Quilting Among Friends: 55 Friendship Blocks for Fabric Exchanges, Block Swaps, Block Showers, Charity & Baby, Milestones, Round Robins, Retre

by Jill Reber

Book Overview

Quilting and friendship go hand-in-hand, and planning makes the perfect quilting party. Jill Reber gathers a decade of experience quilting with friends in guilds, small groups, retreats and bees to share their most successful ideas, guidelines and trading times. Part 1--Trading Pieces describes types of exchanges including fabric exchanges, block swaps, block parties, row quilts and more, and provides project examples for inspiration. Part 2-- Piecing Times, Piecing Occasions shows and talks about charity quilts, the best of fun quilt retreats, and special occasion quilts for celebrating, cheering and commemorating. Part 3-- Blocks-to-Share provides 55 successful block patterns to use when quilting with friends. 15 quilt projects with complete instructions show patterns that work well for quilting among friends Select from 55 blocks with complete instructions including instructions for common sizes A gallery of finished quilts shows how selecting one idea inspires an array of creative results

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890621862
• ISBN13: 9781890621865
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Landauer (IL)
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Quilting Among Friends

This book has a wealth of information and inspiration in it. I would highly recommend it to other quilters. Get girlfriends involved in a small sewing bee. What more fun could you have?