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Still Stripping After 25 Years
	Title: Still Stripping After 25 Years Author: Burns, Eleanor Released: 2003-09-01 Publisher: Quilt In A Day - San Marcos, CA ISBN: 9781891776144 Format: Hardcover Category: Crafts, Hobbies & Home Last Updated: 2018-06-17 Rating: -1 Pages: 240 Description: Eleanor Burns and Quilt in a Day invite you to celebrate our Silver Anniversary with Still Stripping - After 25 Years! Eleanor reminisces as she journeys from 1978, with the publication of her first book, through her 25 years of strip quilting. Stroll down memory lane with photos and stories of good times, good friends, and beautiful quilts. Still Stripping is a collection of 12 quilt patterns, some traditional, some contemporary. The patterns are based on 2.5 fabric strips, which have become Eleanor's trademark. As an added feature, most patterns have complete yardage and cutting charts for all five quilt sizes. The book, with over 200 pages in full color, has fully illustrated, step-by-step directions for the patterns and features Eleanor's latest fabric line, Yours Truly from Benartex, Inc. Each quilt includes a convenient chart with each fabric color name and number for easy identification.Still Stripping - After 25 Years is sure to become a collectors item, for the fun, easy quilt patterns, photographs, and stories of Eleanor's first 25 years! Editorial Reviews About the Author Twenty nine years ago Eleanor Burns introduced her first Quilt in a Day book, cultivating a quiltmaking revolution. She presented her unique style, a diverse combination of cutting and sewing applications, creating new techniques altogether. Her concise step by step directions are easy to grasp, allowing the possibility for anyone to be successful at making a quilt. Eleanor Burns gave quiltmakers techniques that compacted months into merely a day, a quilt in a day, spreading her vibrant enthusiasm within everyone. She has motivated thousands of want-to-be quilters with needed confidence and assurance. Altogether, the impact of her influences opened the door to a renewal. Her efforts sowed the seeds that have grown into many techniques that are commonly used today. Since 1978 when she self-published her first book Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern, she has authored over seventy five additional books. Throughout the world today, there are thousands of inst!ructors teaching her quiltmaking methods. Her first Quilt in a Day TV series began airing on PBS in 1990 and is still broadcast nationwide and abroad and now her shows can be seen on the world wide web on QNN and Quilters TV.

Title: Still Stripping After 25 Years
Author: Burns, Eleanor
Released: 2003-09-01
Publisher: Quilt In A Day - San Marcos, CA
ISBN: 9781891776144
Format: Hardcover
Category: Crafts, Hobbies & Home
Last Updated: 2018-06-17
Rating: -1
Pages: 240
Description:
Eleanor Burns and Quilt in a Day invite you to celebrate our Silver Anniversary with Still Stripping - After 25 Years! Eleanor reminisces as she journeys from 1978, with the publication of her first book, through her 25 years of strip quilting. Stroll down memory lane with photos and stories of good times, good friends, and beautiful quilts. Still Stripping is a collection of 12 quilt patterns, some traditional, some contemporary. The patterns are based on 2.5 fabric strips, which have become Eleanor's trademark. As an added feature, most patterns have complete yardage and cutting charts for all five quilt sizes. The book, with over 200 pages in full color, has fully illustrated, step-by-step directions for the patterns and features Eleanor's latest fabric line, Yours Truly from Benartex, Inc. Each quilt includes a convenient chart with each fabric color name and number for easy identification.Still Stripping - After 25 Years is sure to become a collectors item, for the fun, easy quilt patterns, photographs, and stories of Eleanor's first 25 years!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Twenty nine years ago Eleanor Burns introduced her first Quilt in a Day book, cultivating a quiltmaking revolution. She presented her unique style, a diverse combination of cutting and sewing applications, creating new techniques altogether. Her concise step by step directions are easy to grasp, allowing the possibility for anyone to be successful at making a quilt. Eleanor Burns gave quiltmakers techniques that compacted months into merely a day, a quilt in a day, spreading her vibrant enthusiasm within everyone. She has motivated thousands of want-to-be quilters with needed confidence and assurance. Altogether, the impact of her influences opened the door to a renewal. Her efforts sowed the seeds that have grown into many techniques that are commonly used today. Since 1978 when she self-published her first book Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern, she has authored over seventy five additional books. Throughout the world today, there are thousands of inst!ructors teaching her quiltmaking methods. Her first Quilt in a Day TV series began airing on PBS in 1990 and is still broadcast nationwide and abroad and now her shows can be seen on the world wide web on QNN and Quilters TV.