Charm School
18 Quilts from 5" Squares: A Beginner's Guide
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“These cheery quilts demonstrate the versatility of charm squares and will inspire quilters to make use of these popular precuts.” —Library Journal
Mind your Ps and Qs . . . precuts and quilt blocks, that is! Popular designer Vanessa Goertzen puts charm squares to the test with 18 projects using precut 5” x 5” squares. Start with fresh, beginner-friendly patterns and build your skills to sew snowballs, stars, flying geese, and more. Using precuts from your stash or your own charms cut from scraps or yardage, you’ll learn tips to take the guesswork out of piecing. Modern and traditional quilters alike will fall in love with these quick, clever, and clean designs!
“This book will certainly appeal to any scrap lover! You can use precuts or ‘shop’ your stash to create your own collection of five inch blocks—it is a revelation to see the variety of patterns than can be made from this starting point . . . It truly is a book you would want to give a beginner, but the quilts are so lovely that even more experienced quilters will want to make them.” —Down Under Quilts
“An excellent way to begin quilting or to use charm packs.” —yarnsandfabrics.co.uk
“You’ll learn how to transform the simple squares into Snowballs, Stars, Flying Geese, and more. This book, featuring both traditional and modern patterns, is a must-have for precut collectors.” —American Patchwork & Quilting
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Shuck the heels and peel the hose: this is not your grandmother's charm school. Goertzen's title pun springs from "charm packs," a stack of 5" x 5" fabric squares used for quilting. Her "school" concerns quick and easy piecing for beginners and more experienced quilters. Goertzen, a pattern designer and founder of Lella Boutique, advises quilters to exploit charm packs, fat quarters (stacks of quarter-yard material), and scraps, and to customize charm packs. She focuses on the basics of beginning (selecting fabric, supplying tools, learning the language) over finishing touches (batting and basting). Mostly, she concentrates on the specifics of pattern assembly, organizing her patterns and projects by geometry: square, rectangle, corner triangles, half-square triangles, and quarter-square triangles. Her projects are accretive, and beginners can work up from the simple squares to the final chapter. Each project comes with a paragraph from Goertzen's life and includes tips and measurements, photographs, and illustrations, all encouraging and playful. Goertzen invites her charm school pupils "to work in pajamas or jeans!" Color photos.
