All of Mrs. Sienkiewicz's books are based on the traditional Baltimore Album quilts. The books are lavishly illustrated in full color. The patterns are based on papercuts, elaborate versions of what children used to do with scissors and folded paper, like snowflakes. One-fourth of the pattern is given fullsize in the book; the other three-fourths are mirror images of the first.

  Baltimore Beauties and Beyond : Studies in Classic Album Quilt Applique Volume 1
by Elly Sienkiewicz and Bobbie Sloan
review by L.
Mrs. Sienkiewicz's books are a wonderful introduction to the highest form of fine needlework: the applique quilt based on quilts made in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1800s. They are a standard which serves as a model of design excellence. The first volume is primarily a text on how to applique, and is arranged in lessons in which the reader is shown, on a step by step basis, how to do the illustrated blocks. All blocks are shown in full color and full-size patterns are given.
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  Baltimore Beauties and Beyond : Studies in Classic Album Quilt Applique
by Elly Sienkiewicz
(Volume 2) review by L.
Mrs. Sienkiewicz includes a fascinating discussion of picture blocks, scherenschnitty (German paper cutting) bordered blocks, and a huge section of quilt gallery pictures in both black-and-white and in full color. Patterns are given for some blocks. One pattern is a delightful block showing a girl milking a cow. Another, called "Goose Girl", pictuers a girl with her geese in front of a stately mansion. There is a block, "Waterfowling", which depicts a man and his dogs hunting. The other blocks are just as picturesque.
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  Dimensional Applique : Baskets, Blooms & Baltimore Borders : A Pattern Companion to Volume II of Baltimore Beauties and Beyond, Studies in Classic Ba
by Elly Sienkiewicz
review by L.
This volume contains full instructions for making elaborate 3-Dimensional flowers and patterns for quilts in which to use them. Instructions include edge-fused padded applique, a way of making gathered lilacs, wire ribbon roses, folded rosebuds, small rick-rack flowers, ruched flowers, and many others. As in all of her books, there are many pages in full color showing the finished blocks and quilts in full pattern.
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  Applique Paper Greetings
by Elly Sienkiewicz
review by L.
Mrs. Sienkiewicz has broken away from her traditional Baltimore Album for this delightful applique-based craft book. She gives full instructions for cutting fabric shapes, including some elaborate shapes based on Baltimore Album quilts, as well as other modern ideas, and shows how they may be made into stunning greeting cards. One example which particularly appeals to me is a delightful fabric angel. She gives a number of patterns such as a cowboy, fish, cat, reindeer, rabbit, Mrs. Cottontail, a parrot, and so forth. A fun way to spend a day not sewing. :)
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