Applique the Basics and Beyond: The Complete Guide to Successful Machine and Hand Techniques with Dozens of Designs to...

Features

• Cover Type: Spiral Bound with 144 pages
• Published by: Landauer Corporation June 16, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1890621064
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1890621063
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Product Description
In 144 easy-to-read, easy-to-understand pages with more than 550 full-color photographs and illustrations, teacher and designer Janet Pittman has created a stunning and comprehensive guide to applique techniqes, preparation, projects, patterns, stitching and embellishing.

Beginners will find everything they need to know to get started successfully. Experienced appliquers who want to improve their techniques will be inspired by the hundreds of photos, patterns for mixing and matching and personal tips.

Other features included notebooks--special reference sections throughout the book that highlight frequently used, essential how-to information, and machine and hand-embellishing ideas shown in clear photo detail.

About The Author
Janet has been designing quilts for twenty years. Her quilts have won several awards and have appeared in Love of Quilting, American Patchwork & Quilting and Country Marketplace magazines, and in the Landauer book, Best-Loved Designers: Quick-Sew Quilts.

Reader Reviews
If one were to buy only one book on applique techniques, this would be the one. This is by far the clearest explaination of the process. It covers all possible approaches to a project, hand to machine. The illustrations are fabulous. I finally get it--- and you probably should too, if you are at all interested in tackling any applique projects. The projects contained in the book have a nice simple modern look, and would be worth trying to get a feel for the process. After this good start the techniques can be applied to all sorts of designs, even ones so advanced as those in another amazing book Little Brown Bird, by Margaret Docherty, a master (or mistress) of hand applique. The only aspect of applique that is probably not covered fully enough is reverse applique. There is one page discussing this technique, however for a more complete discussion I would recommend Dutch Treat by Judy Garden. My final favorite applique book is Applique Inside the Lines by Carol Armstrong which combines applique outlined and highlighted with simple hand embroidery, however, many more techniques for embellishing with embroidery are covered in Pittmans book. She has done a magnificent job! So again--- This is the one!