Product Description

In their much-anticipated first book, the design duo behind Fig Tree Quilts unveils a collection of house-themed designs in their signature style. From city dwellings to country cottages, you're sure to find a quilted house that makes you feel right at home.

* Create 14 house-warming projects featuring pieced, appliquéd, and even embroidered houses

* Discover designs that depict romantic villas, hearty homesteads, family villas, and more

* Find an array of colorful quilts to coordinate with your home decor

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #706937 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
Home: San Leandro, California

Joanna Figueroa and Lisa Quan make up the popular design company known as Fig Tree Quilts. Together they have produced over 60 patterns, designed eight lines of fabric, and taught throughout the United States.

Customer Reviews

Build yourself a house
I have always LOVED quilts with houses on them --- all kinds of houses --- funky, cottage, or realistic --- they all call to me. FIG TREE QUILTS, Houses is a book that satisfies that calling.

With thirteen quilts and one purse project, I will be able to "build" houses to my hearts content. I could even make a whole city on one quilt by combining the patterns. Come to think of it, that idea would make a cute wall hanging!

The book begins with sixteen pages of basic information from fabric selection right on through to finishing techniques. Continuing in the theme of houses, the tips are shown in colored boxes and called "Schoolhouse" so they are easy to find and identify. Each project begins with an overview of how the pattern came to be and a color photo of the finished item. Next are a material and cutting list and piecing instructions have plenty of graphics to help you visualize the steps. Assembling and finishing information comes next and any templates you need are provided. The skills used to make these quilts are as varied as the quilts themselves. Appliqué, piecing, making strips to cut into blocks and embroidery are all used.

The last two pages of the book are bios of the authors. I always enjoy learning about how the authors became authors! This is a book I will share with our guild as we make quilts for Habitat for Humanity! What a great theme for a new house ---- a quilt with a house on it!

Easy designs beginners will find accessible and fun.
Jeanne Figueroa and Lisa Quan's FIG TREE QUILTS: HOUSES comes from the design team behind Fig Tree Quilts and packs in a gathering of house-themed designs: some 14 projects which display both pieced and appliqued houses. Full-page patterns accompany color photos and easy designs beginners will find accessible and fun.

a good book
I found in this book more than ona charming project, not so difficult to realize