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Book SynopsisCut up your favourite fabrics with intention! Lifelong fussy cutter Angie Wilson teaches you how to look at your fabric stash with new eyes and piece the best bits together, like a colourful collage of your favourite things. Try your hand at 14 totally fun, unique projects for both beginners and seasoned quilters. Use templates and illustrated tutorials to zero in on motifs and create secondary patterns from your fabrics, while you fussy cut for colour as well as design. Frame your motif, cut your fabric and love the results!
Trade ReviewDecember 2017
Angie Wilson defines fussy cutting as 'When you find a particular design, picture or print in your fabric and then cut around it so it fits into a patch or block on your quilt or sewing project.' Sounds simple doesn't it? Why is it then that whenever I consider fussy cutting I think of a multitude of ways in which it can go wrong? Designs off-centre, despite all my best attempts, and secondary designs turning into a swirling mass of psychedelia! Angie promises you can get started with nothing more than a rotary cutter and a ruler but I'm not convinced.
However Angie and her book shout 'you can do it' and give a hundred tips to help me on my way. She talks of looking at your fabrics in terms of size of print, repeats and considering your seam allowances before you get cracking, she speaks of fab tools such as hinged mirrors that are particularly good for working out those pesky secondary designs, then she talks about templates, even ones that you can make yourself out of cereal packets! Projects are zippy and stylish. There are pincushions, mini quilts, tablemats, and runner, and a stylish tote bag and loads of tips and techniques along the way. Angie sees fussy cutting as a way of expressing herself through the perfect choice of imagtes and words and delights in 'cutting fabric with intent.' That sounds fierce and now, even for me, a little more doable.
* Popular Patchwork *
I must say first of all, that I am not a fussy cutter, yet I do admire those perfect cuts, arranged to feature the fabric. It is extreme fabric play. The book includes the basics, tools, suitable fabric guide, tutorials, colour, cutting, piecing and finishing. Tutorials include EPP, cutting to make a new repeat and other how-to's. There are 14 projects to ensure you get to grips with fussy cutting. It's all about the placement of the print within the design of the quilt. So you would cut out the motifs from the background print. Great projects include a nine-patch pot holder, coasters, pincushion, pouch, cushion (pillow), mini quilts and other quilts, table runner, place mats and totes using different techniques. The clear instructions are accompanied by excellent photos and line drawings.
-- Karen Platt * www.karenplatt.co.uk *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Fussy Cutters Manifesto First Rule of the Fussy Cutters Club What is Fussy Cutting? Learn the Basics to Master the Complex The Projects in Fussy Cutters Club Cloth Tales Sidebar: Fabric 101 Selecting Fabrics for Fussy Cutting Organizing Your Fabric Collection Tools of the Trade Tutorial: Seeing Secondary Patterns With a Hinged Mirror Tutorial: Adding a Seam Allowance to Acrylic Templates Tutorial: Making a Template with Template Plastic Tutorial: Making a Laminate Template How to be a Fussy Cutter Traditional Fussy Cutting Improvisational Fussy Cutting Tutorial: How to Improvisational Fussy Cut Fussy Cutting for Color Sidebar: Bias and Grain for Fussy Cutters Making the Cut Tutorial: Fussy Cutting Without a Template Tutorial: Fussy Cutting With an Acrylic Template Tutorial: Fussy Cutting a Repeating Design Basics of the Game To Wash or Not to Wash Machine Piecing Tutorial: Accurate 1/4" Seams English Paper Piecing Tutorial: English Paper Piecing Quilt Finishing Tutorial: Double-Fold Straight-Grain Binding Tutorial: Adding Binding to a Quilt Projects to Get You Hooked Nine-Patch Potholder Super Star Coasters Hexy Pin Up Pincushion 1-2-Sucker Pouch Fussy Designing: Improvisational Piecing Improv-able Dream Pillow Fussy Designing: Using Big Prints Projects to Feed Your Appetite Fabric Serenade Mini Quilt Fussy Designing: Creating an Uninterrupted Look A Flock of Seagulls Table Runner Fussy Designing: Achieving a Rainbow Gaggle of Geese Placemat Fussy Designing: To Match Or Not To Match When Making a Set Tote Amazeballs Projects to Cement Your Love Affair Rainbow I Spy Baby Quilt We Are All Connected Mini Quilt Inception Squared Quilt Focal (On) Point Quilt Crouching HST, Hidden Churn Dash Resources About the Author
