The Thimbleberries Guide For Weekend Quilters: 25 Great-Looking Quilts for the Busy Quiltmaker

by Lynette Jensen

The Thimbleberries Guide For Weekend Quilters offers 25 All-New Thimbleberries Quilts
Beautiful quilts for even the busiest quiltmakers

Lynette Jensen works her design magic to bring you quilts of all sizes that are amazingly quick and easy to put together-- and look terrific when they're done. To help you make the most of your quilting time, Lynette includes these special

Fast techniques that really Look for the special "Make It Tonight" and "Make It in a Weekend" icons to locate superquick and easy projects.

More color Don't stall out at the fabric store. More than 40 gorgeous photos show alternative color schemes and simplify your fabric selection.

Easy-to-use illustrated Hundreds of color illustrations with step-by-step directions show you what to do at a glance.

Genres: Quilting, Crafts

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 22, 2001

Reviews

[Charissa Wilkinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overview: Have you quit quilting because you just don’t have the time? Well, the Thimbleberries guides have a solution for you.

Likes: This book is a brutally honest tutorial. It assumes you already have the knowledge of either machine or hand quilting basics, and takes you on a time management lesson so you can keep quilting. They also include corresponding projects.

Conclusion: This is a good book for the intermediate quilter. Enjoy the return to your hobby.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this so much when taking it out from my local library that I went to a local used bookstore - found it and bought it for my craft book collection!! It has great ideas, templates, concise instructions. And loved the photos to go with instructions. And what I really liked as a beginner it gave step by step instructions on how to change the pattern for a smaller project.

[Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thimbleberries Quilt books are always beautiful and collector's items. This is a gorgeous book of quilts, bed quilts, wallhangings, table runners, placemats, and more. This book is full of just beautiful quilts. Patchwork quilts, Applique quilts, and more. This book even has a special section for each quilt called 'color play'. What that is is they show you the same quilt in different colors, sometimes up to 3 different colored quilts. That is a really nice feature as sometimes it is hard to imagine a quilt in different colors other than the ones that are shown. For instance, some quilts are shown in light color, and the color play comes in with the same quilt in darker colors. I love that they do this. It gives you more ideas, more colors to choose from. They take the work out of changing colors of the quilts for you. I will admit from experience, you cannot make these quilts in 'one' weekend. In particularly, the applique quilts, and the bed quilts. The more details in the quilts, the longer it takes to make them. Perhaps some of them you can make the top in a weekend, but others need a few weekends. I think the point of this book is not to make a quilt in 'one' weekend, but maybe over two or three weekends. All in all, I LOVE this book! It has been, and will stay in my library forever. This is the kind of book you go back and look at over and over because all the quilts are so beautiful. Also, you have every intention of making every quilt in this book! I highly recommend it to quilters who love quilting.

[Ellen Spes]

Own it.