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Stashbusters! :  Featuring the Controlled Scrappy Technique  - Sarah Maxwell

Stashbusters!

Featuring the Controlled Scrappy Technique

By: Sarah Maxwell, Delores Smith

Paperback | 1 March 2016

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9 Quilt Projects

Sarah Maxwell and Dolores Smith teach readers how to combine fabric from several different lines and styles to create unique "controlled scrappy" quilts that reflect the maker's personality. Dolores in particular loves working with wool, and her designs showcase her flair for applique and combining plaids with wools or cottons. The fun is in seeing how blocks emerge as you combine different prints, values, and even fabric styles, following the broad colour guidelines provided. Learn to combine many fabrics and utilize that one piece that seems out of place as the spark that sets off the entire quilt.

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A book of instructions for nine scrap quilts and some practical guidelines for combining lots of different fabrics to achieve a pleasing outcome. The projects are all based on classic patchwork patterns, mostly show in reproduction and muted colourwaysso this is a book for traditionalists, rather than those who make modern quilts. It's presented with clear instructions and lots of diagrams and photographs. Homespun, June 2016 We all have a stash to use up, but it ain't what you've got it's the way that you use it that matters. This book shows you how to use your stash with style. It is excellent on colour, putting fabrics together, creating scrappy blocks that look harmonious and providing great patterns for quilts that you will love making. There are 9 projects, giving a run down on the project, materials required, cutting and sewing instructions, assembly, templates where necessary and good photographs with great diagrams throughout. The projects are block-tastic. There are 7 quilts and one log cabin table runner, the latter uses felted wool, but you could adapt it to any fabric, and another runner in plaid wool. I would certainly make any of the quilts, and I would probably adapt the log cabin runner to quilt size too, great for winter nights. It's a beautiful book full of homely projects. yarnsandfabrics.co.uk, 8/6/16

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