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Clever Banners, Panels & Postcards

Author: Mary Mayne
Pages: 79
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4FF0250
Weight: 0.8lb

Back Cover Information

• Make whimsical gifts and decorative banners. Take the postcard craze to new levels with quilts and postcard creations!
• Fun-filled projects contain over 60 full-sized appliqué patterns plus a folk art alphabet to personalize your work.
• Step-by-step guide for sewing mini-panels into 8 delightful wall hangings
  Three Hens A-Laying, I Only Went Out For A Fat Quarter, Seaside Special, and more.
• Individually or collectively- these designs are sure to please!

About the Author

Mary started playing with patchwork shapes in the early 1960's, after seeing a friend making a quilt top with hexagons. Having made her own clothes since the age of 14, Mary had accumulated a few fabric scraps, along with her old dress patterns. She threw out the dress patterns and started playing with the fabrics. Her first attempt at patchwork was hilarious. She carefully cut out and prepared hundreds of "hexagonal" patches ready to sew together, only to find that they didn't fit as she expected. All of the pieces were, in fact, octagonal! Her next creation was a Log Cabin block, which she describes as " another interesting experiment." This didn't put Mary off, however, and she went on to teach herself the basics. By the early 1980's she was making bed quilts and drawing out her own designs.

Mary has gone on to design and make award-winning quilts and has taught her own designs all over England and Scotland, as well as Canada and the United States. She likes her workshops to be relaxed and enjoyable for her students. Her main aim is to promote quilting and, above all, to show it can be fun. She has worked on many commissioned pieces including two Millennium quilts, and work for Bletchley Park, the code-breaking center during the Second World War. One of Mary's winning quilts is now in The National Postal Museum. Her most recent commission was to make the Quilter's Guild of the British Isles LOGO QUILT.

Mary has lived in her home in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England for 46 years with her husband, Peter. He has supported her in every quilting adventure and encouraged her whenever she has had doubts. She has three children, Andrew, Daniel, and Vicky, and two granddaughters, Nell and Grace. Mary's two sisters- one, an identical twin-both take great interest in her career. Mary says that each day is an exciting challenge, some more than others, but she wouldn't change a thing in her life and enjoys every second.

Table of Contents

Instruction Page

Pattern page

Mini Quilts

Pieced, Appliqué, OR Embellished

Mini Quilts

Fat-Quarter Quilting
by Lori Smith

Innovative Miniature & Journal Quilts

Creative Quilting,
The Journal Quilt Project
by Karey Patterson Bresenhan, ED.

Mini Ideas for Embellished
Mini Quilts
Post Cards
Artist Trading Cards

Mixed Trading Cards, Postcards & Mini Quilts

Mini Ideas: Postcards & Banners

Mini Ideas: Postcards & Banners