Complete Guide to Quilting Author:Audrey Heard, Beverly Pryor This how-to-do-it book is written with wit and intellignce and a thorough knowledge of the ins and outs of quilt making. In it, the reader is taken step-by-step through the intricacies of quilt making from the simplest joining of pieced patchwork to the most elaborate of Hawaiian appliqué. Emphasis is placed on learning the techniques in ... more »order to use them for original creativity.
Special sections on Amish quilts and Hawaiian appliqué give the reader new fields to explore. Patterns and quilt diagrams are included as well as a section on creating original quilts. How to make many other useful and decorative objects -- skirts and other articles of clothing, pillows and pillowcases, upholstery and table linens, and ornaments -- is clearly described.
Hundreds of line drawings and color plates make the book a delight to use. Exceptional old quilts are shown, as well as many original designs that were made especially for this book by the highly skilled "quilting ladies" of Mystic, Connecticut.
Both the quilter and the nonsewer who is interested in quilts historically or as an art form will find this book a joy to have.« less