I have been quilting off and on for 50 years, but I am brand new to the concept of improvisational quilting. I do better when someone else picks out the pattern and I do my own version of it. If I really like the pattern I might do several versions. So the idea of starting with a concept, or even just starting, no concept is alien to me as a quilter.
Then in 2024 I went to my first QuiltCon. My mind was blown.
There was so much more to quilting than what I had explored and there were so many ways to explore it. I joined a Modern Quilt Guild and while I struggled to make meetings and also to make progress, I felt like I was on a new quilting path.
At our guild's fall retreat a recommended reading list was developed and this book was on it.
Finally, something that spoke to me and how I need a starting point in order to quilt. It is a relatively slim volume but one that is packed full of ideas and places to start with your own improv quilts.
She gives her idea of what exactly improve quilts consist of, how she approaches her own work, and walks through her creative process as a way of teaching the reader how to start.
There are several chapters that are "start here" options, from string piecing to having a shape in mind and following it to starting small and seeing where it takes you.
I would recommend this to someone who is hoping to make something totally their own but doesn't know where to start. Start here.
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