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Beginners rejoice, getting started with quilting has never been easier! This project-based introductory guide will give you everything you need to know to explore and enjoy this popular art form. Dive in and sew six cute and useful projects from a simple patchwork pillow to a mug rug, table runner, baby quilt, throw, and finally, a beautiful sampler quilt. Step-by-step instructions, essential skills how-to, and the full scoop on must-have tools and...
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Raconteur-The Storyteller's Collection, a multi-award-winning quilt, is your next take-anywhere project. Sew a collection of miniature, pieced hexagons from Cinzia White's storytelling sampler. Make the king-size quilt your next long-term project, or pick-and-choose from 359 block designs to make a project of any size! A mix of hand-stitched and machine-pieced 2 ¼" blocks are, organized in 59 collections. Full-size foundation paper patterns are included,...
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What can you sew with a 60° ruler and a simple, repeated shape? The possibilities are endless! Favorite authors Sara Nephew and Marci Baker are back with 20 beautifully bold one-patch quilts made from triangles, half-hexagons, diamonds, and more. With their eye-catching color placement and clever pieced units like half-triangles and quarter-hexagons, no two quilts look alike. For even more variety, pick your favorite method working from scraps or...
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Transform into a skilled free-motion quilting expert with a month-long series of daily design prompts. Take the challenge with experienced free-motion quilters Dara Tomasson and Amy Robertson and their direct methods. Each design helps build muscle memory and spurs creativity with dozens of unique shapes and styles. Start sketching feathers, arrows, shells, rainbows, bubbles, spider webs, and so much more. Designs range from basic and vary in difficulty...
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Inspired by her cut-paper designs, popular designer Lotta Jansdotter teamed up with best-selling author, Cheryl Arkison, to create this spectacular quilt. Featuring Lotta's latest fabric line, Lilla, this beautiful quilt is, built with 25 graphic and organic blocks. You can make the quilt as described, or mix and match your favorite blocks to create a personalized, improvisational masterpiece! Rotate the blocks, play with contrast, change up the colors......
46) Pretty Patchwork Gifts: Over 25 Simple Sewing Projects Combining Patchwork, Applique and Embroidery
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Give a gorgeous handmade gift with over 25 simple patchwork patterns! Patchwork isn't just about making quilts; it's about creating smaller projects too, and sewing something pretty to treasure! This book has a tempting range of quick-to-stitch patchwork patterns to get you started; from applique cushion designs and hand-pieced doll's quilts to pretty birdhouses, brooches, boxes and even soft toy rabbits in pretty patchwork dresses. Each chapter features...
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Piece dazzling diamond and gorgeous gemstone quilts Add dimension and luminosity to your quilts with gorgeous gemstone piecing! Learn the basics of abstraction and color theory as you piece stunning works of art with gem quilt expert MJ Kinman. After years of perfecting her technique, Kinman explains freezer paper piecing in brilliant detail with jewel quilting ideas to help you express your own creativity. Get helpful advice on fabric selection and...
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Want inspiration for your straight-line quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is, full of designs, JUST designs, and will lie flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The fourth in our Quilting Inspiration series, this visual guide is, filled with more than seventy-five distinctive straight-line designs from your favorite designers to get you stitching.
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Get the pocket guide to paper piecing that everyone's talking about, a forty-eight-page mini book that's perfect to take on the go! Follow step-by-step instructions from expert Tacha Bruecher for preparing and piecing using a foundation, then try out the technique with ten fun and graphic paper-pieced blocks. Includes techniques for both traditional foundation paper and freezer paper, as well as, where and why to use each. •Take it with you anywhere-classes,...
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Turn something old into something new... with all things blue! The blue-and-white quilt is one of the most desired antiques, and many can still be, found in good condition. Preserve and honor history with 15 traditional blue-quilt patterns made from reproduction fabrics. Discover the progression of blue quilts through the Civil War years, from the first indigo fabrics to synthetic dyes. Create heirlooms from traditional blocks with this valuable book...
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Quilt your way through the calendar with Mary Hertel's cute and oh-so-easy paper-pieced blocks! Assemble 24 blocks, with a pair of pretty, paper-pieced designs for every month of the year. Seasonal motifs like snowmen, gnomes, butterflies, and turkeys impress, along with some adorable dressed-up dogs and cats. Each paper-pieced 8" square block is scrap-friendly and worthy to be the centerpiece of 7 fun projects from mini quilts to hand towels and...
52) Free-Motion Quilting from Ordinary to Extraordinary: 3 Steps to Joyful Machine Stitching in 21 Days
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Discover the secret to joyful and confident free-motion work, and find the courage to take on any quilting project in twenty-one days! Quilting teacher Jenny Lyon shares an easy, three-step process to help you bridge the gap between ordinary quilting and extraordinary quilting. Learn how your choice of thread, fabric, and batting can improve your experience, push yourself out of your comfort zone with 5 skill-building projects, create your own unique...
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Play with color and value using ombré fabrics
Modern and traditional design cross paths in this stunning Log Cabin quilt. Quilters of every level can create this simple yet versatile quilt. Characterized by strips (logs) surrounding squares, the repeated squares give the quilt pattern depth, and colors create dimension. The block-making approach is thoughtful, with value and color placement studied even though the overall effect has a scrappy appeal....
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With Color, Thread, & Free-motion Quilting, author Teri Lucas, a world-renowned master machine quilter, shares her brilliance and guidance to hone your machine quilting skills in a helpful, comprehensive, and understandable way. Quilters talk about building their fabric stashes but what about building their thread stashes, which is equally important? This book is a beautiful, well-guided and helpful resource for choosing threads, considering color,...
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Make striking quilts designed by Becky Goldsmith that use the colors you love. Select one of two gorgeous colorways, warm (reds, oranges, and yellows) or cool (blues and greens) and begin your perfect paper-pieced quilt. Sew each quilt to make 9 paper-pieced 16-point stars with an appliqué border to create a modern, fun look guaranteed to brighten any room. Comes with multiple techniques that make this an invaluable learning tool, as well!
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Sew a slice of life with 12 traditional quilts that prove to be more than just patterns, but storytellers. Each quilt is, inspired by life events that everyone can appreciate. Bold blocks shimmer in their use of color and value for handsome quilts with personality. Stretch your skills beyond the basics as you perfect strip piecing, half-square triangles, working with templates, paper piecing, machine applique, and sewing curves and set-in seams.
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Pick one great fabric to create a stunning block
One-Block Wonder expert and best-selling author Maxine Rosenthal, along with fellow quilter Nancy Miller, teach quilters the endless ways to turn preprinted fabric panels into fabulous blocks. Learn how to arrange One-Block Wonder hexagons around a panel, how to blend hexagon colors into the panel, and how to sew it all together. Includes easy-to-follow instructions, no y-seams, and an end result with...
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This early work is a fascinating read for sewing enthusiasts providing an in depth insight into the history of quilts and quiltmaking. Illustrated with over one hundred full page plates. Contents Include: Part I - Origin and History of Quilt-making with Photographic Reproduction of Patches - The Romance of Patchwork; Quilt Names; The Quilting Bee; The Quilt's Place in Art; The Quilt in the Twentieth Century; Historical Quilts from Recent Exhibitions;...
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Majestic star quilts with no inset seams!
Let your love of lone star quilts guide you into a surprising world of piece-abilities! Acclaimed quilter and teacher Barbara Cline shares exciting new techniques for constructing eight-pointed star quilts from diamonds. No tricky seams here! You'll be amazed at how easy these quilts are to assemble. Build your skills as you start with basic star shapes and work your way up to radiant starbursts designs....
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Carolyn Cullinan McCormick, inventor of the Add-A-Quarter ruler, has done it again! She has turned 17 difficult Feathered Star patterns into manageable paper piecing patterns for quilters who have shied away from making these exquisite blocks. She has added a sweet border block as the perfect finishing touch. Just follow the easy step-by-step diagrams to make
your own version of this beautiful quilt. Whether
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