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String Quilts: Sustainable Patchwork Projects Using Fabric Scraps

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Sustainable quilts made from your well loved items with the design inspiration of Carolyn Forster.

Many quilters are rediscovering a range of traditional patchwork and quilting techniques that, at their heart, are based on recycling and reusing materials. A style of patchwork that is true to this ethos, and which has been around for centuries, is string patchwork with its use of sewn fabric strips. Due to the scrap nature of string quilts, they are good for using a wide range and eclectic mix of fabrics that, otherwise, would have gathered dust in the corner of a room.

Best-selling author, teacher and quilter Carolyn Forster will show you how to

  • transform old clothes and bedding, off-cuts and once-loved furnishing fabrics into 10 beautiful string patchwork quilts

  • All the quilts feature traditional blocks, so you can see how easy it is to create your favorite designs with an array of scraps.

  • Carolyn has alo included 8 little gifts and accessories to make with the leftovers from your quilt-making (!), so that nothing goes to waste – from a needle case and a quilt-notions pouch to a table runner and duffel bag.

  • A small section on all the materials and notions to get started, plus an invaluable techniques chapter

Quilters will have everything they need to create planet-conscious quilts, and in the process celebrate old quilt and patchwork methods from quilters of yore.

ISBN-13: 9781800920828

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Search Press

Publication Date: 03-19-2024

Pages: 176

Carolyn Forster is a best-selling author on quilting. She started making quilts when she was a teenager and went on to study Textiles at the University of Bath. Since graduating, Carolyn has taught patchwork and quilting both in the UK and the USA and has had her quilts featured in a number of books and magazines, including Fabrications, Popular Patchwork and Patchwork and Quilting. Carolyn lives in Tunbridge Wells, UK with her husband and son.