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This image was scanned from the Dianna May Martin personal library collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 20 Top Tips for Rotary Cutting
- Streamline Your Workspace
- Accuracy Guaranteed
- Rotary Cutting Unusual Shapes
- Speedy, Scrappy Nine Patch
- Building Your Strip-Piecing Skills
- Strip-Pieced Color Gradations
- Once Upon a Triangle Square
- Double-Stitched Triangle Squares
- Fun with Half-Rectangles
- Hassle-Free Foundation Piecing
- Foundations Plus! Combining Techniques
- Foundation Piecing: Beyond the Lines
- Free-Form Strip-Pieced Yardage
- Playing with String Piecing
- Clues for Cutting & Piecing
- Fast, Faux Mini Quilts
- Speedy BIG Quilts
- The Buddy System
- Rotary Cutting & Speed Piecing Glossary
- About the Writers
- Acknowledgments
- Resources
- INDEX
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Title: Rodale's Successful Quilting Library: Rotary Cutting & Speed Piecing
Editor: Sarah Sacks Dunn
Format/Publication Date: HC:2000
Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc., Emmaus, PA
Language: English
Page Count: 128
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 1579541925
SUMMARY- This book is right up my mom's alley. Mom's work was always beautifully precise and she Loved her rotary cutter. Mom never did applique - it was all patchwork. When I talked to my mom's quilting guild their faces would light up for a moment and they would say "I remember her!" Then their enthusiasm would die just a bit and they would look at each other and say "She was very prolific." I understand their awkwardness. It wasn't that they were remembering bad things about my mom and didn't want to say - they were trying to remember anything that stood out about my mom, and my mom was very determined that nothing ever should - except she couldn't hide her love of quilting or how much of it she did. It might take the average guild person a year(or more) to produce a work of art - and mom brought one(or two) to about every meeting. They were geometrically precise and colorful - mom wasn't afraid of colorful - and there were so very many of them. So that's what people remembered. I came by my method of learning a skill honestly - from my mom. When I want to learn a subject, I buy books on it. Not just one book, but every one I can lay my hands on. Every single one of them will tell me things the others didn't. I don't think you can have a very deep knowledge of any skill without that deep dive into the literature. Sure you can take classes and find a teacher - but you'll only get that class and that teacher's perspective and be limited by their personal knowledge. You can't call that teacher at 6am on Sunday, when it's your only time to sew, to ask a question that might make or break your project - but you can check the indexes of your library to see if someone has addressed your issue at some point. That's where wonderful sets like this one come in handy. Just saying...
WRITERS: Janet Armstrong-Wickell, Barbara j Eikmeier, Jane Hall, Dixie Haywood, Diane rode Schneck, Susan Stein, Beth Wheeler, Darra Duffy Williamson
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