Quilting Books

This book is absolutely great. The double wedding ring pattern is the prettiest I'd ever seen. I'm working on my 2nd one. This is amoung my most prized quilt books.

This is my favorite quilt book! If you are a traditional quilter, you must have this book! Easy to follow instructions and wonderful vintage patterns! GREAT book!

The natural world has always been one of humanity's greatest inspirations. "Table Toppers: Celebrating the Great Outdoors" is a guide packed with great quilting ideas, inspired by the outdoor world. Taking patterns from plant life such as flowers and trees, and even drawing inspiration from outdoor activities such as ice skating, "Table Toppers" features almost twenty easily executed projects, one hundred and fifty patterns, and over a hundred full color photographs. A must for any quilter who loves the outside world, and recommended for community library needlecraft shelves.

This book is a keeper. It is so beautiful and has so many things to make. It is more than I expected and a must for anyone who does applique. The colors in the illustrations are so great, and the variety of things is wonderful. I highly recommend this one.

The book arrived very quickly and in perfect condition. Great customer service. I will buy from this vender in the future.

This book includes a great variety of patterns in various sizes--pillow, wall hanging and larger quilt sizes. There are also a great number of pictures and many have patterns in the back. I have not made any of the patterns in this book however I have made about 15-18 designs from other Poakalani books am still comfortable giving this book a great review. If you've read other books by Poakalani than you will be familiar with her background and techniques offered for this style of quilting. This book does go further into depth about Hawaiian quilting and shows a much wider variety of Hawaiian quilts/patterns than other Poakalani books--this book will add to your Hawaiian quilt pattern collection and knowledge/foundation. The patterns range from beginner level to advanced-intermediate. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys applique. I would love to see Poakalani or another Hawaiian quilt artist write a book about how to design my own Hawaiian quilt design.

Although being a novice at hand applique, this is truly a stuuning project. I made the smaller wall quilt version and have been deluged with compliments. I highly recommend this book. The patterns are complete, the pieces are easy to applique, even for a beginner. If you love hand applique and fine hand quilting, give this pattern a try.

This book not only has the large patterns for the applique, it also has the stencil designs for quilting.

Many beautiful quilting design patterns and easy to understand and do

This is her latest and greatest for the home machine quilter. I
had viewed this book from another quilter, and just knew I had to\have this one, so I bought 2 of them, one for myself, and one
for another quilter. The patterns are easily adapted for hand
quilting or machine quilting. Several seasonal patterns included

I am very happy with this book, it contained all the answers I had been looking for and will be well used. Everything I had hoped it would be.

Excellent resource for quilters who want to mix up their quilting patterns or transition from one area to another.

This book has wonderful pictures of completed quilts, good templates, and easy to follow instructions for some great old classics as well as some newer designs worth trying. Some truly charming and eye catching quilts. Great as reference for color coordination and basic quilting glossary.

This is by far my favorite quilting book. Time and time again I sit down and go through the beautiful colored pages admiring the wonderful quilts. There are several smaller projects such as wall hangings, pot holders, pillows and a table runner. This book has complete instructions with easy to follow diagrams for each project. The Table of Contents is beautifully organized and even has a small colored picture of each project which saves time when you have forgotten the name of the pattern you are looking for. In the back of the book the General Instructions has information helpful for the novice (like me) or for the experienced quilter (like my sister) who recommended this book to me.

If you have any interest in learning new ways to make your quilts interesting and original, this is the book for you. It gives clear, full-color directions on techniques like skewed piecing, super-easy Drunkard's Path blocks, jigsaw piecing, and curved piecing done several ways (with templates, with rotary-cut gentle curves, with topstitching, and sharp curves with register marks.) It is great to use with batiks and hand-dyes, or with your more unusual prints. I can hardly wait to get started!

Made big points getting this for the wife as a Valentine's Day gift. Her girlfriends were impressed.

If you can find this book, buy it! You'll get helpful information about knots, marking quilt tops,needles, and the correct way to finish a quilt.

I found this book by far the best description of the whole process of constructing a quilt I have ever used. It covers the process from choosing a pattern, batt, material and thread, through the preparation for quilting, to the quality of the stitching and the finishing. If you buy only one book on how to actually make a quilt, buy this one.

If you were afraid to try to cross stitch before, this is the book for you. A wonderful book to get you started. Everything is covered-how to begin-how to end- and what to do in between. The only beginners book you will need.

This book offers many tips and hints on how to make your work neater and correct ways for stitching. It also has color pictures and directions which are easy to follow. Some of the projects offered in this book are needle case (which I'm working on now), bookmark (I plan to make this after the case), sampler, sachet bag, etc. I found this book well worth the money!