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Spectacular Scraps: A Simple Approach to Stunning Quilts (Paperback)

by Judy Hooworth (Author), Margaret Rolfe (Author)
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A guide to creating scrap quilts from your discarded pieces of fabric, using four-patch blocks made of simple half-square triangles. It demonstrates how to sort your pieces of fabric into two colour families, make the blocks, then repeat, reverse and rotate the blocks for different design possibilities. The volume includes 15 step-by-step quilt projects all with easy-to-follow instructions.


About the Author

Judy Hooworth an art school graduate and former art teacher, is one of Australia's leading quiltmakers. She continues to teach quiltmaking throughout Australia, New Zealand and Germany. Margaret Rolfe helped found Canberra Quilters in 1980 and has gone on to not only make many quilts but also to reseach the history of quilts and quiltmaking. The result is a number of well respected books authored by Margaret Rolfe, the most recent being Australian Quilt Heritage.

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3.0 out of 5 stars good...but, Sep 29 2001
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This review is from: Spectacular Scraps: A Simple Approach to Stunning Quilts (Paperback)
I was eager to get this book, based on the customers reviews. The design principal (a 4 patch block consisting of half-square triangles) is very well presented, with good instructions to create 15 different quilts. The idea that this one block could be - if desired - arranged into 256 possibilities was startling. However, I found most the pictured quilts to be primarily dark, rather garish, and quite busy - thereby "loosing" the basic design. If you use just the quilt diagrams as inspiration, I think you might make some lovely quilts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for All Quilters, Jun 15 2001
By Sally J. Barber "feathersbarr" (Western Springs, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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Spectacular Scraps is a superb book for quilters of all ages and levels. The examples are beautiful and the directions clear, concise, and easy to follow. The technique described doesn't rely on fancy cutting or templates but on the careful use of color.

Many quilters, like myself, avoid triangles because the measuring of the 7/8th of an inch is such a nuisance. In Spectacular Scraps the only shape that is used is the half square triangle and since it is the only shape, you can cut strips, cut squares, and cut the squares in half without worrying about the dreaded 7/8th.

And the results are spectacular particularly with the advice from the authors on how to use color and fabric print to complete dazzling, bright, jewel like quilts. Beginners will like the ease with which they can create a quilt that appears complex. Advanced quilters will be fascinated by the possibilities in the use of color and by how quickly a top can be pieced. The biggest problem is deciding which of the many possibilities to choose for your design.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply brilliant, brilliantly simple, Jan 15 2001
By "rathgarr" (Australia) - See all my reviews
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To make a half-square triangle is within the reach of even the beginning quilter. To choose two colours will not detain you long. And then, with lots of fabrics in those two colours - and maybe a fabulous fabric for the border, though that's not essential - this book shows you just what fun you can have. I've watched new quilters pick up this book, and browse, and then pay attention. They're not trying to work out IF they want to make a quilt like this, but which pattern to try first. The instructions are clear, with both Margaret and Judy giving their individual preferences for various techniques. Experienced quilters will have just as much fun making their fabric stashes into simply brilliant quilts. Great Australian imaginative quiltmaking - a brilliantly simple approach to making quilts that sing, and come together quickly. My first quilt was in purples and yellows, but spectacularscrapitis has got hold of me; green and red are next....
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5.0 out of 5 stars great scrap book for half-square triangles
This book is based on 2 principles: half-square triangles and 2-color quilts. There are 256 ways to arrange 4 triangle blocks (4x4x4x4=256). The book diagrams all 256. Read more
Published on Jul 14 2000 by K. Yount

5.0 out of 5 stars A quilter from Texas
Great book! This lets you use up all those fat quarters you buy but don't know what to do with.
Published on Mar 28 2000 by Tracy

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