Batik Beauties: 18 Stunning Quilts

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Summary: Gorgeous photos of gorgeous batik quilts! Excellent!
Review: This book is eye-candy for those who love batik fabrics. The author provides 18 patterns for quilts made with batiks. She also provides in interesting introduction and background info on batik fabric and how it is made. Very readable book, with beautiful quilt patterns. But the best part of this book is in simply ooohing and ahhhing over the photos of batik fabrics. Lovely!!

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Summary: Gorgeous photos of gorgeous batik quilts! Excellent!
Review: This book is very frustrating to me. I love batiks, and the author's works are beautiful, but I am not a beginner and definitely not interested in copying her quilts in whatever size and color schemes she has used. Therefore, I find it extremely annoying that the directions tell you how many of what size shapes to cut for her quilt, but don't say what the finished block sizes are. Of course, I can figure that out, but why make me do all that math istead of including such basic information? Total book includes 10 pages of text on batiks, 22 pages of text on very basic, generic quiltmaking techniques, and 77 pages consist of 18 particular quilts with the instructions for copying them.

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Summary: Good for making exact copies of author's quilts but . . .
Review: This book is very frustrating to me. I love batiks, and the author's works are beautiful, but I am not a beginner and definitely not interested in copying her quilts in whatever size and color schemes she has used. Therefore, I find it extremely annoying that the directions tell you how many of what size shapes to cut for her quilt, but don't say what the finished block sizes are. Of course, I can figure that out, but why make me do all that math istead of including such basic information? Total book includes 10 pages of text on batiks, 22 pages of text on very basic, generic quiltmaking techniques, and 77 pages consist of 18 particular quilts with the instructions for copying them.