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Review Date: 12/28/2011
This book was designed for the quilter who loves scrappy projects and there are plenty in this book with beautiful pictures to inspire you and easy enough instructions just exactly what you would expect from a Fons and Porter book.
Review Date: 1/9/2010
After checking this book out numerous times from the library I was able to snag a copy of my own. This is the best book I have seen explaining the different techniques to do hand and machine applique. It really does make it seem easy.
Review Date: 1/9/2010
Helpful Score: 1
Wonderful book with nice photographs of the projects but a lot of the blocks in this book are not for beginners. If you want to do blocks with a challenge this book is for you.
Review Date: 8/5/2012
Beautifully illustrated book with clear instructions and patterns.
Review Date: 4/21/2010
Not a book on learning how to construct baskets but a history of basketmakers in the Appalachian area. Loved reading the stories of the basketmakers and their different uses of the baskets.
Civil War Sewing Circle, The: Quilts and Sewing Accessories Inspired by the Era
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Review Date: 2/24/2012
Book is filled with inspiring stories of people who lived in that area.
Many of the projects in this book are for smaller projects like doll quilts but can easily be adapted for larger projects like bed quilts.
I have always loved the colors of fabrics used in the Civil War are and this book makes good use of those color. One of my favorite quilt books that I own.
Many of the projects in this book are for smaller projects like doll quilts but can easily be adapted for larger projects like bed quilts.
I have always loved the colors of fabrics used in the Civil War are and this book makes good use of those color. One of my favorite quilt books that I own.
Review Date: 1/8/2010
Really like this book. This book states it is geared for kids but I really do think it is a book that adults can enjoy equally as well. I also ordered How to Make Clay Character that is a little more advanced but still gives excellent instructions.
The Complete Guide to Quilting Techniques : Essential Techniques and Step-by-Step Projects for Making Beautiful Quilts
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Review Date: 4/21/2010
As a quilter I really do like this book. I think the illustrations are very detailed enough for any quilter new or old to learn the techniques illustrated in this book. I also own Fons and Porter's Quilter's Complete Guide and it's good too but think this book is even better with explaining things.
Review Date: 5/30/2011
I love just about all of Deeanne Gist's books but this was not one of them. I did not like it that she fell to temptation with an unsavory character. Did not like it that you have to read the sequel to find out if she ever finds true romance. All of her other books deserve five stars but not this one.
Dallas and the Spitfire: An Old Car, an Ex-Con, and an Unlikely Friendship
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Review Date: 1/14/2012
Dallas is a new Christian who has had a rough life. He has a prison record, several homemade tattoos and has a history with hard drugs. Ted is a 30 something man who has been in church all his life. Ted does what the church worldwide should be doing. He disciples this young man and develops an unlikely friendship while restoring an old car.
I only have a few criticisms of the book. Like someone else stated there are too many bookmarks which is a tiny bit distracting. Also, the author went off on a rabbit trail a couple of time. He devoted on whole page to the reason he loved the move "The Fighter". He spent too much time enumerating the six reasons he liked that movie. Also the book is a little too short. I think a little more time should have elapsed between the time he mentored Dallas to the time he wrote the book. I would love to know how Dallas was doing like five years after going to the fundie college. Was he able to maintain his Christian lifestyle? Did he meet the good Christian woman that would be his life mate? With a little tweaking I could easily see this book as a five star book.
I only have a few criticisms of the book. Like someone else stated there are too many bookmarks which is a tiny bit distracting. Also, the author went off on a rabbit trail a couple of time. He devoted on whole page to the reason he loved the move "The Fighter". He spent too much time enumerating the six reasons he liked that movie. Also the book is a little too short. I think a little more time should have elapsed between the time he mentored Dallas to the time he wrote the book. I would love to know how Dallas was doing like five years after going to the fundie college. Was he able to maintain his Christian lifestyle? Did he meet the good Christian woman that would be his life mate? With a little tweaking I could easily see this book as a five star book.
Review Date: 11/4/2008
Helpful Score: 5
This book is not supposed to be out until sometime in December but I had the privilege of reading an Advance Reader Copy. Suspense, thriller, and mystery books are my favorite genre to read. Some books do not capture you until you are well into one third of the book. Not so with a Brandilyn Collins book. This book was no exception. It captured me from the very first couple of chapters.
What I like about the characters that Brandilyn creates are that they are flawed characters that the average person can identify with. Kaitlan Sering is a 22 year old hairdresser who had just found out that she is pregnant. She has been dating her boyfriend, Craig for only three months. The problems arises when Kaitlan leaves work early only to find a dead body in her bed. Everything points to her boyfriend being the one who killed the woman. Kaitlan has no where to turn. She does not know who to trust. She can't go to the police. Her boyfriend's father is the chief of police. She turns to her grandfather for help. Her grandfather, Darrel Brooke, a well known mystery novel writer is known as the king of suspense. Due to an accident two years earlier Darrel had not been able to write the 100th novel. Also, Darrel does not trust his granddaughter. The last time he had seen her she was heavily into drugs. Slowly Darrel realizes that Kaitlan is trustworthy and is indeed in danger. He must come up with a plan to save her life.
I stayed up until way after midnight to finish this story. As in any good mystery novel there are twist in the storyline and this one has it. I am not going to say anymore since I do not want to ruin it for anybody wanting to read it.
What I like about the characters that Brandilyn creates are that they are flawed characters that the average person can identify with. Kaitlan Sering is a 22 year old hairdresser who had just found out that she is pregnant. She has been dating her boyfriend, Craig for only three months. The problems arises when Kaitlan leaves work early only to find a dead body in her bed. Everything points to her boyfriend being the one who killed the woman. Kaitlan has no where to turn. She does not know who to trust. She can't go to the police. Her boyfriend's father is the chief of police. She turns to her grandfather for help. Her grandfather, Darrel Brooke, a well known mystery novel writer is known as the king of suspense. Due to an accident two years earlier Darrel had not been able to write the 100th novel. Also, Darrel does not trust his granddaughter. The last time he had seen her she was heavily into drugs. Slowly Darrel realizes that Kaitlan is trustworthy and is indeed in danger. He must come up with a plan to save her life.
I stayed up until way after midnight to finish this story. As in any good mystery novel there are twist in the storyline and this one has it. I am not going to say anymore since I do not want to ruin it for anybody wanting to read it.
Review Date: 9/28/2011
Branilyn Collins has become one of my favorite suspense writers. In this book she grabs your attention in the first chapter. You are unable to put the book down until you have read the last page. Lots of twists in turns in this book.
Review Date: 7/11/2012
Helpful Score: 2
Lisa Newberry is experiencing extreme depression. She suffered several miscarriages, the tragic accidental death of her husband and then she suffered an attack. She was not mentally able to handle all these things that happened in her life so she agreed to become a test subject for an experimental chip to be implanted in her brain. The chip would eliminate all depression. She didn't know whether she would get the placebo or the real chip. At first life was grand for her. Depression all gone. Life couldn't get any better. She felt she had a new lease on life and could breathe again and then the nightmares began. Glimpses of a horrific murder would invade her thoughts. It was as if she were seeing the murder happening through her own eyes.
Brandilyn Collins is known for her seatbelt suspense novels and this one was no exception. This one kept me on edge the whole time. This novel had an Alfred Hitchcock flair to it. It kept me in suspense wanting to know what was going to happen next. I don't want to give too much of the plot away to spoil it for the reader but just to say you will not be disappointed. I did not see the ending happening the way it did.
Thanks to Netgalley and B&H Publishing group for providing me this book to review. No payment was received for this review. This book will be released October 2012.
Brandilyn Collins is known for her seatbelt suspense novels and this one was no exception. This one kept me on edge the whole time. This novel had an Alfred Hitchcock flair to it. It kept me in suspense wanting to know what was going to happen next. I don't want to give too much of the plot away to spoil it for the reader but just to say you will not be disappointed. I did not see the ending happening the way it did.
Thanks to Netgalley and B&H Publishing group for providing me this book to review. No payment was received for this review. This book will be released October 2012.
Review Date: 12/19/2009
This is an excellent book for the pre-teen or teen girls. It is alll about courtship and dating. Reading this book will help young girls make the right decision where boys and dating are concerned.
Review Date: 12/15/2011
I've just finished Fair is the Rose. I am anxiously awaiting the third book in the series to come to me via PBS. I have to find out if Leanna will ever find her everlasting happiness. Seems now Rose is happy at her sister's expense and I'm not liking her too much at this point. Maybe she will redeem herself in the third book but in this book all she thought of was herself.
Review Date: 8/25/2009
Wonderful photographs, nice projects
Review Date: 11/2/2010
Delightful book. Not just an ordinary quilt pattern book. In addition to wonderful quilt patterns in colors I like the book has a writings from the author's great, great grandmother's journal. Wonderful addition to the book. Loved reading the journal of the woman who lived in the 1800s.
Review Date: 7/10/2009
I saw this book in the quilt shop. It has some really cute projects in it. The little rabbit is just darling.
Review Date: 1/19/2010
You can make some cute little characters following the instructions in this book. For a more simplier version get her book Clay Characters for Kids.
Review Date: 11/27/2010
Helpful Score: 5
Good clean cozy mystery. The main character inherits her grandmother's home in Maine. Her grandmother was well known for her embroidery skills. She finds a piece in the attic that has people embroidered on it which was not typical of her grandmother's work but it is her grandmother's work. She works with others in the Maine community to find out who the mysterious lady in the embroidered work is.
I figured out from the beginning who the mysterious lady was but did not know the reason behind it until the end. Would have liked a little more action in book. This is a series of books called Annie's Attic. One thing that bothers me is that these books are not going to be written by the same person. That bothers me. When I start a series I want the series to be written by the same person.
I figured out from the beginning who the mysterious lady was but did not know the reason behind it until the end. Would have liked a little more action in book. This is a series of books called Annie's Attic. One thing that bothers me is that these books are not going to be written by the same person. That bothers me. When I start a series I want the series to be written by the same person.
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