Radiant New York Beauties: 14 Paper-Pieced Quilt Projects

by Valori Wells

Book Overview

14 New York Beauty projects range from precise traditional blocks to freewheeling contemporary designs - all paper pieced for accuracy. Quilter-friendly for all skill levels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571201998
• ISBN13: 9781571201997
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: C&T Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 11.6"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, One-of-a-Kind Art Quilts

The quilt projects in this book are gorgeous, original, and will inspire any quilter in new directions. Each section is interspersed with helpful mini lessons, paper patterns, quilting designs, and the author's photographs of nature and radial images that enrich the reader's understanding of the design process.

Totally Gorgeous!

A lovely book! The quilts are gorgeous, the instructions are well written, easy to follow and very well laid out. The variations are wonderful. I cant wait to get started!

Beautiful and Easy

Lovely photographs, interesting text, and easy to follow directions. An inspiring book that will get your creative juices flowing.

Sumptuous designs and colors

Valori Wells is a woman of many talents, a photographer as well as a quilter, and with a keen eye for color and line. The designs and colors of her new book featuring the New York Beauty block are absolutely luscious - deep and rich and complex, with a new surprise and delight on every page. This demanding block, like its sister the Mariner's Compass, presents difficulties in construction (matching points and all that nonsense), but Wells has the answer - paper piecing - and the book provides foundations for the quilt projects and gives permission for their reproduction. The book is sprinkled with "mini-lessons" on specific techniques, and with the author's photographs, especially of plants, from which she gets many of her inspirations. All I can say after drinking in the beauty in this book is "Wow!"

Fascinating, creative book

As a quiltmaker, I find this publication to be one of the most beautifully creative books I've seen in years. I think a friend of mine said it best, "Valori Wells may have gotten a start riding on her mother's (quiltmaker and author Jean Wells)coattails, but she has definitely come into her own." Not only are the patterns wonderful, but the creative ideas for quilting patterns are stunning. As an avid reader and lover of all books, I would have enjoyed this book even if I did not make quilts. It would be a colorful addition to the coffee table of any art collector.