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Pieced Vegetables

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Brilliant quilt artist Ruth B. McDowell has done it again! Her clever piecing techniques make garden vegetables come to life. "Pieced Vegetables" joins "Pieced Flowers" and "Piecing: Expanding the Basics" as required reading for serious students of machine piecing. 22 vegetables, many with design and piecing variations, for a total of 39 different blocks. Includes all your favorite vegetables, such as asparagus, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, onions, peppers, and more. Complete instructions, diagrams, illustrations, and template patterns to re-create each design. Advice on fabric choices and insight into the construction process.

Brilliant piecework designer Ruth McDowell first shared her particular expertise in Piecing: Expanding the Basics and then revealed more intriguing secrets in Pieced Flowers. Now she turns her skilled hand to the vibrant world of produce in Pieced Vegetables. Artichokes, cabbage, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, and 15 other varieties may at first seem an oddly narrow focus for a whole book, but their rich colors, interesting textures, and widely diverse shapes are well suited to pieced quilt blocks. For each vegetable, McDowell provides detailed block and piecing diagrams, a photo of the finished block, and colored schematics proposing one or two ways that the finished blocks can be arranged into interesting, almost abstract quilts, just by repeating the same vegetable in alternate placements. She also provides a diagram of a very large sampler quilt incorporating one block of each different vegetable. Although written directions are sparse, the diagrams are excellent and the introduction offers solid groundwork on interpreting and enlarging the diagrams, working with templates, and basic piecework sewing. --Amy Handy

About the Author

Ruth B. McDowell is an extraordinary quilt artist whose intricately pieced quilts are exhibited worldwide. Two of her quilts were named to the list of "The 20th Century's 100 Best American Quilts." She lives in Winchester, Massachusetts.

  • Publisher : C&T Publishing (January 15, 2002)
  • Language : English
  • Paperback : 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1571201408
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1571201409
  • Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.39 x 10.65 inches