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Drafting for the Creative Quilter: Easy Techniques for Designing Your Quilts, Your Way
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The master quilting teacher presents the ultimate reference guide for drafting your own quilt designs—including 3 projects to test your skills!
Quilt artist Sally Collins has helped countless quilters unleash their creative vision by sharing her vast knowledge of drafting. In this comprehensive guide, she offers detailed instructions on how to draft your own quilt blocks based on grids, circles, and various kinds of stars; how to design using mirrors, graph paper, pencil, and calculator; how to create your own variations of traditional blocks; and much more.
The three projects featured in this volume are presented in order of difficulty so you can test new skills as you learn. With Sally’s easy methods, you will gain the confidence you need to draft and design your own creative ideas.
Quilt artist Sally Collins has helped countless quilters unleash their creative vision by sharing her vast knowledge of drafting. In this comprehensive guide, she offers detailed instructions on how to draft your own quilt blocks based on grids, circles, and various kinds of stars; how to design using mirrors, graph paper, pencil, and calculator; how to create your own variations of traditional blocks; and much more.
The three projects featured in this volume are presented in order of difficulty so you can test new skills as you learn. With Sally’s easy methods, you will gain the confidence you need to draft and design your own creative ideas.
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Sally Collins
Sally Collins is the proud stepmother of two wonderful young women and set up her popular website StepmotherLove.com to share ideas, inspiration, and stories about one of the toughest gigs as a parent. Sally has eighteen years’ experience in the corporate sector, is a registered psychologist and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society. She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and their two young children.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Drafting for the Creative Quilter is a must-have reference book for any quilter, beginner or experienced. The book starts out with basics for beginning quilters and designers. As the book progresses, the blocks become more complicated and fun! Using a compass, protractor, calculator and other small supplies, Sally Collins directs you in designing hexagon boxes, winding way blocks, fan blocks, many star blocks, double wedding rings, off center log cabins and pineapple blocks. Don't worry about doing the math! Collins does this for you! Most of the blocks and quilts appear complicated-looking, but can be learned in this book! I have been looking for sampler quilt settings and this book even covers some of these settings. I heartily recommend this book for every quilter!
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