Customer Reviews

Smashing Sets: Exciting Ways to Arrange Quilt Blocks

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I've got lots of quilting books, but not many that offer innovative settings for the sampler square collections that I'm beginning to acquire. This book is for me. Layouts for sixteen quilts and all of them use straight line piecing. There are full color photos and advice on fabric choices. Best of all there are sample layouts to play with. I've always liked Margaret Miller's approach of playing with design by breaking a block down to a couple basic shapes and playing with it. I'm glad that she's extended this method to quilt settings.

The premise of this book, setting traditional blocks in innovative and creative ways, was what drew me to it. I was quickly disappointed to discover, however, that really what you get is one innovative setting idea. The instructions provided are good, however there is little here to inspire.

This book is not for beginners, but more for those of us that have a lot of unused quilt blocks sitting around. It is also good for the experienced quilter that is board and wants a new twist to making quilt tops.

This book should be in every quilter's library. It gives good instruction on how to go about taking multiple size blocks and making an innovatiove cohesive unit that is pleasing to the eye.

I was tired of always arranging blocks in the traditional rectangle. Seeing blocks set in so many various ways gives renewed creativity to any beautiful quilt and wall hanging.

This is a book where you have seen everything before. I was very disappointed. Margaret J. Miller normally makes good books to my knowledge. But this is just a repetition of what we all have seen before, put at a different angel. It look's to me that is just about producing a new book, whit old ideas.