Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel

by Georgia Bonesteel

Book Overview

This is a book which explains special portable quilting techniques.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0848710487
• ISBN13: 9780848710484
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Oxmoor House
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Lap Quilting at it's best!

Georgia's clear instruction and pictures made the quilt-making so easy. It's much easier to work with a small block, quilt it, and then join the blocks together. All the bulk of the quilt is to the left of the sewing machine, so there is no fighting with all that fabric under the machine arm. She also has great instructions for almost any favorite block that can be incorporated with this technique.

As always, fun and inspiring

I love Georgia's books and have been using them for years. I am not interested in creating a few intricate artsy masterpieces, but, rather many beautiful, fun, useful quilts. Georgia's books are filled with ideas to make that happen. I used to hit the library looking for Georgia's books when inspiration was needed. Finally, I realized these were books I well worth owning. Whether you lap quilt a block at a time (and each book in the series gives great instructions for this) or quilt after piecing the entire top, these books will provide more ideas and direction than you can imagine.

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This is a book that can be saved and enjoyed over and over.

Georgia Bonsteel makes it easy.

I found this book to be well written and informative. The quilt patterns range from simple to complex for beginners and the more experienced quilter. For those of you who are beginners, invest in a rotary cutter system for this will make redundant cutting of pieces much faster and easier. I did find that I needed to purchase some extra yardage of fabrics due to my choice in color and arrangements, keep this in mind if you should chose to vary from the colors used in the book. I would have liked to see pointers on how to handle complex intersections in some of the star patterns that would have made them lay nicer. I had to learn by trial and error. (Practice with scraps on these until you feel you have it down.) All in all I found this volume to be well laid out with beautiful photography and helpful. The abundance of available pattern pieces was generous and should keep the reader busy attempting to recreate the wonderful quilts depicted in the book.