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The cutting is easy, the play on color is a bit tougher to make the theme of the pattern pic examples. Discussions of value, color and printed fabric styles lend to insights on how to blend a fabric collection for variation and repetition, and includes. I dropped three quilts off to a friend to be quilted. Oct 09, 2012 judy turner and margaret rolfes successful scrap quilts from simple rectangles tells how to create scrap quilts with dozens of block designs based on the rectangle, and presents some fifteen patterns based on onepatch designs. The book has an amazing 24 projects just waiting to be explored. Buy the paperback book successful scrap quilts from simple rectangles by judy turner at indigo. I love making scrap quilts and its always a challenge to make sure that the quilt doesnt become boring. Successful scrap quilts from simple rectangles ebook. Oct 11, 2018 alert the media, theres a scrap quilt in my future. Elements of designscrap quilts and ugly duckling blocks week 27.
If you sew or quilt a lot, you inevitably have lots of unused scraps in some of your favorite fabrics. Successful scrap quilts is a great book for any beginner for several reasons. Piece and quilt with precuts is a skillbuilding book that will take you from scrap basket to finished quilt in no time. This valuepacked book features 101 inspiring quilt patterns in a wide array of colors and popular styles. This is just one of the many bags of scraps ive collected over my years of quilting.
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