This may sound cheap...however
#21
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have you tried half.com? it is the e-bay site for books, movies, games, etc. prices are VERY cheap and shipping is $3.49 each. Prices for lots of quilt books is $ .75 each if they have several or the books have been in print for some time.
#23
How about this: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mcoahran/BargelloSketcher/
It's not a book but perhaps by playing with values, you can start to see a pattern emerging and it will become more intuitive?
It's not a book but perhaps by playing with values, you can start to see a pattern emerging and it will become more intuitive?
#24
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Eileen Wright's "Twist and Turn" is a great book with various patterns. I am working on her "Surf Song" pattern which is a wall hanging size in the book. However, I was lucky enough to get some advice from the designer on how to enlarge this to a lap quilt size. I basically cut my stripes wider to add length and then will add more rows to the sides for added width. Not knowing which pattern you are interested in, I don't know if this will work for you or not. Good luck!
#28
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Join Date: Aug 2013
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Would you prefer to try making a small version (say, a wall quilt) for a different room in your house, before making the time and money commitment of starting with a bed size? If you like the construction, then the wall quilt would not be a waste of time. If you hate it, it still wouldn't be a waste of time because you learned something . I would pay for the pattern if it came in the exact size I wanted; having someone do the math and figure it all out (not to mention the design work) would be worth the $ to me.
#29
I did make my avatar and I might say I nearly pulled every hair out of my head doing it! It is a Jacqueline De Jonge design that I made with my own choice of batiks and started out as a 60" square. I added a ton of borders and some New York Beauty blocks in the outside corners and by doing this I was able to morph it into a king size. I have made possibly 8 quilts and would consider myself a bit driven to "push the envelope" but I only helped with designing some of the quilting. That took the talents of a super long arm operator.
Here are a few pictures that a couple of you asked to see.
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Here are a few pictures that a couple of you asked to see.
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