My first adventure into Strip Piecing, and it is soooo easy and fun! I picked up a copy of Strip-Pieced Quilts by Maaike Bakker, and just fell in love with all the quilts she had designed in the book. It just spoke to me! My husband wants me to make a quilt for us (I can not imagine why as I have made only about a dozen for ooddles of other people!) I had decided that I would make us a black and white quilt and then I found this book .... the quilt for us!This design she called "Optical Illusion" only one of the 13 quilts she has designed and gives you patterns for. One prerequisite that I have set for myself before I purchase a book is that I need to be interested in making a min. of 3 quilts from the book. There are 10 I would like to make from this book .... it was a definite must buy!
Her instructions are clear, and layed out well, the photographs are clear and her methods are well illustrated. So as the summer moves forth, I will continue to work on "my Optical Illusion" Time will tell how well it will turn out!
5 comments:
i think it's beautiful!
black and white is quite unusual for a quilt? well, i havn't seen it before!
i'm really loving the way it's coming along! and about time you made one for yourselves i think. :)
thanks kerstin, it is pretty cool when you stand back and look at it, I am excited to finish it!
Looking good, Pam...looking good...
I must add it to my list of quilts to do!
Interesting "camping trip" you had!
A busy time here in Thunder Bay...The Sleeping Giant says hi!
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Your quilts are looking great, Pamela! They are all unique and absolutely stunning.
One day, when things slow down a bit here, I'd love to make one, too.
Kerstin sent me a link to your blog and I really enjoy it, it's very interesting.
Thank you Ursula for your kind words, I enjoy visiting your blog also! I hope that in our futures we will be able to visit in person! Until then I will enjoy keeping in touch via blog, and learning more about where you live, yourself and Papa (I suddenly realize, I do not know your husbands name (p:.
Ursula,experience in my life says .... Slow down!? Hmmm, is that possiable??(<; But really would I really like that either? I take a moment here and a moment there, and doing a little of this and a little of that! Quilting is something you can squeeze in between work,supper and laundry on some days (<;
I hope you will visit often.
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