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Miss Rosie's Quilt Collection
An easy-to-follow guide to quilting for beginners and advanced quilters includes fourteen quilting projects such as American Pie, Wild Irish Rose, Tuesday Sue, Stella Blue, Six Degrees, Sweet Emma, Rose, Tag Sale, Amadeus, Uptown Girl, and many more, as well as easy rotary cutting directions. Original.
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96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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April 21, 2011
One of Carrie Nelson's earlier books, Miss Rosie's Quilt Collection (published in 2005) shows that she was just coming into her own as a designer at that point. The designs are quite nice but not as spectacular as some of her later ones, and the book is much more of a standard quiltmaking book and Carrie's own voice is completely silent, other than her designs. There is nothing in her own words--all the copy is pretty standard stuff.
Based on traditional blocks, these designs don't play with the original block patterns quite as much as her later work does. The uniqueness of design in this book lays much more in her use of color and value.
Probably representative of the trends at that time, the colorways lay very heavily in the "shabby chic" genre--a lot of pastels, or very muted contrast between values. Of course, there are other designs which use more heavily contrasted or more saturated colors but the bulk of the book is light, airy, summery, and...shabby chic. Obviously, you can take any pattern and make it with any fabrics--I'm just pointing out the ambiance of this particular book.
The general quilting instructions are in the back so you start right out with pretty-pretty-colors and designs...always a good way to dive right in and start the creative juices flowing. The instructions are clear, straight-forward, and include hand-piecing instructions as well as a comment about signing and dating your quilts, which I don't think is quite as common in today's ever-present basic quilting instruction sections. However, if I were a new quilter, I'm not sure I could sit down with this one book and really figure out what I was supposed to be doing. But then, I don't know how many brand-spanking-new quilters would actually buy a book like this to start in any case. In my opinion, this book is definitely a more "confident beginner" (whatever that may mean, but I've seen it used a lot lately), advanced beginner, or possibly even intermediate quiltmaker. The designs aren't particularly complex, but there are a lot of components to them--in my personal difficulty rating system, "more seams, more opportunities for error."
It's still Carrie Nelson, which means I'm still a fan. I still like her work very much and I could see myself making something out of this book at some point. However, had this been the first Carrie Nelson book I'd bought, I'm not sure I'd have been grabbed as firmly by the collar and made to want more as I was by the Schnibbles or Miss Rosie's Spice of Life books.
Based on traditional blocks, these designs don't play with the original block patterns quite as much as her later work does. The uniqueness of design in this book lays much more in her use of color and value.
Probably representative of the trends at that time, the colorways lay very heavily in the "shabby chic" genre--a lot of pastels, or very muted contrast between values. Of course, there are other designs which use more heavily contrasted or more saturated colors but the bulk of the book is light, airy, summery, and...shabby chic. Obviously, you can take any pattern and make it with any fabrics--I'm just pointing out the ambiance of this particular book.
The general quilting instructions are in the back so you start right out with pretty-pretty-colors and designs...always a good way to dive right in and start the creative juices flowing. The instructions are clear, straight-forward, and include hand-piecing instructions as well as a comment about signing and dating your quilts, which I don't think is quite as common in today's ever-present basic quilting instruction sections. However, if I were a new quilter, I'm not sure I could sit down with this one book and really figure out what I was supposed to be doing. But then, I don't know how many brand-spanking-new quilters would actually buy a book like this to start in any case. In my opinion, this book is definitely a more "confident beginner" (whatever that may mean, but I've seen it used a lot lately), advanced beginner, or possibly even intermediate quiltmaker. The designs aren't particularly complex, but there are a lot of components to them--in my personal difficulty rating system, "more seams, more opportunities for error."
It's still Carrie Nelson, which means I'm still a fan. I still like her work very much and I could see myself making something out of this book at some point. However, had this been the first Carrie Nelson book I'd bought, I'm not sure I'd have been grabbed as firmly by the collar and made to want more as I was by the Schnibbles or Miss Rosie's Spice of Life books.
April 24, 2012
Not quite the fun writing style in the Schnibbles books... but awesome quilts. I'm thinking about making one of them :)
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