Creative Classics: 250 Playful Continuous-Line Quilting Designs | Laura Lee Fritz

book: Creative Classics: 250 Playful Continuous-Line Quilting Designs | Laura Lee Fritz

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	Creative Classics: 250 Playful Continuous-Line Quilting Designs Laura Lee Fritz C&T Publishing, 2008 - 80 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Top-selling author--60,000 books in print!

Line up, everybody! Recharge old favorites with 250 riffs on five classic quilting designs

* Add style to blocks, sashings, and borders, or use as overall designs

* Great for hand or machine quilting, long-arm and short-arm machines

Vroom, vroom! Race through hundreds of exciting new variations on classic continuous-line quilting motifs! Author Laura Lee Fritz has created dozens and dozens of fresh takes on clamshells, weaves, serpentines, Baptist fans, and feathers--enough to keep even the most driven quilter very happy and very busy for a long, long time. All motifs can be used by hand or machine quilters, and on long-arm or short-arm machines. Get Creative Classics, and get quilting!

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More inspiration for the money!

This book is far more inspiring and interesting than Fritz's other book "Mindful Meandering", which retails for a few dollars less. But for the extra money, Creative Classics will give you a far better quality publication and a lot more patterns (250 vs 132).

Creative Classics also provides more explanations for keeping your continuous-line quilting disciplined but still fun and spontaneous. I am the type of quilter who looks at patterns for inspiration but I also need a few good verbal descriptions to make it all work for my hands AND my brain. I just wish more verbal effort had been put into this assemblage, even if it were simply her own commentary on how her techniques evolve and expand. This would have been more entertaining, and also might have given the new machine quilter more ideas and confidence.

This is a black and white publication, but the cover is in color, and shows how variegated thread can make a simple design more extraordinary. More color examples should have been used throughout the book to make this a better resource.

There are five sections to this book, each utilizing a different fundamental structure: clam shells, waves, serpentine (great for borders or long runs), fans (used for filling spaces), and feathers. This organization gives Creative Classics the meat and substance that I found to be missing from Fritz's other similar publication (Mindful Meandering, reviewed separately), and for this reason I would recommend buying this book over the other if you had to choose.

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