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Stellar Journeys: Flying Geese And Star Quilts

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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.

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.

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.

This book is full of inspiration and leaves you just wanted to get started on a new project. Clear concise and well ilustrated to take you all through the process of creating projects or orignial masterpieces

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An absolutely inspirational book for the art quilter who prefers the art quilt to be based on historical blocks. A refreshing approach using patterns that are accurate and directions that are concise.

she makes sewing stars and geese fun and gives great step by step instructions to drafting original stars etc. what a treasure.

Stellar Journeys: Flying Geese and Star Quilts. It arrived the next day and in excellent condition - STELLAR! - Thank you

I can't begin to express how disappointed I was with this book. I bought it specifically for the Mariner's compass patterns and for directions on how to do it without foundation pieceing. Theere was a lot of information on how to make patterns, but all of the examples and projects were not true Mariner's compass, they were odd variations. And most of the directions were for foundation piecing, in which I was not at all interested. The flying geese borders and info on circular borders was fine, but the stuff on Mariner's compass, for which I purchased this book, was not at all helpful, or inspiring, especially for someone such as I, who wants to hand piece and hand sew the antique patterns. I wish the author (or whomever) had been more explicit in stating that these were modern variations on tradtional themes.

this is a wonderful book which will help you drafting stars. I found this book very helpful.

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