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Simple PiecingSpectacular Quilts
- One great technique, a variety of different looks!
- Learn To Use Value: Create glowing effects by choosing a range
of graduated fabrics.
- Super-easy piecing means fast quilt construction.
- Make it yours with pretty borders, separator bands, and other
creative variations.
About the Authors
Jane Hardy Miller was born in and mostly grew up in California,
where she attended college and law school. Her mother, a home economic
teacher, taught her to sew by hand and machine beginning at age
five. She made her first quilt in 1968, and for the following ten
years made about one per year, inventing techniques as she went
along. She practiced law briefly in Hawaii and California and then
moved to Miami in 1979, where she married, had two children, and
finally took a beginning quilting class. She has been working and
teaching in a local quilt shop since 1987.
Arlene Netten, designer of "Fabulous Florals," the inspiration
quilt design for this book, lives with her husband in Garden Valley,
Idaho, a small mountain town one hour north of Boise; a perfect
place to quilt, quilt, quilt! She immediately fell in love with
quilting when she began in 1994 and her Plumples Quilt Patterns
business soon followed. After a lifelong interest in sewing and
crafts, she has found that quilting embodies the best of all the
creative endeavors and, as a result, it has truly become her passion.
Her other passion is her grandson, Ryan, who gives her immeasurable
joy!
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments/Dedication |
4 |
| Introduction |
5 |
| Chapter One |
|
| Equipment |
6 |
| Anatomy of a French
Braid |
7 |
| Chapter Two |
|
| Fabric Selection |
8 |
| Braid-Run Fabrics |
8 |
| Accent Fabric |
10 |
| Triangle Fabrics |
10 |
| Separator-Band Fabrics |
12 |
| Border Fabrics |
12 |
| Chapter Three |
|
| Basic French Braid
Construction |
13 |
| Cutting the Braid-Run
Fabrics |
13 |
| Cutting the Starting
Triangles |
14 |
| Laying Out the Braid |
14 |
| Troubleshooting |
15 |
| Cutting the Accent
Fabric |
15 |
| Cutting the Ending
Triangles |
15 |
| Sewing the Braids |
16 |
| Trimming Braids Without
Separator Bands |
17 |
| Sewing Braids Together |
19 |
| Project 1:
Lucy's Leftover Watercolor Kit |
20 |
| Project 2:
Formal Affair |
22 |
| Chapter Four |
|
| Adding Basic Separator
Bands |
25 |
| Marking the Braids |
25 |
| Cutting the Separator
Bands |
26 |
| Getting It All Together |
26 |
| Project 3:
Cornucopia |
28 |
| Project 4:
Passion for Purple |
30 |
| Project 5:
Baby Braid |
32 |
| Chapter Five |
|
| Braid Variations |
34 |
| Center-Out French
Braids |
34 |
| Project 6:
Oriental Palms |
36 |
| End-In French Braids |
38 |
|
Project 7: It's Always Green in Miami
|
40 |
| Project 8: Thanks, Frank |
42 |
| Project 9: Mi Casa Es
Su Casa |
45 |
| Chapter Six |
|
| Adding Separator
Bank Variations |
49 |
| Simple Pieced Separator Bands |
49 |
| Project 10: Lava Lamp |
50 |
| French Braids as Separator Bands |
52 |
| Project 11:
Shadow City |
54 |
| Separators Using
Reverse Braid Order |
57 |
| Project 12:
Big Red |
58
|
| Separator Bands that
Align with the Braids |
61 |
| Reconstructed French
Braids as Separator Bands |
61 |
| Project 13:
Cafe Ole |
64 |
| Chevron Separator
Braids |
66 |
| Project 14:
Am I Blue? |
68 |
| Chapter Seven |
|
| Adjusting the
Size |
70 |
| Adjusting the Width |
70 |
| Adjusting the Length |
70 |
| Using the Tables |
70 |
| Chapter Eight |
|
| Finishing |
72 |
| Chapter Nine |
|
| Quilting Basics |
73 |
| Butted Borders |
73 |
| Backing |
73 |
| Batting |
73 |
| Layering |
73 |
| Basting |
73 |
| Binding |
74 |
| Appendix: Yardage
and Cutting Charts |
75 |
| About the Authors |
79 |
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