Christmas With Jinny Beyer: Decorate Your Home for the Holidays With Beautiful Quilts, Wreaths, Arrangements, Ornaments, and More (Hardcover)

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Who's Jinny Beyer, and why should we care? In the wake of Martha Stewart's phenomenally successful empire, homemaking wanna-bes are imitating many of her moves. Yet Beyer seems to be the real thing, without much pretense--and laden with talent. Her skills are highlighted here in time for the holidays not only in quilts but also in knitted sweaters, fabricated natural wreaths, and stitched accessories and decorations. Each of the more than 50 projects features color photographs and illustrations, as well as an indication of skill level. (Unfortunately, most are geared to intermediate or close-to-professional crafters.) Traditional patterns, such as flying geese and crazy quilting, are repeated in different media. Barbara Jacobs

Product Description

Jinny Beyer's exquisite fabrics and her innovative books on patchwork design have made her name familiar to quilters, sewers and fabric crafters all over the world. Readers will join Jinny as she takes them through her home filled with her quilts, pillows, wreaths, swags and othe Christmas decorations. She explains in step-by-step detail how to make each of these fabulous Christmas projects to give as gifts or to decorate the home. Photos.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 246 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Pr (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875967167
• ISBN-13: 978-0875967165
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #882,795 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Start Christmas projects now with Jinny's wonderful book!, February 21, 1999

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If you want to make some easy things for Christmas, this is the book for quilters (and non-quilters alike) to check out. I have it and love it! I've also bought it for Christmas gifts. (The book looks pretty on the coffeetable at Christmas, too.) Jinny shows you how to make table runners, placemats, tree skirts, wearable skirts, etc., using border prints. She makes Colonial Williamsburg-like decorations using pine cones, apples, and nuts--and from things she finds in her backyard. You can almost smell the apple cider simmering on the fireplace. There are instructions for beautiful quilts as well. Her old-fashioned country home is decorated with these quilts for the holidays, as well as wonderful antiques. It was fun to take a peek inside Jinny's home...one of the biggest names in the quilting world! If you like quilts and Christmas, you'll love this book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jinny Does it Again, February 5, 2009

By	LaVera Arnold "LaVera" (Carrizozo, NM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Christmas with Jinny Beyer (Paperback)

There are so many crafty ideas in this book for Christmas you'd have to start the day after Christmas to get them all done by next Christmas. Lovely decorations, aprons, tree skirt. You'll enjoy this book.