It has been a while since I did a “Book Review Tuesday”, but I have a great reason to resurrect it today.
I am so excited to be the first on Nancy’s blog tour for her new book. Nancy is in our modern quilt guild and inspires our members, all the time with her modern quilts. It is so great, that she can share her talents with a wider audience, through this book.
Review
Title: Quilting from Every Angle
Author: Nancy Purvis
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 978-1-63250-086-1
I was totally inspired by this book. Starting with the first section, which does a great job introducing quilt design and design tools to its readers. I love the idea of creating an inspiration board.
I seldom pick up a book and find more than 2-3 projects in the book that I just need to make. This book offers so many choices that meet my design aesthetic. The projects are well made to show off their modern design elements – each project highlights the design elements, the color, and the quilting choices.
Some of my favorite projects in the book are:
- Fossil #fossilquilt
- Sequoia #sequoiaquilt
- Mesa #mesaquilt
- Four Corners #fourcornersquilt
- Concordia #concordiaquilt (I think I may make this quilt design into a table runner)
- Vertebrae #vertebraequilt
I loved this book and so excited to get time to make more of these projects. I would recommend it to everyone so it is a 5/5:
You can purchase a signed copy of Nancy’s book and find the updates to her book on her blog.
My Project
The first project I made from her book, was Fossil. I decided I would make it as mini quilt so I can hang it on my wall at work. I shrunk the HST from 3 1/4 inches unfinished to 2 inches unfinished. I knew immediately that I wanted to use Alison Glass text print and Alison Glass Handcrafted lines.
The quilt came together quickly. The design offers you several ways in which you can make it your own, either with the fabric selection and/ or quilting.
I tried to pull the colors from the triangles into the binding by using some of the scraps from the HST’s.
Blog Tour
Don’t forget to check out others on her blog tour, she has a great line up.
11/10- Michelle Wilkie of Factotum of Arts
11/11- Hillary Goodwin of Entropy Always Wins
11/12- Karen Lewis of Karen Lewis Textiles
11/13- Anna Graham of Noodlehead
11/16- Rachel McCormack of Wooden Spoon Quilts
11/17- Tara Larson of Rad & Happy
11/18- Jennifer Mathis of Ellison Lane
11/19- Holly Hughes of Holly Gets Quilty
11/20- Nicole Daksiewicz of Modern Handcraft
11/23- Pat Bravo of Pat Bravo Fabric Design and Jesse Maloney of Art School Dropout
11/24- Astrid Slagle of Red Red Completely Red
11/25- Holly DeGroot of Bijou Lovely
11/26- Christopher Thompson of The Tattooed Quilter
11/27- Spoonflower
Give-away
WINNER is Sarah who wants to explore negative space. She wrote “I think I need to challenge myself by incorporating negative space in my modern quilts. Thanks for the chance to win!”. We will be sending you an email shortly.
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Lastly, Nancy has been kind enough to offer a digital copy of her book as a giveaway. I hope you all can enjoy it and be inspired as much as I am with her book. Just leave a comment below answering “What elements of modern design you would like to try in one of your quilt projects”.
There is a second chance to win if you are a follower, just leave a second comment. A winner will be chosen at random next Tuesday November 17th at 6pm EST.
A disclaimer, all reviews and opinions of the books reviewed will be mine, unless otherwise stated. Please note, I may not respond to all comments due to volume and bandwidth.
Factotum of Arts 
I love your book reviews! They are very well thought out. I would like to play with scale, asymmetry, and empty space with the modern quilting aesthetic. This book looks fabulous!
The elements I want to try more is making a striking quilt with negative space so that the quilting can be the star as well as the design
what a very interesting book. I would love to try the interweave. that is so cool looking
I am drawn to symmetrical designs. Always have been even when I try to walk away from symmetry. This book would allow me to incorporate asymmetric design into a quilt by following a pattern. The quilts are fabulous!
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I’d like to do more imrov piecing! The book looks fascinating. Thanks for the great review.
I would like to try making a quilt with more negative space. l love yours and love that you made it mini. The book looks fantastic.
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I want to use more negative space and also non grid-based layouts in my quilts!
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I love your quilt! I like negative space improv piecing. I think I’d like to try more improv.
I’d like to try making more quilts using only solid fabrics
What fabulous quilts – I like the large areas of negative space
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I’d like to try more solid and low volume quilt designs.
Looks like a great book. Since I am always challenged by minimal design, that is something that I would like to work on.
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I’d love to experiment more with minimal design. Thanks for hosting a giveaway of the book! Crossing my fingers!
I would like to push myself to do uneven grid work more often – your mini quilt is lovely.
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I would like to experiment with more negative space in my quilts
I’m playing with minimalism right now…it’s not my natural aesthetic, but I’m really enjoying it:)
This book looks very exciting! I have yet to make a solids only quilt or an asymmetric design one. Both on my 2016 list
I love this book! As a longarm quilter, I adore the challenge of quilting all that negative space and I love the idea of asymmetrical piecing!
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This looks like a fantastic book. It’s hard to pick a favorite design but they all remind me of the designs you produce.
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I’d like to try the interweave.
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I want to play with asymmetry, alternate grid and solids.
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Beautiful quilts and quilting! I would love to try some Negative space quilting!
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Thank you for participating Michelle! I love your Fossil project! xx
More triangles…..
A design board for quilt inspiration is a great idea…. Got me thinking….
I’d like to do some improv piecing.
I love the graphic qualities of so many modern quilts.
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I love the first weave quilt..
I think I need to challenge myself by incorporating negative space in my modern quilts. Thanks for the chance to win!
I like to explore alternative grid.
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I would like to use more negative space and play with asymmetry.
I want to step out of my comfort zone and use more low volume prints and more negative space. Your work is gorgeous…beautiful work. RxQuilter
I would like to try some improv curved piecing. Thanks for your review of this book.
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I love your Fossil quilt – spectacular design and wonderful quilting and fabrics.
I’d like to work with asymmetry and incorporate negative space into my quilts.
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