Ok, either you love Sharon Boggon's work, or you're wrong! :-)
But seriously, how could you not love her work? Just look at what you'll find in The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design:
Sharon's main goal, I feel, is to teach you how to tell a story with your quilts, how to make every part of the process serve the art. To that end, she starts with an overview of the encrusted crazy quilting style, discusses how to design that journey for your viewer, and then moves to piecing and stitching. The second half of the book teaches you how to do beautiful variations on basic stitches and how to incorporate beads, buttons, and more.
I don't often quote parts of the books that I review, but I just want you to have an example of one of Sharon's many many (many!) tips that you will find in this book. I recommend it for beginners and experienced quilters alike:
"A good, quick way of finding a color scheme is to select a favorite patterned fabric. The trick is to find fabrics that match the colors in the fabric. Once you have about five colors, you will have your color scheme for a block. Look for fabrics that match a favorite photograph. As you piece a block, don’t forget to select lace, thread, beads, and buttons to harmonize with the colors in the fabric patches. Think about color not only as you piece your project but also during the hand embroidery and embellishing phases."
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