{"id":2083,"date":"2009-08-04T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2009-08-04T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:57:48","slug":"quilting-in-the-limelight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"Quilting in the Limelight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everything about Quilting in the Limelight, the Life, Art & Techniques of an Award-Winning Quilter by Philippa Naylor is beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0 It is the type of book that any artist would be over the moon to be the subject of and any quiltmaker aspiring to create beautiful, award-winning quilt will want to own.<\/p>\n

The book begins with Phillipa\u2019s story, from making hand-stitched outfits for her \u201cCindy\u201d doll (the UK equivalent to the the US\u2019s \u201cBarbie\u201d doll), her years in Saudi Arabia, to her journey back home to the UK.\u00a0 I enjoyed reading this section and perusing the top notch photographs.\u00a0 It felt like having a cozy tea with a new friend and learning just the right amount about her.<\/p>\n

Next is a gallery of Phillipa\u2019s quilts. Because Phillips has won many major awards, many of her quilts have been published in various magazines.\u00a0 No matter.\u00a0 The beautiful photography, with close-ups, and the story behind teach makes for another evening of good reading.<\/p>\n

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The remainder of the book takes you on a complete journey of her quiltmaking process.\u00a0 The language is clear, the photography beautiful, and the information covered extremely well done.<\/p>\n

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There are beautiful photographs of her studio, the types of equipment and materials she uses, how she goes about getting inspiration for a new quilt,\u00a0 and her design process.<\/p>\n

Next she shares her construction method for her precise machine piecing.<\/p>\n

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She continues with a chapter on quilting and trapunto design and another on free motion quilting (she actually sews in all thread tails!).\u00a0 The first time I looked at one of Phillipa\u2019s quilts close-up, I immediately noticed her beautiful double-folded binding with piping.\u00a0 Lucky for readers, she explains exactly how she achieves this finish with a chapter on creating and sewing on a piping (single or double) and another on sewing a mitered binding.\u00a0 The final chapter concludes blocking the quilt, creating a label, and a hanging rod.<\/p>\n

The book is truly a gem.\u00a0 The photography and layout are excellent, her story is friendly and enjoyable, and her lessons educational.\u00a0 There is nothing not to like about this book. It sells for $29.95 and is published by Dragon Threads.
\nYou can learn more information about the book and purchase it directly through the publisher here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything about Quilting in the Limelight, the Life, Art & Techniques of an Award-Winning Quilter by Philippa Naylor is beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0 It is the type of book that any artist would be over the moon to be the subject of and any quiltmaker aspiring to create beautiful, award-winning quilt will want to own. The book begins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}