Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN num: 9780929950037
ISBN number: 0929950038
Label: Me Publications
Manufacturer: Me Publications
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 64
Printing Date: 1990-07
Publishing house: Me Publications
Sale Popularity Level: 957790
Studio: Me Publications
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At one stage in my life I owned all of her books. Mostly gotten when I (also) paid good money to hear her talk. I haven't forgotten her lessons from many many years ago.
I also haven't forgotten that I came home after the talk and put together a (wonderful, if I do say so myself) quilt for my cousin the book collector with book fabric that I'd been afraid to cut up earlier. Instead of taking two weeks alone to pull the fabric, I got the top done, and the quilt pinned in one evening.
IIRC she repeats the idea of personal private seams in most everything, and that is certainly easier than learning everybody's version of the one thread short of a quarter inch seam. (even though there are times when you really need to know how to match your sewing to someone else's--or to do those quilts where you cut everything first, then sew it all together--I wouldn't want to do one--they usually involve a lot of waste--but some people are precise enough to do those and don't mind the waste.)
I expect that almost any basic block book would get you started. Jinny Beyer's, for instance, is great for teaching you how to look at a block and draft it in any size.
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I totally agree with the last reviewer. This book is an extension of "It's Okay if You Sit on My Quilt" book, which is, by far, my most favorite quilt book out there. The reason why I like this book so much is because Mary Ellen shows you how to look at blocks and patterns differently. Her creative approach and imagination is impressive. Her books, however, are not your average quilting books. You won't find an area about binding or quilting, or how to use a rotary cutter. I like the section about making stars without flying geese. Instead, you take rectangles and sew squares to the ends and then flip them open. This book is good for seasoned quilters who would like to see designs in a new way.
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I am very disappointed with this book, I have not gotten her "sitting on my quilt" book yet, and it seems that almost all of the quilts in this book are an extension of that book. I frequently don't know about what she is talking.. Hopefully, when I get her "sitting on my quilt" book, this book will make more sense to me...it can't stand by itself
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