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    Magic Add-a-Strip Quilts: Transform Simple Shapes into Dynamic Designs
    Magic Add-a-Strip Quilts: Transform Simple Shapes into Dynamic Designs
    Magic Add-a-Strip Quilts: Transform Simple Shapes into Dynamic Designs
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    Magic Add-a-Strip Quilts: Transform Simple Shapes into Dynamic Designs

    By Barbara H. Cline

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    Give simple quilt blocks a touch of magic—the add-a-strip way! Slice into basic shapes like squares, triangles, and diamonds. Then, piece in a 1˝ strip of contrasting fabric to create dozens of new designs! Quilters of all skill levels can piece geometric patterns that look complex thanks to this innovative technique. Each of the 10 quilt patterns comes with a second variation to inspire your color choices, plus great ideas for sashing, resizing blocks, and adding your personal touch.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781617455544
    Magic Add-a-Strip Quilts: Transform Simple Shapes into Dynamic Designs

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      Book preview

      Magic Add-a-Strip Quilts - Barbara H. Cline

      Publisher: Amy Marson

      Creative Director: Gailen Runge

      Editor: Lynn Koolish

      Technical Editors: Susan Nelsen and Debbie Rodgers

      Cover/Book Designer: April Mostek

      Production Coordinator: Tim Manibusan

      Production Editor: Alice Mace Nakanishi

      Illustrator: Kirstie L. Pettersen

      Photo Assistant: Mai Yong Vang

      Instructional photography by Diane Pedersen of C&T Publishing, Inc., unless otherwise noted

      Published by C&T Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549

      Acknowledgments

      To my husband, children, sisters, quilting friends, and students, who continue to inspire and challenge me in my quilting arena.

      To my sisters, sister-in-law, daughters, and daughter-in-law, who each made the project quilt variations.

      To all the quilters in my classes, for sharing their love and joy of quilting with me.

      And to everyone at C&T Publishing—Lynn Koolish, Susan Nelsen, Debbie Rodgers, Alice Mace Nakanishi, and Tim Manibusan.

      And thanks to RJR Fabrics and Northcott for their beautiful fabrics.

      The Family Sewing Retreat

      Each year my mother, six sisters, a sister-in-law, and some of the nieces get together for a weeklong sewing retreat. Living many miles apart does not keep us from getting together each year for this event. Our family’s sewing retreats have played a primary role in getting the next generation interested in sewing. We find a commonality in sewing and a community grows out of the interaction that occurs over the hum of sewing machines. These sewing retreats over the past eighteen years build family relationships as well. There can be anywhere from eleven to twenty-five people at a sewing retreat, it just depends on who can come and how many days they can attend.

      I love the interaction between the four generations. My daughters and daughter-in-law know my sisters in a unique way that would have never happened if this gathering did not exist.

      We bounce ideas back and forth as we sew. We have a large variety of talent to pull from: I may not know how to write but there is someone who can give me ideas for writing. The photographer in our group helps in photographing ideas for trimming and posting our pictures. The oil and watercolor painters help us fine-tune our color selections and help us understand why value is as important as color in quilt making. We all learn from each other and value each other. This not only happens in the quilting and sewing arena but it also happens in sharing our personal stories.

      I love to take a quilt that I am ready to quilt to these gatherings and get four or five of the ladies around the quilt to each come up with an idea of how they would quilt it. From the input of each quilter there are so many different ideas. Then after hearing all these ideas I pick and choose the quilting designs I like best.

      I decided in this book that I would love to have each of my sisters, sister-in-law, daughters, and daughter-in-law make a project from this book and add their own flair to it. They could change rotation, placement of the block, and could resize the block. They also could add sashing or spacer blocks between the blocks. So in the following pages you will find the creativity of what each of the women has made.

      INTRODUCTION

      One of the inspirations of this book came from a quilt my mother worked on at one of our family sewing retreats. This pattern is similar to that of Zig and Zag.

      She inserted a 1¼˝ black strip into a fabric square that she had sliced in half at an angle. After she sewed the strip into the square, she trimmed the block to make it into a square again. At some point, I realized that if she had added a 1˝ strip instead of a 1¼˝ strip, the block would not need to be trimmed down after she inserted the strip. After realizing this, I thought of all the blocks that

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