Smashing Sets: Exciting Ways to Arrange Quilt Blocks
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Once you've put lots of time and effort into piecing traditional quilt blocks, you can assemble them in the traditional way--or you can take a more adventurous approach for a change of pace. Margaret J. Miller's Smashing Sets: Exciting Ways to Arrange Quilt Blocks offers lovely color photos of about three dozen innovative quilts, derived from an assortment of conventional blocks. But that's where tradition gets left behind: accented with unexpected fabrics and assembled in surprising arrangements, these blocks come together in exciting quilts. The complex designs belie the fact that they are relatively easy to assemble, because they all employ only straight-line piecing. Good directions and extensive diagrams explain the piecing process and demystify template-making. Gridded drawings of 16 of the book's featured quilts, accompanied by design and piecing notes, allow readers to re-create some of Miller's imaginative designs, and her advice on fabric choices, design principles, and pattern variations helps quilters to develop their own "smashing sets." --Amy Handy
Book Description
Hundreds of ideas for achieving simple but unexpected designs and easy piecing are presented in a book that offers new approaches to arranging quilt blocks. Some of the quilts may look complex, but they are all based on simple design principles and use only straight-line piecing. Thirty-six quilts-with layouts for making sixteen of them-are shown. Each is made with techniques that can be applied to any quilt that uses individual blocks
Smashing Sets: Exciting Ways to Arrange Quilt Blocks
Smashing Sets: Exciting Ways to Arrange Quilt Blocks,Margaret J. Miller,C&T Publishing,1571201106,Crafts & Hobbies,Crafts / Hobbies,Hobbies/Crafts,Patchwork,Patchwork quilts,Quilt Making,Quilting,Quilts & Quilting,Quiltmaking
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