Hand Stitched Quilts, authored by Carolyn Forster published by Search Press
It has become a fashion within the arts to take things at a slower pace, enjoying the moment, smelling the roses as it were. Yet on a personal level, I had never before connected this “skill” of the pace with the technique of quilt making. Yet Forster has isolated this niche within her title.
Quilt at your pace, in your time and feel the connection of hand with growth, without the go-between of a machine, as it were.
This author is also an experienced teacher, so she has all the hands on experience required to tell us how it is. This is about not only learning a skill, its about learning a way of working, returning to the traditional ways and roots of patchwork and quilt making.
The techniques explained and taught within this book are described as ‘bitesized’, so the process and ways of working and seeing results are made easy to follow. We are encouraged to build our bed of skills, not all at once.
Learn everything, from how to cut pieces out of fabric without the formal use of templates and then get stuck into the actual making.
The concept of pattern blocks is explained, there are twenty seven of these to make, each with specific easy to work along with - so do not allow the terms to put you off!
Where will you start?