A Passion for Piecing: Breathtaking Quilts from Easy Paper-Pieced Units; 16 Projects + Award-Winning Quilts

by Claudia Clark Myers

Overview

Claudia Clark Myers helps you create a masterwork by making a few easy changes in the way you think about quilt settings and combining blocks and colors. Bring your style to life with precision piecing, paper piecing, and Claudia's Magic 3-Pin method for sewing perfect curves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571207876
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	12/16/2009
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Claudia Clark Myers has won many awards at national quilting shows and was named Minnesota Quilter of the Year in 2006. She co-owns the quilt pattern company, 2 Much Fun! She lives in the woods north of Duluth, Minnesota.

Read an Excerpt

Claudia Clark Myers helps you create a masterwork by making a few easy changes in the way you think about quilt settings and combining blocks and colors. Bring your style to life with precision piecing, paper piecing, and Claudia's Magic 3-Pin method for sewing perfect curves.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Where Do I Begin?? How Do I Pick the Colors and Fabrics? The Swatchboard The Mock-Up The Translation How Do I Know How Much Fabric to Buy? What Tools Can't I Live Without? Chapter 2: The Nitty Gritties-How Do I Make These Quilts? Supply List Tips to Get You Started. .. What If I Don't Know How to Paper Piece? Templates?? Applique, Too! The Magic Three-Pin Method Chapter 3: Pineapples Gallery Passionella Antique Stretch Glass Sweetie Pie Spicy Hot Who's Darla's Poppy? Chapter 4: LeMoyne Stars Easy Peasy Fine Feathered Friends Stars Over Saginaw Chapter 5: Mariner's Compass Gallery Yin Yang Naniboujou Blue Moon Compass Deconstructus Chapter 6: Fans Gallery Mackintosh Fandahlia Summer Sun Pharaoh's Fan Appendix Tips Infinite Possibilities Acknowledgments About the Author

Editorial Reviews

There seem to be a lot of crafting books aimed at beginners - and it's wonderful to think that more people are being introduced to the joys of making things from fabric and thread. Even experienced crafters enjoy whipping up something relatively simple and straight forward from time to time. This book, however, is aimed fairly and squarely at quiltmakers who are looking for a challenge (although, even then, the publishers couldn't resist including the word easy on the front cover!). Myers provides instructions and full-size foundations for 16 paper-/foundation-pieced quilts using the pineapple, LeMoyne Star, Mariner's Compass and fan blocks. The quilts on the front cover is not one of the - it's only included as part of a gallery of Myers' quilts; it is, however, indiciative of the style of project included in the book.

Australian Homespun Magazine - .

There seem to be a lot of crafting books aimed at beginners - and it's wonderful to think that more people are being introduced to the joys of making things from fabric and thread. Even experienced crafters enjoy whipping up something relatively simple and straight forward from time to time. This book, however, is aimed fairly and squarely at quiltmakers who are looking for a challenge (although, even then, the publishers couldn't resist including the word easy on the front cover!). Myers provides instructions and full-size foundations for 16 paper-/foundation-pieced quilts using the pineapple, LeMoyne Star, Mariner's Compass and fan blocks. The quilts on the front cover is not one of the - it's only included as part of a gallery of Myers' quilts; it is, however, indiciative of the style of project included in the book.

Australian Homespun