Product Description

Find 20 all-new flower designs in this follow-up to the popular Fabulous Flowers, and watch your quilting bloom. With simple folding and stitching, you ll be growing gorgeous dimensional flowers in no time.

* Learn to make rosebuds, water lilies, marigolds, larkspurs, and more

* Personalize your flowers with beads, buttons, novelty yarns, and trims

* Make unique floral arrangements by combining different flower designs; the gallery will inspire your creativity

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #262788 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781564778192
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
A love of gardening and a passion for quilting inspired author Sharon K Baker to experiment with fabric to create realistic-looking flowers. This is her second book.

Customer Reviews

Detailed quilt making
This book will keep you busy for many, many days/nights to come. The flowers are fabulous to look at but at the same time they are very time consuming.

The book begins with an introduction to what dimensional flowers are all about, followed by a tools and supplies section to show you what you will need to create them. A 3-page basic quilting section is next and a 9-page section covers how to make the different flowers.

There are 20 projects that include flowers made from Prairie Points, made by ruching and made by strip-piecing. Each pattern shows a color photo of the finished project along with the finished size. A short paragraph about the project begins the pattern instructions. A materials list, making the quilt top, making the flowers and finishing the quilt are the sections that make up the whole pattern. There are some graphics to help explain the written instructions and full sized templates if needed.

There is a 3-page gallery of quilts made with these flowers and a page on where to find the resources. The final page is a two-paragraph bio about the author. If you are into detail, this is the right book for you.

Easy Techniques for Miniature Quilts
The 5 or 6 different techniques (prairie point flowers, rouched flowers, fused leaves, stuffed leaves / flowers) are fiarly straight forward and easily accomplished. Additional embellishment with fibers / beads is discussed and shown in the pictures - but not really demonstrated. I gave book 3 stars because I was expecting not only a greater number of techniques, but also because I was disappointed that the various rouching patterns shown at the front of the book were not then demonstrated in pictures later on in the book! Had that been clearly demonstrated (i.e. this rouching = this end result) then I would have rated it higher.

excelent directions, good pictures of the flowers
Ifine the directions good; they do not leave you guessing about what to do next, the book is attractive illustrated. But the projects are rather small. Howevery you can make them larger to suit yourself. The flowers can also be add to a picture quilt.