The Quilting Experience: A Celebration of Community and Patchwork Patterns - Hardcover

Findlay Wolfe, Victoria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764368079 ISBN 13: 9780764368073

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2024

Synopsis

Internationally renowned teacher Victoria Findlay Wolfe invites quilters to treasure their vibrant community while making blocks for an Experience Quilt. These complete instructions and patterns for 12 original quilt block designs, each representing a profound life theme such as "Friendship," "Aging," "Celebration," and "Grief," let readers create an Experience Quilt rich with their personal narrative. • 12 original block designs by Victoria each include clear instructions with multiple sizes and colorway variations. • Includes 11 additional projects--quilts and pillows--that your blocks can build. • Technique lessons and tips on, for example, efficient partial seam construction, to collage together blocks of various sizes beyond a basic grid layout. • Victoria Findlay Wolfe welcomes quilters to claim their place in the diverse community that includes many ages, backgrounds, skill levels, and life journeys. • With the power of a quilting bee conversation, thought-provoking, poignant, and amusing stories shared by diverse quilters illuminate each theme. • In Victoria's signature way, these designs appeal to historical-, traditional-, and modern-focused quilters alike. • A foreword by Meg Cox emphasizes how diversity among quilters offers strength to all.|Internationally renowned teacher Victoria Findlay Wolfe invites quilters to treasure their vibrant community while making blocks for an Experience Quilt|These complete instructions and patterns for 12 original quilt block designs, each representing a profound life theme such as "Friendship," "Aging," "Celebration," and "Grief," let readers create an Experience Quilt rich with their personal narrative. • 12 original block designs by Victoria each include clear instructions with multiple sizes and colorway variations. • Includes 11 additional projects--quilts and pillows--that your blocks can build. • Technique lessons and tips on, for example, efficient partial seam construction, to collage together blocks of various sizes beyond a basic grid layout. • Victoria Findlay Wolfe welcomes quilters to claim their place in the diverse community that includes many ages, backgrounds, skill levels, and life journeys. • With the power of a quilting bee conversation, thought-provoking, poignant, and amusing stories shared by diverse quilters illuminate each theme. • In Victoria's signature way, these designs appeal to historical-, traditional-, and modern-focused quilters alike. • A foreword by Meg Cox emphasizes how diversity among quilters offers strength to all.

About this title

About the Author

Award-winning quilter and artist Victoria Findlay Wolfe teaches and designs quilting patterns, templates, and other supplies at her quilt store vfwquilts.com. Her quilts are in museum collections worldwide. She has served on the board of the International Quilt Study Center and the Quilt Alliance. Her previous books include Double Wedding Rings: Traditions Made Modern. vfwquilts.com.<br /><br />Meg Cox is a journalist and book author. A writer for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years, she now is a thought leader on the topics of quilting and family traditions. megcox.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764368079
• ISBN 13: 9780764368073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240