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Summary: I'm having a lot of summer fun with this.....KATE
Review: A friend introduced me to Flower Pounding. We are having a great time with this. The authors give a lot of great tips on their website. They also state that your Flower Pounding works of art are dry-cleanable. This is great news! We have also tried color copying our poundings to transfer paper and having them ironed onto t-shirts. It worked great. Now they truly are washable. I don't see why you couldn't iron them onto a quilt block too. The possibilities are endless with this technique. Thanks to Amy and Ann for making my summer and my quilting a lot more interesting.
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Summary: I'm having a lot of summer fun with this.....KATE
Review: As someone who has taken a class based on this book's techniques (which I have to doubt Ms. Miller has done), I was taken aback by her silly review. First of all, there are a myriad of children's art projects which are unwashable. Watercolor paintings? Crayon drawings? Can you wash those? The point for children is in the DOING, not in the finished project, and kids LOVE this. Another of her points, that Alum rots fabric if not washed out, has no basis in fact. Had Ms. Miller done her research, she would know that Alum is a medium used in all fabrics made into garments, so that the fabric will take dye. Now let me give you the REAL skinny on this book, since I have actually (1) bought the book, (2) purchased the supplies, (3) taken a class, and (4) MADE A FLOWER POUNDED QUILT...Flower pounding opened me up to creativity I didn't think I had. Selecting blossoms, laying them out, matching others with them--it was a stretch for my mind, and a pleasant one. Not only that, but it was a stress reliever like you wouldn't believe. Nine women pounding out gorgeous art for 4 hours in the back classroom of a quilt shop was fabulous fun. I had the honor of being taught by one of the book's authors, Amy Sandrin. She was a spectacular teacher and a fun person to be around. I even got to see her son, Anthony's, skateboard quilt IN PERSON, and lo and behold, it's in fine shape and not rotted at all! :-) I understand that Ms. Miller is probably quite bitter that she didn't come up with this ingenious idea herself. I've often kicked myself and thought, "Why didn't I think of that?" But my envy is with respect for someone else's creativity and ingenuity, not based in jealousy that I didn't come up with the fabulous idea first. So, who's review are you going to think about more? Someone who's done the technique, met the author, and enjoyed the book, or someone who wished they had come up with the idea first? Believe me, you won't be disappointed in this book...and NEITHER will your kids.
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Summary: A Gorgeous Book!!!
Review: FLOWER POUNDING is a beautiful book of quilt projects that make you want to run right out to the craft store and start buying all the materials you need. The directions are precise and make it look easy to create lovely quilts using flowers. My biggest problem is trying to decide which of the gorgeous quilts to make first. What an outstanding job Ann Frischkorn and Amy Sandrin have done in creating this book! This is a quilting book I'd recommend to everyone, beginners and old pros.
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Summary: A Gorgeous Book!!!
Review: FLOWER POUNDING is a beautiful book of quilt projects that make you want to run right out to the craft store and start buying all the materials you need. The directions are precise and make it look easy to create lovely quilts using flowers. My biggest problem is trying to decide which of the gorgeous quilts to make first. What an outstanding job Ann Frischkorn and Amy Sandrin have done in creating this book! This is a quilting book I'd recommend to everyone, beginners and old pros.
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Summary: Fabulous book--absolutely beautiful
Review: Okay, I can see why kids would want to do this project, but my problem is the sentence "the finished project should never be immersed in water or dry cleaned because the richness of the colors will fade or bleed." Now, how do you reconcile a project for kids with a result that you cannot wash? Added to that, the prep for this is to soak the fabric in alum. I have it from an authority I trust that alum will rot the fabric if it is not rinsed out. Decide for yourself.
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Summary: Colors From Nature
Review: This is a beautiful book that belongs in every quilt makers library. I love this stuff. If you want some fun projects in your quilting endeavors, pick up this book. The instructions make this understandable and simple and the pictures are simply lovely to leaf through. These ladies have hit upon something--no pun intended. As to having children work on this--by all means! Kids love something active like this and will really appreciate the tangible results of their labor. I think the idea of this is simply amazing.
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Summary: Wonderful and artistic results from your garden!
Review: You may be wondering what in the world "Flower Pounding" is. Put simply, it is the process of transferring plant pigments to specially treated fabric via pounding with a hammer to create floral imagery reminiscent of water color painting. When I read through the book I was amazed at the beautiful projects within and wanted one for my very own. The book has a wonderful alphabetic index of common garden flowers in the back and all of the gallery photographs list the flowers used in the projects for reference which I found to be very helpful. Along with detailed visual instructions for every step of the process from fabric treatment through pounding to completion with outlining, there are numerous photographs in the book of scenes created by the authors, Ann Frischkorn and Amy Sandrin. They have also included instructions for nine projects complete with quilting how-tos and templates to get you started. And, lest you think that this a project limited to the spring flower season, there are examples using fall flowers as well as poinsettias. The authors glibly suggest that once you try flower pounding, you will never look at flowers the same. I must say that they are right in this assessment. Just the other day, I was at Costco and I eyeballed the fresh flower bouquets as I walked by. But, I was not thinking how pretty they were, no, I was wondering how they would look pounded! Try it and see if you don't start thinking the same way!
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Summary: Wonderful and artistic results from your garden!
Review: You may be wondering what in the world "Flower Pounding" is. Put simply, it is the process of transferring plant pigments to specially treated fabric via pounding with a hammer to create floral imagery reminiscent of water color painting. When I read through the book I was amazed at the beautiful projects within and wanted one for my very own. The book has a wonderful alphabetic index of common garden flowers in the back and all of the gallery photographs list the flowers used in the projects for reference which I found to be very helpful. Along with detailed visual instructions for every step of the process from fabric treatment through pounding to completion with outlining, there are numerous photographs in the book of scenes created by the authors, Ann Frischkorn and Amy Sandrin. They have also included instructions for nine projects complete with quilting how-tos and templates to get you started. And, lest you think that this a project limited to the spring flower season, there are examples using fall flowers as well as poinsettias. The authors glibly suggest that once you try flower pounding, you will never look at flowers the same. I must say that they are right in this assessment. Just the other day, I was at Costco and I eyeballed the fresh flower bouquets as I walked by. But, I was not thinking how pretty they were, no, I was wondering how they would look pounded! Try it and see if you don't start thinking the same way!
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