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Quilts in Burano ~ Kaffe Fassett
Quilts in Burano ~ Kaffe Fassett
In this 22nd instalment of Kaffe Fassett’s ever-popular series of patchwork and quilting books, the quilts have been photographed on location in Burano, a tiny island in Italy’s Venetian archipelago, famous for its lace-making but also for its brilliantly painted houses in myriad jewel colours.
The colourful house walls, sometimes distressed and occasionally decorated with murals, form the backdrop, along with the canals, bridges, and boats of this special Venetian island, to another wonderful selection of Kaffe’s new quilt designs.
The collection of 19 quilts features both new fabric designs from the Kaffe Collective and some of his Classics.
Bali Brocade makes a fantastic background to Kaffe’s sumptuous Shimmer Star quilt with its ripples of pattern in contrasting prints.
His two versions of a very simple quilt come in two very different colourways.

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Hot Steps is a riot of colour, whereas by contrast its sister quilt, Cool Steps, in dusty blues, greens, and greys has a dreamy quality.

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Liza Prior Lucy’s rich and dark Turkish Coffee quilt, with its hint of
Eastern promise, fussy cuts Kaffe’s new Turkish Delight fabric to brilliant effect.

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Kaffe Fassett’s Quilts in Burano provides all the instructional text, diagrams, and templates to make the quilts, plus a section on basic patchwork techniques for the less experienced quilter