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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: How to Use this Book
- Designs for Quilting Terminology
- Tools Needed for Drawing and Marking Designs
- Making the Designs Fit
- CHAPTER 2: Straight Lines, Geometrics, and Triangles
- CHAPTER 3: Squares
- CHAPTER 4: Diagonals and Diamonds
- CHAPTER 5: From the Quilt Pattern
- CHAPTER 6: Circles
- CHAPTER 7: Ovals, Crescents, and Curves
- CHAPTER 8: Ropes and Cables
- CHAPTER 9: Hearts and Feathers
- CHAPTER 10: Representational, Naturalistic, and Combinations
- How to Use the Numerical Index of Designs for Quilting
- Guide to the Numerical Index of Designs for Quilting
- Numerical Index of Designs for Quilting
- INDEX
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- About the Author
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Title: Encyclopedia of Designs for Quilting
Author/Designer: Phyllis D. Miller
Format/Publication Date: HC:1996
Publisher: American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY
Language: English
Page Count: 198
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0891458875
SUMMARY- I am always hardest on books with "Compendium," "Dictionary," "Complete," and "Encyclopedia" in their titles. It passed the first test I always administer - I immediately flip to the back to see if there is a bibliography. This book does - one page, double columned, and an index. My next test is to go through and see if there are obvious gaps from what I know to be the body of knowledge on the subject. I found a couple(variations of stippling, trapunto, whole cloth), and my knowledge of the subject is by no means exhaustive, so we'll call that a B-. You do get a lot of designs in a relatively small book, with ideas on how to apply them. You do get color photos of examples of great quilting. Jenny Perry's "The Tangrams Step Out" on page 68 in particular made me smile. Overall a very useful book that largely fulfills the title's claim.
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