String Quilts

String Quilts is one part innovation, one part thrift, and awholelot of fun. When author, educator, and award-winning quilt-maker ElsieM.Campbell needs a break from creating precision-pieced and-appliqud beauties, she turns to making string quilts. This ismy playtime, she says. String Quilts is an innovative approach to quilt-making that involves creating your own fabric yardage from new or leftover strips of fabric. This new yardage becomes the basis for creating stunning pieced quilts, whose leftover yardage can then spawn anappliqud sister quilt. Dads Plaids yields Plaid Poppies; Purple Pride spawns Purple Posies. The 10 quilts are shown in brilliant full-color photography with easy-to-follow instructions, patterns, and diagrams. Also included are Elsies Top Tips for Successful String Quilts and a full-color Gallery of 12 additional quilts by Campbell and other playful quilters, all demonstrating the range and charm of string quilts. Patterns for all skill levels.