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Title: Scrap Quilts: The Art of Making Do by Roberta Horton, Liz Aneloski ISBN: 1-57120-047-9 Publisher: C & T Pub Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: recommended by the accidental quilter
Comment: Roberta Horton is a national treasure. I have never met her or had her for a class, but I have learned as much about quilts and constructing folk art quilts from her books as I have with many terrific courses with big name quilters. Scrap Quilts is a workshop in a book! There are no patterns--she makes you create your own paper appliques in a chapter near the end of the book.
She also has a chapter of pieced block diagrams that work well with scrap quilts. She does not waste your time printing templates of classic blocks that you already have in other books.
Also--you can glance at the diagrams and rotary cut the pieces to
whatever size you want--so you are not locked in to a certain size block. The color plates of the the scrap quilt examples are awesome. (So are the photos of Roberta's toy sewing machine collection in the sidebars-- a bonus for all you tiny stitchers!) Roberta has taken her evaluation of the scrap quilt process a step further than Gwen Marston in Liberated Quiltmaking (which is also an awesome primer on creative scrap quilts.)Gwen focuses on the process--but Roberta focuses on how to manipulate
color and design to enhance the process. She also shows you how to add freeform applique to pieced quilts and still retain the scrap quilt flavor. There is always attention to value, color, and fabric so that your quilt will end up a piece of original art
and not an imitation of someone else's work.
If you see your quilts as identical blocks of classic patterns--this book will confuse you. If you hunger to quilt your
life--this book will help you immensely.
For instance, Roberta has a picture of a quilt about her Singer Featherweight. She loves that featherweight and it shows in the quilt. It inspired me. I spent most of last night on my EQ designing a wall quilt for my Elna Grasshopper. I love it--but it
has a totally different personality than Roberta's featherweight.
My quilt will be very different--but she has several ideas that I will probably borrow. (such as the plaid background around the machine.) Also, her idea about using old sets of scrap blocks for a border has got me thinking and looking. I want to call my quilt
"Grasshopper in the fabric stash" surrounding an applique center block with scrap rail fence fabric--but I may audition some scrap
pinwheels that I pieced at random in Gwen Marston's suprise quilt class.
That's one of the things I love about Roberta's books. She gives me lessons that fit in perfectly with the classes I've had with
Gwen Marston, Joen Wolfron, and Margaret Miller. I can take projects I've started in their classes and incorporate them into
something she's pushed me to dream up.
A great book--don't miss it!
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Rating: 4
Summary: A Motivational Book About Quilts/Fabric/Style
Comment: This is the second book by Roberta Horton I have bought. I realize now that she is a teacher...her goal is to motivate us to be as creative as we allow ourselves to be, then push us just a little more. This is a wonderful book about using colors/prints/stripes together in projects that don't "stay between the lines" so to speak. Learned about creating interest and movement in quilts by her wonderful explainations and examples. I do prefer the traditional color-coordinated repeat block quilts, BUT NOW, I know that the scrap quilts and quilts that may not have caught my eye in the past certainly will now, because I have an understanding of the work the creator put into the project. There are block patterns in this book but as far as step-by-step for creating specific quilts...no. She gives you information, examples, some how to's (applique, drafting blocks, cutting out applique patterns, etc) and lots of good info on how to let yourself go in creating a real work of art. If you feel like you have become stagnant in your quiltmaking, buy this book and enjoy the creativity it sparks in your mind while you read it through. A nice addition to a quilter's library!
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite quilt book
Comment: Although I have a fair collection of quilting books, and I keep buying new ones, this book is my favorite. Roberta Horton encourages her readers to be adventurous. She gives a really good treatment of ways to combine fabrics to make a quilt that looks inviting and interesting. She especially likes directionals, and she likes them slightly off-grain.
There are some wonderful color pictures and a wide variety of color combinations. The last part of the book invites readers to create picture quilts.
All in all, this book makes me feel like I can create a quilt and enjoy what I create.
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Title: An Amish Adventure: A Workbook for Color in Quilts by Roberta Horton, Elizabeth Aneloski, Micaela M. Carr ISBN: 1571200053 Publisher: C & T Pub Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Fabric Makes the Quilt by Roberta Horton ISBN: 0914881981 Publisher: C & T Pub Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!! : The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking by Diana McClun, Laura Nownes ISBN: 0844226173 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Quick and Easy Scrap Quilts (For the Love of Quilting) by Patricia Wilens, Leisure Arts, Oxmoor House ISBN: 0848714628 Publisher: Oxmoor House Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Quilter's Legacy : An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini ISBN: 0743236130 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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