Creating Scrapbook Quilts
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Creating Scrapbook QuiltsBy Ami SimmsSuggested retail price $14.95 54 pages; 8.5" x 11" format 14 color pages Creating Scrapbook Quilts is the book that popularized photo-quilting. Learn how to stitch together any size photo-transfer to create spectacular one-of-a-kind quilts. Ami shows you how to select the best photographs, embellish them and stitch them together. A dozen gorgeous quilts are featured in full color, with detailed photographs. |
Unlike Ami's newer book, Fun Photo-Quilts & Crafts, there are no actual patterns given, just the "recipe" to create your heirloom quilt using any number of pictures you might have, no matter what their size or shape. Beginners who might want more direction and actual patterns should consider Fun Photo-Quilts & Crafts. For the best photo-transfers use Photos-To-Fabric® transfer paper.
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The Overview
Half the thrill of creating a scrapbook quilt is working without a pattern. This also accounts for three-quarters of the headaches if you're not used to doing it this way. The idea, basically, is to join photographs and other transferred images together by sashing them with 1 and 1/2" wide strips of fabric. The units will grow and change shape as you add to them. You'll audition images as you go. As the chunks of quilt become larger you'll want to think of how the whole quilt will fit together. Assembly will proceed more easily if there are several large panels of sashed images, in varying widths, that can be joined either vertically or horizontally.
Size, rather than color or subject matter, becomes the determining factor in
selecting which images get stitched together. (If I sew a strip of fabric to the
bottom of Uncle Harold, will he be as tall as Cousin Maude?)
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