Seaside Quilts: Quilting & Sewing Projects for Beach-Inspired Décor

by Carol Porter, Rebecca Hansen

Overview

Seaside Quilts shows you how to transform your dwelling into a relaxing shore retreat, with sea-inspired linens and home décor. Discover charming ways to enhance your bedroom, bathroom, kitchen or family space with coordinating seaside hues and matching coastal themes. This book presents dozens of simple, beautiful projects that anyone can make, with inspirational ideas for sewing, painting and crafting your love affair with the ocean. .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574214314
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Carol C. Porter was born and raised in Washington State. She has taught quiltmaking since 1988 and currently teaches a variety of classes at quilt shops around the Pacific Northwest.

Editorial Reviews

★ 12/02/2013
Landlubbers and beachcombers alike will find something sewable in this book dedicated to the seaside. Porter (co-author, Patchwork Pantry) and Hansen (Angle Antics) begin with colors inspired by sunsets and sand, boats and surfboards, beach glass and glass floats. They have devised projects from large quilts to small hot pads, each sounding a beach note, echoed by quilting patterns bearing appropriate names like “Ocean Waves,” “Nautilus,” and “Summer Winds.” Among the most comely quilts is “Irish Chain” in blue and white; vintage tablecloths fill the centers of picnic blankets. The authors offer variations on a theme; for example, the “Beach Glass” quilting pattern shrinks from a bedcover to a wall hanging to placemats (although orange in the color choices seems odd for beach glass). The decorative projects include a skeletal fish fashioned from driftwood and a tray coiled from scraps. The authors’ headnotes are more pedestrian than poetic in style, but their designs splash (“Under the Sea”). At the end, they include patterns for appliquéd designs as well as instructions for appliquéing and mitering. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly