Whip Up Mini Quilts: Patterns and How-to for More Than 20 Contemporary Small Quilts - Hardcover

Ricketson, Kathreen

 
9780811868730: Whip Up Mini Quilts: Patterns and How-to for More Than 20 Contemporary Small Quilts

Synopsis

The little quilts in Whip Up Mini Quilts range from simple to more challenging, offering something for everyone. More than just a project book, Mini Quilts outlines the fundamentals of quilting, offers detailed direction on techniques, and provides step-by-step instructions, helpful how-to illustrations, and an artful approach to design basics. Best of all, this user-friendly format makes it a cinch to get started with 10 pattern sheets tucked in the pocket up front. You'll soon be whipping up mini quilts for every room and everyone!

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About the Author

Kathreen Ricketson (1971-2013) lived in Canberra, Australia, with her husband, two children, and various chooks and ducks. She spent her days alternating between running chaotically and calmly while mothering, making, and being. She loved fabric, crochet, books, cooking, camping, sewing, drawing, her children, and lots of other things besides.She started blogging in 2004, fresh out of art school with a couple of little kids in tow, before starting Whipup.net in 2006. During 2007 she wrote a regular ecocraft and ecolifestyle column for Treehugger.com, and in 2010 she wrote a semiregular craft column for Australia's Woman's Day magazine. In 2012 she began a regular column for Australian Quilters Companion magazine, and she used to be the designer at Art Monthly Australia magazine. More recently, she had been writing, editing, designing, and publishing an e-magazine for kids.Kathreen is the author of Whip Up Mini Quilts (Chronicle 2010) and Little Bits Quilting Bee (Chronicle 2011) and the editor of the Kids' Crafternoon series of books (Hardie Grant 2011). Kathreen died May 15, 2013. She was fulfilling a dream of traveling the country with her family.

From the Back Cover

Kathreen Ricketson, founder of the internationally popular Web site WhipUp.net, presents 20 contemporary quilts from across the globe in this charming, easy-to-follow guide. From the lovely English Garden Quilt to the playful Road Transport Pillow, the projects collected in Whip Up Mini Quilts cover all sorts of themes and looks. With plenty of step-by-step instructions and helpful how-to illustrations, this book showcases an artful approach to design basics while outlining the fundamentals of quilting techniques. Best of all, it all comes in a user-friendly format with lay-flat binding and pattern sheets tucked into the front pocket.

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