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This image was scanned from the Dianna May Martin personal library collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- General Concepts
- Materials and Preparation
- Equipment
- Basic Skills
- GALLERY of Quilts
- Making the Quilts: Section I- Strips and Snowballs
- Warm-up Project: Snow Patch
- Rail Fence
- Double Irish Chain
- Cross-eyed Puss
- Around the Twist
- Section II- Bias Squares:
- Warm-up Project: Shoo-Fly
- Churn Dash
- Cake Stand
- Autumn Leaves
- Moonlight Regatta
- Tea Rose
- Little St Nick
- Freedom's Home
- Section III- Side-by-Side Triangles:
- Warm-up Project: Rolling Star
- Scrap Windmill
- Posie Pot
- Ohio Star
- Finishing Up
- Care of Miniatures
- Quilting Designs
- Bibliography
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Title: Small Talk
Editors: Donna Lynn Thomas
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1991
Publisher: That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA
Language: English
Page Count: 88
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0943574749
SUMMARY- You can browse through the gallery of miniature quilts in the center of the book and think "no big deal" - until you look at the size for each given. Most are less than a foot in either direction and they look like full-scale quilts. Some of the pieces are not more than 3/8" wide! She amused me by pointing out what mistakes she made on some of them. My untutored eye saw nothing seriously wrong with any of them. So what if the green was a little too strong in one of them, and the colors didn't contrast enough so the points bled into each other in another? They are still awe inspiring. This book is all about making VERY small quilts - you'll find working with 3" blocks after this ginormous. If you can work at this size, you can do anything! I can see why this is one of those must-have books if you're into mini-quilts.
This wasn't originally part of mom's collection. Mom was all about strip-piecing full size quilts and supplying the family over the years with these practical but beautiful quilts, and occasionally doing an art quilt when she wanted to try some new technique. I think she would have tried this, though, if she'd run across it, just to see if she could. She was like that. There's one quilter who makes a full-size quilt to give away, then makes a miniature quilt just like it in the same materials so that she has a record of the full-size quilt. I thought the idea both ingenious and cool.
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