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Quilted Memories: Celebrations of Life |
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More a vibrant parade of richly hued celebration quilts than a straightforward instructional guide, Mary Lou Weidman's Quilted Memories: Celebrations of Life seeks to inspire quilters and would-be quilters to "increase their creativity quotient." To this end Weidman offers a number of helpful pep talks on gaining artistic confidence, working in a supportive atmosphere, and finding life events to immortalize in fabric. She gives a very general nod to working with color, choosing backgrounds, and adding fun embellishments like buttons and lace. The nine "projects" are actually just pattern templates of finished quilts; no real instructional guidance is presented other than a very brief list of extremely basic directions. What makes the book a pleasure to peruse are the dozens of intensely colorful, joyfully primitive quilts that fill the pages, produced by both the author herself and her circle of talented quilters. These delightful creations not only mark events as important as birthdays, weddings, new babies, and official holidays, they also celebrate such seemingly inconsequential but no less quilt-worthy happy memories as a snowy family outing, an afternoon in Grandma's garden, or a sunny day at the beach. --Amy Handy
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