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This image was scanned from the Dianna May Martin personal library collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Foreword
- What Is Quilting?
- How is it Done?
- Choosing Material
- Uses for Quilting
- Quilts- Basic Techniques
- Quilting with a Sewing Machine
- Marking Out Patterns
- Mixing Techniques
- Sewing Patches Together
- Quilting- Further Uses, More Techniques
- Clothes and Accessories
- Around the House
- Applique Work
- Mending, patching and Adapting
- Learning from Primitive Peoples
- Patterns, Pictures, Imagination
- Motifs from Everyday Life
- High Days and Holy Days
- Dolls and Playthings
- Symbols and Signs
- Index
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Title: Advanced Quilting
Author/Designer: Elsie Svennas
Format/Publication Date: HC:1980
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, NY
Language: English
Page Count: 144
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 10 1/4" x 7 1/4"
ISBN: 0684166127
SUMMARY- Originally published in Swedish. I had opened it up to a random page just to get a gist of it before I bought it at my favorite used book store, and it happened to open on page 18. There was a photo of someone who had quilted winter boot prints on a white jersey that looked just like snow. It made me smile and I knew I didn't need to look any further - I had to buy it. Elsie is very playful and creative and I can see why getting this translated into English and published here was an absolute must. This may be my favorite book on quilting - I'm not kidding. It provides no patterns, just scads and scads of examples of what other people have done with quilting(mostly black-and-white with a few scattered color plates) and why it is such an essential part of the process. So, I came for the bootprints in the snow, but I stayed for the playful creativity she exhibited throughout the book. It certainly won't be everyone's cup of tea, and of course everything in it screams 1970s, but it will give you ideas and make you laugh at unexpected moments. Worth the trip.
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