This is a book for grownup quilters. It’s a book for the many accomplished quilters who are not looking for yet another project book with pages of detailed elementary instructions on how to make someone else’s quilt. Rather, it’s intended for quilters who are seeking ideas and inspiration for their own work. In my quilt related travels, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many such veteran quilters. This book was also developed to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of my Beaver Island Quilt Retreats (BIQR). Quilters who come to these retreats come with the expectation that they will be provided with an abundance of ideas which will help them design their own original work. The new works in this book were made specifically to provide ideas and inspiration to support the 2008 BIQR theme of making abstract quilts in solids.
Not enough content for the price! Amazon price at this time is $21.79. 8.2 inches by 8.2 inches and only 68 pages!! (This count includes the flyleaves.) Feels like a children’s book, or a pretty class handout for a week-long class. Each quilt appears in two photos on facing pages–one is a detail, not very close up, but about the same size, which doesn’t really add information–so we could have seen twice as many quilts! The brief text is anecdotal, contributing not much more than the pure pictorial. The attractive quilts are…
More great ideas from Gwen Marston This is, as Gwen points out in the introduction, a book for adult quilters. There are no instructions, just beautiful photographs of quilts. Many are made by Gwen and she mentions the things and quilts that inspired her. Not many people quilt with solid colors anymore, so it is a real treat to see how beautiful and striking these colors can be. You will not be disappointed in this book, it is a dazzler! It has been printed on high quality paper which really allows the reader to…