Creative American Quilting

by Better Homes and Gardens

As always, Better Homes and Gardens offers the most up-to-date, accurate information on their topics covered. This book features some of the most exquisite quilting designs found across America.

Genres: Quilting, Crafts, Nonfiction

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Ana Mardoll · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creative American Quilting / 0-696-01800-4

This is a very generic quilting book, despite the promise of "creativity" implied in the name. There's nothing really wrong here, but if you have any other quilting book, there's little here that you haven't seen before. In fact, this book left such a little impression on me that I have to flip through it regularly to remember why I still keep it and haven't sold it at the local second-hand store.

The answer to that question is the Broken Star. This book does one thing really right, and that's absolutely *huge* quilted wall hangings - absolute floor-to-ceiling eye-catchers. There's one with hundreds of tiny triangles that is quite breathtaking, but my favorite is the rainbow Broken Star. It's quite gorgeous and it's accompanied by speed-piecing machine quilting instructions, which I greatly appreciate. The speed-piecing is strip based, not unlike the Trip Around the World technique, but the squares are eventually cut to form triangles. I keep thinking I'll try this one, although I'm probably just dreaming - I always seem to stretch the bias incorrectly when I deal with triangles. Still, it's there, and with a good speed-piecing technique for those who want it.

I recommend picking up this book if you can find it for a dollar or two, or if you plan on doing a Broken Star or Texas Star by machine and need to know where to start.

~ Ana Mardoll

[Judi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy this type of book, while most of the projects concentrate on quilting and making quilts there are a variety of complimentary crafts. I consider this to be a continuation of the book "American Patchwork & Quilting" with more complex quilts and new ideas and techniques.

[Cheryl S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of interesting patterns, have made three patterns from this book.

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