The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quilting Illustrated, Second Edition | 
|  | | | Title: | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quilting Illustrated, Second Edition | | Author: | Laura Ehrlich | | Publisher: | Alpha | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 06 April, 2004 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1592572014 / 9781592572014 | | List Price: | $18.95 | | You Save: | $6.06 | | Amazon Price: | $12.89 | |
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Product Description
Ready, set...quilt!
Now with color photos!
Now in an illustrated format, this is the latest edition of the ever-popular original. Broad in scope, this guide is perfect for both beginners and pro quilters. And with new features, this edition will be on every quilter's wish list.
€ Includes loads of photographs and helpful line drawings
€ Exciting new patterns, plus a new 16-page color insert
€ Covers hand and machine quilting
€ Easy and comprehensive step-by-step directions
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Customer Reviews:
• Not For Idiots! 22 May, 2008
Complete Idiot's Guide to Quilting / 1-59257-201-4
I feel like I'm a pretty good candidate for anything directed at idiots, but this book... is not that helpful. I have quite a few second-hand quilting books and this one covers the quilting basics less thoroughly than most of my "regular" quilting books.
This was my first quilting book and it almost convinced me to give up the hobby before I started. The explanations are very confusing and only really make sense to me now, in retrospect, after having quilted for some time. The book also heavily emphasizes hand-quilting over machine-quilting, which I think is a little myopic. How many "beginning" quilters in this day and age have the time to commit to hand quilting? I would guess not too many - I hold a 40+ hour a week job, and I barely have time to machine piece. Along the same lines, most of the blocks and pieces presented here are not machine-quilting friendly and the book spends no time talking about common machine piecing techniques.
If you do want to hand-quilt, you still may be disappointed in this book. The instructions on binding are horrible (but I've yet to find a really good binding resource) and the batting instructions aren't too much better. In fact, a good portion of the book is taken up with color charts and explanations of why blue pairs better with yellow than with green. Fine.
I'm keeping this book, for the time being, for two reasons. First, the color inserts in the middle of the book are lovely and inspirational - and the author correctly introduces the reader to the Trip Around the World quilting book, a vastly superior resource for machine quilters. Secondly, the section on measurements and how long a bed quilt must be in order to fit standard bed sizes is relatively useful. Pick it up if you can find it for a dollar somewhere - but don't let this put you off of quilting if you are a beginner.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AK0CENM3LUM28
• Useful Information For Quilting 30 August, 2007
I thought the book was quite good. It was a great help with some of my questions but could have been more thorough on some of the sections. That being said I still think it was informative and would recommend for another beginner.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AEZWRLD5ZEJWR
• Not For Kindle Subscribers 03 March, 2008
This book is formatted in two sections, one for instructions with pictures referred to by color (Kindle is only in black and white making these references useless) and a second section for reference. The Kindle format requires the reader to read all of the main section of the book before getting to the reference section. I would love this book in traditional format, but find it "non-user friendly" in Kindle format.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2MYYO60BVEI0O
• Complete Idiot's Guide To Quilting. 27 June, 2008
I purchased this book from Amazon with a few doubts if is was really the book that I needed as a norvice to the world of quilting. Finally after received this book with many thanks to Amazon for delivering it to me safe and sound, YES !!!!!!!!!!!! it is just the book that I needed.
"Complete Idiot's guide to quilting" This book is great for a beginner and it gives us step by step insturctions how to get about it. Thank you for pbulishing such a wonderful book.
Chethinie
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3IZSHKMQ90XVA
• Not The Best Resource For Beginners 29 November, 2007
This was my first quilting book, and though I enjoyed the overall text and format of the book, I do not feel that it is a good resource for beginners. The instructions lavishly soft-ball such topics as color-combinations (crucial to quilting, but not THAT difficult for a beginner!) but zip far too quickly through the actual process of cutting, sewing, and quilting a quilt. The cut-out patterns do not make it clear whether or not the "extra" 1/4" seams are included in the pattern (they aren't) and there is simply no excuse for such sloppiness, especially when dealing with a beginner who wouldn't necessarily know better.
Also, the sewing machine section is terribly sparse. This was a disappointment to me, because I quilt with a machine, never by hand.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1PAYS46YUJK4W
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