Small Blocks, Stunning Quilts - Softcover

Kinch, Mary Elizabeth; Storms, Biz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564778290 ISBN 13: 9781564778291

Publisher: That Patchwork Place, 2008

Synopsis

Antique quilt lovers, join Mary Elizabeth and Biz in a celebration of traditional quilts! With inspiring photos of quilts from private collections, this book gives you a peek at masterpieces that have not been widely seen. Indulge your passion for nineteenth-century reproduction fabrics as you create gorgeous large quilts with small blocks.

• Create 10 exquisite bed-sized projects or use the blocks in small quilts if you prefer
• Find "batch work" instructions in each project--work in short blocks of time to stay organized
• Let the beauty of old quilts inspire your fabric and design choices

About this title

About the Author

Mary Elizabeth Kinch started quilting in 1975 while working as an historical interpreter at Black Creek Pioneer Village in Toronto, Ontario. Passionate about creativity since she was very young and always fascinated with fabric and color, she obtained one of her degrees in fashion design. A lifelong exposure to the arts and antiques has contributed to her love of design and her fondness for the antique quilts she studies and collects.

Review

For lovers of traditional quilts with gazillions of minute pieces and fussy construction, this book is absolutely fabulous. It will make you recycle your tiniest scraps and engage in long months of work. The results are out of this world. Ready, set, go! --QuiltMania magazine

Discover spectacular full-size antique quilts made with hundreds of small blocks. Use the instructions and 19th-century reproduction prints to re-create the look and feel of an antique quilt. --allpeoplequilt.com, Editor's Favorite Quilting Books

If you're questioning whether the book's title really says it all, just look at the very first project in Small Blocks, Stunning Quilts. In "Rocky Mountain Thimbles," the twin-sized quilt is made from6,536 trapezoids (I think that's what my geometry teacher told me these shapes were!). Yes, you read that right. 6,536! Okay waay too scary for me, but the finished quilt is, well, stunning enough for me to buy absolutely everything I need to make it (you know how that is). And all of the other projects are just as fabulously intricate and traditional-quilt gorgeous.

This book offers a great way to use up your tiniest of tiny scraps but I don't think I could ever imagine myself finishing one of these babies (I have a problem finishing even big-block quilts). Just too much work for my A.D.D. brain. But, I can name a few of my Type A quilt buds who would drool over the four-digit block counts in these projects. I say go for it. You only live once, so you might as well live in small detail (even if I can't).

Should you buy this book? Yes, if you like really, really really intricate piecework, or just enjoy looking at these quilts for their astounding beauty. --Quilter's Home magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: That Patchwork Place
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1564778290
• ISBN 13: 9781564778291
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96