Happy Endings Author: Visit Amazon's Mimi Dietrich Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1564775003 | Format: EPUB
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Happy Endings: Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt teaches how to finish a quilt and is a recommendation for beginners and experienced quilters alike. New ideas cover quilt backings, battings, bindings and more, offering a new section on quilt borders and new creative ideas for finishing edges. Patterns, step-by-step color illustrations, and fun finishing techniques make for a fine collection of ideas perfect for any quilter who wants to produce polished borders and finishing touches.
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Midwest Book Review, August 2013 From the Inside Flap
Quiltmaking expert Mimi Dietrich shows dozens of creative ways to finish your quilts, from easy to advanced. Find great ideas for quilt backings, battings, bindings, and hanging sleeves.
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- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: That Patchwork Place; Revised edition (June 4, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1564775003
- ISBN-13: 978-1564775009
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Happy Endings: Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt / 978-1-56477-500-9
I am an avid quilter, although I would still describe myself as a "beginner", even after years of quilting and several successful queen sized quilts and wall hangings. There's just so much to learn, I don't think I'll ever be a "master". One thing I am never really comfortable with is the edgings and bindings, and I figured this book would be perfect for me. Unfortunately, after a lot of reading, a lot of thought, and a lot of agonizing, I just feel that this book fails to deliver.
There's some variety here, and everything you see on the cover is delivered in the book, with gorgeous color pictures showing the end product and slightly less useful sketches that are supposed to detail how to achieve the product - I say these sketches are less useful because they are very small and it is often difficult to tell what motion/action the author is trying to convey. I think more sketches, along the "this, then this, then this" would have conveyed the idea better. It's an extremely slender book - why didn't they just add a few more pages of sketches and explanations? Or at least cut back the admittedly beautiful "final product" pictures to make room for the "how to get there" explanations.
Back to the material, the author has a definite bias towards "thin" bindings - edges that are less than half an inch wide and look very modern. I tend to prefer wider edges for my large quilts, but the techniques are probably the same. There are also curvy specialty endings, and different bindings with prairie points. Since I still don't feel like an expert at the simple bindings, I was looking forward to a detailed description with a "Eureka!
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