I thought I'd share with you all a few if the lovely books I received this Christmas. The first book is Block Party, the modern quilting bee, by Alissa Haight Carlton and Lristen Lejnieks. I have read reviews about this book and Craftzine have a review with a free download project from the book. I love the idea of a quilting bee and this book is real inspiration, I know many reading this will have already taken part in virtual bee's and had enormous fun in the process. The book is laid out in 12 chapters of quilts - one for each month.
There are machine pieced quilts and my favourite quilt in the book is in part hand sewn hexagons (October by Rashisa Coleman-Hale). There is advice on selecting fabrics, colour combination, layout, quilt backs and quilting - machine and hand.
It is well written and has great photography, really inspiring, I am planning on making the hexagon quilt and August's Polka dots quilt (by Lisa Billings). There is also a section on how to hold a bee and also being a good bee member.
2 comments:
I have made a circles quilt, but long before this book was published! Great fun and a wonderful exercise in colour and shape. Quilts just seem to have an enduring appeal whenever they are designed....such fun!
Oh and there was me thinking I'd made up the name block party!!
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