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Summary: Simple Crafters Dream
Review: Finally, a quilt design book that is simple enough for a beginner to learn, yet challenging for the experienced. I had never paper pieced before I got this book, it was so easy to understand the instructions. I love the country style houses and trees. They really give the designs a down home feeling. The churches and cottage scenes remind me of the countryside where I grew up. I think that the authors did a great job of making the patterns in the book flexible to each person making the quilts. Each pattern block can be substituted in different projects, making each pillow or wallhanging yours personally. I recommend this book to anyone who has never paper pieced before and would like to learn.
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Summary: Great designs BUT............
Review: I enjoy the designs in this book a lot. These are some of the most original houses and cottages I have seen . I do, however, have one serious beef with this book. The patterns that require different sections to be joined are presented as one piece only. That means you have to make several copies of the whole unit to get the various pieces to put together. This may be a bit confusing to understand in print so I'll explain further . If you've read "Quilts with Style" magazine, you'll notice that the quilts/wallhangings have individual piece patterns for you to copy and begin piecing. This book has a format much different than that.I teach paper piecing and I know that it would be very confusing for non advanced piecers to know how to replicate the pieces. I believe "That Patchwork Place" was just trying to save more money on printing this book. They sacrificed ease of use to have less pages. If the patterns had been presented appropriately, I would have given it 5 stars.
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Summary: Great designs BUT............
Review: I enjoy the designs in this book a lot. These are some of the most original houses and cottages I have seen . I do, however, have one serious beef with this book. The patterns that require different sections to be joined are presented as one piece only. That means you have to make several copies of the whole unit to get the various pieces to put together. This may be a bit confusing to understand in print so I'll explain further . If you've read "Quilts with Style" magazine, you'll notice that the quilts/wallhangings have individual piece patterns for you to copy and begin piecing. This book has a format much different than that. I teach paper piecing and I know that it would be very confusing for non advanced piecers to know how to replicate the pieces. I believe "That Patchwork Place" was just trying to save more money on printing this book. They sacrificed ease of use to have less pages. If the patterns had been presented appropriately, I would have given it 5 stars.
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Summary: A *great* Canadian book :)
Review: I fully agree with the wonderful comments made by the other two reviewers. This is a magnificent book, and I very much enjoyed reading it and drooling over all of the projects (and there are a LOT of gorgeous color photos in this book). The only thing I didn't like about this book, was that the patterns had no seam allowances included. It's not hard to add the 1/4" s.a. to the one piece patterns, although it is an extra step that I don't think should be necessary. But consider the multi-piece patterns - having to cut the patterns into their separate pieces and then add the seam allowances to all parts ... NOT FUN!!! For example - the One-Room Schoolhouse pattern (on page 57) has 11 parts that need to be cut apart and have seam allowances added. I'd rather spend the time sewing than using my see-through ruler and pencil :)
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Summary: Best Paper-pieced book ever!
Review: This book clearly illustrates how to create the most beautiful, whimsical quilts quickly and easily. I am not an expert quilter, but people are amazed when they see the quilts I have created using this book. All projects are beautiful...I promise, you'll want to make every one of them! The possibilities are endless because all blocks are interchangable. If you want to look like you know what you are doing, buy this book!
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