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    by Helen Squire
    Publisher: American Quilter's Society
    ISBN: 978-1-57432-887-5
    Item Number: 8272
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    Responding to what today's quilters really need, this seventh book in the Dear Helen Series is an evolution of experiences from a career of quilting and teaching. Enhance your quilt top with this expansion of Helen's reliable patterns, offered in sizes ready to trace, scan, or photocopy. Learn how to mix, match, and adapt your patterns! Over 100 quilting patterns have been grouped into the following seven categories: More Helen's Hints II, Framing Ideas, Traditional Patterns, Continuous-Line, Beautiful Scrolls, Grids VII, and Secondary Designs. Pattern pages feature placement diagrams, combinations, helpful hints, and a range of designs that can easily be adapted from hand to machine quilting, and vice versa. Fifteen secondary designs, including edge-to-edge quilting patterns, illustrate what happens when you combine multiple repeats into new placement possibilities.See how framing techniques help to establish the main motifs in your quilt. Over two dozen continuous-line patterns are included for use on home quilting systems and professional quilting machines. Also, discover how to manipulate a pre-purchased stencil to fit into the corners, blocks, and borders of any size quilt.

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    • Item Number: 8272
    • ISBN-10: 1-57432-887-5
    • ISBN-13: 978-1-57432-887-5
    • Number of Pages: 112
    • Binding: Softback
    • Dimensions: 8.50" x 11.00" x 0.25"
    • Weight: 0.90 pounds
    • Publisher: American Quilter's Society (08/01/2005)

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    Review of Helen's Mix & Match Quilting Patterns - 02/21/2007
    Reviewer: Anonymous from Golden, CO, US

    Consult this resource for ready-to-use quilting designs that will enhance any top. Review Source: "Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine," March 2006, page 23.

     
    Review of Helen's Mix & Match Quilting Patterns - 02/21/2007
    Reviewer: Anonymous from Paducah, KY, US

    This is the seventh title in the Dear Helen series by well-known American quilter and magazine columnist Helen Squire. Project patterns often tell you to “quilt as desired”; there is little information on what to quilt where to best enhance pieced or appliquéd tops. But this book will help you with that dilemma. The first chapter is full of hints and tips on where to quilt, followed by advice on “framing” quilted motifs so they stand out. Patterns are then grouped into the categories of traditional, continuous lines, scrolls and grids, with a final section on secondary patterns created by repeats of the same design. The quilting patterns provided are ready to trace and are suitable for hand or machine quilting. Suggestions are given as to how to mix and match the patterns to give the best effect and how to deal with borders and corners. This is a great resource for anyone who loves quilting patterns. However, if you want to quilt by machine, you will need to be competent at free-motion quilting before you try and tackle some of the more complex patterns. Review Source: Anne Beaven, Popular Patchwork, March 2006, Page 59.

     
    Review of Helen's Mix & Match Quilting Patterns - 02/21/2007
    Reviewer: Anonymous from Paducah, KY, US

    Learn how to mix, match, and adapt your patterns with the seventh book in the Dear Helen series, and one that anyone with a love of quilting designs shouldn’t be without. Helen includes 115 one-of-a-kind patterns for hand or machine quilting, 36 placement diagrams for block and border possibilities, and 20 secondary designs using repeats. If quilting patterns have you puzzled, this book provides the perfect answer to “How should I quilt this?”