Rotary Heirloom Quilts by Nancy Brenan Daniel
Armed with your favorite fabrics and the skills to use rotary tools, create more than a dozen stunning quilts in sizes from wallhangings to bed quilts. A blend of traditional templates and rotary techniques offer elegant new and treasured old designs to use, make quickly, and display or give away with pride. Enjoy old favorites like Bear's Paw, Delectable Mountains, Tessellating Stars, and many more traditional patterns in new quilt designs. Laid out in an easy to use format, this volume shows at a glance what is needed to make more than a dozen beautiful quilts. Each project also includes information for recreating the same quilt by using scraps. Tips on using value, color, and contrast to advantage will help elevate your quilts to treasured status. AUTHORBIO: Nancy Brenan Daniel has enjoyed quiltmaking all of her adult life. She learned to love and appreciate quilts from her grandmother, Mary Talkington Ritzenthaler, who encouraged her to play with fabrics and quilts at a very young age. In turn, Nancy has also encouraged her mother, Mary Ritzenthaler Brenan, to complete two quilts of her own. Nancy has been an art educator for more than 30 years, teaching art history, color, and design. REVIEW: Fosters a technique which shows how to partner pieces to achieve movement characteristics. From a contrasting fabrics and adjusting placement strategies to producing a dancing quilt from original ideas, this uses twelve sample projects to introduce to concept and its many variations. -The Midwest Book Review, 'The Bookwatch' August 2003
- ISBN: 157432800x
- USED: Very Good Condition
- American Quilter's Society
- Copyright 2002
- Softcover
- 96 pages