Quilting with Strips and Strings (Dover Needlework Series)

By H.W. Rose

Book Overview

The enduring beauty and practicality of the traditional quilt make it one of the most treasured of household items. Yet in these fast-paced, million-things-to-do days, most needleworkers are short on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486243575
• ISBN13: 9780486243573
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

I'm happy I bought this book

This is a book written by a very innovative and competent quilter in the 80's. I'm a very experienced strip quilter, using rotary methods, and I still found new ideas. The 'cut and combine to make new patterns ' are really stunning, and very well explained and easy. It's easy enough for a new quilter, and has neat ideas for an experienced one .

A lot of information for a small price

I am a beginning quilter, and often find the information in quilt books to make assumptions that I know how to figure yardage, etc.This book gives 8 pages in the introduction explaining with illustrations various techniques and preferences in terms of equipment.There are 3 chapters in this book. The first chapter is titled: Short Cuts to Short Strip Piecing. I found this chapterto be helpful, adding information not included in other tips & tricks books I've read. This has decreased my quilt making time on other projects.Chapter 2: Striep Piecing to Form Log Cabin Designs. This chapter shows placement for many log cabin blocks, including flickering shadows, butterfly, sunshine & shadow, square with ring around, straight furrow, and streak of lightening, as well as non-square shaped versions.Chapter 3: Making String Designs on a Shaped Base. Includes designs such as: Old fashioned string quilt, Amish shadowed square, Chevron, string pyramids, spider web, string star.I have yet to make any of the quilts, but have used the text to help me in other quilts I have made. Currently, I am eagerly saving my scraps and strings from other quilts, in anticipation of making one of the quilts in this book.