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• Purchase Whip Up Mini Quilts direct from Chronicle
• Can Do Books (Australia)
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Whip Up Mini Quilts

Patterns and How-to for More Than 20 Contemporary Small Quilts. By Kathreen Ricketson. Published by Chronicle Books (April 2010). Photographs by Leigh Beisch. Hand drawn illustrations by Rob Shugg.

8 x 8-3/4 in; 176 pp: full-color photographs throughout, 10 pattern sheets, semi-concealed Wire-O binding : Hardcover : Published in March, 2010 : ISBN 9780811868730 : ISBN10 0811868737

Kathreen Ricketson, founder of WhipUp.net, presents more than 20 contemporary quilts from across the globe in this charming, easy-to-follow guide. The projects collected in Whip Up Mini Quilts cover all sorts of themes and looks. With plenty of step-by-step instructions and helpful how-to illustrations, this book showcases an artful approach to design basics while outlining the fundamentals of quilting techniques. It all comes in a user-friendly format with lay-flat binding and pattern sheets tucked into the front pocket. + Online Exclusive Patterns available here

Contributors:
Alexandra Rasmussen :: Lisa Solomon :: Kellie Wulfsohn :: Alix McAlister :: Ruth Singer :: Kajsa Wikman :: Alison Brookbanks :: Shannon Lamden :: Kristine Lempriere :: Nicole Vaughan :: me! Kathreen Ricketson :: Betz White :: Sherri-Lynn Wood :: Lisa Call :: Boo Davis :: Malka Dubrawsky :: Victoria Gertenbach :: Lizette Greco :: Liz Harvatine :: Jude Hill :: Lucinda Jones :: Alicia Paulson, :: Meg Spaeth :: Sarah Steedman

[That's me with my two little ones]

And see all the archives of mini quilt month – celebrating the arrival of this book!

Press: What they’re saying about Whip Up Mini Quilts

• Meet Me At Mikes – Review
• Mod Cloth – mini review and available to purchase (+ sneaky peak inside)
• Fat Quarterly - interview with me + mini review
• Brief mention in Daily Candy
• Ready Made Magazine online- brief mention and fabulous giveaway
• Woman’s Day Magazine online – Kellie Wulfsohn’s project excerpt
• A lovely review from the Bolt neighborhood
• A quick mention and giveaway at Sew mama sew
• review from Laura Bray
• Book review from the long thread
• A mention at plush you
• Modern acorn discusses modern quilting
• Freshly blended has a lovely review
• MrXstitch did a lovely review
• Troy Chafin shows some of the quilts

Blog tour

• Craftzine – essential quilting tools
• Craftypod - book review
• Chronicle blog - Behind the making of the book
• Indie Fixx – Designing your own mini-quilts
• Craft Sanity – Piped binding tutorial
• Hand Made by Alissa – a review and chat about minis
• My Love for You - Background on Mini Quilts
• Film in the Fridge – a review and chat about minis
• The Haystack Needle – How to hang and look after your mini quilt

Corrections:

Corrections for Blattwork quilt:
When cutting out the templates, you must flip the template to the other side when cutting the second piece to get two mirrored pieces. If the template isn’t flipped one ends up with halves of leaves which are all right or left, and one cannot make whole leaves of them. There will be 10 pieces in the shape of the template, not 9 as asked for in the instructions of the book. See image below.