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Baltimore Elegance: A New Approach to Classic Album Quilts CODE: CT10379 Price: $49.95 Points: 44  Author:   Elly Sienkiewicz   Publishing Information:   176 pages, color/b&w, softcover, ISBN: 978-1-57120-274-1  Amount:   Add to cart

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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 decor, 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.

• A fresh look at Baltimore Album quilts!
• 25 new, smaller (8"), less complex blocks-8 large reproduction blocks-plus border designs
• 6 lessons for building and improving your applique skills
• Embellish pretty totes, aprons, pillows, and a block carrier

Excerpt:
I feel the need to make simpler Albums these days, for I am a grandmother of very young grandchildren and I have come to believe in the power of symbols. My soul smiles when a young mother says in my class, "I'm making this (this heirloom Album, this legacy) for my son; he is seven." For young mothers, I believe, the time to start such things is early. So too, for grandmothers, the time to begin is early, for the ability to continue stitching is a longed-for blessing, not a certainty.

Thank you, my fellow quiltmaker, for contemplating joining this old and honorable sisterhood - the Album-makers. May you be inspired to stitch a simpler Album. Its beauty may well lift even hearts yet unborn!

Baltimore Elegance
A New Approach to Classic Album Quilts
by Elly Sienkiewicz