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Posted by Sally Swindells on October 27, 2007, 10:26 am
DS gave me an Amazon token for my birthday, and I think its time I spent
a bit of it!
I have been looking at actual quilting books, and have found these:
"Quilting Inside the Lines" by Pam Clarke
"Machine Quilting Solutions" by Christine Maraccini
"Quilting Possibilities, Freehand Filler Patterns" by Sue Patten
Unfortunately I am only able to look on Amazon, no quilt shop near who
stocks them, and the bookshop here doesn't know what quilting is, so can
anyone give their views on these - and recommend any others I should
look at.
I have the McTavishing book and Barbara Chainey's already. I really want
to know what to do when I have the quilt sandwiched up! I am inclinded
look at it for a long time and then take the easy way out and stitch in
ditch and diagonals, as the quilts I've done recently were gifts, but I
have some ready sandwiched which are staying here, so I want to try
something new on them. Just using Janome 6500. Want easy to do but looks
complicated!!!
I tried the 'look inside' facility for some of the books I looked at,
but some had the pictures removed (copyright? have people been copying
the pictures?)
Any other recommendations welcome - but I have to use the UK Amazon -
the token says so! I did think about the triangle book that's a bit like
Dear Jane, but that wasn't listed, nor is the birds applique one - not
that they are quilting - they were just where I started before I looked
at the quilting ones.
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Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin
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Posted by Patti on October 27, 2007, 12:11 pm
I have the Sue Patten book, Sally.
I like it a lot, though I haven't tried anything from it yet - I haven't
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finished anything since I got it >gg< The principles do look sensible.
Did you try looking inside the books on Amazon.com? I bought some CD's
recently from Amazon.co.uk, but used the 'listen' feature on Amazon.com
to listen first. Amazon.com might have better 'look' facilities, too??
I almost certainly got my book from Amazon.co.uk, as I don't think I
found it in a shop and I don't send for anything in the US.
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>DS gave me an Amazon token for my birthday, and I think its time I
>spent a bit of it!
>I have been looking at actual quilting books, and have found these:
>"Quilting Inside the Lines" by Pam Clarke
>"Machine Quilting Solutions" by Christine Maraccini
>"Quilting Possibilities, Freehand Filler Patterns" by Sue Patten
>Unfortunately I am only able to look on Amazon, no quilt shop near who
>stocks them, and the bookshop here doesn't know what quilting is, so
>can anyone give their views on these - and recommend any others I
>should look at.
>I have the McTavishing book and Barbara Chainey's already. I really
>want to know what to do when I have the quilt sandwiched up! I am
>inclinded look at it for a long time and then take the easy way out and
>stitch in ditch and diagonals, as the quilts I've done recently were
>gifts, but I have some ready sandwiched which are staying here, so I
>want to try something new on them. Just using Janome 6500. Want easy to
>do but looks complicated!!!
>I tried the 'look inside' facility for some of the books I looked at,
>but some had the pictures removed (copyright? have people been copying
>the pictures?)
>Any other recommendations welcome - but I have to use the UK Amazon -
>the token says so! I did think about the triangle book that's a bit
>like Dear Jane, but that wasn't listed, nor is the birds applique one -
>not that they are quilting - they were just where I started before I
>looked at the quilting ones.
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Best Regards
pat on the hill
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Posted by Sally Swindells on October 27, 2007, 2:19 pm
Yes I did look on the US site too, but only the Machine Quilting
Solutions had anything, and that was just the basics for machine
quilting, too small to read, and was really the bit at the beginning of
the book before you get to the stuff that makes the book different to
all the other quilting books. The contents list looked interesting .I
presume it costs to let people look inside, + the copyright issues, so
few do it.
Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin
Patti wrote:
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> I have the Sue Patten book, Sally.
> I like it a lot, though I haven't tried anything from it yet - I haven't
> finished anything since I got it >gg< The principles do look sensible.
> Did you try looking inside the books on Amazon.com? I bought some CD's
> recently from Amazon.co.uk, but used the 'listen' feature on Amazon.com
> to listen first. Amazon.com might have better 'look' facilities, too??
> I almost certainly got my book from Amazon.co.uk, as I don't think I
> found it in a shop and I don't send for anything in the US.
> .
>> DS gave me an Amazon token for my birthday, and I think its time I
>> spent a bit of it!
>> I have been looking at actual quilting books, and have found these:
>> "Quilting Inside the Lines" by Pam Clarke
>> "Machine Quilting Solutions" by Christine Maraccini
>> "Quilting Possibilities, Freehand Filler Patterns" by Sue Patten
>> Unfortunately I am only able to look on Amazon, no quilt shop near who
>> stocks them, and the bookshop here doesn't know what quilting is, so
>> can anyone give their views on these - and recommend any others I
>> should look at.
>> I have the McTavishing book and Barbara Chainey's already. I really
>> want to know what to do when I have the quilt sandwiched up! I am
>> inclinded look at it for a long time and then take the easy way out
>> and stitch in ditch and diagonals, as the quilts I've done recently
>> were gifts, but I have some ready sandwiched which are staying here,
>> so I want to try something new on them. Just using Janome 6500. Want
>> easy to do but looks complicated!!!
>> I tried the 'look inside' facility for some of the books I looked at,
>> but some had the pictures removed (copyright? have people been copying
>> the pictures?)
>> Any other recommendations welcome - but I have to use the UK Amazon -
>> the token says so! I did think about the triangle book that's a bit
>> like Dear Jane, but that wasn't listed, nor is the birds applique one
>> - not that they are quilting - they were just where I started before I
>> looked at the quilting ones.
>
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Posted by Anne Rogers on October 27, 2007, 12:43 pm
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> "Quilting Inside the Lines" by Pam Clarke
>
> "Machine Quilting Solutions" by Christine Maraccini
>
> "Quilting Possibilities, Freehand Filler Patterns" by Sue Patten
I don't have the first, I think I've seen it, but haven't looked at it
sufficiently to comment. I have the 2nd and it's highly recommended, she
gives so many different possibilities, including trapunto, they are
mostly freehand and she breaks down how you make each individual line.
The 3rd I also have and I don't recommend it at all, there are very very
few quilted examples, it's all line drawings and she doesn't actually
tell you how to do anything, or even mark the starting point, so you
have to find a point and trace your finger around the diagram to figure
out how you might do it, she builds everything up from about 4 basic
fillers, but without instructions how to do those that doesn't really
help. Mostly I don't even like her examples, there are 36 different
blocks, each quilted a few different ways, but they are mostly not very
common blocks. There are a few bonus patterns for sashing dotted through
the book, but no ideas how to combine them, compared to the 2nd book,
where there is lots of help on analysing the quilt top and pulling
patterns together as well as analysise of the purpose of the quilt and
what type of quilting is appropriate.
Cheers
Anne
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Posted by Sally Swindells on October 27, 2007, 8:41 pm
Thanks, the Maraccini is winning at the moment, sounds as though it will
hold my hand more.
My token was rather large so the others may tempt me, or......
Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin
Anne Rogers wrote:
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>
>> "Quilting Inside the Lines" by Pam Clarke
>> "Machine Quilting Solutions" by Christine Maraccini
>> "Quilting Possibilities, Freehand Filler Patterns" by Sue Patten
>
> I don't have the first, I think I've seen it, but haven't looked at it
> sufficiently to comment. I have the 2nd and it's highly recommended, she
> gives so many different possibilities, including trapunto, they are
> mostly freehand and she breaks down how you make each individual line.
> The 3rd I also have and I don't recommend it at all, there are very very
> few quilted examples, it's all line drawings and she doesn't actually
> tell you how to do anything, or even mark the starting point, so you
> have to find a point and trace your finger around the diagram to figure
> out how you might do it, she builds everything up from about 4 basic
> fillers, but without instructions how to do those that doesn't really
> help. Mostly I don't even like her examples, there are 36 different
> blocks, each quilted a few different ways, but they are mostly not very
> common blocks. There are a few bonus patterns for sashing dotted through
> the book, but no ideas how to combine them, compared to the 2nd book,
> where there is lots of help on analysing the quilt top and pulling
> patterns together as well as analysise of the purpose of the quilt and
> what type of quilting is appropriate.
>
> Cheers
> Anne
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