Cut-Loose Quilts: Stack, Slice, Switch and Sew

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Summary: A must for all aspiring textile artists
Review: Cut Loose Quilts is for those who are aspiring to take their creativity and art to a new level! This book helps one to create quilts that are "out of the box," and is a great first step in using your artistic intuition. Jan Mullen clearly illustrates step by step the process of choosing fabrics, designing, and constructing a quilt. She has plenty of quilt designs as examples, and always is encouraging of you to create your own. The designs are fun and funky takes on many traditional blocks, as well as the license to stray from the conventional. This is one of my most favorite books!

Rating:
Summary: A must for all aspiring textile artists
Review: Cut Loose Quilts is for those who are aspiring to take their creativity and art to a new level! This book helps one to create quilts that are "out of the box," and is a great first step in using your artistic intuition. Jan Mullen clearly illustrates step by step the process of choosing fabrics, designing, and constructing a quilt. She has plenty of quilt designs as examples, and always is encouraging of you to create your own. The designs are fun and funky takes on many traditional blocks, as well as the license to stray from the conventional. This is one of my most favorite books!

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Summary: Outlines almost twenty colorful projects
Review: Cut-Loose Quilts: Stack, Slice, Switch and Sew outlines almost twenty colorful projects which involve stacking, slicing, and sewing crooked versions of traditional quilt blocks - a method which will particularly lend to beginners. Simple cutting and piecing methods are taught in the course of these projects, with plenty of color photos throughout.

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Summary: Great book for making great quilts
Review: I have made 2 of the Milky Wayz quilt from the book and they are so fun and easy. Jan's directions and pictures were very easy to follow. This would be a great technique for a beginner since you don't have to worry so much about matching. The best thing about Jan's method is that the cutting part (which I hate) is much shorter since your pieces are all 4"-ish or 5"-ish and so on. Plus it's fun to just cut at wacky angles and it gives your quilts a quirky fun element. Great for quilts for kids.
I can't wait to make another quilt from the book.

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Summary: Great book for making great quilts
Review: I have made 2 of the Milky Wayz quilt from the book and they are so fun and easy. Jan's directions and pictures were very easy to follow. This would be a great technique for a beginner since you don't have to worry so much about matching. The best thing about Jan's method is that the cutting part (which I hate) is much shorter since your pieces are all 4"-ish or 5"-ish and so on. Plus it's fun to just cut at wacky angles and it gives your quilts a quirky fun element. Great for quilts for kids.
I can't wait to make another quilt from the book.

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Summary: Prepare to cut loose!
Review: I saw Jan Mullen's booth at a quilt show and was bowled over by her quilts! Her combination of eye opening color and wacky style was a refreshing break from booth after booth of corner-matching, precision cut handiwork. I bought this book on the spot and made two quilt tops the following week! Mullen's instructions are incredibly clear and simple to follow, and though some designs are easier than others, her "stack and whack" method makes for quick piecing. Give it a try and let loose your "wicked wayz"!!!!!

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Summary: marching to a different drummer!!
Review: This book is a step off the beaten path. For those of you who want to do something DIFFERENT,fun & wimsical.Simple well illustrated instructions. Just can't keep from smiling when you see these quilts!

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Summary: Think outside the box
Review: This is a very good book. Her explanations are clear, and she goes step by step. You can see that if you could just think as creatively/out of the box/sideways as she does that you could make this stuff as easily as she does. I can't. So I am greatful to have something to refer to over and over as I try to make something that I really like, but can not begin to create on my own. If you need a little push to make something unusual and beautiful then this is a good book for you. I have made most of the blocks that she shows for practice so I can attest that they are all pretty easy...if you can just get your mind away from sewing 90 degree squares.

Buy it.