15 minutes of Play -- Improvisational Quilts: Made-Fabric Piecing • Traditional Blocks • Scrap Challenges Author: Victoria Findlay Wolfe | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BQA3VWW | Format: EPUB
15 minutes of Play -- Improvisational Quilts: Made-Fabric Piecing • Traditional Blocks • Scrap Challenges Description
Scraps never looked so good! This is improvisational piecing reinvented—learn how to create a unique piece of “made-fabric” in just 15 minutes with Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s improvisational scrap-piecing methods, then incorporate your made-fabric into traditional quilt blocks. As you play, you’ll sharpen your design skills and learn about combining colors and prints in new ways…then watch your quilt design emerge. Discover just how distinctive classic blocks like Sawtooth Star or Flying Geese can be, when they’re constructed with more spunk and spontaneity! Includes 11 challenge exercises to strengthen your creative muscles, plus an inspirational quilt gallery.- File Size: 9109 KB
- Print Length: 96 pages
- Publisher: C&T Publishing (February 12, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BQA3VWW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,402 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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What a great title, "15 Minutes of Play"! It's well written and the photos are numerous. The easy to understand directions and ideas made me want to get started "playing" with fabric right away. Once I finished reading the book I started reading it again. The quilts are amazing, the ideas are terrific. Victoria Findlay Wolfe has written a keeper! She gives so much encouragement for the creative process and so many ideas for having fun along the way. The book left me with no questions, just a desire to create. The author made everything so clear that I think she is the kind of teacher I would love to see in a quilting class.
This book is for beginners and advanced quilters. It's fun for all of us.
I came back to Amazon today to order one for my sister. If I loaned her mine, I would never see it again!
By JoAnne T.
Do you know the common denominator in my favorite quilt books like Gwen Marston's Liberated Quiltmaking and Roberta Horton's Scrap Quilts? No patterns, lots of quilts, and lots of words. And woohoo, V's book is all of that. It's like sitting next to V and listening to her explain how she made her improvisational, scrappy quilts. Her inspiration and enthusiasm are so contagious.
In the book, there are multiple techniques for making "made-fabric" by free-piecing, using paper as a foundation, and the quick way. I love that, because not every one likes to work the same way. For instance, I love using paper foundations and don't mind ripping all the paper off while other people can't stand that. There are directions for some of the blocks in the book and multiple challenges to get you started playing.
I admit I'm biased - I have a quilt in the book. but it's just one of many, so many fun quilts.
By Tonya Ricucci
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