• This step-by-step visual guide teaches Ruth’s unique piecing techniques that virtually guarantee the ability to piece almost anything!
• Sew small pieces, curves, and inset patches with confidence once you learn to do them Ruth’s way
• Try the exercises and assemble your “practice” blocks into a sampler wallhanging
Have you ever wanted to create a masterpiece? Now you can! Piecing expert Ruth McDowell presents the most comprehensive guide to her freezer-paper piecing technique, which has proven successful for thousands of her students. Even adventurous beginners can follow this step-by-step, photographic guide to straight and curved pictorial piecing. There are complete instructions and full-size patterns for 2 small quilt projects.
Review Quilter's Newsletter Magazine - July 1, 2007
"Who among us hasn't stood in awe of the pictorial quilts made by Ruth McDowell? Here are step-by-step lessons in the freezer-paper-piecing technique Ruth uses to make them. She shows you everything you need to make the method work for you, including how to plan the order of assembly and manage curved piecing, Y seams, and inset patches. Full-size master patterns for practice blocks and two quilt projects, including the lovely Water Lily, are on a pull-out sheet. These lessons are intended for the quiltmaker who is proficient in basic block construction, not for the beginner or the impatient."
Review Quiltemagasinet - March 1, 2007
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Review Les Nouvelles - June 1, 2007
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Review American Quilt Retailer - July 1, 2007
"Takes fabric art to a higher level... She gives secrets to her techniques and encourages the fiber artist to ake it from there. It's a good book that can take something difficult and explain it to the masses."
Review Patchwork Gilde - February 1, 2007
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Review Patchwork ideen - May 1, 2007
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Review Quiltnieuws - September 1, 2007
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Review Australian Quilter's Companion - September 1, 2007
"A must-have guide to Ruth McDowell's method of machine piecing, enabling you to piece virtually anything, including small pieces, curves, inset patches and more. Learn how to make your design manageable."
