ScrapTherapy® Scraps Plus One!: New Patterns to Quilt Through Your Stash with Ease

by Joan Ford

Overview

'In my mind, it makes more sense to start with the scraps, cutting them up following a simple plan. Then you are ready to select and sew the scrap pieces into controlled scrappy projects.'
- Joan Ford, Author

'Joan Ford once again sets out to help you tackle your never-ending stash of leftover fabric. Her approach in this book is to take your scraps and add one inspiration, whether that is one color, a focus fabric or a bright and bold stripe.'
- The International Association of Professional Quilters blog

Get a whole new perspective on your scrap stash! Organize your scraps, fire up your creativity, and make the beautiful quilts you’ve always dreamt you could make. The quilting patterns in ScrapTherapy Scraps Plus One! show how to use your scraps plus one new element—a focus print, a solid background, or a new technique—to inspire a fresh array of quilting ideas.

Get organized and get quilting. This latest title from Joan Ford, author of the best- selling ScrapTherapy Cut the Scraps, includes step-by-step instructions for turning odd-shaped scraps into piles of ready-to-use pieces, arranged by size. Taking control of scraps in this way reveals the amazing potential of a fabric stash and gets the creative juices flowing.

20 fabulous all-new patterns. Inspired by these creative ScrapTherapy ideas, you will be on your way to making 20 beautiful new projects, including scrappy quilts, totes, pillows, and more. What fun it is to see a pile of patches turning into a colorful work of art that’s pretty and practical.

Foolproof instructions – and more – are included. Clear how-to instructions for piecing, stitching, binding, and finishing each quilt are included, along with clever solutions to common scrap-quilt challenges. Get your copy of ScrapTherapy Scraps Plus One! and get ready for serious quilting fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781600855191
Publisher:	Taunton Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/16/2013
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Innovative quilt designer JOAN FORD cleverly founded the ScrapTherapy(R) program in 2006 as a way to help quilters get organized and cope with the clutter of fabric collected over the years. Ford travels around the country lecturing and teaching quilting classes and cutting workshops. She is the owner of Hummingbird Highway in Syracuse, New York

Table of Contents

Part I: ScrapTherapy Plus One

             Chapter 1: What is Scraps Plus One?

             Chapter 2: Cut the Scraps: The 7 Steps recap

 Part II:  The Plus One Projects

           

Appendix:

            Quilt Making Basics

            Glossary

Resources

Index   

 

Editorial Reviews

The main idea behind quilt designer Ford's (ScrapTherapy Cut the Scraps!) popular ScrapTherapy system is that if your fabric scraps are pre-cut into commonly used sizes and organized by color, you'll be more likely to use them. To give quilters the impetus to tackle their scraps, Ford presents 20 more projects that use squares in the three basic ScrapTherapy sizes (5 inches, 3.5 inches, and 2 inches), along with one added fabric that doesn't have to be a scrap. Most of the projects in the book are full-size quilts, and Ford proves once again that scrappy quilts don't have to look like a color explosion. VERDICT Quilters who have overflowing scrap bins may balk at all of the precutting involved (one of the super-scrappy quilts involves 1,072 two-inch squares), but this volume is an excellent choice for quilters of all skill and interest levels.

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