Download PDF Modern Memory Quilts A Handbook for Capturing Meaningful Moments 12 Projects + The Stories That Inspired Them Suzanne Paquette 9781617455650 Books

Product details Paperback 144 pages Publisher C&T Publishing / Stash Books (January 7, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1617455652

Modern Memory Quilts A Handbook for Capturing Meaningful Moments 12 Projects + The Stories That Inspired Them Suzanne Paquette 9781617455650 Books Reviews

• This was a very beautifully illustrated book and project directions were clear. A lot of good ideas to upcycle and reuse fabrics and clothing. However, I would put this book more in the art quilt category. If you are more of a traditional style quilter, this book probably isn’t for you. Overall, there were only a few projects that I will use.
• Theae aren’t the kind of memory quilts I made 28 years ago! They are sophisticated and edgy in design while bringing comfort to family separated by distance.
  
  Modern Quilting is all the rage. The use of negative space and graphic design suits contemporary tastes influenced by Mid-Century design. Susanne Parquette shows today's quilters how to mix Modern with sentimental in Modern Memory Quilts A Handbook for Capturing Meaningful Moments. The twelve quilts in the book are actual commissioned memory quilts made by Paquette, who includes the people and stories behind each quilt.
  
  Many of my friends are Hexie addicts. Here is a Hexie quilt that uses a half-hexagon pattern alternating with full hexies that are fussy cut from a child's clothing.
  
  Paquette includes advice on how much yardage can be gleaned from shirts in various sizes and quilting cotton.
  
  Quilts can be personalized with embroidery or imagery, as in the quilt below. She used the same pattern with a bird silhouette.
  
  Paquette walks us through the process, beginning with Memory Keeping remembering, documenting, and perspective. She moves on to Empathy+Design on the "collaborative voice" in memory quilt design. Color Stories addresses color basics. She discusses the tools and construction methods needed to work with clothing.
  
  These memory projects aren't like photographs, they are "hidden in plain sight," blending into the decor.
  
  Striped Half-Square Triangle pillows are very cool and functional. A surprise is the strips of a fur coat! A casual visitor may not recognize them as holding a memory, but the family will recall their loved ones with every use.
  
  The Initial quilt was a "leaving home' quilt for a son going off to college. This is an easy half-square triangle pattern.
  
  My first memory quilts were made from my mother's painting smocks after her early death from cancer. I used traditional quilt blocks. Parquette used a beloved father's clothing in Connect the Dots, made with large quarter-circle blocks alternating with solid square blocks.
  
  Intersections can be made with 10-12 adult clothing pieces or 24-36 baby/child pieces. Here, a pet dog's clothing is included.
  
  Other projects included are a pieced apron, Arabesque, Modern Mandela, an easy Mosiac made of rectangles and squares, bed-sized Arrow quilt.
  
  My mind is filled with ideas! I lost a cousin last year and her children are asking about memory quilts. This book couldn't have come at a better time.
  
  I received a free ebook from the publisher in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.