A good all around quilting book to have
handy with nice clear color photos and instructions.
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Better Homes and Gardens®
America's Heritage Quilts
©1991, ISBN 0696019051 Hardcover (also
in paperback)
320 pages including glossary and index
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I saw this book while doing inventory
at our community library and wanted a copy of my own. Good
instructions are given on "how to use this book" giving the
labeling of quilt patterns as to basic or challenging with those
in-between unlabeled. There are instructions for strip piecing,
nine-patch variation, Irish chain, appliqué, crazy-quilts, classic
log cabin sets including courthouse steps, to name a few, covering
quilt patterns from 1800-1991.
"We've assembled a collection of
70 quilts that exemplify the styles and techniques of quiltmaking
throughout America's history." --Patricia Wilens, editor
As a historical fiction genre reader,
and with a TBU ~*to-be-used*~ 100% cotton fabric yardage and scrap
collection for quilting, I was drawn to this book.
Quote from Beth Gutcheon: "No
matter how simple or traditional a pattern, the effect of a quilt is
still absolutely original because no two people handle fabric and
color the same way."
A "Quilter's Schoolhouse"
section in the back goes over general instructions for quiltmaking. I
found quite useful the section on "set variations" with and
without sashing, setting blocks straight or diagonal, using a
Sawtooth Star block in the illustrations. Since I love ***s, this was
interesting to me, and a section on borders.
The patterns have the finished quilt
size, materials needed, instructions for cutting the fabrics,
diagrams and piecing how-to for assembling the blocks and quilt top,
adding the borders, quilting and finishing, and binding.
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