That Dorky Homemade Look Quilting Lessons from a Parallel Universe, Lisa Boyer. (Paperback 1561483516)

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That Dorky Homemade Look Quilting Lessons from a Parallel Universe
Author: Lisa Boyer

Fed up with feeling like you can’t meet the standards of the Quilt Police? Do you want to quilt for comfort and pleasure—and not to win some high-falutin’ quilting contest? Weary of worrying about what others will think of your color choices—or your pieced points? Or your applique stitc... more »hes? That Dorky Homemade Look: Quilting Lessons from a Parallel Universe is the quilting companion you’ve been wishing for. Lisa Boyer, a popular columnist for Quilting Today magazine, gives you permission to quilt because you love it. She clears your path of all those merciless judgments pronounced by the Quilting Queens. She invites you to make quilts that are full of life. This funny book offers these nine principles for the 20 million quilters in America: 1. Pretty fabric is not acceptable. Go right back to the quilt shop and exchange it for something you feel sorry for. 2. Realize that patterns and templates are only someone’s opinion and should be loosely translated. Personally, I’ve never thought much of a person who could only make a triangle with three sides. 3. When choosing a color plan for your quilt, keep in mind that the colors will fade after a hundred years or so. This being the case, you will need to start with really bright colors. 4. You should plan on cutting off about half your triangle or star points. Any more than that is showing off. 5. If you are doing applique, remember that bigger is dorkier. Flowers should be huge. Animals should possess really big eyes. 6. Throw away your seam ripper and repeat after me: "Oops. Oh, no one will notice." 7. Plan on running out of border fabric when you are three-quarters of the way finished. Complete the remaining border with something else you have a lot of, preferably in an unrelated color family. 8. You should be able to quilt equally well in all directions. I had to really work on this one. It was difficult to make my forward stitching look as bad as my backward stitching, but closing my eyes helped. 9. When you have put your last stitch in the binding, you are still only half finished. Your quilt must now undergo a thorough conditioning. Give it to someone you love dearly—to drag around the house, wrap up in, spill something on, and wash and dry until it is properly lumpy. No reason not to have quiltmaking be a pleasure, says Lisa Boyer, who has as firm a grip on her sense of humor as she does on her quilting needles. "If we didn’t make Dorky Homemade quilts, all the quilts in the world would end up in the Beautiful Quilt Museum, untouched and intact. Quilts would just be something to look at. We would forget that quilts are lovable, touchable, shreddable, squeezable, chewable, and huggable—made to wrap up in when the world seems to be falling down around us."

ISBN-13: 9781561483518
ISBN-10: 1561483516
Publication Date: 5/25/2002
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Good Books
Book Type: Paperback
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CA N. (giantgardener) reviewed That Dorky Homemade Look : Quilting Lessons from a Parallel Universe on 7/25/2009

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Open when receiving, especially if depressed. You won't put it down until you've read from cover to cover, laughing all the way! Anyone would want Lisa Boyer for a sister!

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Ivy R. reviewed That Dorky Homemade Look : Quilting Lessons from a Parallel Universe on 8/27/2006 + 13 more book reviews

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Loved it. Very cute, very funny, but not a reread.

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Rachael T. (rockelita) reviewed That Dorky Homemade Look : Quilting Lessons from a Parallel Universe on 4/26/2010 + 6 more book reviews

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LOL! This was a fun read. A perfect book for passing along to your quilting buddies. No patterns or projects, just a lot of funny thoughts and stories all relating to quilting, quilters, and perfectionism (or lack thereof). It didn't take long to read and it totally made me rethink about perfectionism in quilting (and many other handcrafted projects for that matter). I totally appreciate Lisa Boyer's humor. Many good chuckles to be had reading this book.

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Debra A. reviewed That Dorky Homemade Look : Quilting Lessons from a Parallel Universe on 8/23/2009

Enjoyed the author's sense of humor. Wish the book was longer.

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