Kaffe Fassett’s Country Garden Quilts, softback, published by Rowan. ISBN 978-1-9060-0742-3, price £17.95, available from www.thegmcgroup.com
This book brings you twenty designs from Rowan for patchwork and quilting from the hands of Kaffe himself and other designers. The designs for the book were all photographed at the late Christopher Lloyd’s garden, Dixter in Sussex. Lloyd was known for his bold use of colour in the garden. What hits you in the eye with this book, is the use of colour. The designs are fabulous and use Fassett’s materials. The reader and stitcher will have one big problem – that of choosing which design to make first. This really is a first class book with excellent design and anyone making these quilts will have lots of fun.
I just have one niggle- the photographs of the finished quilts are all at the beginning of the book and the instructions for making the quilts are all at the back. I would have preferred them to run side by side, so that you can see the finished result whilst you are making the quilt, without having to flip through the book.
Fantabulous and glorious, masterful Fassett takes simple design and colour and makes it utterly mouthwatering.