Valerie Bothell is a long-time crazy quilting teacher and author who looks forward to every opportunity to share her love of crazy quilting. Follow her on valeriebothell.com
The book contains everything you need to get going...The inspiring
examples used throughout are vibrant and fun. This form of
creativity is very portable, so you will be able to work anywhere
and before you know it, your piece will take shape beautifully.
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If you want your crazy quilt projects to look their best you need
some innovative and eye-catching ways of decorating your seams.
This book contains 500 of them to inspire you to find time to do
some stitching every day. Of course, you don’t have to want
to decorate crazy quilt seams to delve into this book for some
beautiful stitch combinations. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to
those 500 patterns, but before you get to that there is a wealth of
other information for the hand embroiderer. This includes a section
showing most of the hand embroidery stitches you are likely to need
plus variations, many including beads and ribbon. Each stitch is
shown in several good-sized photographs with detailed captions for
a pretty foolproof result. I was impressed throughout the book on
the pretty color scheme of green, pink and purple and combined with
pale fabric each photograph shows the stitch very visibly. Before
this is a short section on basic crazy quilting methods plus other
useful tips, but the bulk of the book is devoted to those beautiful
seam decorations. These are arranged in stitch families, so you can
easily find what you want if you have a stitch in mind you want to
design your seam around. As well as old favorites such as back
stitch, lazy daisy and French knots there are stitches based around
beads, ribbons and even some embroidered motifs. For ease of use
each pattern has a list of stitches used underneath, and the
detailed index at the beginning ensures you can find what you want
quickly. Although all the stitches are shown in detail for
beginners it is the slightly more experienced embroiderer who will
get the most out of the combination stitch section. At the front
are two small photographs of crazy quilts, but apart from that no
other images of them are present which is a bit of a shame.
However, this book shows one aspect of hand embroidery very well
indeed, namely decorative seams.
*Rachel A Hyde*
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