"The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making" is a charming, inspirational and practical guide for would-be quilters. Leading author Jane Brocket presents over 15 quilt designs and weaves a narrative around each one. Each quilt story considers the sources of inspiration - including quilters, quilt styles, quilting communities, colours, patterns, films, places and painters. There's a Russian Shawl Quilt, inspired by Russian shawls, traditional motifs of Russian folk art constructed with ever-smaller nesting squares in blacks, golds, pinks, reds and emerald greens, a Floral Frocks Quilt inspired by summer dresses, flower gardens and herbaceous borders - exuberant colours and big florals pieced together in strips, and a Suits and Ties Quilt reusing sober woollen suiting contrasting with extravagant silk ties with geometric squares inspired by Gee's Bend work-wear quilts. Finally, a practical section covers all the practical knowledge you'll need - from hand-quilting and sandwiching to binding, storage and caring for your quilt. Confidently armed with all the design tools you need, you can embark on your own quilting journey and begin creating your own personal quilting masterpiece.
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Jane Brocket has a fun and informal tone that puts you at ease and inspires you to get creative. This book is wonderful for proficient sewers who might nonetheless be a little daunted by the prospect of quilting. Easy Living, April 2010
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Jane Brocket is the author of The Gentle Art of Domesticity (2007), Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer (2008) and Ripping Things to Do (2009). She created yarnstorm.blogs.com in February 2005 to write about knitting and now includes quilting and baking in huge quantities. Jane recently launched her website www.janebrocket.com.
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79 of 83 people found the following review helpful
By BookSnob
Format:Hardcover
I absolutely adore this book. As a new but very keen quilter I have been paralysed with fear and doubt over my abilities and my lack of technical knowledge and sewing skills etc. This has held me back from creating quilts as I would like to, and I have been slavishly attempting to copy the complicated hand techniques that I have been told are the 'proper' way to quilt, with little success and much frustration! Jane Brocket blasts all these rules and regulations out of the water and encourages you to have FUN with quilting and not worry about the technicalities - it's so liberating! Can't do complicated hand quilting? Then just do running stitch - it looks lovely and takes half the time. Don't want to faff about with papers and hand piecing? Then it's perfectly fine to use your machine and still make beautiful and complex looking quilts. Worried about colour and pattern? Just choose the fabrics you like, trust your instincts and get on with it! Jane has taken all the fear and mythology out of the art of quiltmaking and has transformed it into an easy, exciting, and most of all, FUN, activity that anyone can do, regardless of your skill level or perceived creative abilities. The quilts featured are all absolutely beautiful and the instructions are so simple that a child could happily follow them. Coupled with the gorgeous photos and lovely, encouraging and insightful text that accompanies each section, this is a book to inspire you and to equip you with the knowledge and confidence needed to make lovely items for your own use and help you stop worrying about doing everything the 'right' way. Highly recommended for people who just want to make a quilt and not a stitch perfect competition entry for the Festival of Quilts!
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By M. Jeavans
Format:Hardcover
The pictures and the explanations of how Jane Brocket arrived at her designs are inspirational. Beautiful small photos highlight the details of stitching, and all the quilts are shown in full at the back of the book. However, if you want to learn how to do such things as mitre a corner, bind an edge or fix a hanging sleeve the only instructions are to look on the Internet; since the book refers to the "art" of quilt-making, I think the emphasis can be justified. A lovely addition to a quilt-maker's bookshelf, but don't rely on it for method.
35 of 38 people found the following review helpful
By Miss Daisy
Format:Hardcover
This book is a real pleasure to read - I'm a pushover for quilting books anyway and each tends to have its own particular strength. This book is good for beginner quilters. Its encouragement to explore different fabrics and have confidence in your own taste and preferences is refreshing and good for experienced quilters too. I liked the accessible writing and clear descriptions of techniques. I enjoyed it so much that I have abandoned (temporarily) a complex quilt to make a simpler design using my favourite fabrics.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected
This book is interesting but it did not have the information that I was expecting. Needed something to show how to do various techniques.
Published 6 days ago by PHS
4.0 out of 5 stars
Quilting and patchwork book
Beautiful book, that is well laid out, but not a massive amount of instruction or advice if you are a beginner to patchwork, it has fabulous pictures of gorgeous end products in a... Read more
Published 1 month ago by sarah e sedgewick
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting
This book is great. It encourages and inspires anyone who wishes to quilt or has attempted quilting and given up because of all the strictures about accuracy. I love this book.
Published 2 months ago by Sonya Federman
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most stunning book
This book has no words on the cover - remove the paper band and all you see is a beautiful quilt. The texture of the cover is enticing enough but inside you find the most brilliant... Read more
Published 5 months ago by K. ALLEN
5.0 out of 5 stars
Totally Gorgeous
This book arrived today and I love everything about it. The cover is really touchy feely and the general essence of the book is all about enjoying the experience of making a... Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars
An inspirational feast of colour
This is the book that started me on quiltmaking after I had been put off by what seemed fearsomely complicated rules and techniques. Read more
Published 12 months ago by SJR
5.0 out of 5 stars
My favourite Quilting book
This is very different from most quilt books I have looked at, as it doesn't get bogged down in complicated piecing; Jane uses simple shapes and makes her quilts really beautiful... Read more
Published 13 months ago by bookworm
5.0 out of 5 stars
A trully inspirational book
This is a beautiful book, full of pretty pictures and inspiration. It also covers the technical aspects of the art of quilt making. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Ines
4.0 out of 5 stars
The gentle art of quilt making
It is a very nice book with lots of ideas for quilting.
I would have liked more information on finishing instead of being refered to another web site.
I would have liked more information on finishing instead of being refered to another web site.
Published 17 months ago by mountain
5.0 out of 5 stars
My Favourite Quilting book!
I have admired Jane Brocket's online blog which has featured her quilts that she has made and uses around her home. Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. Ballard
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