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This is the book for anyone interested in Seminole patchwork. I have two other books on the topic and have seen others at the library--THIS is the one to buy.

It's a reprint of the 1982 edition which has been out of print for some time. It's just $7.95 from I was born and raised in S. Florida and just adore the Seminole patchwork. This is the first book I've seen that's had something of an accurate history, too.

It's a nice little book that has all kinds of sewing-related images, quilt borders, the word QUILT in various fonts and stylings, little quilts flying pigs, thimbles and thread.

The nice part about this publisher is that you can order DISKS of all the clip art (a necessity if you don't own a scanner!) The clip art is available for MACs in pict form on 3.5" disks. It is also available for the IBM or clone, but you must call or write to them and give them your graphic requirements.

This book is the result of Liby's creative play and her approach to the process of color wash through a series of modules that seemed to simplify the whole idea for her.

I like this book because it is in black and white and, therefore, easier to separate values. There are also a lot of grids that you can copy and play around with your own designs.

Good collection of star quilts.

I like this book. She is well organized and gives you some good photos and directions. Haven't tried anything from it yet. (I got it from a closeout catalog for under $10. It's a good deal at that price. Not sure if I'd pay $20 for it though.)

Good book for making stars.

This is a Baltimore style quilt done in a blue design scheme. Each of the blocks in her design could be used to make a wonderful quilt of that block alone. However, the whole quilt is a stunner. It's the one that won first place for Innovative Applique, large quilt AND the Founders Award at the American International Quilt Show in Houston.

There is a whole (wonderful) book of bow tie quilts.

Another helpful book for anyone who wants to write on quilts.

SASHIKO FOR MACHINE SEWING
by Janet K. Rostocki
Summa Design

These designs are cleverly constructed so that they can be continuously sewn on the machine. Five classic designs are included and 8 new designs. They could all be handsewn if you wanted to do that. Each is given in two sizes.

One woman in my guild made a jacket in it and just raved about the book. She said it was totally lucid, thorough, etc.

This book has a nifty way to make Prairie Points from a strip of fabric. I've tried it for trim on a vest and it was very easy.

This book has 5 wonderful jacket patterns in it. In the book, she shows how to do 36 different things to put on a jacket. A few will look very familiar to most quilters such as a strip of flying geese, though making it without cutting any triangles may be a new technique. Some such as woven prairie points I had never seen or heard mentioned before, though I know we have mentioned the standard prairie points before.

I have a number of state-oriented quilt history books and this one, which focuses more on the quilts than the makers, I find to be outstanding.

Great instructional book on making watercolor quilts.

This book is expensive but worth it if you are a fabric collector. This book has some introductory discussion of the the production of types of textiles, and then the rest is color plates of examples from a collection that has over 5,000,000 "fabrics of the common man" - not the fancy brocades, etc., but paisleys, calicoes, leaves and foliage, conversationals, block prints, and on, and on - the kind of stuff that many of us in our quilts.

Most of its 461 pages are filled with excellent color pictures (1,823 illustrations in color) of fabrics we'd all like to have. Color reproduction is good and the pictures are large so that you can see the pattern detail. My only serious criticism of the book is that reproductions are not all full-size or even to the same scale. Page layout seems to have dictated the scale of reproduction, and on the same page there are illustrations at 50%, 68% and 70% full size, on other pages 27%, 100%, 120% and 150%. I suppose we should appreciate the indication of scale included for each sample.

Although the book is expensive, it is not overpriced for a large format art book with full-color illustrations on good quality paper. It has a sewn binding and is very sturdily put together.

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