Stellar Journeys: Flying Geese And Star Quilts [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Gail Garber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2001

Learn to cut and sew three beautiful Mariner's Compass Star projects, plus... Navigate fabric selection with Gail's expert guidance. Explore the ease of making precise templates or foundations. The sky is the limit as you draw circular stars, circular borders, and flying geese with confidence. View an exciting gallery of student and master works that will inspire you. The printed (paper) version of this title is out of stock and is no longer available. However, AQS has made a digital download version (eBook) available; see item# 8129; eBook - Stellar Journeys Flying Geese and Star Quilts.

Editorial Reviews

Review

If Variable Star, Friendship Star and even the illustrious 8-pointed Star have lost their appeal and you are ready for something more, this could be the book for you. -Quilters Review

About the Author

Gail Garber began quilting in 1980 after her friends encouraged her to take a hand-quilting class. She had little idea that this small step would have a major impact on her life. Now she lectures and teaches workshops for quilt guilds and shops throughout the United States and abroad. She began publishing Southwestern design patterns in 1988, followed by a series of star designs and garments.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: American Quilter's Society (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574327755
• ISBN-13: 978-1574327755
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #523,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How to design your own stars and geese, January 10, 2002

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"kucki68" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stellar Journeys: Flying Geese And Star Quilts (Paperback)

The focus in this book was on how to design your own stars and quilts with innovative use of flying geese blocks. The explanations are supported by lots of drawings and do not require you to remember any of your math classes. There are several projects to get you comfortable with the concepts and techniques and a small gallery of lovely quilts to inspire you. I would have loved to read a bit about the design process of the projects to see how a certain design evolved and what problems did surface and how they were dealt with. This is something I have found helpful in other books. Otherwise I am looking forward to try my hand at designing some stars of my own.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful quilt design book, August 26, 2005

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Gillian Buchanan "Classical Music Editor at B... (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stellar Journeys: Flying Geese And Star Quilts (Paperback)

This lovely book shows you how to draft your own patterns for quilts using curved flying geese designs, and large circular stars.

It's an enjoyable book to browse through with plenty of inspirational photographical material - many of the quilts in the photographs really are artworks rather than simple bed quilts and I particularly loved the one of the tiger in the jungle.

Full instructions are provided on how to draft the circular stars and create your own designs with the techniques in the book. The author also discusses the technique of paper piecing as this is the logical method for the complex construction of the patterns in this volume. Three patterns are provided at the end of the book for you to practise learning the techniques discussed and all in all I thoroughly enjoyed browsing through this well laid out and carefully produced volume.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Workshop in a Book, March 2, 2006

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This review is from: Stellar Journeys: Flying Geese And Star Quilts (Paperback)

Ever wonder what it would be like to have your very own personal workshop in your home? One that you can walk away from and return to at a better time? Are you at least an intermediate quilter who is looking for more of a challenge than the old "tried and true"? Well, look no further. Gail Garber has delivered all that and more in Stellar Journeys. The instructions are precise and easy to follow, one step at a time, using all of the diagrams which are well done, and there are a lot of them. While this book is not for beginners, it is a wonderful text workshop with bright photos of quilts that will inspire the best of us. A great way to use up those scraps from the stash, too. The reader is encouraged to use a wide variety of fabrics without getting too concerned as to "will this fabric go with the others?" dilemna that sometimes plague us. Ms. Garber covers everything from soup to nuts in this book about making stellar stars, including valued information about thread and many other issues that revolve around making a quilt successfully.