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    Craft Workbook: Patchwork
    Craft Workbook: Patchwork
    Craft Workbook: Patchwork
    Ebook175 pages36 minutes

    Craft Workbook: Patchwork

    By Charlotte Gerlings

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    About this ebook

    These eBooks are designed with the absolute beginner in mind, as well as those who would welcome a refresher in these most popular needlecrafts. Each book includes two or three specific projects for readers to get stuck into, with straightforward instructions and large, clear illustrations. With a section on choosing the right equipment, glossary of terms and abbreviations and even a section on aftercare of your handmade products - as well as including both UK and US terminology - this is the perfect starter series that caters for all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcturus Publishing
    Release dateDec 2, 2013
    ISBN9781782128472
    Craft Workbook: Patchwork
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    Charlotte Gerlings

    Charlotte Gerlings was born in Reading, England into a home where her mother and grandmother were regularly occupied with dressmaking and stage costumes. She graduated in Publishing from Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes) and began work in London as a design assistant with a leading art publisher, before moving into trade publishing. She gained an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon School of Art and has written books on art history and crafts.

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    • 2/5
      Just another cheaply made introductory book on patchwork and quilting. No colour in it. Possibly a remake of a book of the 70s when colour printing was expensive. Not for today.

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    INTRODUCTION

    Patchwork is a craft for people of all ages. There is such a variety of shapes and designs to choose from that everyone should find something to suit their tastes and capabilities. Like other titles in the series, this book has been prepared with the beginner in mind, taking them through the methods and techniques in easy stages. However, it also features plenty of templates and patterns to inspire more experienced stitchers to try their hands, perhaps at a dazzling Mennonite star or delicate Hawaiian appliqué.

    You don’t have to make an entire quilt all at once. Piece together just one intricate block of patchwork and if you go no further, you have a unique cushion cover or a decorative panel for the side of a tote bag. Using scraps, young children can start on a simple cover for a doll’s bed or cheerful padded pan holders; the basic four- or nine-piece block makes an easy introduction for them. The terminology used throughout the book is UK-standard, together with the relevant US terms in square brackets [ ] to make this a practical guide for all readers.

    Although strongly associated now with North America, it was the ingenuity of European immigrants that laid the foundations of patchwork, quilting and appliqué there. As the incomers arrived and spread westwards, their expertise and patterns travelled along with them. The same diamond-pieced pattern named Ship’s Wheel in Massachusetts became Harvest Sun in the Midwest where there was no ocean but acre upon acre of cornfields. The most famous pattern of all, Log Cabin, says everything about the pioneering lifestyle of the early settlers.

    Making the most of scarce resources, warm bed covers were cleverly pieced and quilted in styles that were regularly handed down to younger generations of women by their mothers and grandmothers. The bridal quilt represented the peak of a young woman’s stitching skills, after she had spent so much of her girlhood perfecting them.

    As people grew more affluent, they bought manufactured items rather than making them at home. But this meant they could also buy brand new fabrics in larger quantities, and so quiltmaking – including hand stitching and appliqué – developed as a decorative art and spread back to Europe once again. The traditional designs with evocative names like Birds in the Air, Prairie Queen and Drunkard’s Path have been preserved to this day and continue to be worked expertly by enthusiastic quilters all over the world.

    PART ONE:

    EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS

    TEMPLATES

    Templates are used for cutting out multiple pattern pieces.

    Made from metal, plastic or card, templates may be bought readymade from needlecraft suppliers, or cut out carefully at home from graph paper stuck on to strong card or acetate. There are three types (arrows indicate fabric grain direction, see here):

    1Exact size and shape of the finished patch – use when cutting papers for hand sewing (see here ). No seam allowance, cut fabric with 6 mm [¼ in] extra all round.

    2Incorporates the shape and a 6 mm [¼ in] seam allowance – use when cutting fabric for machine sewing.

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