String Quilts by Elsie M Campbell

String Quilts by Elsie M Campbell

Award-winning quilt maker, Elsie Campbell, loves to take homemade fabric yardage and turn it into stunning, pieced, string quilts, whose leftover yardage can then spawn an appliqued "sister" quilt. Ten patterns for all skill levels. String Quilts is one part innovation, one part thrift, and a whole lot of fun. When author, educator, and award-winning quilt-maker Elsie M. Campbell needs a break from creating precision pieced and -appliquéd beauties, she turns to making string quilts. "This is my playtime," she says. String Quilts is an innovative approach to quilt-making that involves creating your own fabric yardage from new or leftover strips of fabric. This new yardage becomes the basis for creating stunning pieced quilts, whose leftover yardage can then spawn an appliquéd "sister" quilt. The 10 quilts are shown in brilliant full color photography with easy-to-follow instructions, patterns, and diagrams. Also included are "Elsie's Top Tips for Successful String Quilts" and a full-color Gallery of 12 additional quilts by Campbell and other playful quilters, all demonstrating the range and charm of string quilts. Patterns for all skill levels.

Elsie Campbell is most renowned for her stunning hand-quilted, award-winning quilts, but she began her career as a dressmaker, like many other quilters. She grew up in Deer Creek, Oklahoma, where she attended Deer Creek Mennonite Church and learned to quilt from her mother and the Deer Creek Mennonite Women's Mission Society. She taught home economics and special education in public schools after graduating from a small teachers college in Oklahoma. Elsie has won multiple important accolades for her quilts, which she began exhibiting nationwide in 1992. She recently took home Best Machine Workmanship prizes at a number of major shows.

Previous honors include:? Elsie and her 38-year-old husband Kenneth live in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The couple is the parents of two grown sons.

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ISBN 13	9781561486755
ISBN 10	1561486752
Title	String Quilts
Author	Elsie M Campbell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Skyhorse Publishing
Year published	2009-08-20
Number of pages	80
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