Jinny Beyer (3)Críticas

I have had many quilt books, but nothing surpasses this amazing encyclopedia. I love browsing the pages (a kind of therapy, I think) and let my imagination run wild. Not everyone wishes to be free-range. These days I browse it for blocks that would work into terrific scrap quilts. This is what it says, an encyclopedia of block patterns, no directions.

It really didn't take me more than a month or two to read this book--I just never wrote down the end date. I recently picked it up again and reread the final section.

This book is all anyone needs to read: It takes one through choosing the design, fabric choices, colors, cutting, piecing, arranging, sandwiching, binding, and care of the finished project.

Beyer used to have a quilt shop in Northern Virginia, but she has evidently sold it. She also used to manufacturing template aids for cutting, but although one can find pictures of them on (even on Amazon), no one seems to sell them any longer.

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Juanita Neilands

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Juanita Neilands

The only book you'll need if you want to make quilts by hand - and after leafing through this, you will WANT to make a quilt by hand! Perfect points, beautifully matched seams...what more could you want? This tome explains how to go about all aspects of putting together a quilt, how to choose and care for fabrics, how to draft your own patterns and how to piece perfectly every time. Written by the master of hand quilting, you will only really need this and maybe her book of block designs if you struggle to design your own, and you're set. Now go make a quilt!

Fantastic book for artists wishing to understand and create repeat patterns or tilings. Explains symmetry groups and systems of notation as well. Also beautiful full color images of many quilts. Too bad it's out of print, but available used.

may seem limited to Jinny Beyer style paisley border prints, but other fabrics may be used to add curves and interest to more advanced patchwork blocks. Good traditional design ideas- for advanced quilters

When knitting ceased to be my avocation and became my vocation, I decided quilting might help me to relax. A very knowledgeable friend (who is, in fact, a quilting professional) said that since I wanted to hand-piece, this was the one book I must have. I am so happy she recommended it.

My grandmother, who quilted all through the Great Depression out of necessity, used a needle, thread, pencil, scissors, ruler and a thimble. That's it. She was, and is, a sensible woman with a busy schedule. When I read three or four other quilt books before acquiring this one, their approaches - complicated, fussy, requiring heaps of specialized equipment and time-consuming marking and pinning - seemed somehow ridiculous. I couldn't imagine my grandmother, great-grandmother, or great-grandmother making quilts in that fashion.

Sure enough, Jinny Beyer tackles the nonsense (such as the practice of NOT including the seam allowances on hand-piecing templates) and puts the commonsense approach back in its place. She doesn't dumb the process down, however, and her suggested beginner's pieces are the only ones I've seen in print that seem worth tackling. So many other books insist a nine-patch is the only possible block for a beginner; if I'd listened to them instead of Jinny, I wouldn't have bothered to even try quilting.

The photography is gorgeous, and the directions are so clear that with no prior piecing experience (and only rudimentary sewing experience) I was able to cut out and piece a fairly perfect eight-point star after trying out a single Broken Dishes square for practice. And it's not because I'm some sort of sewing genius, because I'm emphatically not. It's because she's a smart woman and a born teacher.

If it sounds like I love this book, it's because I love this book.

This is a book i got from the library, read and added to my wish list to look for in used book stores, it is that good. I am not even a quilter.

Maybe you've spent time pouring over pictures of the Alhambra or have laboured trying to design your own patterns for fabric or wallpaper, you may love Escher. Jinny Beyer does a great job of explaining how tessellations work. This book is about patterns. The book is not about mathematics exactly, it more steps around the mathematics part and shows you how to make reflections and offsets. The author's background is that she makes quilts and writes books and teaches people about quilting.

This is a very advanced level book on quilting by hand. A great deal of time is spent on drafting the pattern as a preparation to cutting out the pieces. Then piecing techniques are shown with many pictures. Oddly enough, some patterns are so intricate with many points, making the hand piecing easier. The last part of the book is concerned with finishing the quilt by hand stitching. Appendices show how to use color to enhance patterns in planning a quilt.

One of my favorite quilting books. This is not a how-to-quilt book, but rather written for people interested in the history, style, and design of medallion quilts. After getting this, I was inspired to make a very large eight-pointed star medallion, and used her instructions on figuring spacings and borders. I have a softcover version - wish I had the pictures in full color!

I bought this book as part of a quilting class 10+ years ago. It is a valuable resource. There is a lot to be learned about color. Experimenting with color is one of my favorite things about qulting. There are good books about color theory out there but this is geared for quilters. Certainly worth the effort to read and then re-read.

Yes, I actually read a quilting book, instead of just looking at the pictures. I started out that way, but she had a couple of diagrams that were intriguing and I was hornswaggled into reading the whole thing. It had some good information about colors and placement that I could understand. Sure, I've seen it before, but she presented it in such a way that maybe now I understand it a little better. Maybe. And the patterns she has presented are wonderful timing for the round robin I'm in!

Great resource for quilters

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