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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • About this Book
  • Choosing Equipment
  • Choosing and Preparing Fabrics:
    • Selecting Patchwork Cottons
    • Special Fabrics
    • Preparing and Storing Fabrics
    • Dyeing Your Own Fabrics
    • Printing Your Own Fabrics
    • Your Photos on Fabric
    • Colour Confidence
    • Colour Creations in Practice
    • Tricks with Contrast
    • Prints and Patterns
  • Working With Quilt Patterns:
    • Using a Pattern
    • Designing with Traditional Blocks
    • Planning a Block Quilt Design
    • Style Genres
    • Quilting Inspirations
  • Cutting Skills:
    • Rotary cutting
    • Making Templates
    • Fussy Cutting and Kaleidoscope Effects
  • Patchwork Techniques:
    • Machine Patchwork
    • American Patchwork
    • Easy Blocks with Squares and Triangles
    • Improving Your Piecing Speed
    • Seminole and String Patchwork
    • Easy Triangles
    • Flying Geese Variations
    • Easy Foundation Piecing
    • Further Foundation Piecing
    • Puzzles and Weaves
    • Inset Seams and Mitres
    • Curved Seams and Inset Circles
    • Freehand Curves
    • English Paper Piecing - portable patchwork
    • Assembling the Quilt Top
    • Japanese Folded Patchwork
  • Applique and Embellishment Techniques:
    • Applique
    • Fused Applique
    • Freezer Paper Applique
    • Needleturn and Reverse Applique
    • Hawaiian Applique
    • Bias Strips Applique
    • Broderie Perse and Shadow Applique
    • Embellishments
    • Crazy Patchwork
    • Techniques for Textures
  • Wadding and Tacking:
    • Wadding
    • Making the Quilt Sandwich
  • Quilting Designs and Techniques:
    • The Quilting Pattern
    • Hand Quilting
    • Machine Quilting
    • Long-arm Machine Quilting
    • Quilt-as-You-Go
    • Sashiko and Kantha
    • Hand Quilting with Other Stitches
    • Corded Quilting and Trapunto
    • Big-stitch and Tying
  • Binding and Finishing:
    • Types of Edge Finishes
    • Applying Lapped Binding
    • Mitred and Curved Bindings
    • Turned, Wrapped and Faced Edges
    • Invisible-edge Finish
    • Labeling Your Quilt
  • Quilt Group Fun:
    • Groups and Projects
    • Making a Group Quilt
  • Shows and Exhibitions:
    • Your Quilt Group's Exhibition
    • Visiting and Large Show
    • Entering a Competitive Show
    • Preparing Your Exhibition Quilt
  • Care and Storage
  • Estimating Fabric Quantities and Maths Reference
  • Useful Addresses
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Credits

Title: Compendium of Quilting Techniques: 400 Tips, techniques and trade secrets for making quilts
Author/Designer: Susan Briscoe
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2009
Publisher: Search Press Ltd., Kent, UK
Language: English
Page Count: 160
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 1844484041

SUMMARY- Whenever I run across a book that dares to use the words "bible," "encyclopedia," or "compendium" in their title, my bar of expectation goes way way up. Do I expect the author(s) to include absolutely everything ever known about the subject in their book? Well, no, there may be good reasons why absolutely everything is not included(copyright considerations being one of the biggies). But I do expect the book to hit all the highways, with a handful of interesting lesser known cul-de-sacs thrown in to entertain the Sunday driver who's just out for a ride. This book did this, giving clear descriptions and visual aids, BUT if you want clear road signs to deepen your knowledge of an area, you'll have to find a different roadmap. There's no bibliography in this compendium. That drops an otherwise lovely book with lots of interesting eye candy from an A- to a C+. I want to know who the author is reading and who they feel is a good source for the techniques they've compiled. For anything labeled a "bible," "encyclopedia," or "compendium", I think that is absolutely required.

Your mileage may, of course, vary.