourself this is the book for you. The price you pay for the book is well worth it if you are looking for that one applique and embellishment book to spark your creativity.

"Quilt Toppings: Fun And Fancy Embellishment Techniques" by quilting expert Melody Crust features hundreds of color photos illustrating close-up details of quilting embellishment techniques, before-and-after shots of projects that transformed plain quilts into works of the needlecrafter's art, and a wealth of impressive resources for inspiration and for embellishment techniques ranging from beading to painting, buttons and bows, thread play, and fabrics. Each individual chapter includes an 'Idea Gallery' of unique quilt toppings. "Quilt Toppings"is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to instructional quilting reference collections for the novice needlecrafter and has a great deal to offer even the more experienced quilt maker.

This book has something for quilters of every style. If you are looking to "expand your horizons" or just find something unique for your next quilt, you will probably find it in here! Her directions are simple, and illustrations plentiful. Just using her "postcard" size examples as a basis for projects would give you a working knowledge of embellishing for any quilting need. It is unusual to find a book covering so many topics that provides sufficient instructions in each topic, and for this reason "Quilt Toppings" will probably not just be in my quilt library for a long time, but on the shelf next to my sewing machine. Well done, Melody!

Excellent, excellent book for Fun and Fanciful Embellishments....Full of a lot of great and easy techniques. If you think you would like to do more embellishing on your quilts or anything else, this is the book for you.