Quiltmaking Tips And Techniques: Over 1,000 Creative Ideas To Make Your Quiltmaking Quicker, Easier And A Lot More Fun [Paperback]

Jane Townswick (Author), Suzanne Nelson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 1997

Why is everyone so excited about this book? The answer is easy-- there's something new, useful, fun, and inspiring on every single page. For instance, find out:

* Why you should bring a kaleidoscope or pair of binoculars to the fabric store to help choose colors

* The quick trick for shortening your rotary cutting time (hint: it's all in how you fold the fabric)

* How skateboarders' grid tape and plain old duct tape can make rotary cutting easier than ever

* An ingenious way to transform pages from a magnetic photo album into reusable appliqué templates

* How changing to a different size needle can instantly improve your hand appliqué

* The timesaving way to baste together a quilt sandwich

* The best way to erase penciled quilting marks (surprise-- it's a cotton T-shirt!)

Page after page is filled with hundreds of other tips like these from expert quiltmakers-- all too good to miss. You'll probably find yourself saying over and over again, "I can't wait to try that!"

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book gets an A+!"--Virginia Robertson, Teacher, Quilt Designer, Owner of The Osage County Quilt Factory

"If I had to choose one book for my library, this would be the one!"--Pat Yamin, Teacher, Quilt Designer, Owner of Come Quilt With Me

"A quilter's delight! It's like attending a guild workshop with all the best quilting experts."-- Julie Hart, Program Chairman, Des Moines Area Quilters Guild

From the Back Cover

"This book gets an A+!"--Virginia Robertson, Teacher, Quilt Designer, Owner of The Osage County Quilt Factory

"If I had to choose one book for my library, this would be the one!"--Pat Yamin, Teacher, Quilt Designer, Owner of Come Quilt With Me

"A quilter's delight! It's like attending a guild workshop with all the best quilting experts."-- Julie Hart, Program Chairman, Des Moines Area Quilters Guild

Why is everyone so excited about this book? The answer is easy-- there's something new, useful, fun, and inspiring on every single page. For instance, find out:

* Why you should bring a kaleidoscope or pair of binoculars to the fabric store to help choose colors

* The quick trick for shortening your rotary cutting time (hint: it's all in how you fold the fabric)

* How skateboarders' grid tape and plain old duct tape can make rotary cutting easier than ever

* An ingenious way to transform pages from a magnetic photo album into reusable appliqué templates

* How changing to a different size needle can instantly improve your hand appliqué

* The timesaving way to baste together a quilt sandwich

* The best way to erase penciled quilting marks (surprise-- it's a cotton T-shirt!)

Page after page is filled with hundreds of other tips like these from expert quiltmakers-- all too good to miss. You'll probably find yourself saying over and over again, "I can't wait to try that!"

Product Details

• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (August 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875969585
• ISBN-13: 978-0875969589
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #355,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic guide to little tricks and helpful hints!, December 1, 1997

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[e-mail] (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quiltmaking Tips And Techniques: Over 1,000 Creative Ideas To Make Your Quiltmaking Quicker, Easier And A Lot More Fun (Paperback)

This was a great find! My five sewing and crafting buddies are fighting me for first rights to read it from cover to cover! Such helpful morsels for the true seamstress and quilter! It is needed genre in the quilting world. Patterns are easy to find in other books but the truly helpful secrets and tips passed from one quilter to another, from one generation to another, can only be found here!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tips Galore!, October 31, 2000

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richard bostwick (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quiltmaking Tips And Techniques: Over 1,000 Creative Ideas To Make Your Quiltmaking Quicker, Easier And A Lot More Fun (Paperback)

This book is the compilation of the expertise of the staff writers from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine and thirty additional well-known and professional quilters. As the Quilting Host at BellaOnline, I have read a number of books on quilting and this is a wonderful book. The information is nicely organized into sections that proceed in the order of how a quilt is constructed, beginning with tips on how to organize your workspace and ending with information on how to care for and display your quilts. There is also a very complete and well organized index at the end of the book so that you can look up specific topics.

The individual chapters are composed of "nuggets" of information with a tagline acknowledging the source of the information. The tips are varied in content and show a great deal of creativity. There are helpful tidbits here for everyone and there are numerous illustrations. The reading is light hearted and pleasant - I thoroughly enjoyed reading through it.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for beginning quilters, February 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Quiltmaking Tips And Techniques: Over 1,000 Creative Ideas To Make Your Quiltmaking Quicker, Easier And A Lot More Fun (Paperback)

This book is so full of great hints, I can't begin to tell about them. I just open the book at random and read. Every time I find a hint I hadn't even begun to think about needing. Every beginning quilter should read this book.