Description:
In Utility-Style Quilts for Everyday Living, renowned fabric and quilt designer Sharon Holland provides 12 well-illustrated projects for simple yet beautiful quilts, ranging from table runners to a queen-sized quilt. Each fast-pieced, stash-busting project is great for beginners, with skill-building design tips and suggestions throughout.
Brief description:
Sharon Holland's passions led her to design fabric for Art Gallery Fabrics. She created Quilt-it...today and Sew-it...today magazines, for which she is an editor, photographer and graphic designer. This is her first book.
Review Quotes:
Sharon Holland's passions led her to design fabric for Art Gallery Fabrics. She created the "Quilt-It-Today" and "Sew-It-Today" magazines, for which she has served as editor, photographer and graphic designer. In her debut book, "Utility-Style Quilts for Everyday Living" she aptly draws upon her years of experience and expertise to provide quilting enthusiasts with 12 well illustrated projects, ranging from table runners to a queen-sized quilt. Ideal for the novice beginner, "Utility-Style Quilts for Everyday Living" offers a wealth of skill-building design tips and suggestions throughout, and teaches each technique in an non-intimidating way with a focus on the quilt's ultimate use -- not on unattainable perfection Each individual fast-pieced project is great for beginners, with skill-building design tips and suggestions included throughout. The results are lovely patterns making a compellingly inspired reason to dig into any stash and make a quilt that will be used and loved for years to come. The quilts are inspired by timeless and well-loved block patterns and use surprising fabric and color choices to put a new, modern spin on tradition. Exceptionally well illustrated, written, organized and presented, "Utility-Style Quilts for Everyday Living" is unreservedly recommended for personal and community library Quilting instructional reference collections.
-- "Midwest Book Review"