___ Flowers in Blue Milk Pitcher: Full size templates and instructions for making a small wall quilt, a 4 block lap quilt, and a twin or full size quilt.
- ---US$7.98 plus $1.50 postage
___ Americana Eagle: 50" x 50". This is a bold and classic wall quilt in Traditional nineteenth-century Pennsylvania Dutch style.
- ---US$7.98 plus $1.50 postage
___ Gwenny's Flower Bouquet
Pattern has directions for one block, four block and nine block size quilts.
- ---US$7.98 plus $1.50
___ Flower Pot Parade
Pattern has directions for one block, four block and nine block size quilts.
- ---US$7.98 plus $1.50 postage
Books
___ Ideas and Inspirations, Abstract Quilts in Solids
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Gwen has written a new book and this one is especially designed for grownup quilters. It's a book for the many accomplished quilters who are not looking for yet another project book with pages of detailed elementary instructions on how to make someone else's quilt. Rather, it's intended for quilters who are seeking ideas and inspiration for their own work.
- This 67 page book begins with a seven page discussion about working with solids and Gwen's fresh approach to design concepts. The remaining pages are in full color showing full page photographs of 28 quilts with close-ups and captions of each on the opposite page. Gregory Case did the photography and it is first rate.
- Ordering information:
... Book is available from Gwen or Gwen Marston Storefront
---Price $25.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling.
___ Collaborative Quilting........... Published by Sterling, 2006
- Special Note:
Collaborative Quilting Is in the gift shop at the Smithsonian!
- This book includes 256 pages of glorious, blazing color.
This is the book I did with Freddy Moran featuring 33 quilts we made together. Our goal was to bring the best of both of us together in a new body of work.. Freddy was the colorist and I was the designer. The book shows Freddy's studio and her quilts, and it shows my studio and my quilts. This book is a coffee table book showing full page color pictures of 96 quilts. It also has an innovative how-to section, with simple directions on how to make all the "parts" we used in our collaborative quilts.
---US$20.00* plus $5.00 postage
___ Lively Little Folk Art Quilts........... Published by C&T, 2006
- This 80 page book includes 28 quilts, 20 projects.
With over 400 small quilts to choose from, this book shows 28 of my favorites. My small quilts(about 18" X 20") are "easy-to-make, yet-ever-so delightful", if I do say so myself. The book includes clear instructions for making these little darlings. The projects include 8 pieced and 12 applique quilts.
Here is a fresh idea: what about instead of "block of the month", shops offered "quilt of the month." At the end of the year quilters could have a nifty little collection of 12 finished applique quilts!.
---US$25.00 plus $3.00 postage
___ Gwen Marston's Needlework Designs ........... Published by AQS 2006
- This 95 page book includes over 70 designs.
- Over 70 elegant designs were inspired by sixteenth-century motifs from museum collections from around the world.
- Adaptable and adjustable patterns that can be hand or machine quilted, embroidered, appliqued. or stenciled. They can be enlarged, rearranged, and used in blocks or borders.
- Inspirational tips and ideas from this experienced quilting designer will help you successfully transfer designs to your quilt or transform the patterns to fit your project.
- Two bonus quilt projects provide a perfect canvas on which to compose a classic arrangement of magnificent designs.
Savor the sophistication of Renaissance and Baroque styles with these classic patterns.
AQS did a very nice job designing this book of my original line drawings done over the past 20 plus years. These designs based on renaissance and baroque styles, are shown elegantly on pastel pages. The innovative approach to this book is that the designs have multi purposes: they can be used as quilting designs, for redwork and for applique patterns and the book shows them in all three forms.
---US$25.00 plus $3.00 postage
___ Classic Four-Block Applique Quilts: A Back-to-Basics Approach
by Gwen Marston, Published by C&T, 2005
- Intuitive,informal, free-yourself-from-rules approach
- Full-size patterns for 5 projects
- Gwen shows you how to choose colors, borders, and quilting designs like a pro!
- Learn how our quilting ancestors made quilts - and how they used simple basic techniques for stunning results
- Gwen brings history to life with her entrancing narrative
- Use just one special block to create a stunning crib quilt
---US$27.00* plus $5.00 postage
___ Mary Schafer; American Quilt Maker
by Gwen Marston, Published by The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI
, 2004
- Here it is folks, a book I've been working on in one way or another for 25 years.
It's about Mary Schafer, the great Michigan quilt maker. In telling the Mary Schafer story, I also tell the story of quilt making in America over the past 50 years.
Here is what the University of Michigan Press says about it:
"Mary Schafer; American Quilt Maker is a must-have book for anyone passionate about American Quilting."
The book has 216 pages, 11 patterns and 120 photographs.
---Soft Cover: $25.00* plus $5.00 postage
---Limited Edition Hard Cover: $65.00* plus $5.00 postage
___ Liberated String Quilts , C&T, 2003
- This 96 page book shows over 70 quilts in full color and includes twenty projects for foundation-free string quilts made with Gwen's easy techniques. 20 string-pieced quilt projects include updated traditional designs, Amish classics and more. Complete instructions included for working with wedges, rectangles and of course long and short strings. Gwen shares string quilt history and her "liberated" methods of construction.
---US$25.00* plus $5.00 postage
___ Fabric Picture Books, AQS, 2002
- From Gwen's new AQS book, Fabric Picture Books, 2002, comes a new
idea to create original fabric books. They are perfect first books
for children because the pages don't tear. Grownups love them too.
They are a delight to compose and make fabulous gifts for the
special people in your life. These charming books are constructed
using similar free-piecing techniques outlined in Gwen's book
Liberated Quiltmaking.
---US$16.00 plus $3.00 postage
___ Amish Quilting Patterns, Dover Publications, 1987
- This book is just what it says it is: traditional Amish quilting patterns.
---US$9.00 plus $3.00 postage
The following books are not available through Gwen but are still available through the publishers who can be located on line.
- Twenty Little Patchwork Quilts, Dover Publications, 1990
Twenty Little Amish Quilts, Dover Publications, 1993
Twenty Little Log Cabin Quilts, Dover Press, 1995
Mary Schafer & Her Quilts, Michigan State University Press 1990
Q is for Quilt, MSU Press 1987
Please include appropriate postage/handling for each book and/or pattern.
The books indicated by an * are heavy so please include $5.00 postage for each book.
Tell me if you want me to autograph your books.
Send order to
Gwen Marston
Beaver Island Quilts
Box 155
Beaver Island, MI 49782
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