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Paradise Flowers are easily drafted,
requiring no special artistic expertise for success. They can be used in a variety
of ways to create quilts of any size, depending on the level of commitment and
time. Any item can be easily assembling using basic sewing skills.
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Paradise Flowers
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This book takes the patchwork route. Designs can be geometric or, if you prefer they can be created with a softer, more realistic look. Instructions for piecing cover both styles or a combination. These flowers can also be worked very effectively using other techniques, such as quilting, fabric embellishment, stenciling, stained glass and trapunto. Several techniques can also be combined within the same item.
Paradise Flowers are easily drafted, requiring no special artistic expertise for success. They can be used in a variety of ways to create quilts of any size, depending on the level of commitment and time. Any item can be easily assembling using basic sewing skills.
| Introduction |
4 | The versatile equilateral triangle | 55 |
| Before We Start |
5 | Drafting equilateral triangles...the easy way | 60 |
| Planting the seed...planning the design |
7 | The 'Circle Slicer' ruler | 61 |
| Design Tips |
12 | Templates |
65 |
| Show and Tell | 17 | Trouble free piecing | 68 |
| Planting flowers within a block |
25 | Pressing the seams | 72 |
| Flower arranging...the wonderful possibilities of symmetry | 26 | Three dimensional flowers | 73 |
| A whole garden from just one block |
29 | Stained glass flowers | 74 |
| Delightful diagonals |
34 | Fast stained glass | 77 |
| Practice in using symmetry |
39 | Bias appliqué |
78 |
| Square blocks and other shapes | 40 | Duplicating patterns | 80 |
| Rectangles |
43 | Quilted and appliqué flowers | 81 |
| Playing with squares and rectangles |
44 | Trapunto |
82 |
| Show and tell | 45 | Stenciling |
84 |
| Spacer designs | 53 | Selective stenciling | 86 |
| Using hexagons |
54 | By the same author | 88 |
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