Circle Play: Simple Designs for Fabulous Fabrics

This book is jam packed with great ideas and new ideas.....I'll be sewing for a LONG time if I try every project/idea in this book!

Reynola Pakusich is a long time quilter, teacher and author who has written for a number of quilting publications. I bought this book as a result of an article she wrote that appeared in "Quilters Newsletter Magazine." She has produced a very informative and beautiful book that uses a simple design medium (circles) along with backgrounds to show off unusual and collectable fabrics, including both yardage and bits and pieces of kimono and obi fabrics. Her wildly eclectic fabric collection includes wax prints from Africa, yukata and traditional kimono and obi fabrics from Japan, traditional and contemporary batiks, madras plaids and printed fabrics incorporating animal skins, florals and leaves and graphic prints. The quilts (some by her and a number by her students) are very beautiful and surprisingly complex considering their simple block design. If you do not already collect beautiful fabric, I can assure you that this book will inspire you to do so. The instructions are easy to follow and will help you produce that masterwork you have wanted to make for so long.

Well written and informative. All steps explained well. Takes the mystery out of circles.

If you have a stash of fabric with strong patterns and colors, be they batik, Asian, reproduction, op-art, no matter, you too can create wonderful quilts with movement and balance. This book shows how to make absolutely fabulous quilts that bring out the very best in those small pieces of killer fabric you just had to have, but didn't have a clue what you would do with when you bought them. Clear instructions, great examples, wonderful graphics: great book.

This is a wonderful technique book that will spark your creativity if you love to play with fabrics! The author has a good grasp of color, value, and design and focuses on their use in quilts to create texture, movement, and light. The bonus for me was the detail of finishing techniques including welting, piping, and "pillowcase turn" edges. Needs to be on the shelf of any artistic quilter!