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"This book offers a modern perspective on the three fundamental methods for sewing quilt blocks: traditional piecing, foundation piecing, and applique. Each section begins with the basics about techniques and materials. The twenty-five blocks in each section include patterns, cutting instructions, and illustrations of possible settings and combinations with other blocks. These seventy-five quilt blocks represent a fraction of the possible quilt blocks,...
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A natural follow-up to the best-selling Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts, this book applies Rayna's no rules, no mistakes, no worries style to modern quilting. Starting with strips and geometric shapes, you'll cut and sew without patterns, required yardage, or complicated diagrams. This freeing method lets you create modern quilts organically as you follow your instincts, ask "what if...?", and experiment with scale, color, value, and placement.
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The quilter, pattern designer, and author of Patchwork City offers 12 exciting new patterns designed to help you take your skills to the next level.
Ready to go beyond the basics of creative quilting? In Modern Patchwork, pattern designer Elizabeth Hartman will help you expand your skills with new techniques and twelve new and innovative quilt designs.
The projects in Modern Patchwork are bold, bright, graphic, and designed to give modern quilters...
104) The quilt
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A Truly Beautiful Story That Transcends Time and Place The Quilt is the story of Mary, an elderly grandmother whose gnarled, arthritic hands have a beauty all their own. They represent so many skills, so many memories, so many stories to be told. Anyone who had met Mary described her as beautiful--she had always been there to listen and comfort and encourage those who were in pain, those who had lost their way. And yet in the twilight of her days,...
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Make your quilt special, from front to back. The back of your quilt deserves to be as beautiful as the front, and "Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs" is the ultimate guide for you to make that happen! With a total of 30 beginner-friendly pieced quilt backing designs using scraps of varying sizes, your fabric stash, or new yardage, you'll be inspired and take your quilts to the next level in a unique, quick, and easy way. Colorful, fun, and perfect for...
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This essential book for all quilters and quilt collectors tells the fascinating story of quilting around the world, illuminated by the international quilt community's top experts and more than 300 glorious color photographs. Covering Japan, China, Korea, and India; England, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands; Australia, Africa, Central America, North America, and beyond, Quilts Around the World explores both the diversity and common threads of quilting....
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Cut, weave, fuse & quilt! A guide to the weaving techniques that will take your art quilts to a whole new level.
"Wow! How did you do that?" No one will believe how easy it is to make these astonishing quilts. The magic is in the weaving techniques that look difficult but are actually simple to master. Learn to weave straight and curved checkerboards, circles, semicircles, or use weaving to rebuild favorite blocks like Log Cabin, then embellish to...
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Get the basics of tangle drawing and learn how this artform can be used to create this popular art on fabric. The basics of tangle drawing are taught step-by-step, followed by several tangle designs. Instructions are given for transferring designs to fabric and stitching them either by machine or by hand. Three small-scale projects, including a uniquely shaped pin cushion, hand-stitched journal cover, and mini quilts, give you an opportunity to try...
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Whether you are quilting or fabric crafting, this ultimate guide to binding and edge finishing is a must-have resource for getting the perfectly edged project every time. Starting with helpful overviews on binding tools and basics, "Ultimate Binding and Edge-Finishing Guide for Quilting and Sewing" details more than 16 binding techniques and various ways to finish a project, including traditional, bias, scalloped, chenille, invisible faces, and more!...
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Create hundreds of quilts with this guide for quilters of all skill levels, featuring over sixty block designs with step-by-step instructions.
From the creative mind of renowned quilter Lynne Goldsworthy comes Ultimate Quilt Block Collection, featuring more than sixty of Lynne's designs-colorful blocks in both classic and modern patterns using a wide range of motifs and fabrics.
From basic units like flying geese to more intricate designs based...
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Turn fat quarters into gorgeous quilts! A great resource for quilters, especially beginners, fat quarters are bundles of colorful, coordinating fabrics so all of the "choosing" is already done for them! Fat Quarter Quilt Club features 12 quilt patterns and step-by-step projects using these convenient bundles, plus insightful details on how to choose fabrics and colors to use in your quilt projects and essential quilting techniques. Also included are...
116) The wishing quilt
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"The Secret Wish, Jodi Thomas: The little town of While-a-Way, Texas, may as well be named Last Chance as far as Avery Cleveland is concerned. Running her late great-grandmother's quilt shop is the only way to build back her life after losing her dancing career. But local sheriff Daniel Solis is stunned by Avery's beauty and spirit--and hopes to show her how to stitch brand-new dreams together.... Wish Upon a Wedding, Lori Wilde: Ellie Winter's sister...
117) The goodbye quilt
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As her only child readies for college, fabric shop owner Linda Davis is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Mother and daughter decide to share one last adventure -- a cross-country road trip to move Molly into her dorm. As they make their way through the heart of the nation, Linda pieces together the scraps that make up Molly's young life. And in stitching each bit of fabric, she discovers that the memories can come together...
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"Learn how to make simple, one-of-a-kind quilts using large-scale print fabrics! Easy Stack is a quick-cutting, fabric-efficient way of making great quilts that are rotary cut and machine pieced. Using only 4 fabric repeats and easy-to-cut strips, you can create 3 kinds of fun and unique blocks. Then play with 8 setting options, with 4 quilt sizes for each option, to create an endless variety of quilts."--Provided by publisher.
119) Threading the needle
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In New Bern, Connecticut, one woman's marriage is suffering and another is trying to salvage a rundown cottage. The Cobbled Court Quilt Shop will bring them together and help them discover the power of sisterhood to heal old wounds.
