Big-Print Patchwork: Quilt Patterns for Large-Scale Prints
Large-scale prints, well, you just love them and have to have them, but when you get home the eternal conundrum is, 'what can I do with it, how will I use it and, oh dear, how can I possibly cut into it? Fear not, help is at hand. This is not a book about how to 'fudge or hide' a large-scale design, but a celebration of large-scale prints and how to combine them with other fabrics and use color to enhance rather than hide the theme fabric. There are examples of how to combine standard blocks such as Birds in the Air or Rail-Fence and how to create them in a size that spotlights your special fabric. This is an inspirational and thought-provoking read, so bring out the big-prints!--Fabrications Quilting For You, June/July 2013Sandy Turner's introductory paragraph contains a telling and interesting truth. She writes that she often overhears other quilters saying, 'I love the fabric, but what do I do with it?' I know that I do this and I can't be the only one. It is all too easy to fall for large-scale prints that just don't seem appropriate to use in many projects and they either end up being used as bag linings or left abandoned in a stash. This book offers a very good quilt-based alternative. Sandy cleverly mixes traditional blocks with fairly large areas of pictorial fabric and a little bit of broderie perse appliqué to create some stunning and yet very subtle large-print designs. This is a fantastically simple but very effective way of using up some of those why-did-I-buy-this fabrics and if you have such prints lurking in your stash I would thoroughly recommend this book.--Popular Patchwork Magazine, February 2014