I've never written a book review before, but when I saw this book during a quilting event last weekend, I fell in love.
I've been teaching quilting for more than 15 years and this
is one of the best books I've ever seen that gives a detailed, pictorial
solution to sewing's little problems. I've long said that quilting is 10
percent talent and 90 percent troubleshooting. Patty Murphy takes all the trouble
out of trouble-shooting with clear, close-up photographs and well-written,
detailed instructions for making a variety of common quilt units – strip piecing,
four-patch, nine-patch, half-square triangle, quarter-square triangle, and
flying geese. Patty then expands those lessons into classic block instructions –
Dutchman's Puzzle, Square-in-a-Square, Log Cabin, Pinwheel, Sawtooth Star, Ohio
Star, Ocean Waves, and LeMoyne Star. Patty concludes with modern favorites such
as Drunkard's Path, Bear's Paw, Hexagon, Half-Rectangle Triangle, Diamonds,
Equilateral Triangles, and Kansas Dugout blocks. The "Problem, Diagnosis,
Solution" format is brilliant.
Well done, Patty Murphy!
I probably need to add that I promoted this book so heavily at the event that the publisher gave me my own copy. I also need to add I would have bought it anyway!