Elly Sienkiewicz's Books

Featuring quilts from the 2010 Quilt's Inc. exhibit, Baltimore Album Review II: Baltimore's Daughters - Friends Stitch Past to Future. Celebrate the return of classic Baltimore patterns! These smaller blocks make for easier, more portable quilt projects that you and yours will cherish for years to come.

The author used her applique expertise to create the Moon Baby and its supporting cast of sweet block designs like Wee Babe, Sleepy Star, and Smiling Sun. The six dreamy baby projects include the Moon Baby quilt, Golden Slumbers wall hanging and a mobile.

If you always wanted to create a Baltimore Album quilt, you'll love Elly Sienkiewicz' new collection of smaller, less-complex blocks that are perfect for your first Baltimore Album. Or, enlarge the blocks for a larger work! More than two dozen block designs are also ideal for adding elegance to accessories and home dcor, or for creating a very special child's quilt. In-depth how-tos and Elly's skill-building lessons will have you creating block after block.

This treasury of patterns shows the artistic, technical, historic, and philosophical depths of antebellum applique album quilts. Patterns ranging in difficulty from easy to heirloom are reproduced full size. In addition, there are two patterns for center-medallion quilts.

Demonstrates applique and quilting techniques, and shares patterns for a variety of designs

The current enthusiasm for patchwork should not banish techniques of quilt applique to obscurity, and for Washington, D.C., quilter Sienkiewicz the quilt tops made in Baltimore during the mid-1800s exemplify the classic standards of the applique craft. In a series of 12 lessons, Sienkiewicz describes in meticulous detail the ingenious methods employed a century past by Baltimore women, and others favored by contemporary needleworkers (who use timesaving devices such as freezer paper, glue sticks and masking tape without shame). Each lesson prepares the reader to execute a 16-inch quilt block in one or more of 27 full-size patterns, cut from paper first folded into halves, quarters or eighths. Organized as a text for a single reader or for a class of quilters, the book allows the faithful to advance from cutwork applique to folded rosebuds, stuffed berries, ruching and inked calligraphy. Each block is presented in color, as are four antique and four contemporary quilts. Sienkiewicz's very specific how-to instructions are verified by historical example--and one is always made aware not only of the evolution of the stitches, but also of the feelings that inspired them. Illustrations.

Book's by Elly Sienkiewicz

Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts

Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts

Sweet Dreams, Moon Baby

Sweet Dreams, Moon Baby

Baltimore Elegance

Baltimore Elegance

Appliqué 12 Borders & Medallions!

Appliqué 12 Borders & Medallions!

Dimensional Appliqué

Dimensional Appliqué

Papercuts and Plenty

Papercuts and Plenty

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