Quilting With Strips and Strings: With Complete Instructions for Making 46 Patchwork Quilts (Dover Needlework Series)

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Summary: A lot of information for a small price
Review: I am a beginning quilter, and often find the information in quilt books to make assumptions that I know how to figure yardage, etc.

This book gives 8 pages in the introduction explaining with illustrations various techniques and preferences in terms of equipment.

There are 3 chapters in this book. The first chapter is titled: Short Cuts to Short Strip Piecing. I found this chapterto be helpful, adding information not included in other tips & tricks books I've read. This has decreased my quilt making time on other projects.

Chapter 2: Striep Piecing to Form Log Cabin Designs. This chapter shows placement for many log cabin blocks, including flickering shadows, butterfly, sunshine & shadow, square with ring around, straight furrow, and streak of lightening, as well as non-square shaped versions.

Chapter 3: Making String Designs on a Shaped Base. Includes designs such as: Old fashioned string quilt, Amish shadowed square, Chevron, string pyramids, spider web, string star.

I have yet to make any of the quilts, but have used the text to help me in other quilts I have made. Currently, I am eagerly saving my scraps and strings from other quilts, in anticipation of making one of the quilts in this book.