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Quilter's Academy—Senior Year: A Skill Building Course in Quiltmaking Kindle Edition

by Harriet Hargrave (Author), Carrie Hargrave (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
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Your senior year is a star-filled adventure! Your senior year of Quilter's Academy takes you into the most exciting of all designs-stars! You'll explore a variety of more complex piecing techniques such as Y-seams and partial seams, which put the sewing and pressing skills you've learned thus far to the test. Work through the lessons at your own pace and soon you will be making those really stunning quilts that you never thought you could make! • The fourth installment in this popular university-style series • Build upon the skills you developed in the first three volumes to learn how to make beautiful stars, as well as other more complex blocks and piecing techniques • Fill your creative toolbox with new techniques that allow you to enjoy the process of quiltmaking even more!
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I have previously reviewed the other books in this series and this is the fourth installment in this informative and popular university-style series. This is a chance to build upon the skills you developed in the first three volumes and to learn how to make beautiful stars, as well as other more complex blocks and piecing techniques. There are new techniques to learn, which will allows you to expand on your knowledge and help you enjoy the process of quilt making even more.
-- Jennifer Trollope, Fabrications Quilting for You; 06/26/12

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009VJUZ4C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ C&T Publishing (May 1, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 37761 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 132 pages
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Harriet Hargrave

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Harriet started quilting seriously in 1974, working alongside her mom. Her early quilting career included producing baby quilts for craft shows and teaching adult education classes. In 1981, harriet opened her quilt shop, Harriet's Treadle Arts. Her specialties at the time were free-motion embroidery, machine arts, and machine quilting. In 1982, Harriet attended one of Mary Ellen Hopkins's seminars. Mary Ellen's streamlined techniques and innovative design ideas led harriet to a new way of thinking, which caused her to give up the machine arts and to teach only quilting. Today, she is world renowned for being a true "mover and shaker" in the quilt world. In the late 1990s, she was voted one of the "88 Leaders of the Quilt World." Harriet created and inspired a whole new generation of machine quilters with her bestselling book Heirloom Machine Quilting, which has enjoyed 25 continuous years in print. She is also the author of Mastering Machine Appliqué and From Fiber to Fabric, and co-author of The Art of Classic Quiltmaking. Harriet and her daughter have been writing the Quilters Academy series - a skill-building course to teach precision piecing - since 2009. The fifth volume was released December 2015. Harriet is responsible for a myriad of products pertaining to machine quilting, and she has developed batting with Hobbs Bonded Fibers and designed fabric for P&B Textiles and Marcus Brothers. She retired in 2017, closing the store, selling her home, along with Carrie's family doing the same, and moving to a beautiful 40 acre farm in central Missouri. She is now involved with her four horses, her grandson, re-establishing the gardens, and enjoying being in the country.

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SLS
5.0 out of 5 stars Need a Senior Year Do-Over? Get it right this time with the Hargraves.
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2012
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Finally, we're quilting with the big kids. Harriet and Carrie Hargrave - with their long awaited Quilter's Academy Vol. 4 - Senior Year - are the tutors who will help you get perfect grades in Y-seams, partial seams, and matching points. Now you don't have to skip over the projects in your favorite quilt books that employ these techniques.

Starting with lots and LOTS of hexagons, the authors introduce 60 degree angles, Y-seams, and English paper piecing (projects are a tea cozy, placemat, and an outstanding Mosaic Star). Then they segue nicely into diamonds, half-hexagons, and stretched squares (projects incorporate Tumbling Blocks and various 6-pointed stars; my favorite project is the divinely inspired Diamond Starburst). Our instructors advance onward to 8-pointed stars (projects involve both the classic Le Moyne Star and Lone Star, each with several delightfully more intricate variations); included is the very handy chart from the earlier years that explains how to add on additional seam allowances to various shapes.

Senior Year becomes very interesting with hexagon Log Cabins and 45/60 degree diamond Log Cabins (projects include an alternate Pineapple runner and the beautiful Prayer Star). Graduation nears with partial seams and several star variations (projects are a pinwheel quilt and a pseudo Storm At Sea design). Finally, the year ends with grids, designing and drafting, coloration, pieced borders (a short gallery of black and while illustrations), and quilting designs (this section is only about 1 and ¼ pages long and I would have enjoyed more pages).

Throughout the book are ample color photographs, truly helpful text (with frequent notes, and tips), suggestions for edge treatments, drafting tips, layout options, various block configurations, and even some unusual block units (many taken from a Jinny Beyer book  The Quilter's Album of Blocks and Borders : More than 750 Geometric Designs Illustrated and Categorized for Easy Identification and Drafting ). This book does build on and refer back to Junior Year  Quilter's Academy, Volume 3: Junior Year: A Skill-Building Course in Quiltmaking , but my opinion is that Harriet and Carrie Hargrave have done such an excellent job with Senior Year that anyone could jump right in and make most of these challenging but doable projects. The best part is, the book incorporates so much flexibility that even someone with a rather short attention span for piecing large projects (um, like me) can improvise smaller projects. And some of these individual blocks are so beautiful they deserve to be bound, finished, and displayed on their own. There are so many options from these two master quilter authors; senior year is going to be a GOOD year for all of us.
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Rebecca S. Hanna
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resources for any quilter
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2012
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I purchased the Quilter's Academy, Volume 4, to round out my set. Of all my quilt books, the Quilter's Academy are the ones I use the most. From volume 1 (freshmen year) through volume 4 (senior year), Harriet and Carrie Hargrave provide comprehensive information for quilters of all levels. Volume 4 covers such things as designing with angles, working with 8-point starts, hexagons and much more. What I like about this series is how clear the instructions are and how they build on the more basic skills of the earlier volumes to increase a quilters skill level.
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N. Smyer
5.0 out of 5 stars Good info & easy to understand
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2020
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Any of the Quilting Academy books are very good for your quilting library. A keeper. Plenty of pictures & easy to understand.
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malena
5.0 out of 5 stars basic construction of geometric blocks very usefull for making quilts
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2012
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I think that when time passed, and is my case ( I am 63 years old) and we forget how about is the basic geometric for constructing and handling cubes, diamonds, rectangles etc for doing quilts. It is very usefull to learn again how to do them in this book vol. 4 of quilters academy. Specially if we have a lot of time to dedicate to another themes at work. But when we are retired it is very usefull to learn by ourselves this essencial thing when we start to do quilts. So I fell very glad that I bought this book and that it was so easy to learn about all the basic things you should know specially when you want to learn by yourself and do not have to pay a teacher lessons for making quilts and do what the teacher only teaches you. By this way you learn by yourself and do beautiful quilts using your imagination. Specially in my country we do not have many teachers for making quilts.
the way this book explains how to join all the geometric forms for giving a good looking pattern for quilts. just using the basic concepts of geometry. So it is very usefull remembring that only by changing the direcctions of our blocks based in geometry we can create any kind of effects doing cubes and diamonds with different colors in each piece. Thanks for recomend this book to me.
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Sue from CA
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of good tips.
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2014
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Harriet would probably be unhappy with me because she sees her Academy books as a progressive learning experience. I, however, have only this one book, but I refer to it often, even though not sequentially. I have a problem knowing how to do something? I look to see if Harriet has addressed it in this book. Chances are, she has, and I learn a better way to approach a solution. Read the "course content" before buying. What you need to know may not be what I need to know. This book, however, has tips about those piecing things that trouble me most often. Love it!
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Wolfe
5.0 out of 5 stars Quilters academy YES
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2019
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I found volume 2 of this series at the public library. It made half square triangles so easy that I decided to read volume 1,3, and now 4. I had been quilting for 20 years and every single volume has given me new tools, new techniques, and new ideas to put to work. You are basically taking a four semester course in how to quilt. but don’t think it is just for beginners; if you do the exercises you will become a much better quilter. Your points won’t have flat tips, your seams will match, your color sense will grow, and you may even begin designing your own patterns. Highly recommended.
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goldendog
5.0 out of 5 stars Advanced Quilters!
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2012
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`Quilter's Academy, Vol. 4, Senior Year' by the mother/ daughter team of Harriet Hargrave and Carrie Hargrave have produced another wonderful book to their academy series of learning how to quilt, starting at the very basics in the Freshman edition. I have long wanted a book t hat would have patterns and instructions for the advanced quilter, and this book really fits that need. If you are a new quilter, do not start with this book! The book contains 128 pages of very detailed blocks, many that are not square blocks. This book contains patterns and lessons on making hexagon blocks, 60 degree angles, six and eight pointed stars, tumbling blocks, LeMoyne stars, Lone stars, 3 different shaped log cabin blocks, and designing your own unique blocks. This is a great book, if you want to be challenged, yet want instructions in how-tos!
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Karin Tané
5.0 out of 5 stars Ótimo livro.
Reviewed in Brazil on September 4, 2018
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Técnicas avançadas para aprendizado e consulta.
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Lydia Markova
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! Get the whole series. Thoroughly recommend.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2016
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Can't recommend this series of books enough. So much even experienced quilters can learn and absolutely great for beginners - if you start with Volume 1. It teaches traditional quilting, but what you learn can be applied in every field of quilting. It will radically improve the quality of your quilts.
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Tabatha
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource
Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2013
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If you're an advanced beginner, intermediate or experienced quilter, this series is for you!! If you're a beginner or advanced beginner, I'd recommend you purchase the first three volumes as well. This series teaches you how to piece and design your quilt the RIGHT way! And yes, there is a right way to achieve perfect quilt tops.

This fourth volume doesn't hold your hand and walk you step by step through the process of designing a block, that's why it's important to get at least the second and third volumes. If you're looking for a challenge and have never worked with diamonds and y-seams, Volume 4 is for you! I can't recommend this series enough!
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brunipenny
5.0 out of 5 stars utilissimo
Reviewed in Italy on March 2, 2014
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libro-corso consigliato per chi desidera apprendere la tecnica di progettazione e realizzazione delle stelle.E di livello avanzato quindi dà per scontata la conoscenza di alcune tecniche, anche se in parte propone dei richiami (io ho acquistato il n.3 sui triangoli per approfondire). Naturalmente serve capire l'inglese.
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M. Filisetti
5.0 out of 5 stars Supertolles Buch!!!
Reviewed in Germany on December 4, 2012
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So in der Art würde ich mir ein Universitätsbuch vorstellen. Super vom Aufbau her. Viele Lektionen die aufeinander aufbauen.
Auch wenn es in englisch geschrieben ist, trotzdem sehr gut zu verstehen durch die vielen Fotos. Sterne, Hexagons, Rauten und alles was man damit machen kann. Log Cabin, einzelne Blöcke bis hin zum Quilt. Man ist auf der Quilters Academy!!!
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