Take 5 is really a fun quilt book, published by Martingale & Company, Home of That Patchwork place. It is an excellent book for beginners, but also a book with fun quilts that will interest quilters of all levels, even advanced quilts.
Karen shares insights on how you can select five fabrics (one focus fabric, plus four coordinating fabrics), stack them, cut them simultaneously, and you are ready to sew. Sounds simple and it is, but there is much more to this "Take 5 Technique".
There are 15 projects in this book that range in size from 36"x42" to 88"x112".
All of the projects have excellent instructions with great visuals and inspirational photos of the finished quilts.
This book also includes excellent information in the section on "Quiltmaking Basics" to help beginner quilters (e.g. tools, cutting tips, pinning & pressing, adding borders, quilting binding, etc.).
And, some of the quilts in this book have been beautifully quilted by by Karen McTavish, Sandra Buibeau, Carol Hilton, Rachel Justis, Ellen Rushin and Jamie Wallen.
I hope you get a chance to check out this book at your local quilt store, or at the online store at Martingale Publishing.
And, if you have already had a chance to pick up a copy of this book and make one of the projects, I'd also love to hear your thoughts. It would also be fun to see a picture of your project. Martingale & Company also has a fun Flickr group where everyone is encouraged to share photos of projects that they've made using books that they've published.
5 comments:
I love that quilt all in beige and brown.
I love how intricate the quilts look, especially when you take into consideration how few fabrics were used!
Love the autumn quilt~ I had to count because I thought it had to be more than 5 fabrics. lol Thanks for the great review!
I love the autumn leaf quilt and the diamond-type block. I have heard about that cutting technique. It would be good to know the right way to do it.
Oh, Oh, Oh...I have this book....hurray!!! It is a great book too :)
Smiles,
Kelly
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