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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Acknowledgments
  • HOW WE GOT INTO QUILTMAKING:
    • The Patchwork Tradition
    • How Patchwork Designs Were Made
    • How Quilting Designs Were Made
    • How Patchwork and Quilting Patterns Were Passed Along
    • Contemporary Quilt Design
    • Sewing by Hand or Machine
  • HOW TO USE THIS BOOK:
    • Designing Patchwork
    • Coloring the Line Drawings
    • Transforming the Design Into Patchwork
    • The Size of the Project
    • The Difficulty of the Project
    • About the Size of the Pattern
    • Changing the Size of the Quilt
    • When to Add More Blocks
    • When to Alter the Scale
    • When to Add Borders
    • Making Templates
    • Templates for Machine Sewing
    • Templates for Hand Sewing
    • Calculating the Cutting
    • Choosing Fabric for Patchwork
    • Tracing and Cutting Pieces
    • Nonreversible Pieces(Mirror Images)
    • Sewing by Hand
    • Sewing by Machine
    • Pressing
    • Basting the Joints
    • Test-Basting a Lay-up
    • Assembly-Line Piecing
    • Marking on the Quilting Design
    • Piecing the Backing
    • Adding the Batting
    • Pieced Batting
    • About Frames and Hoops
    • Quilting Without a Frame
    • Quilting by Hand
    • Machine Quilting
    • Finishing the Edges
    • Binding
    • Self-Binding
    • Machine Finishing
    • Caring for the Quilt
  • THE DESIGNS:
    • King's Crown
    • Spinning Jenny
    • Cynthia Ann Dancing
    • Crow's Nest
    • Picket Fence
    • East to Eden
    • The Star Also Rises
    • Checkerboard Skew
    • Judy In Arabia
    • Katherine Wheels
    • America, america
    • Spiritus Mundi
    • Refractions
    • Pigeon Toes Medallion
    • Dragonfly
    • Flying Dutchman
    • Neighbors
    • The Forest for the Trees
    • Here Is the Steeple
    • Lightning
    • Yantra
    • Amber Waves
    • Road to Oklahoma City
    • Board Meeting
    • Wild Goose Chase
    • Kaleidoscope
    • Wedding Chain
  • OTHER KINDS OF QUILTS:
    • One-Patch Patterns
    • Hexagons and 60°-120° Diamonds
    • Piecing One-Patch Patterns
    • The 45°-135° Diamond
    • Log Cabin Patterns
    • Crazy Quilting
    • Applique
    • Swallows
    • Sewing Applique
    • Pictorial Quilts
    • How to Design a Quilting Pattern
    • How to Get the Design Onto the Top
  • Mail Order Resources for Quiltmakers
  • Bibliography
  • INDEX

Title: The Quilt Design Workbook
Author/Designer: Beth & Jeffrey Gutcheon
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1976
Publisher: The Alchemy Press, NY
Language: English
Page Count: 176
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0892560371

SUMMARY- You get neat diagrams of the designs you can photocopy and color in different ways - experiment before cutting up expensive fabric. You get an overview of different types of quilts and quilting - recall that this is 1976, and the quilt as art was just starting to gain acceptance. There's eye candy, but most of it is black-and-white photos with an occasional color plate with smaller pictures slipped in. I can easily see why this was on QNM(Quilter's Newsletter Magazine)'s 15th anniversary top 100 quilting books list. It must have blown people's minds back in the 1970's and for years after. They made a great team and brought different skills to the partnership that dovetailed nicely. There's a lot of information to unpack, and it is as relevant today as it was more than 40 years ago.

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