Newsletter – Georgian Bay Quilters Guild

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Five Inch Is a Cinch – South Dakota Star

South Dakota Star
Block Size: 14"

Skill Level: Easy

Skill Level rating I use in order of difficulty
1. Beginner
2. Advanced Beginner
3. Easy
4. Intermediate
5. Advanced
Made from 5" squares!

Material and cutting information is given for 3 sizes:
- Lap 54" x 54"
- Twin 68" x 96 "
- Full 96 " x 96 "
2019/2020 Workshops & Kindred Days

Workshops are available to active guild members only.
- October 24, 2019 - Shelley Tapp
  - Dresden Wreath Christmas Table Topper or Wall Hanging
  - Location: Metis Center
- November 30, 2019 - Kindred Day
- January to March, 2020 - Wendy Sprietzer
  - Textured Vest
  - Workshops will be held on Jan 11th half day, Jan 25th full day, Feb 8th & 29th full days, March 28th full day
  - Location: Midland Library
- April 23, 2020 - Sherri Hisey from Border Creek Station.
  - Winter Joy (Piecing, and machine applique)
  - Location: Midland Library
- May 28, 2020 - Bill Stearman
  - Double Disappearing Nine Patch Variations
  - Location: Midland Library
2019/2020 Guest Speakers

2019/2020 season is starting soon! Here's a list of our scheduled guest speakers:
- September 2019 - Noshi Gulati
- October 2019 - Shelley Tapp
- November 2019 - Tracey Lawko
- December 2019 - No guest speaker (Christmas craft)
- January 2020 - 3 of our Guild Members
- February 2020 - Elizabeth Seaman
- March 2020 - Joan Lalonde
- April 2020 - Sherri Hissey
- May 2020 - Bill Stearman
- June 2020 - No guest speaker (AGM)
Not sure when we meet? Details are in our HOME page.
Newsletter – Quilting Lines – June 2021

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Learn To Do Hand Quilting In Just One Day

Smart quilters have used the sewing machine for piecing, applique and quilting ever since it came into common use. Today, most quilters save hand quilting for their finest patchwork and applique projects. This book is meant as a technical guide to replicate a nineteenth-century-style hand quilting technique. Quilters wanting some tips and answers about improving their own technique will find many helpful suggestions. A non-stress positioning of the quilting hands is emphasized for maximum efficiency and painless hand quilting - except for the occasional, too enthusiastic, needle prick.
Thread Therapy with Dr. Bob

Eliminate your frustrations with thread, needles, tension.
Free Motion Fun With Feathers

If you’ve ever admired machine quilted feathers and wished you could stitch them yourself, then this instructional DVD is for you! Beginning with a tutorial on marking the quilt sandwich, this DVD guides you through stitching freeform feathers, feathered hearts, whimsical feathers, and feather embellishments with decorative threads. The tutorial then turns to feathers with a stitched spine and curley-cue feathers with a stitched spine, and then a discussion on ThreadPower…the use of thread as an additional design element in your quilts. It rounds out with a final discussion on uses for feathers in traditional quilts, contemporary quilts, and in art quilts. With such a versatile design element, what quilter wouldn’t want to learn the art of machine quilted feathers?!
Mastering Quilt Making

A necessity for every quilter’s library! Pepper answers the most commonly asked questions about quilt marking. Includes 11 new quilting designs and tips for improving your quilt marking skills. How to choose designs that complement and contrast with the quilt top. All about marking tools. How to make the quilt design match in the borders and corners, plus 10 ways to mark a border that do not involve matching! How to make your own quilting stencils. How to preserve a quilt design found on a old quilt. Quilting from the judge’s point of view. Photos of inspiring antique and newly-made quilts.
Heritage Quilts

The latest, most exquisite quilt collection from the world-renowned textile designer. He’s an international sensation – Kaffe Fassett – who has been commissioned by British royalty, top American fashion designers, and the Royal Shakespeare Company for his skillful eye, masterful technique, and dedication to impeccable detail. It’s no wonder that anything with his name tied to it flies off the shelves, draws crowds, and inspires thousands. In Kaffe Fassett’s Heritage Quilts, the legendary talent turns his attention to a collection of 20 notable 18th- and 19th-century quilts – and reinvents them for today. Each quilt is lovingly and respectfully redesigned in the bold, contemporary, vibrant fabrics designed by Fassett himself, as well as designers Philip Jacobs and Brandon Mably.

You, too, can create the 20 remarkable, historic quilts recreated by Fassett. In addition to 100 rich photographs of the quilts themselves, which you will pore over again and again, Kaffe Fassett’s Heritage Quilts contains full step-by-step piecing instructions, 80 detailed diagrams, and patchwork how-to tips to refresh techniques or build new ones. Each project is an individual master class featuring vivid photos of the original quilt as well as the new finished project, a materials list, plus detailed instruction including useful tips, color diagrams, and templates for piecing the quilt together.

Discover the timeless beauty of rare quilts and traditional favorites, all drawn from an historic collection. This latest volume in Kaffe’s successful patchwork and quilting series was inspired by his collaboration with the British Quilt Museum. Kaffe chose a special collection of traditional quilts and redesigned them in his latest fabrics for a recent exhibition at the Quilters Guild Museum at York in the UK. Kaffe Fassett’s Heritage Quilts is an education in history as much as it is an impressive how-to quilting guide!
January 2020 – Gallery Updates

Check out the Gallery updates! Lots of pictures from our January 2020 guild meeting.
Covid-19 Cancellations – 2020/2021 Update!

Due to recent Covid-19 health concerns, the Midland Public Library has cancelled bookings. This means our guild will not be meeting in person until the Midland Public Library allows bookings. (Hopefully in the fall of 2021!). Monthly newsletters will be distributed and posted on our website.

Our 2021 Quilt Show has been deferred to 2022. Which also means an extra year to get those quilt show challenges done!!
Carol Doak Teaches You to Paper Piece: At Home with the Experts #2

Learn from your favorite paper-piecing master!

Carol shows you every step, including helpful close-ups.

Lots of tips on supplies, tools, and tricks for success
Quilting Arts TV – Series 200

Series 200, episodes 1-13.

All 13 episodes from Series 200! ""Quilting Arts TV,"" hosted by Patricia Bolton with some of your favourite fibre and mixed-media artists as guests. All episodes from Series 200! Featured artists include Katie Pasquini Masopust, Laura and Linda Kemshall, Heidi Lund, Joyce Drexler, Tina Givens, Ruth Rae, Jane Davila, Rayna Gillman, Claire Fenton, Leslie Rego, Wen Redmond, Judy Coates Perez, and many more.
Quilting Arts TV – Series 300

Series 300. Episodes 1-13.

Techniques and tricks for free-motion stitching, art quilting, fabric stamping and stenciling, fiber collage, stitching with sheers and organzas, and mixed-media home decor.
Quilting Arts TV – Series 100

Series 100. Episodes 1-13.
Stitched The Film

Stitched is a fun-filled documentary following three quilters racing to complete their entries for the International Quilt Festival, the largest quilt show in the nation.

The International Quilt Festival in Houston draws more than 50,000 quilters including three artists who created some controversy with their work. Quilting legend Caryl Bryer Fallert was the first to win a major prize for her quilt made with a sewing machine. She mentored Hollis Chatelain who caused a stir when she won an award for a painted quilt. And Hollis mentored Randall Cook who sparked controversy with his quilt of a male nude. The documentary also features the Paducah quilt show, one of the largest tourist attractions in the state of Kentucky.

In this lively 72-minute documentary, these art quilters create their pieces to compete in the 2010 quilt show. As we all know, there are tight bonds of friendship between quilters ... behind every stitch, there is a story of friendship, art and passion. This is great entertainment for your next quilt gathering!
Fast And Free

Are you new to free motion machine quilting and need guidance from the ground up? Are you a seasoned free motion machine quilter, and looking for some new design ideas for stitching quilted motifs? Either way, this instructional DVD is for you! This DVD begins with a discussion on the basics of free motion quilting, and then turns to a lesson on preparing the quilt sandwich. The mysteries of mastering sewing machine tension are then unraveled before basic lessons in free motion machine quilting begin. Once the basics are covered, the viewer is introduced to the concept of fast and free…Patsy's technique of creating countless spin-off designs, just by making a small change in one base design. Watch and listen as Patsy shows and discusses how to stitch 18 different quilting designs and gives ideas for additional related spin-off designs. The tutorial ends with a detailed lesson in how to convert your closed toe free motion foot to an open toe foot. With designs suitable for traditional quilts, contemporary quilts, and art quilts, what machine quilter wouldn’t benefit from a tutorial like this?!
10-Minute Blocks
- It's not your grandmother's patchwork technique
- This book shows you the 10-minute block technique allows you to piece a top, even a king-size one, in a morning
- Create big blocks with a diamond center and curved edges without sewing any curved seams
- Seven quilting projects with full color photos of the finished show you the way
- Author-suzanne mcneill; Softcover-35 pages
Underground Railroad Sampler

Take a trip on the Underground Railroad! Join Eleanor Burns and Sue Bouchard as they guide you through the story of the Underground Railroad. Learn how fifteen quilt blocks may have played a significant role in communication between the slaves and how it helped them on their way to freedom. The book has 168 full color pages with step by step instructions for each of the 15 blocks. There are also directions to make a miniature Underground Railroad quilt. The book contains yardage and cutting charts in addition to fabric identification pages that will assist the quilter in cutting and marking her fabric for this beautiful sampler. Underground Railroad Sampler also includes a color page depicting the Story of the Underground Railroad that can be photocopied onto Photo Transfer Fabric and included in the quilt.
The Standard Book Of Quilt Making

Here is the best available book on quilt making — a complete, easy-to-follow guide that shows you how to make beautiful, useful quilts that you will be proud to own and display. Even if you are a beginner, you will soon find yourself quilting like an expert by following these clearly drawn patterns, photographs, and step-by-step instructions.
All the information you need is here, lucidly and thoroughly explained. You'll learn how to plan the quilt, the number of blocks to fit a bed, how to select the pattern to harmonize with the design and color of the room, and how to choose materials. Clear directions explain how to cut, sew, and make applique patterns, patchwork, and strips. An entire chapter on design discusses basic elements, sources, making your own designs, avoiding sewing problems, how to use the rag bag, and much more. The section on patterns gives directions on tracing, seam allowance, and estimating quantity. There is full information on borders, quilting, and tufting, and just about every other aspect of quilt making.
Mrs. Ickis shows you over 100 traditional and unusual quilts, including Basket, Tree of Life, Flowers in a Pot, Traditional Geometric, Friendship, Square and Cross, Saw Tooth, Drunkard's Path, Flying Geese, Mexican Cross, Pennsylvania Dutch, Crazy Quilts, Yo-yo Quilts, Album Quilts, and dozens of others, including over 40 full-size patterns. You are given other uses for quilting, such as drapes, curtains, upholstery, lunch cloths, purses, cushions, and Italian quilting.
Completing the coverage are fascinating chapters on collecting quilts as a hobby; how to make full-size patterns of famous American quilts from pictures, small designs, and museum or collector's quilts; and a history of quilt making with personal memories.
Ontario’s Heritage Quilts

A showcase of styles and techniques.

This beautiful and informative book celebrates the generations of Ontario quilters who created cherished, lasting works of domestic art while keeping their families warm during cold northern winter nights. Many Ontario quilters have roots in American quilting cultures which is reflected in familiar patterns and techniques.

This book examines the patterns, fabrics and techniques of Ontario's quilters through individual quilts and their makers. Each quilt is beautifully photographed in a setting natural to its origin.

Practical information includes:
- Pieced quilts, Summer and winter quilts, Star quilts, Crazy quilts, Log cabin quilts, Appliqué quilts, Paper cut or Hawaiian quilts, Commemorative and patriotic quilts, Summer quilts, Coverlets, Hexagon or honeycomb quilts, Double wedding ring and Dresden plate quilts, Basket quilts
- Patterns for Jacob's Ladder, Friendship Circle, Wild Wreath of Roses
- Detailed instructions for cleaning and storing a quilt
Color for the Terrified Quilter: Plain Talk, Simple Lessons, 11 Projects

Color choices don't have to be intuitive, instinctive, or inborn - there is a step-by-step way to choose color for quilts. And this fun book will show quilters how! Find practical techniques and guidelines for making surprising color choices for any quilt.
Follow lighthearted text, clear illustrations and beautiful photos to learn about color in easy-to-understand language
Easy exercises and 11 projects will turn quilters into experts on using the color wheel
Learn how to make quick mock-up blocks before committing fabrics to the sewing machine.
The Quilter’s Color Club: Secrets of Value, Temperature & Special Effects — 12 Hands-On Exercises — 8 Projects

Christine's quilter-friendly approach will open your customers' eyes to new and exciting ways to apply simple color concepts to their work. See successful color combinations in action with an inspiring gallery of eye-catching quilts. Chock full of hands-on exercises, this book teaches how to use value, temperature, and intensity to make quilts luminous and full of movement.
Color Play: Expanded & Updated • Over 100 New Quilts • Transparency, Luminosity, Depth & More

Joen Wolfrom’s classic guide to creating with color has been completely updated to make it even easier to enhance your creative work with the beauty of well-chosen colors. Joen covers it all, from color combining basics to how to use nature’s tricks to create an illusion of depth, reflections, shadows, and highlights. Learn the emotional and physical effects of colors and much more―all richly illustrated with photos of nature and of 100 beautiful quilts. This must-have reference shows tints, shades, and tones for all 24 colors in the Ives Color Wheel, plus five different color schemes for each color.
Embroidery Machine Essentials – Quilting Techniques

Quilting using an embroider machine is a great way to finish quilts. The automated stitches of an embroidery machine and its ability to hold layers together make it perfect for quilting.

Jeanine Twigg, author of Embroidery Machine Essentials series, invites industry expert Linda Turner Griepentrog to share her quick-to-stitch quilting techniques. Linda shows you how to achieve success with the time-saving use of your embroidery machine.

The 20 exclusive designs on the included CD-ROM were created by Linda to help develop your embroidery machine quilting. As an added bonus each design is available in several seizes and multiple stitch variations for your quilting convenience! The designs can be used for quilting (joining the face fabric, batting, and backing layers), embellishing blocks, or for non-quilting techniques, including embroidery on garments, paper, and even metal!

And, Linda gives step-by-step instructions for 12 projects, including a handbag, baby quilt, and wall-hanging, that incorporate machine embroidery quilting techniques. Enjoy!
Crazy with Cotton

Crazy with Cotton is several books in one:
- a reading-for-pleasure collection of projects certain to win applause from both novice and experienced quilters, alike
- an informative overview of the history of textiles
- an effective tutorial on the techniques of color usage and quilt construction
Crazy with Cotton offers beginners a fun and easy way to start quilting. For experienced quilters, it opens up new possibilities for incorporating themselves, their histories, and their passions into their art.
Bold and Beautiful: Artful Quilts From Just One Fabric

Learn how to create stunning art quilts in just 3 easy steps - quilt, paint, embellish! Anyone can create these amazing quilts - all you need is a little imagination! In "Bold and Beautiful", award-winning quilter Judi Dains reveals the secrets for creating wonderful quilts from just one piece of fabric, and in just 3 easy steps - quilt, paint, and embellish. Featuring 5 contemporary projects and a colourful gallery, this is a must-have for anyone wanting to create beautiful art quilts.
Stone Threads

This book was recently launched and details Maggie’s story (which is pretty unique and Canadian) + her creative quilt journey – it made fascinating reading not to mention the “eye candy” pictures. Stone Threads is a fascinating textile buffet with hundreds of sumptuous images of Maggie Vanderweit's award winning art. Read about the events and people that have profoundly influenced her steps along the artist's path.
More Loose Change: 14 Quilts from Nickels, Dimes and Fat Quarters

From the authors of the best-selling Loose Change: Quilts from Nickels, Dimes, and Fat Quarters, here are 14 exciting new quilts! Perfect for 5" and 10" squares and fat quarters, these projects offer plenty of variety in color combinations and block patterns.
Enjoy projects for all skill levels, from simple piecing to fusible machine appliqué to triangles
Make the best use of your fabric; cutting charts show options for using different precut pieces to make the projects
Cash in on the authors' helpful - Piggy Bank
Tips,-designer tips throughout the book
Pick Up A 6-Pack

At Timeless Treasures we spend our days thinking of ways to help you make the most of your sewing time by creating beautiful fabrics, special pre-cut collections, and quick to stitch patterns.
Country Threads Goes to Charm School

Quilters, it's time to send all your adorable little precuts to charm school! From the owners of the popular Country Threads quilt shop and pattern company, this collection of designs is ideal for showcasing today's precut 5" squares. Enjoy a fun and lighthearted approach to quilting with projects such as "Take Turns," "Dress for Success," and "Wipe Your Feet."
- Choose from 19 terrific quilts with traditional appeal--find something for everyone from confident beginners to experts
- Make clever use of low-cost fabric packs
- Finish these small quilts in a jiffy for a last-minute gift or a spot in need of decorating
25 Ways to Sew Jelly Rolls and Layer

Create stunning modern quilts and quilted projects from jelly rolls, layer cakes and other pre-cuts fabric bundles. Featuring 25 small and large projects, each made from pre-cut bundles of fabric, including full sized bed quilts, bags and table runners. Be inspired by fabulous contemporary quilt designs using the most exciting fabric lines, and use up the leftovers to make quick and easy small quilted projects.
QUILTED LANDSCAPES

Bring the splendor of the outdoors into your home when you create beautiful landscapes out of cloth. Use simple piecing methods, different fabrics and a variety of machine-embellishment techniques to stitch realistic illusions of water, mountains, grass, trees and more. Instructions for seven projects will get you started.
Accidental Landscapes

Discover the secrets of creating a fabric landscape accidentally using this topstitch/layering technique. These quilted scenes are surprisingly simple to create! The book contains over 30 new inspiring landscapes to guide you along the way. You'll learn how to capture the feeling of a scene in simple layers. Create a landscape based on a favorite photo or color palette. Adopt the same easy layering technique to create gorgeous curved borders. For ease and fun, Karen's topstitched layers beat out machine applique and curved piecing by a mile.
Confetti Naturescapes: Quilting Impressionist Landscapes

Award-winning quilter Noriko Endo discusses here the inspiration she finds everywhere in nature and the techniques she employs to create her unique masterpieces—naturescape quilts that have the look of impressionist paintings and feature trees, flowers, sunsets, lakes, birds, and much more. The stunning photos throughout the book showcase her renowned nature imagery, with each one accompanied by a notation explaining how Endo conceived of the idea for the specific quilt and the techniques she used to create it. Shapes and images in her naturescapes are created through her confetti technique, which involves layering colorful bits of fabric on batting, adding a covering of tulle, and then machine quilting the entire piece. She takes readers on a step-by-step journey through her process of choosing a subject and selecting colors, then designing, constructing, and finishing the work.
Easy Batik Landscape Quilts

Enhance your home's décor in a snap with these super-easy landscape quilts. Use a simple pattern as a template, add dynamic batik fabrics, sew with a straight stitch, and voilà! Magnificent landscape quilts made easy, made quick. Quilt designer Patricia Brown has created 20 very different landscape possibilities from one simple, adaptable pattern. Her free-form movement technique means every quilter will create a unique work of art. Patricia quilts her pieces by hand, but these elegant wallhanging designs call out for machine quilting, too.
Landscape Quilts

Make gorgeous quilts without patterns or measurements. The projects include creating woodland scenes, creating water, sky, mountains and snow. - Getting started - Creating your own landscape quilt - Adding garden touches - - Cutting free-form shapes - Creating water, sky, mountains and snow - - Creating woodland scenes - Finishing touches - Exhibiting - Working spaces - * Quilting projects inspired by nature - flower gardens, the countryside, woodlands, lakes, mountains and sky. * In full colour: illustrated step-by-step with nearly 300 colour photographs, plus line drawings.
Points of View: Landscape Quilts to Stitch and Embellish

Step into your own gorgeous landscape scenes by using the incredible texture, color, and pattern that fabric provides. No tricky technical techniques here--simplicity is the goal in these artful, small-scale representations of nature's scenery.
Fabric + Paint + Thread = Fabulous

Learn innovative new painting, free-motion quilting, and embellishing techniques for creating breathtaking art quilts. Are you ready to take your quilting to the next level? Then this is the book for you! Discover how to expand your artistic horizons and make breathtaking art quilts with these innovative techniques for painting, free-motion quilting, and embellishing, from award-winning quilter Pat Durbin. With five original projects to get you started and a stunning full-colour photo gallery to get the creative juices flowing, you'll never be without inspiration again.
Stitched Textiles: Landscapes

Kathleen Matthews shares her unique method of creating beautiful landscapes using quilting, dyeing and stitching techniques. She shows what materials are needed, and takes us through her design process from taking reference photographs of landscapes through composition, identifying the light source and choosing fabrics and thread to create the scene. There is an excellent section on using simple dyeing methods to create unique fabrics that are ideal for landscapes. We then learn how to transfer the design on to fabric, create a quilt and then layer fabrics to create the various parts of a picture. Free machine embroidery is then used to create the effect, with hand embroidery sometimes employed for details. There is plenty of information on creating landscape elements such as water, skies, trees, hills and mountains, fields, flowers and buildings and more, and on depicting the four seasons. There are five gorgeous step by step projects showing an Autumn Woodland, Flowers in a Landscape, a Mountain Scene, a Sunset on Water and a Lavender Field. The book is filled with beautiful landscapes to inform and inspire textile artists.
This book is part of the new Stitched Textiles series for textile artists (in particular intermediate to experienced embroiderers, quilters, etc.), showing how to embellish and enhance fabric surfaces with paints, dye, appliqué, collaged elements, stitching, beads and more. Themes are forever popular in the textile world, and this book on stitched landscapes will demonstrate how to design, realise and create original work.
3 Times the Charm Book 2
- Leisure arts-three times the charm book two
- Based on seven quilt designs each design has been sewn in three colorful versions to inspire quilters to experiment with today's fun fabrics
- Perfect for table toppers wall hangings and baby shower gifts
- This quilt collection showcases twenty-one small quilts created using precut charm packs of 5 inch squares
Tips For Quilters: A Handbook of Hints, Shortcuts,and practical Suggestions from Experienced Quilters

This handbook for quilters is full of hints, shortcuts, and practical know-how from experienced quilters. Reading it is like quilting beside your grandmother and your favorite aunt!
Quilting expert Rachel Pellman has assembled wisdom from a premiere group -- those women who have perfected precise piecing for generations, who learned from their grandmothers how to prevent thread from knotting, who continually experiment with new batting, new tools, new markers.
Offered candidly and clearly, the hints in this handbook are of value for the novice and experienced quiltmaker alike.
Tips for Quilters is a treasure of quilting wisdom, assembled from a premiere group -- those women who have perfected piecing for generations, who long ago learned how to prevent thread from knotting while quilting, who continually experiment with new tools, new batting, new markers!"
Included in Tips for Quilters:
--Planning Color Layout
--Selecting Fabrics
--Making Templates
--Marking Fabrics
--Cutting Fabrics
--Tips for Doing Piecework
--Tips for Doing Applique
--Tools of the Trade
--Quilting
--Sore Fingers
--Needles and Thimbles
--Binding Quilts
--Removing Spots
--Signing and Dating Quilts
--Storing Quilts and Wall Hangings
Quiltmaking Tips and Techniques: Over 1000 Creative Ideas to Make Your Quiltmaking Quicker, Easier, and a Lot More Fun

Covers workspaces, fabric selection, patterns, applique, and quilting
Photo Fun: Print Your Own Fabric for Quilts & Crafts

State-of-the-art fabric printing techniques to use with any brand of inkjet printer or scanner.
Illustrated Guide To Borders & Binding

The creative borders and bindings in this book will add special touches to finished quilts. This book offers advise for choosing the right one.
ONE-OF-A-KIND QUILT LABELS

Signed, sealed, and delivered--here are scores of fresh ideas for leaving a special mark on every quilt you make! Try dimensional labels, appliqued labels, and fabric envelopes that open to reveal personal details about your quilts.

Follow step-by-step instructions to create labels with applique, hand lettering, photo transferring, and a host of other techniques
Find dozens of photos, examples, and ideas for custom quilt labels, all easy enough for any skill level
Learn how easy it is to create computer-generated labels
Simple Start-Stunning Finish: Fabric Secrets Easy Piecing Quilting Solutions

15 hip, quick-to-make quilts that get dramatic results from simple shapes and large-scale prints.
Creating Texture with Textiles!

User friendly for all levels of sewing, this book explores the art of manipulating fabric to create garments, wall hangings, and accessories. More than 200 color photos and illustrations inspire creativity by illustrating the use of textiles with embellishment, manipulation of fabric, and decorative stitches.
Pictorial Art Quilt Guidebook: Secrets to Capturing Your Photos in Fabric

You’ll be surprised how easy it is to transform a photo into gallery-worthy fabric art with Leni Wiener’s simple methods. Leni walks you step by step through choosing the right fabrics; creating patterns with free software; depicting common elements, such as grass, trees, water, and faces; layering and sewing your collages; and finishing your work for display. Complete patterns and instructions for two quilts help get you started. Use the included Art Quilter’s Value Scale to choose the perfect light and dark fabrics for your quilts. Loaded with helpful photos, this guide is a virtual art class in a book.
Artistic Photo Quilts: Create Stunning Quilts with Your Camera, Computer & Cloth

Help quilters take photos-on-fabric beyond plop-and-drop and learn to create luminous art quilts with camera, computer, and sewing machine. 11 lessons.
Art Quilt Portfolio: The Natural World: Profiles of Major Artists, Galleries of Inspiring Works

This lavish collection of art quilts, all focused on the natural world, inaugurates a gorgeous new series on one of the most popular topics in needlework. Written by Martha Sielman, the executive director of the world's largest art quilt organization, each entry celebrates one of the themes that quilters love best. Every book will feature profiles of the top artists who specialize in that subject, along with nearly 90 amazing gallery images.

With the explosion of art quilt exhibits, the blockbuster success of previous books on the subject, and the author's growing renown, quilters will find this inspirational compilation a must-have.
Connecting Art to Stitch

Designed for textile artists and quilters seeking innovative ways to advance their craft, the 30 short, structured exercises presented here will spur creativity and instill confidence. Each carefully photographed exercise is split into three components: experimenting with fine art techniques and various mediums, including sculpture, painting, and photography; developing skills through use of a sketchbook, collage, or mixed media; and turning the concept into a usable stitch. Scattered throughout the book are “Art Masterclasses,” which focus on such subjects as landscape, nature, the human form, and architecture.
Creating Art Quilts with Panels: Easy Thread Painting and Embellishing Techniques to Create Your Own Colorful Piece of Art from Panels

Discover how to transform premade fabric panels and thread into one-of-a-kind art quilts! Award-winning quilter and fiber artist Joyce Hughes uses free motion quilting, thread painting, trapunto, overlay, three-dimensional effects, machine techniques, and a variety of embellishments to create stunning pictorial quilts. In this book, she shows you how to take an ordinary fabric panel and turn it into a beautiful work of art with dimension and texture. Complete 6 step-by-step projects with full-color photography and learn to make seasonal panels, beautiful florals, holiday designs, and gorgeous landscapes. Joyce presents her techniques clearly and concisely with detailed photographs in an easy-to-follow format. Sure to please both traditional and contemporary artists, Creating Art Quilts with Panels also features a photographic gallery of inspirational art quilt masterpieces.
The Art Quilt

This one-of-a-kind book showcases unique quilts created for walls--"art quilts" that combine unusual techniques and materials that will inspire anyone seeking new quilting frontiers. More than 50 full-color inserts let quilters see how quilting artists express themselves through various media and 28 full-page, full-color plates illustrate a wealth of beautiful quilts.
Thread Painting: Simple Techniques to Add Texture and Dimension

Contains exciting lessons in achieving elaborate embroidered and embellished looks with a simple sewing machine and a home computer and printer
Dresden Plate Quilt: A Simplified Method

With this simplified method, the wedges are all speed cut and assembly line pieced. The completed plate is then sewn to the background square, using a new technique called The Invisible Applique Stitch.
Feathered Friends: 18 Paper-Pieced Blocks for Bird Lovers

18 beautiful paper-pieced blocks for bird lovers feature chickadees, wrens, woodpeckers, swallows, swans, puffins, gulls, and many others.
50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars

With the simplicity and accuracy of paper piecing, you can create these elaborate-looking Star blocks in a snap! Carol Doak, bestselling author of many books on paper piecing, is back with 50 original paper-pieced Star blocks--one for each U.S. state.
A Paper-Pieced Garden: 27 Mix and Match Blocks Plus Unique Quilts

Discover 27 truly lovely blocks featuring flowers, leaves, and spritely creatures of the garden such as squirrels and robins. You'll also find seven delightful quilt patterns that showcase these versatile blocks.
- Develop your skills with paper piecing, machine appliqué, and free-motion machine quilting
- Celebrate nature's abundance with color-splashed projects for spring, summer, winter, and fall
- View a fabulous photo gallery brimming with even more ideas for these extraordinary blocks
From the Inside Flap:

Quilters will enjoy 27 blocks and seven delightful quilts featuring flowers, leaves, and spritely creatures. Hone skills such as paper piecing, machine appliqué, and free-motion machine quilting.
Easy Machine Paper Piecing

Now anyone can accurately piece a quilt block in just minutes! Paper piecing is a simple process. Just trace a block design onto paper; then sew fabrics directly onto the paper with a sewing machine. The paper provides a stable base, making it a breeze to get sharp points on even the tiniest of pieces.
- Choose from 65 block designs, including traditional favorites and original designs from bestselling author Carol Doak
- Sixteen beautiful quilt projects feature baskets, hearts, flowers, and more
- Carol's step-by-step instructions for paper piecing make the technique a snap to learn
Mariner’s Compass Stars: 24 Stellar Paper-Pieced Blocks & 9 Easy Quilt Projects

Mix 'n match 24 sensational paper-pieced star blocks in 9 quilt projects. Bonus CD-ROM with resizable patterns.
40 BRIGHT AND BOLD PAPER-PIECED BLOCKS

The bestselling author of eight books on paper piecing is back with a color-splashed collection of big, beautiful, bold blocks! Carol Doak reveals her best color tricks for creating dramatic designs that will inspire you to be daring with fabric and color. Another extraordinary quilting adventure with Carol--all made easy with paper piecing!

Includes 40 all-new 12" blocks, plus eight projects ranging from wall quilts to bed quilts--start small or dream big

Includes Carol's foolproof secrets for blending fabrics, colors, and values to make every quilt block sparkle and pop

Flawless blocks are guaranteed every time with Carol's super-smart cutting charts
Needles and Notions: Paper-Pieced patterns with a Sewing Room Theme

Create delightful paper-pieced quilts and showcase a subject you love--sewing! Discover 12 pictorial sewing-room blocks in both 4" and 6" sizes, plus a larger block depicting Sunbonnet Sue quilting. Choose from eight quilt patterns and turn your blocks into small wall quilts, or make a sampler quilt using all 13 block designs.
- Stitch charming block motifs, including a button jar, thimble, rotary cutter, sewing machine, seam ripper, and more
- Learn special techniques for creating tiny 1/8"- to 1/4"-wide accent borders with precision
- Find clear how-to illustrations and full-size paper-piecing templates for each block
The New Hexagon: 52 Blocks to English Paper Piece

Unlock the possibilities within hexagons and make your own unique blocks. Learn the glue-basting method of English paper piecing and use it to create exciting designs. You'll enjoy relaxing handwork as you incorporate hexagons into decorative projects.
- Select from 52 patterns for 6" blocks
- Divide the shapes within the hexagon outline and discover new shapes
- Stitch projects ranging from a mug rug and candle mat to a bed-sized quilt
Sally Collins Teaches You Precision Piecing (DVD): At Home with the Experts #5

Make your quilts come together perfectly every time.

Bring accuracy to every step - planning, cutting, pinning, sewing, and pressing.

Make blocks - even complex ones - exactly the right size.
Smashing Sets

Margaret Miller offers a new perspective for settings using traditional blocks. You'll find hundreds of ideas for combining simple but unexpected designs, easy piecing, and a bit of fabric savvy.
- Only straight line piecing is used! Quilts look complex but are based on simple design principles.
- 36 full color quilts, with layouts for making 16 of them.
- Step-by-step instructions and advice on fabric choices, plus lots of sample layouts to play with.
- Not just for sampler quilts! Techniques are applicable to any quilt that uses individual blocks.
3-Fabric Quilts

Quick and Modern Quilts, Easy as 1-2-3!

Selecting fabrics and making great quilts has never been easier! In 3-Fabric Quilts, Leni Levenson Wiener gives you the tools to make twelve fantastic quilts that each require only three fabrics. With each quilt composed of geometric squares, rectangles and strips, cutting and piecing has never been so fast and simple.

Inside, you'll find:
- Advice on choosing the three fabrics, including tips on understanding color, value and print scale, making fabric shopping easier than ever.
- Illustrated instructions for twelve 3-fabric quilts, each with yardage requirements and instructions for a small and large size.
- A unique quilting template for each project, specifically designed for the quilt.
- Basic rotary cutting, piecing and finishing instructions.
- Fun, fresh, contemporary fabrics, layouts and patterns, perfect for gifts or to decorate your own home!
No need to stress about choosing lots of coordinating fabrics. With a few simple tricks and tips, choose just three fabrics and one of 12 fabulous designs and you'll be on your way to a gorgeous finished quilt!
THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PATCHWORK: NEW BASICS FOR THE MODERN

Quilting Basics with Modern Flair -12 quilt projects for beginners, confident beginners, and intermediates -Explore different options for each project-make it with just two colors or scrappy, make it vintage or mod, make it soft or playful. -Alternate colorways included with each project show you how swapping out fabrics can change the look of the same block. -Learn how to cut, piece, appliqué, machine quilt, bind, and finish. -Pick up helpful tips and tricks to stay organized and master the methods. Try a fresh, relaxed approach to making quilts with this new "go-to" book. The bright aesthetic and clear, simple instructions guide beginners and intermediates alike through the entire process of creating fun and useful quilts that they'll be proud to call their own.
Piecing With Pixels: Unique Quilts from Your Own Images

Who ever thought your camera and computer could be your most valuable quilting tools? Going far beyond the concept of simply transferring photos to fabric, the authors show you how to transform your favorite photos into dazzling quilts. Learn how to 'piece' traditional blocks and original 'applique' designs using Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Elements software to create, modify, embellish, and print the designs directly onto fabric. The intriguing digital projects include easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. It is fun and efficient to copy, resize, and reprint your blocks to create larger or smaller quilts, table runners, pillows, or note cards. You'll love using common images in uncommon ways, creating fabrics for your own wonderfully unique quilts. Collectively, this talented California team has been quilting for nearly 50 years. Both are enthusiastic teachers. Gudny is a PC expert who also teaches painting on fabric. Sandra is a Macintosh expert who has been teaching how to print images onto fabric and incorporate them into quilts. Together they teach workshops on their digital-quilting technique.
Casting Shadows: Creating Visual Dimension in Your Quilts

Create quilts with 3-D illusions!
Cozy Modern Quilts: 23 Easy Pieced Projects to Bust Your Stash

Modern doesn't have to be hard-edged. Make a soft statement with statement with these irresistibly cozy, contemporary quilts built from simple squares and rectangles.
Ricky Tims’ Rhapsody Quilts: Inspiring, Amazing-Create Your Own!

Ricky Tims teaches you to design and make these fabulous, one-of-a-kind contemporary art quilts. Inspiring quilt gallery!
Spectacular Rectangles: 12 Quilts from a Simple Shape

Here's a book of traditional quilting ideas--with a twist! You'll find Log Cabin blocks, chevrons, stacked Chinese Coins, and more, yet they don't look like the same old patterns. By focusing on rectangular blocks, Ilene Bartos has created 12 refreshing designs. Easy enough for confident beginners, these quilts offer plenty of appeal for advanced quilters as well.
Modern Neutrals: A Fresh Look at Neutral Quilt Patterns

Best-selling author Amy Ellis has outdone herself with this amazing collection of new blocks and quilts. With her spot-on design sense, she shows how to use neutrals--including large-scale prints, solids, and tonal fabrics--in stunning quilts.
- Choose from 15 extraordinary quilt patterns that range from simple to intricate
- Discover Amy's secrets for using graphic quilt designs stitched in neutral tones to add sophistication and texture to living spaces
- Find an assortment of great gift ideas, even for guys
Modern Minimal: 20 Bold & Graphic Quilts

Quilts get super sleek and ultra modern with these gorgeously graphic designs by Alissa Haight Carlton, co-founder of The Modern Quilt Guild. Each of the 20 projects uses lots of open space to show off the simplicity of the quilting. Designs are perfect for all your solid fabrics—accent with your favorite prints! Try straight, strip, or improvisational piecing using strips, squares, and rectangles. These beginner-friendly quilt projects work well with any décor, in any room, for everyone in your family!
Dazzling Designs

Awaken your eyes and your imagination with these six wildly colorful quilts! Piece a galaxy of stars that dazzle, or appliquÃ© a shower of bright circles that bounce with abandon. Want to do something really different? Weave fabric strips to create a wall hanging that will please the artist--or the kid--in you. This collection of quilted designs is your opportunity to indulge in uninhibited fabrics, whether prints, solids, or hand-dyeds. Let Heidi Pridemore's capricious creations inspire you to fill your home with these many-splendored spectacles of quilting fun!

6 Quilts: Wacky Weaving (50" x 50"); Star Weave (52" x 52"); Rainbow Daze (57" x 57"); Windows to the Garden (64" x 85"); Checks and Balances (45" x 60"); and Square Knot (46" x 57").
Thinking Outside the Block

Contemporary quilts the easy way - no rules, just fun! Start with traditional blocks as Sandi Cummings shares easy steps to designing and creating your own artistic quilts. Next, move up to deceptively simple 'transition' units that offer a bridge into the world of contemporary quiltmaking. Spontaneity and experimentation are key, so get ready to loosen up and have fun as you learn! 6 different blocks teach Sandi's concepts - one step at a time. Easy processes include inserting strips into blocks, constructing free-form units, cutting double, and creating checkerboards. Learn to experiment with design and develop one-of-a-kind quilts.
Solids, Stripes, Circles, and Squares: 16 Modern Patchwork Quilt Patterns

Treat yourself to fun, fuss-free quilts with a modern aesthetic.
Enjoy 16 innovative projects featuring bright solid fabrics stitched into bold geometric motifs
Use appliqué and other techniques to create practical projects from bed quilts to pillows, place mats and table runners
Make quick projects that are ideal for gifts and for using up your scraps
New Cuts for New Quilts: More Ways to Stack the Deck

The "Stack the Deck" technique gets new life in this popular author's third book that contains 18 all-new projects. Full color.
Quilts Galore!

The perfect companion to Quilts Quilts Quilts , this lavishly illustrated encyclopedia of styles and techniques helps quilters master the advanced skills used to create pieced, appliqued, broderie perse, trapunto, whole cloth, stenciled, crazy, and medallion quilts. Easy-to-follow instruct"
The Complete Quilting Course

What you need to get you started, how to master all the key quilting techniques and how to design patterns of your own.

Carefully planned, step-by-step projects enable you to create a whole range of quilted items for yourself, your family and as treasured gifts.

Beautiful full-color photographs of tradition and contemporary quilted items to inspire and instruct.
Quilter’s Academy Vol. 2 – Sophomore Year: A Skill-Building Course in Quiltmaking

Continue Your Journey of a Lifetime with the Hargraves. Get a college-level education in quiltmaking from the comfort of your own home. This latest volume will inspire and challenge you to start designing your own quilts. Drafting exercises help you learn to make any quilt, any size, with or without a pattern. Loads of tips, techniques, and helpful charts. Bonus section with 11 projects. This classic series of comprehensive books will take you from the basics to complete mastery with easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises. In Volume 1, you learned the fundamentals of quiltmaking. In Volume 2, you'll build your drafting skills by using tools like graph paper and linking blocks. A must-have for every quilter's library!
Fun & Easy Machinework and Quiltwork

A practical guide to creating beautiful floral arrangements. With rich color photos and illustrations, this book introduces floral decorations for use in a variety of locations and styles.
Quilting School

Written for both beginners and experienced quilters, this guide contains all of the basics of quilting, including step-by-step projects, as well as sophisticated patterns and advice on displaying the finished product. 30,000 first printing.
Quick & Easy Weekend Quilting With Sulky

In this book two of the hottest trends, quilting and home décor come together in this 'must have' full-color book. Even a beginner can confidently create most of the featured quilts when they begin with the small sampler quilt that teaches all of the basics in easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions. You'll find numerous and diverse quilts and projects, plus fun and easy techniques.
The Complete Book of Quilting

Containing twelve traditional quilts, this book features applique, piece work and crazy patch designs, including many popular blocks and patterns. It also includes machine sewing instructions that save time and spare the effort of hand stitching.
Pat Sloan’s Teach Me to Sew Triangles: 13 Easy Techniques Plus 12 Fun Quilts

Pat Sloan--popular teacher, designer, and online radio-show host--teaches all you need to know to create triangles with ease. Take your skills to the next level with this second book in her beginner-friendly "Teach Me" series. You'll discover 13 different ways to sew triangles--at least one method will be just right for you!
- Learn to successfully sew half-square and quarter-square triangles, 60-degree triangles, flying geese, and more
- Gain confidence and get all your questions answered--Pat shares tons of tips throughout
- Spotlight triangles in 12 exciting patterns, ranging from small wall hangings to lap quilts to a bed-sized design
All About Quilting From A to Z

Everything you want to know about designing, creating, and living with quilts in one comprehensive volume!
336 Ten-Minute Quilt Blocks: To Foundation-Piece, Quick-Piece, Nosew Applique, Stamp, Stencil, Paint & Embellish

Easy, fast, and fun to do! These 336 quilt blocks, adapted especially for the beginner, all use the simplest techniques--and many don't even require sewing. Start with a foundation piece, and layer on as many details as you'd like. Choose from dozens of patterns--flowers, trees, hearts, diamonds, boats, animals, and more. Bonus: a mini gallery of project ideas! 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.
Easy Japanese Quilt Style

Offers step-by-step instructions, patterns, and illustrations for patchwork and quilting projects that showcase Japanese fabrics.
Quick & Easy Quilted Sweatshirts

From the back cover:

Imagine the fun you'll have transforming a simple sweatshirt into a designer original. In this book you'll learn to:
- Create drawstrings and cuffs
- Decorate with pockets and elbow patches
- Make binding the easy way
- Add zippers and plackets
Step-by-step instructions for over a dozen projects included.
Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Boxes: 8 Great Designs-Unlimited Possibilities

8 basic box designs and 13 projects offer unlimited creative options. Finalist in the USA Book News Best Book Awards.
Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bowls: 5 Reversible Shapes to Use & Display: Five Reversible Shapes for Use and Display

Attention quilting, sewing, and craft enthusiasts: These five delightful fabric bowl projects make perfect gifts! Choose from the Easy Round Bowl, Fast Square Bowl, and other simple shapes, all ready to create in an array of fabrics and colors. Projects use simple-to-find materials and are completely washable and reversible.
Living With Quilts: Fifty Great American Quilts

The former first lady of Kentucky shares her own quilt collection while showcasing over fifty examples of American quilting
Quick & Easy Pot Holders

Quick & Easy Pot Holders.
My First Sewing Machine Book: Learn to Sew Kids

Alison McNicol is an expert in teaching children to sew and has written the Learn To Sew: Kids series of best-selling sewing books for children.This book is perfect for kids getting started with their first sewing machine - with bright, modern and clear illustrations, children can quickly learn to use and thread their machine, measure and use fabrics, and make a selection of super cool projects- super easy tote bags, cool cushions, i-pod holders, zip cases and more!* Easy to follow Learn To Sew illustrations * Fun and simple projects to make * Lots Of Patterns and templates included!! * Let Daisy Doublestitch and Billy Bobbin show you how!
Sewing School: 21 Sewing Projects Kids Will Love to Make

Kids can sew too! This inspiring guide includes 21 fun sewing projects for children ages 5 and up. With easy-to-follow illustrated instructions and cut-out patterns, young crafters will quickly be sewing up colorful pillows, potholders, dolls, blankets, and more. These kid-tested projects require only minimal supervision and most can be made using simple hand stitches, so no sewing machine is required. With plenty of encouragement and helpful tips, Sewing School ® helps young sewers develop their skills while sparking a passion that will last a lifetime.
Quilts for Wilderness Kids

From Debbie Field's Granola Girl Design Studios, QUILTS FOR WILDERNESS KIDS brings the wonder of the outdoors inside with her spectacular Northwoods designs. This book contains fabulous quilts for kids of all ages including Bear Hugs, Camping in the Woods, Wolf Pack, Don't Bug Me, Fishing Tales, Busy Beaver, Woodland ABC's and more.

18 projects with more than 150 full-color photos and illustrations.
Quilts From the Quiltmaker’s Gift

Provides detailed instructions and measurements for quilt patterns as found in the children's picture book, "The Quiltmaker's Gift."
Quilts for Baby: Easy As ABC (2 copies available)

Piece a quilt top in just a few hours! Learn to make 11 super-easy quilts, using playful, colorful fabrics . Yardage charts and complete instructions are included.
Quick Kids’ Quilts: Easy-to-do Projects for Newborns to Older Children

Quick Kids' Quilts is stuffed full of punchy, bright designs guaranteed to liven up any child's room. The book covers projects for babies, toddlers, and older boys and girls and the different themes capture the imagination and allow for a variety of tastes and functions. Transform or adapt the decorative scheme already in place with a colorful new quilt thrown over the bed and add accessories, such as coordinating cushions and wall hangings, to complete the look.

Making quilts is relatively simple and only a few specialist items of equipment are needed to start. Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced needleworker, the comprehensive, clearly illustrated instructions that accompany each design make the projects simple and easy to do. Variations in texture and color can be introduced with appliqué, decorative stitching, or different weights of wadding. Advice on the best material and tools to use and a summary of the essential practical skills provide all of the necessary information to enable you to produce professional looking finished articles.

The great thing about the patterns is that they can all be achieved in a few days, so you can create quick quilts to suit a wide range of changing tastes and rooms.
Happy Quilts!: 10 Fun, Kid-Themed Quilts and Coordinating Soft Toys

Cheerful, adorable crafts that kids will love!

Childhood is supposed to be magical. Instead of generic bedding, add some whimsy to children's bedrooms with fanciful quilts and huggable pals that looks like they jumped right off the fabric. From playful puppies to retro robots, this fanciful collection from author Antonie Alexander offers easy-to-follow directions for making one-of-a-kind creations!

Inside you'll find:

• 10 themed quilts with more than a dozen matching stuffed toys
• Basic quilting, piecing, applique and finishing instructions
• A digital link to download quilt templates and full-size soft toy patterns in a ready-to-print PDF
Quilt It for Kids: 11 Quilt Projects Sports, Animal, Fantasy Themes for Children of All Ages

Playfulness and practicality are combined in this book's fun-filled designs meant especially for the special young people on every quilter's gift list. Eleven delightful designs for quilts, pillows, and wallhangings are based on animal, fantasy, sports, transportation, or other themes that appeal to kids, some with unique hands-on play features and textured surfaces. Complete instructions using popular quilting techniques include rotary cutting, strip piecing, machine applique, and photo transfer.
Quilting through the year with Debbie Mumm

Create a springtime fresh start for the year with delightful projects blooming with hearts and flowers, chicks and bunnies.

Celebrate the fun-filled days of summer with flying pinwheels, sailing ships, and a quilt that proclaims the great outdoors.

Color your autumn with the vibrant hues and hear-warming symbols of the harvest.

Complete a year of quilting fun with a cozy flannel comforter or the sensational snow crystals quilt.
CHRISTMAS CATS AND DOGS

Dress up a dozen cute cats and five jolly dogs for the holidays! Best-loved author Janet Kime is back with all-new projects that feature cats and dogs as adorable angels, pudgy snowmen, and even Santa.

Choose from 14 whimsical quilts, plus a wreath, a garland, a stocking, and holiday ornaments.

Use easy techniques such as speed piecing, hand appliqué, and redwork embroidery.

Make any of these projects in a snap for gifts or just for fun--even if you've never quilted before!

From the bestselling author of It's Raining Cats and Dogs and The Cat's Meow.
THE QUILTER’S HOME: FALL

Bursts of colorful leaves, crowded pumpkin patches, hot apple pie fresh from the oven--autumn's favorite themes come to life in these easy quilted projects! This fresh new designer introduces a gorgeous sampler quilt that supplies the foundation for a range of coordinating home-decor accents.

Ten projects include a sampler quilt, wall hangings, a pillow sham, and a table runner

Beginners can learn quiltmaking basics in easy-to-follow lessons, and then sharpen their skills by making each block

Many of the smaller projects can be completed in a day or less for a new decor that's fun to create and fast to finish
Christmas with Possibilities: 16 Quilted Holiday Projects

Bring out your handmade holiday spirit! Use your favorite applique methods to create quilts, table decor, gifts and more. This book has something for everyone-projects range from classic to contemporary. Make it a Christmas that everyone wants to come home for!
A Patrick Lose Christmas: Whimsical Projects to Deck the Halls

Put a smile in your holidays with 12 festive projects-bed quilts, table runners, door toppers, and pillows.
Christmas Favorites: Art-to-Heart
Seasonal Samplers, Book 1: Spring and Summer

Delight in spring miracles and summer pleasures with this cheery collection of fun & sunny quilts & seasonal decorations. These quick-cut, easy to piece projects leave plenty or time for enjoying the splendors of the seasons. — - twenty-three bright and cheery projects by Debbie Mumm — - nine colorful quilts spring forth with speedy rotary cutting & quick fuse applique' - easty-to-make button samplers showcase favorite ceramic buttons - whimsical tulips, daffodils & black-eyed susans - decoupage pots & plaques with fun fabric motifs - fast & fun ornaments, vests & decorations
Seasonal Samplers, Book 2: Autumn & Winter

From the back cover: Share the bounties of harvest and the warmth of a winter fire with this generous gathering of welcoming quilts, treasured gifts, and seasonal trimmings. This warmhearted collection, designed by Debbie Mumms, features timesaving projects that are quick to cut and easy to piece. 22 warm and friendly projects; 8 country quilts inspired by the changing seasons.
Christmas Greetings
- Star Garland Quilt with applique
- Star Garland Quilt
- Pine Berries
- Prairie Pines
- Christmas Greetings Log Cabin
- Christmas Greetings Throw
- Christmas Greetings Accessories
Quilts from a Gardener’s Journal

Follow the year in the garden with beautiful new projects including a glorious block-of-the-month by Debbie Mumm. From the amaryllis of winter to the birds of summer to the fruitful harvest of autumn, a whole garden full of quilting inspiration awaits you!
Merry Christmas Quilting

These seven new projects, ranging in size from three ornaments to wall quilts, are the perfect complement to any holiday decorating.
Applique Workshop: Mix and Match 10 Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity

Step-by-Step Illustrated Guide. An in-depth look at how to create amazing applique designs, from landscapes and florals to fun, free-flowing abstracts. Whether you enjoy hand or machine applique, you're sure to find a technique that suits you to a tee!
Sewflakes: Papercut-Applique, Quilts

Turn cut-paper snowflakes into intricate fabric sewflakes that add dazzle to your quilts. 5 projects.
Relief Applique : The pictorial quilts of Carol Goddu

"In ten years of pictorial quilting my subjects have taken me across the centuries, to exotic lands, and into the realms of dance, theatre and fairy tale and myth. This book is a record of my journey." writes Carol Goddu in the introduction to RELIEF APPLIQUE.
The journey is illustrated here in 85 colour plates showing 20 of Carol's works including Anything Goes, portraits of Henry VIII, Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I, a depiction of Peter Pan, a Russian Fairy Tale and an Arabian Nights Fantasy.
This introduction to pictorial applique in the third dimension also includes two explanatory appendices allowing readers to see step by step how Carol constructed two of the quilts illustrated in the book.
More William Morris Applique: Spectacular Quilts & Accessories for the Home

In this spectacular sequel to her bestselling first book, William Morris in Applique, Michele Hill shares 10 new projects for quilts and home accessories, plus 55 individual applique designs in authentic William Morris style. She has beautifully captured the essence of Morris love for his home by dedicating each project to a room from his era. The photography is luxurious throughout the book; you will enjoy seeing his inspirational art and learning more about his different homes. All the how-to basics are included-try fusible or hand applique methods. Update any room with rich, gorgeous colors and stitching.
Penny Haren’s Pieced Applique: Introducing Innovative Techniques for Creating Perfect Blocks for Successful Projects

You may never look at a block pattern the same! Take the mystery out of creating intricate blocks with Penny Haren’s Pieced Applique and her amazingly simple techniques. Begin with 9 basic foundation blocks, follow 5 simple steps, and turn them into 25 “Wow! How did you do that?” blocks that look more complicated than they actually are. Create flawless points and curves with no inset seams and achieve immediate success! Full-size templates are provided, as well as clear step-by-step instructions, full-color diagrams, and three color options. Penny’s innovative techniques prove that it’s so much easier than the traditional way!
Beautiful Wildflower Applique

From the English countryside to your quilt come 33 original wildflower appliqué designs enhanced with embroidery details by Master Quilter's Guild member Zena Thorpe. An award-winning quilter, Zena first used these designs in her fabulous quilt, OUT OF THE STRONG CAME FORTH SWEETNESS. Her recollections of long walks in her native England inspired her botanically correct designs. And these aren't all ordinary wildflowers. These unusual offerings will expand any quilter's appliqué repertoire and the more familiar wildflowers will strengthen it. Included are basic hand appliqué and embroidery techniques. The purpose of the book is to provide these wildflower patterns so quilters can adapt them to their own work, but instructions for 1 wallhanging are also included.
Faces & Places

Have you ever wanted to create a quilt from a favorite photograph but didn't know how to begin? Capturing realistic details in fabric seems an elusive art, but Charlotte shows how to portray images in quilts using a layering technique that is easy to understand and easy to use. Now you can create images in fabric through the appliqué techniques and exercises discussed in this exciting new book. A photo sequence for each project guides the quilter through the process. The projects include landscapes and portraits, with step-by-step techniques to capture realistic detail.
The Best of Baltimore Beauties: 95 Patterns for Album Blocks and Borders

In response to quilters' demand, this book assembles the most acclaimed block and border patterns gleaned from the author's previously published and out-of-print collections, now available in a stunning volume that includes four brand-new Baltimore-style beauties.

Thoroughly indexed for finding multiple patterns of any block style-baskets, bouquets, papercuts, and so on-the collection comprises ninety-five full-scale patterns with annotations pertaining to history, symbolism, and construction.
Applique in a Day: Block Party Series 6

Applique in a Day (Quilt Block Party), Series 6, with 12 pattern inserts
Applique Animals A-Z: Easy Appliqué Animal Quilt Patterns

This 54 page book includes complete appliqué instructions with Debra’s signature NO REVERSING, NO TRACING raw edge method. There are 26 easy to make appliqué animals and a full gallery of ideas. The pattern included goes together quick and easy with 12 fat quarters and 1 yard of white and 1/2 yard of black fabric. Blocks utilize strip piecing. This is a great beginner project!
- Quilt made with 12 fat quarters and 1 yard of white and 1/2 yard of black!
- 26 Easy to make animals included
- Raw-edge fusible appliqué makes the layered patterns quick and easy to complete
- Make this adorable quilt or use the animals on a store bought blanket or bib to personalize.
Little ones LOVE this Brightly Colored Children's Quilt!
Wool Appliqué Folk Art: Traditional Projects Inspired by 19th-Century American Life

Savor the richness and beauty of wool appliqué—its texture, depth, color, and design. Well-known, award-winning folk artist Rebekah L. Smith will ignite your passion for Americana home decor with her simple and elegant designs. Hand stitch 14 folk-art projects, each with full-size patterns and step-by-step instructions. Appliqué pillows, bed toppers, and table runners from woven wools, felted wools, and wool felt—upcycling at its finest! Staying true to early decorative arts, the antique color palette and nature-inspired designs translate seamlessly to many modern living spaces.
Fancy Applique: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Skills

Each exercise in this excellent instructional book encourages playful exploration that will broaden any needleworker's stitching horizons. The twelve sequential lessons provide for two unique Fancy Sampler Quilts that contain fifty different blocks. All techniques needed to replicate them are shown and explained, including cutaway and reverse cutaway appliqu, needleturn, nondecorative stitches, stumpwork, scenery blocks, and state-of-the-art methods for making perfect points, inside corners, and smooth curves.

Elly Sienkiewicz is a quiltmaker, teacher, and the author of Baltimore Beauties and Beyond and many other best-selling crafts books. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Award-Winning Applique Birds

"Patterns to applique realistic and recognizable songbirds. Use all the patterns on a full-sized quilt or use individually. Lists for tools and supplies are provided. Patterns adapt to your favorite applique technique or follow authors instructions for peel-and-stick templates"--Provided by publisher.
Dimensions a New Approach to Piecing & Applique

This book contains beautiful quilting patterns using piecing & applique.
Simply Applique

From back cover:

Discover the charm of this popular stitching technique with SIMPLY APPLIQUE.

Here is a fresh look at applique and fifteen projects that are delightfully easy to do. All the techniques are explained and illustrated.
How to Create an Heirloom Quilt: Learn Over 30 Machine Techniques to Build a Beautiful Quilt

Learn how to create the stunning heirloom quilt that has been awarded around the world, while discovering more than thirty sewing machine techniques in the process. Nine beautiful panels form each section of the quilt, and at the end of each chapter you can hone your skills by creating a variety of projects, from cushions and bags to Christmas stockings and album covers. Whether you want to learn new techniques or brush up on your quilting skills, the comprehensive step-by-step technique advice and invaluable tips and tricks will help you along the way. Stylish photography and easy-to-follow layouts complete the package, making this book essential for anyone who wants sophisticated results from straightforward machine techniques.
Quilting Back to Front

A fast, fun alternative to traditional quilting! Learn Larraine Scouler's clever methods for using the fabric on the backs of your quilts for quilting designs. Quilting "back to front" allows you to save time and add pizzazz to the most ordinary quilt top. *Exercises and dozens of full-color examples to teach you the ins and outs of back-to-front quilting. *Suitable for both hand and machine quilting. *Use decorative threads freely in the bobbin--they'll show up on the quilt front. *Larraine offers common-sense answers to questions such as how to audition fabrics, piece backs for continuous quilting, and connect isolated motifs.
Doodle Quilting: Over 120 Continuous-Line Machine-Quilting Designs

(2 copies available)

Cheryl Malkowsi makes it easy to free-motion quilt by mastering your doodling skills! In her beginner’s guide to continuous-line quilting designs, learn how to select the right shapes to get where you need to go; sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next. Squiggles, swirls, flowers, feathers…learn which are best for confined spaces and which work better traveling across your quilt. Gain confidence in your ability to draw basic shapes, then learn how to put them together into over a hundred all-over quilting designs. Includes drawing exercises and tips for transferring designs from paper to fabric.
Heirloom Machine Quilting: A Comprehensive Guide to Hand-Quilting Effects Using Your Sewing Machine

A brand-new edition of the machine quilting classic! Includes everything you need to know about machine quilting.
The Weekend Quilter

26 glorious quilts to make in a weekend.
Creative Classics: 250 Playful Continuous-Line Quilting Designs

Rev up your hand or machine quilting with 250 playful new continuous-line variations on 5 favorite quilting motifs.
Quilt As Desired: Your Guide to Straight-Line and Free-Motion Quilting

This book comes to the rescue of quilters everywhere by finally addressing the most dreaded phrase in quilting instruction - quilt as desired.

Packed with 150 step-by-step photos, detailed instructions and expert insight into thread selection, marking techniques and simple binding, each chapter meet your desire to continually grow as a quilter. Using straight-line and free-motion techniques to complete six feature projects, this revolutionary guide will help you take your quilting to new heights.
Designing Tessellations: The Secrets of Interlocking Patterns

Designing Tessellations opens the door for quilters to thousands of new and exciting patterns by showing them how to create tessellations--designs made up of the repeated use of seemingly complex but deceptively simple shapes that interlock perfectly to flow across a quilt. Inspired by artist M. C. Escher, Jinny Beyer introduces quilters to the fascinating world of symmetry and then clearly shows how to experiment with shapes and images to create sensational, tessellating designs. Quilters will not only learn how to produce interlocking geometric patterns, but also will learn how easy it is to create true-to-life images of birds, fish, butterflies, and more in the style of Escher. Features include: - More than 125 color photographs and 2,000 step-by-step color drawings - Dozens of quilts featuring tessellated designs
Quilting to Soothe the Soul: Create Memories for Today, Tomorrow & Forever

In Quilting to Soothe the Soul, you'll learn how quilters through the ages have turned to quilting and sewing to memorialize the significant moments of our lives: the births, marriages, anniversaries, and deaths of our friends and loved ones. Author Linda Carlson shows you how quilting helps relieve the stress of our everyday lives, while it also serves as a means to record the historic events that shape our world. Besides a breathtaking gallery of gorgeous quilts, including pieces designed as a result of September 11, 2001, and the momentous stories behind them, you can choose from over 15 different quilting projects, so you can sew your own memories.When there is stress in your life, turn to your needle and let the labor of your hands work through the grief in your heart. When there is joy in your life, let your celebration sing in the fabric, threads, and colors of a commemorative quilt sewn with strands of love. Whether you stitch a quilt to be commemorative, mourning, or memorial, the simple act of sewing and quilting will bring you peace.
Ontario’s Heritage Quilts

A showcase of styles and techniques.

This beautiful and informative book celebrates the generations of Ontario quilters who created cherished, lasting works of domestic art while keeping their families warm during cold northern winter nights. Many Ontario quilters have roots in American quilting cultures which is reflected in familiar patterns and techniques.

This book examines the patterns, fabrics and techniques of Ontario's quilters through individual quilts and their makers. Each quilt is beautifully photographed in a setting natural to its origin.

Practical information includes:
- Pieced quilts, Summer and winter quilts, Star quilts, Crazy quilts, Log cabin quilts, Appliqué quilts, Paper cut or Hawaiian quilts, Commemorative and patriotic quilts, Summer quilts, Coverlets, Hexagon or honeycomb quilts, Double wedding ring and Dresden plate quilts, Basket quilts
- Patterns for Jacob's Ladder, Friendship Circle, Wild Wreath of Roses
- Detailed instructions for cleaning and storing a quilt
America’s Glorious Quilts

A beautiful catalog of american quilts. The photographs are full color and show great detail.
Ricky Tims’ Convergence Quilts: Mysterious, Magical, Easy, and Fun

Popular quilting expert Ricky Tims presents an imaginative, new piecing technique that quilters will adore! Convergence quilts feature two or more fabrics cut into strips, sewn together, then cut and pieced again. Nothing could be simpler - or more magical! Ricky offers lots of creative guidelines but no hard-and-fast rules, so every Convergence quilt is a unique work of art.
Whimsies and Whynots: A Playful Approach to Quiltmaking

It’s never too late to be creative! Using these simple techniques and hands-on exercises, you can develop a quiltmaking style that’s spontaneous and fun. Learn to push past frustrating mental blocks to make imaginative, original quilts that tell stories about whatever amuses, touches, or inspires you. Begin your creative journey today with:

• Lessons on five basic components of creativity, plus whimsical exercises to help you uncover new sources of inspiration

• Nine easy-to-follow sections on developing themes, choosing fabrics, and adding photo transfers, letters, and embellishments in exciting new ways

• Full-color photos of 41 wonderfully inspiring story quilts to get you started
Quilting with Japanese Fabrics

The stunning beauty of Japanese fabrics inspired award-winning quiltmaker Kitty Pippen to immerse her quilts in Japanese elegance and style. Now Kitty shares her dazzling creations in eight exquisite patterns that illustrate how quilters of all skill levels can play with these dramatic fabrics in their quilts. Includes patterns ranging from simple mosaics and Japanese octagonal designs to Crazy patchwork, plus over 40 photos of glorious Japanese-style quilts. Provides a comprehensive introduction to Japanese textiles, such as indigo, kasuri, yukata, shibori, and aizome. Features a section on using sashiko quilting to add richness to any pieced quilt. Draws on common quilting techniques, such as traditional machine piecing, paper piecing, and appliqué.
Asian Elegance: Quilting With Japanese Fabrics And More

Got a passion for exotic fabrics? Feature the fabrics of Japan, Polynesia, and Hawaii in your next quilt! This talented mother-daughter team shares their love of unusual fabrics in one-of-a-kind designs.

Learn the best ways to use beautiful, bold fabrics in nine step-by-step projects

Break the traditional rules of design by playing with asymmetry, space, and movement

Get creative by combining several fabric styles, from elegant kimono silks to colorful tropical prints
CELTIC QUILTS

These all-new, timesaving techniques show quilters how to create exquisite, interlacing Celtic patterns more simply and quickly than ever before! Just "baste" designs with fusible web, machine appliqué with "invisible" stitches, and add dramatic color and texture with decorative threads. A mix of ancient and modern Celtic patterns is provided. Includes: Complete instructions for 12 beautiful Celtic wall quilts, pillows, and table runners. Elegant block, medallion, and border patterns, all given a fresh look with color-rich prints. Tips on making stained-glass style Celtic quilts with ready-made 1/4" bias strips.
Cathedral Window Quilting

In Cathedral Window Quilting, internationally-renowned quilt designer Lynne Edwards returns to this beautiful patchwork technique by popular demand. Lynne's uniquely creative and accessible approach brings Cathedral Window quilting up to date, capturing quilters' imaginations and inspiring them to learn and enjoy this technique and its variations
Birds in the Air

Based on the traditional triangle block, Eleanor Burns presents her rendition of Birds in the Air. Always working to perfect the art of making quilting fun and easy, she developed a method to make 8 blocks at a time, using the Two Block method. This makes the quilt go twice as fast! The full color book gives complete, step by step instructions for technique, as well as yardage and cutting charts for numerous quilt sizes.
Cozy Cabin Quilts from Thimbleberries: 20 Projects for Any Home

Provides instructions for twenty Thimbleberries projects for such items as quilts, pillows, tablecloths, and throws.
Ribbon Star Quilts

Back with more of her stunning work, top-selling author Nancy Mahoney reveals the incredible versatility of the Ribbon Star block a quilt block of her own design. Take this beauty on an exciting quilting adventure with Nancy's quick and clever techniques.
The Scrap Savers Solution Book

This book offers a baker's dozen of delightful projects designed to reduce the volume of a quilter's scrap stash. 48 pages. Softcover.
Everyday Quilts

Lap quilts get snack fallout at TV time. Kids' beds see lots of playtime as well as sleep time. And who knows what Fido and Kitty do when no one's looking? These quilts are the kind you love to make but don't worry about using. Enjoy 15 easy machine-pieced patterns that any confident beginning quilter can create in no time. These quilts are fun to make and great time-savers. Also included are anecdotes and recipes, so the book can serve as the focus of a gathering for sewing, snacking, and story telling-perfect for making charity quilts.
Quilts Without Corners

Quilts Without Corners Platinum Edition combines the best of the original book with the best of the Quilts Without Corners Encore with updated samples, size conversions, creative options and additional designs. New -- the Chained Melody pattern Also New-- A redesigned butterfly! Smaller and Larger size design conversions Creative Options--variations for designs Framing template Extension and Mini templates. Uses the Ten Degree tool also by Cheryl Phillips and Phillips Fiber Art
Lone Star Quilts & Beyond: Step-by-Step Projects and Inspiration

Explore the world of Lone Star quilts! Jan shows you how to use today's techniques to simplify this intricate design and make 9 colorful, creative projects.
JOINED AT THE HEART

Every quilt tells a story. A quilt can celebrate a graduation or a first home; it can cuddle a new baby in grandmother's love; or it can simply serve as a warm hug on a winter day. Share your stories in fabric with quilts that are simple, fun, and heartwarming for both the giver and the lucky receiver.

· Choose from more than 20 projects that are perfect for gifts, decor, and even charities

· Whip up quick companion projects, such as pillows, a beanbag massager, and a table runner

· Personalize any quilt with great tips for working with photos, decorative stitching, and monograms
101 FABULOUS ROTARY-CUT QUILTS

Learn time-saving techniques with this grand compilation of 101 classic quilt patterns!
Bears Paw Plus: Make New Tracks with Sampler Blocks

Join the Bear's Paw block with other classics for a fun twist on tradition! Replace the paw pad in the Bear's Paw block with one of twelve 4" sampler blocks to make big, beautiful designs. These blocks are satisfying to stitch and spectacular to show off.

A dozen traditional blocks are combined with the Bear's Paw block in five sampler projects, from place mats to bed quilts

Discover shortcut methods for familiar favorites such as Churn Dash, Old Maid's Puzzle, and Sawtooth Star

Get a project guide and a useful resource of block patterns, all packed into a value-priced format
Clever Quarters, Too: Mort Quilts from Fat Quarters

Sew a work of art using fat quarters as the palette! This bestselling author's follow-up to "Clever Quarters" features all-new scrappy quilts that focus on fat quarters - those irresistible cuts of fabric that are the ultimate quilter's candy. You can choose from bed quilts, a table runner, and wall quilts - 16 projects in all. The sixteen projects include a table runner, a wall hanging, and bed quilts. You can choose the number of fat quarters you want to use, from as few as 5 to 26, 38, or even a whopping 62 cuts; and, find tips for combining a multitude of colors, values, and patterns to get that classic scrappy look.
The Block Book

Judy Martin has designed more original quilt and block patterns than anyone in history. The Block Book has 156 blocks, 107 of which are brand new Judy Martin originals. The rest are traditional blocks or favorites from Judy's earlier books.

Each block is presented with a color photo, a clear piecing diagram, precise rotary cutting dimensions, accurate full-size templates and piecing tips and quilt suggestions.
The Art of Machine Piecing

Here are easy-to-learn precision piecing methods that will help you attain quality workmanship and extraordinary quilts. Sally shows how to enjoy the journey from design idea to quilted reality! Patterns for 49 traditional-style blocks in 3", 4", and 6" sizes. Instructions for making a knock-your-socks-off sampler quilt that uses all 49 blocks. The ultimate how-to guide for precision machine piecing, offering detailed information on choosing appropriate fabrics and drafting patterns. Inspiration and ideas from a gallery of beautiful small quilts and gifts. Lessons on how to critique your own work and correct problems
BLOCK BY BLOCK

Finish a glorious quilt in no time--machine quilt each block as you go! Apply these construction techniques to dozens of classic quilt blocks. Quilters will find this exciting technique a manageable and versatile way to assemble and machine quilt both large and small quilts.

• Choose from 25 blocks, five corner designs, and three sashing designs; use the beautiful color gallery of ten quilts for inspiration

• Includes more than two dozen reference charts for batting, borders, sashing, blocks, and yardage

• Quilters can create original designs and settings with their favorite blocks using this technique
At Home With Country Quilts: 13 Patchwork Patterns

Discover a new collection of cozy quilts in the primitive country style that made Country Comforts so popular. With her casual approach and easy quilt patterns, Cheryl Wall invites quilters of all levels to enjoy the creative process.
- Create 13 homey patchwork quilts in a variety of sizes; many are accented with charming appliqué details
- Learn piecing methods as well as simple techniques for cotton and wool appliqué
- Make great use of your scraps in these country-style projects
The Thimbleberries Book of Quilts: Quilts of All Sizes Plus Decorative Accessories for Your Home

Quilters love Lynette Jensen's designs for their strong sense of color and their folk art appeal. This book includes clear, step-by-step directions that allow even beginning crafters to learn how to make gorgeous quilted projects. Full-color layouts & how-to diagrams.
At Home with Thimbleberries Quilts: A Collection of 25 Country Quilts and Decorative Accessories

What's all the buzz about Thimbleberries quilts? One look through the pages of this book and you'll discover why everybody loves Lynette Jensen's projects.

Wide variety of projects--pick from 25 wall to bed-size quilts and decorative accessories for the home (bet you can't make just one!)

Warm and cozy contry style in your own quilts

Fast techniques with terrific results--the secrets are in Lynette's streamlined rotary-cutting, quick-piecing, and fusible appliqué techniques.
Extraordinary Log Cabin Quilts

Extraordinary Log Cabin Quilts features: 15 complete and accurate patterns in multiple sizes; beautiful pieced borders gracing every quilt; 300 color diagrams; 175 gorgeous photos; an in-depth discussion of color and value with lots of photographs; a way to test your seam allowance and how to then make it perfect; diagrams showing which direction to press the seam allowances; and a method for keeping track of logs of varying lengths. Each pattern has a big color photo of the entire quilt; a closeup photo showing fabric and quilting; a photo of an additional block made in a different color scheme and fabric; 14 or more drawings of alternate settings and/or color schemes; fat quarter requirements; patch quantity requirements; quilt size, block size, and log width listed; piecing diagrams, complete with what direction to press the seams and what order to sew the patches; quilt construction diagrams for two sizes; ratings for ease of cutting, sewing, and planning; and quilting suggestions.
Judy Martin’s Log Cabin Quilt Book: Patterns & Possibilities for Lob Cabin & Log Quilts

Judy Martin's Log Cabin Quilt Book features 16 complete and accurate patterns in multiple sizes (34 sizes in all); 400 color diagrams; 100 setting plans; 36 borders; and 100 gorgeous photos. Each pattern has a big color photo of the entire quilt; a closeup photo showing fabric and quilting; fat quarter requirements; patch quantity requirements; quilt size, block size, and log width listed; piecing diagrams, complete with what direction to press the seams and what order to sew the patches; a quilt construction diagram; a rating for ease of cutting, sewing, and planning; a pieced border; and quilting suggestions.
Pineapple Passion

Very little has been written about the Pineapple pattern, and relatively few antique quilts have been found. However a simple method of constructing Pineapple quilts has created a new appeal for this wonderful pattern.
French Braid Quilts: 14 Quick Quilts with Dramatic Results

Simple Piecing - Spectacular Quilts. One great technique, a variety of different looks! LEARN TO USE VALUE: Create glowing effects by choosing a gradated range of fabrics. Super-easy piecing means fast quilt construction. Make it yours with pretty borders, separator bands, and other creative variations. Color is key when you "braid" a variety of fabrics into an eye-catching quilt. Learn to identify value in fabric and use it to create the effect you want-in these quilts and every quilt you make! Fourteen projects range from striking wall hangings to bed quilts.
Quilted Panels in Black and White: Fast and Friendly Techniques for Using Fabric Panels and Large Prints

Turn panels and large print fabrics into unique and stunning quilts! Take a panel or large print fabric, add more fabulous fabrics, a dash of design, a sprinkling of stitching and stir it all together to produce a unique, stunning quilt! Kay Capps Cross is here to show you how to start with something that’s already fantastic on its own--a gorgeous panel or a larger-than-life print--and make it even better with traditional piecing, paper piecing and appliqué. For a quick wall-hanging that turns a panel into a work of art, try Panel Panache. Or, if you’re looking for a bed-sized masterpiece, look no further than Wise Water. Try Kay’s signature black-and-white style, or give these designs your own unique look; either way, you’re sure to love the results. Open Quilted Panels in Black & White and see for yourself. Inside you’ll find: • step-by-step techniques that will help you along whether you’re working on your first quilt, or your fiftieth • tips and tricks that make quick work of piecing • quilts both large and small that integrate panels and large print fabrics into designs both traditional and unique • a gallery of additional quilts that offers even more inspiration Come learn Kay’s panel and large print fabric recipe for success in Quilted Panels in Black & White.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CHENILLE

Create the enormously popular look and luxurious feel of chenille in just five fun steps! Discover all-new Faux Chenille™ techniques, such as incorporating ribbons, trims, and fabric scraps to create one-of-a-kind chenille fabrics. Learn to make raw fabric edges--even cotton--"bloom" into soft, beautiful fabric that's irresistible to touch. A magical world of color and texture awaits in:

· Nine step-by-step Faux Chenille projects, including wall quilts, pillows, rugs, handbags, and wearables

· Directions for making Faux Chenille in five simple steps--just layer, stitch, slash, wash, and dry

· Techniques for strip weaving, dyeing, and appliquéing cottons, muslin, and pre-quilted fabrics for unique textural effects

Also see Nannette's first book, Variations in Chenille.
40 FABULOUS QUICK-CUT QUILTS

Any quilter with a love of traditional quilts won?t want to miss this pattern-packed book! Forty gorgeous, classic quilt designs rely on simple patterns and warm, inviting fabrics.
Forty scrappy-style quilts rely on easy rotary cutting and some strip piecing, with designs for all skill levels
Projects feature garden, seasonal, and holiday looks, with many quilts needing only three to five fabrics
Timesaving techniques promise a fast journey from fabric bolt to finished quilt
Bargello Quilts with a Twist

If you love traditional Bargello quilts with their illusion of curves and flowing waves, but are wary of tedious cutting and the complexity of creating free-form patterns, this new 16-piece Bargello block technique allows you to have fun playing with a collection of blocks to create endless possibilities—the more blocks and colors, the more possibilities.

With the newly created block method, Bargello Quilts with a Twist allows you to create the look of Bargello with ease. Strips are cut and pieced in sets of four, counter-cut, and joined to complete the blocks. Using the versatile pattern, there are an amazing number of ways to arrange as few as 16 blocks to create exciting and unique patterns.
Bargello Quilts in Motion: A New Look for Strip-Pieced Quilts

Here's Bargello like you've never seen it before: stunning quilts full of free-form twists, turns, and 3-D effects that look like Op-art paintings. The biggest surprise is how simple these quilts are to make! Designer Ruth Ann Berry shows you how to use easy, straight-line strip piecing to create the illusion of curves in motion. 8 projects with complete instructions plus directions on how to create your own designs. Slice up your stash—novelty fabrics and even ugly fabrics look good when cut up for Bargello piecing. Large-scale quilts look spectacular on a bed or on the wall.
Pieced Curves So Simple: The 6-Minute Circle and Other Time-Saving Delights

Use Dale's fast, easy, pinless technique for perfect machine-sewn curves and circles.
Crazy Curves

This is a full color quilt book exploring the Drunkards Path block in 3 sizes. Full size templates are included or ordering information for acrylic templates is available in the book. Go crazy with color as you update an old block. Great for beginners. Step by step colored pictures and directions.
Twist & Turn: Quilts with No Curved Seams

Learn to use the simple "twist & turn" method to quickly and easily sew graceful curves with no curved seams! Twist & Turn will guarantee a happy quilting experience, with instructions and patterns for windmills, pinwheels, hourglasses, interlocking shapes, scallops, zigzags and more.
Scrapmania: More Quick-Pieced Scrap Quilts

Do you have an abundance of leftover fabrics just waiting to be transformed into a beautiful quilt? Then you'll be delighted with the Template Free patterns and timesaving techniques in Scrap Mania.

If you have a rotary cutter and a sewing machine, just add ScrapMania as the final ingredient for creating beautiful quilts with your stash of fabric scraps! Don't miss out on: -17 Template-Free RM quilt patterns for quiltmakers of all skill levels-- A variety of popular quilt block designs, including Log Cabin, Spinning Star, and Pyramids-- Timesaving rotary-cutting and machine-piecing techniques.
Stack-N-Whackier Quilts: Another Magic Stack-n-Whack Book

Layering and cutting multiple pieces are the hallmark of Bethany's process. Patterns include contemporary and classic choices from: Butterflies, Fans, Flowers, Optical Illusions, and more. *Same easy-to-follow format and charts as 'Stack-n-Whack'. *12 new 'Stack-n-Whack' quilt patterns using three simple methods: Basic Stack-n-Whack, Stack-n-Select, and Magic Mirror-Image. AUTHORBIO: The originator of this highly successful quilting technique, "Stack-n-Whack", she also publishes her own quilt patterns as part of BSR Designs. REVIEW: The unbelievably talented Bethany Reynolds has given us "Stack-n-Whackier Quilts" to provide us with more hours of great fun and incredible quilts.
ROW BY ROW: 10 EASY BAR QUILTS

Feature your favorite fabrics--including fat quarters--in these quick-to-stitch quilts! The blocks in these quilt patterns are set into a variety of wide, easy-to-sew strips that reduce the need for matching seams and sewing repeat blocks. Strips are then joined to create a super-simple finished quilt top. Perfect for quilters with a stash of novelty prints!

Combine the popularity of bar quilts and theme fabrics in ten whimsical quilt patterns

Develop your quiltmaking skills as you stitch these simple designs and discover ideas for using your stash fabrics in new ways

Includes an alphabet and number chart so you can personalize your projects
Quick Cozy Flannel Quilts

This book features easy-to-make album/memory quilts, each featuring the latest rotary cutting and quick-piecing techniques. Using old hankies, photos, school T-shirts and other media, quiltmakers can create an assortment of beautiful quilts.
Sensational Sets and Borders

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Sensational Sets & Borders

Discover lots of exciting new ways to arrange your stash of blocks in fresh, creative settings, and then surround them with a dynamic pieced or plain border. More than 200 quilter's-eye-view photos and clear step-by-step directions will guide you each step of the way.

Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn:

* Simple solutions for dealing with blocks that aren't the same size
* How to size and fit borders so they never, ever ripple or wave
* Sashing strategies that instantly add pizzazz to your quilts
* An ingenious, time-saving way to join blocks together (cut your assembly time in half!)
* The secrets to custom-fitting a pieced border
* Dozens of clever ideas for straight and diagonal settings

And much, much more!
Cookies ‘n’ Quilts: Recipes & Patterns for America’s Ultimate Comforts

Judy Martin believes strongly in the notion of quilting as a social institution. It's been that way for generations. Now, more than ever in our high-tech, high-speed, isolated-at-my-own-computer-in-my-own-cubicle world, we need the relaxation and comfort and community that quilting can offer. With Judy Martin’s book, you can schedule quilting bees to make the gorgeous quilts in Cookies 'n' Quilts and then sample the desserts! Or sample the desserts and then make the quilts. But if you do it in that order, make sure everyone washes their hands before handling any fabric! Choose from these delightful patterns: American Spirit: small four patches appear to float over larger ones; Shenandoah Log Cabin: a Virginia Reel is built from logs; Diamonds Are Forever: small LeMoyne Stars are sprinkled randomly over larger ones; Measure For Measure: small and large Friendship Stars play across a light pink twilight sky; Fall Foliage Spectacular: Maple Leaves are incorporated into Log Cabin blocks; Sonora Song: blossoms enhance a Rail Fence; Climbing Roses: flowers are strewn over an Irish Chain; and "I Have a Dream": a smattering of small stars twinkle over larger stars and alternate blocks. Choose from these delicious recipes: Heart & Home: chocolate chips galore in a cookie that's crisp on the outside, tender and chewy on the inside; Farmer's Daughter: tender oatmeal spice cookie bursting with cinnamon chips; Oregon Trail: moist peanut butter cookie bursting with chocolate; Magic Moment: chewy chocolate cookie studded with mint chips; Country Boy: hearty oatmeal cookie with an abundance of butterscotch chips; Heaven & Earth: rich chocolate frosting crowns a fudgy brownie on a butter cookie crust; Tennessee Waltz: pecans and milk chocolate chips top a butter crust; Chantilly Lace: moist coconut macaroon sprinkled with walnuts; Wilderness Log Cabin: cinnamon-kissed dates and walnuts top a buttery shortbread; and Viennese Waltz: Elegant butter cookie bar topped with raspberry-flavored chocolate chips and almonds.
A Year of Rag Quilts

Featuring an authentic homespun look, these 12 quaint wall quilts boast seasonal patterns and wonderfully textured edges. And best of all, they're surprisingly easy to make, thanks to a simple, distinctive technique and great step-by-step instructions.
Quick Rotary Cutter Quilts
Beautiful Building Block Quilts: Create Improvisational Quilts from One Block

Author Lisa Walton shows you how to start with an easy quilt block like Four Patch or Flying Geese, stitch it up in several different sizes, then build your blocks into striking improvised quilts with up-to-the-minute style using solids, batiks and hand dyed fabrics. The piecing couldn’t be easier, and the design possibilities are endless with two ways to play: make quilts exactly like the ones in the book, or learn to improvise your own unique creations. Includes 8 step-by-step complete quilt projects, 4 bonus projects, plus a gallery to inspire even more possibilities!
The Quilting Sourcebook: 250 Easy-To-Follow Patchwork & Quilting Patterns

Maggi McCormick Gordon, whose Ultimate Quilting Book received kudos, gives quilters a reason to rejoice with more than 200 easy, dazzling patterns. Each design appears in full color, with stitch diagrams. Among the wealth of quilt patterns featured are the Log Cabin, Nine-Patch, Irish Chain, Friendship Star, Pinwheel, Clamshell, Fan, Cathedral Window, and many more.
Hearth & Home Quilts

These seven designs from Fig Tree Quilts all have a warm, antique feeling. Designer Joanna Figueroa and partner Lisa Quan chose soft romantic colors that were inspired by actual vintage quilts or vintage fabric that they discovered at a flea market.
ABCD Quilting

I came up with this method as a way to solve several problems other quilters would come to me about. I was a former math teacher who also taught quilting and was disappointed with existing patterns for various reasons.

These are just a few of the problems I have addressed with this new technique:
- I bought a pattern but it is for a queen and I need it to be a king. I hate math…. Can you help? I know you were a math teacher. Smile, smile
- I bought this pattern but the cutting will take forever – one of those “cut four rectangles 2.5 by 4.5, cut eight squares 4.5 by 6.5, ETC!!! By the time I am done cutting, I won’t even want to make the quilt! Why did I buy this?!?
- I spent all this time making this quilt but I am not a color expert or artist and my blue fabric isn’t right 🙁 Wish I wouldn’t have picked something with so many color choices.
- Okay, so I’ve started the quilt but my colors are different than the pattern and I keep having to refer to my color chart. Grrr….
My book uses three fabrics cut into any size squares. The ABCD Blocks take three hours to make – all 32 blocks. Yes, you read that correctly. My directions are in white, gray and black to show value. There is NO set pattern so you can use the ABCD Blocks to make a variety of items such as table runners, bed quilts, purses, tree skirts, clothing, etc.
A Taste of Napa Valley

A book of quilt patterns and recipes to tempt the senses. Each of the 14 projects in this 56-page spiral-bound book is based on a wine from the Napa Valley - I have endeavored to depict the wines through the quilts. Then I added a family-favorite recipe to complement each wine. Cheers!
Diamond Quilts & Beyond

4 gorgeous projects feature shimmering diamonds. Lots of inspirational photos and a breathtaking gallery.
Fast, Fun & Fabulous Quilts

Fast, Fun and Fabulous Quilts By Suzanne Nelson presents 30 absolutely gorgeous quilts that are guaranteed to make you dash to your sewing room and start stitching. Every single quilt in this book is...

FAST! Timesaving tips, tricks, and techniques shave time off cutting, piecing, and appliqué.

FUN! Hundreds of ideas on color variations, easy embellishments, and quilting designs give you lots of creative inspiration.

FABULOUS! Sixteen talented designers share their very best quilt projects with you.

Father Christmas...page 104
Bear with Us...page 206
Hearts and Spools...page 146
DEBBIE MUMM’S QUICK COUNTRY QUILTS

Provides patterns and instructions for making quilts, pillows, valances, and wall hangings.
Bits of Bargello

The resurgence of interest in bargello brings us this colorful book that gives quilters a fresh look at a traditional technique. The eight projects incorporate sections bits of bargello into traditional pieced quilt designs adding fun, texture, and interest. Using bits of bargello as design elements creates the illusion of movement and depth through color and piecing. The clear instructions take the fear out of bargello. Each project utilizes a different bargello sequence, perfect for workshops in a classroom setting or for trying on your own. With a background in textile and sweater design, along with training in interior design, this busy long-arm quilter and pattern designer brings a wealth of experience and imagination to these projects. Karen, her husband, and their three young children live in Ballston Lake, New York.
Reversible Quilts: Two At A Time

Discover an unexpected "two-for-one" twist in these beautiful quilts! Create an exciting design on the front side and a completely different design on the back side. Plus, construction is quick and easy because these projects are quilted at the same time they are pieced.
Stripples

Striped Rectangles and Squares the Easy Way.
24 Floral Blocks to Piece

24 floral blocks to piece including full-size patterns.
Big One-Star Quilts by Magic

Make big, beautiful lone-stars from squares and rectangles. 14 stars, 4 projects, 28 quilting designs, 14 bonus patterns.
String Frenzy: 12 More Strip Quilt Projects; Strips, Strings & Scrappy Things!

Are you buried in scraps—big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too tiny to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie’s basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces 3/4” to 2” wide, turning them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts.
Laps From Fats

11 Lap-size quits to make using fat quarters.
Sudoku Quilts

Sudoku puzzles have soared in popularity - and now quilters can get in the game! The grids used in today's trendy Sudoku number puzzles are a perfect match for making quilts. But instead of numbers, quilters can place colors and fabrics in brain-teasing designs.
Choose from four winning patterns with a game-like goal - each row and column of blocks should contain a different fabric, color or motif
Base designs on nine color families, nine block styles, nine block centers, or nine fabric motifs
Mix and match different sashing treatments for one-of-a-kind design - just like Sudoku, the possibilities are mind-boggling!
Strip Tubing
- Strip Tubing is another in the line of top-selling books by Cozy Quilt DesignsTM and it makes diagonally pieced Half Square Triangles a snap! Includes 5 full patterns some with multiple layout options all in multiple sizes.
Crossed Paths

Size: 61” x 61”
Pattern includes bed runner (61” x 25”)
Holiday Accents

18" x 48" Table Runner

12" x 18" Placemats
Dressed to the Nines

48" x 64" Quilt
Crazy Rays

56 1/2" x 56 1/2" Quilt
Good Neighbours

Set J, the small house, is used to make several house quilts as well as a Cabana and placemats.

8952 Template Set J, 6" (School) House Block
The Net Best Thing To A Table Runner

Out of the box!

The time has come to break the rules and have fun doing it! This sleek runner has no batting, no quilting and no binding. It gets its sleek look by using heavyweight stabilizer. Stitch around the central cubes to finish. Just follow the easy color directions to become a trendy quilter.
Trees all Around

Tree Skirt 40" diameter
Stellar Medallion

Tree Skirt 50" diameter
Star Light Quilt Pattern

46" x 58" Quilt

Churn dash, 9 patch, star block
Triangle Frenzy Swirl

Runner 20" x 36"
Settler’s Fork

72" x 88" Quilt

Intermediate
Jared’s Pass

80" x 95" Quilt

Beginner
Lattice Windows Quilt Pattern

Crib, Twin, Queen
Delectable Mountains

66" 78" Quilt
Big Block Bargello

Lap Size 56" x 74"

Queen Size 80" x 92"
Just Spoolin’

Queen Size, Lap Size

Confident Beginner
Magical Stars

42" x 54"

66" x 78"
Absolutely Apron

One size fits all.
Read Set Go

Crib Size 45.5" x 63"

Beginner
Twist & Shout Tote

3 Sizes, 2 Styles

Large 9 x 9 x 14
Small 7 x 7 x 10
Mini 5 x 5 x 8

Confident Beginner
Braid Runner

Braid Runner is a great looking table runner that is sewn with a "quilt as you go" method, which is really fast & easy. Measuring 17" x 52", when you are done piecing the quilt, just bind it & you're done! It's fun to play with the fabric colors to create a 3D effect by
making it go from the light center out to the dark borders.
Cornerstones

Pieced Quilt – 64″ x 64″

Jelly roll friendly
Ribbon Run

The pattern includes instructions for:
• Crib
• Throw
• Twin
• King
Barbados Bag

Finished size: 10 1/2" wide x 10" tall x 2" deep

4 pockets outside including 1 zippered cell phone pocket, 2 inside pockets

Sized to fit your IPAD or KINDLE/NOOK inside

Zipper top closure

This stylish bag is great for traveling to quilt shows and vacations! Kit it using fat quarters! It has a long cross body strap, easy zipper top closure, & lots of pockets
Fun Cup Mats

There’s no need in putting your Fun Cup Mats away in a drawer. Why not hang them as a decoration in your kitchen. Large Fun Cup Mats (4) Reversible Fabric Requirements: Based on 40″ wide of useable fabric Finished size without the handle 12″ x 13½”
Moebius Scarf

The Moebius Scarf is one continuous spiraling loop. It's fun, fast and fascinating to make. This scarf is versatile enough to compliment just about any outfit. It can be worn simply draped around the neck or wound a second or third time.
Forever Spring Quilt Pattern

Lap 67" x 76 1/2"

Queen 87 1/2" x 108"
Somerset

A stunning quilt from designer Jinny Beyer. Hand or machine piecing. (size: 78 x 78 in.)
Basket of Ferns

971/8" x 118 3/8"
Vienna Nights

VINTAGE Vienna Nights Quilt Pattern by 3 Sisters for MODA - Finished Quilt Measures 76" x 93"
Bed of Roses Quilt

92" x 92"
Strawberry Jam

75" x 87"
Willow Glen

77" x 79"
Check Out the Stars

This quilt can be made completely from 5" squares or 10" squares or fat quarters. Pattern, by Marilyn Foreman, has piecing instructions for four sizes.

Finished sizes:
Throw: 48" x 64"
Twin: 64" x 80"
Full: 80" x 96"
King: 96" x 112"
Pattern for 5" Squares, 10" Squares, or Fat Quarters.
Just Like Sunshine

You're sure to feel the sunshine every time you look at this bright and playful quilt. The pattern offers four different sizes and suggestions for putting all your scraps to good use. This fast and fun, strip pieced quilt is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and warmth to your...
Wetland Wonders

Wall-hanging Applique

39 1/2" x 39 1/2"

A serene picturesque wall hanging in muted tones, depicting the familiar sights of cottage country ….. animals, wildflowers, weeds and grasses. This is an original design featuring 10 inch blocks. The center block in this pattern is also a 10 inch block on point. Do you have orphan 10 inch blocks you don’t know what to do with? This pattern is for you. It is machine appliquéd using blanket stitch. Mitered inside and outside corners on the binding complete this wall hanging. Finished size 39” x 39”.
Jungle Walk

Cuddle quilt / Bed Topper 51" x 77"

Transport yourself to the Jungle and walk along with these wonderful animals all “Walking for a Cause”. Although originally designed as a comfort quilt for cancer patients and survivors; we realized that there are walks for a variety of worthy causes, and most people are touched in one way or another by these horrible diseases. Therefore we decided to simply name it ……Walk for a Cause. This way the quilt would encompass all of the above. This quilt is appealing to anyone of any age with a sense of whimsy and fun. The variety of shoes will bring a smile to all. Finished size 51” x 77”
Stars Aligned

A Cozy Strip Club Pattern Designed for 2½" Strips

This pattern starts with a variety of strips 2½" x width of fabric. It is a great way to use Jelly Rolls, Bali Pops, Strip Bundles or your own stash!

Stars Aligned is an instant favorite! What a great way to show off luscious fabrics in an interesting and brilliantly engineered quilt! You’ll need background to give it shape, and a little accent to make it all come together. (In the pictured quilt, the Accent makes the blue squares.)

The pattern includes instructions for:
• Wall Hanging
• Throw
• Twin
• Queen
Basket Crazies

60" x 64"
Mary Ann’s Purse – Star Attraction

4 designs.
Buggy Ride

Pictorial Wall-hanging

21 1/2" x 26 1/2"
Backyard Bird Houses

Applique. Wall-Hangings 34" x 25", 14" x 34"
Black Birds

40" x 46" Quilt
The Sofa Saddelbag

Size 10 1/2" x 7"
Flowers

Finished Full size is 70" x 90"

Also includes instructions for a Lap size 70" x 70"
Tumbling Glass

Finished size: 61" x 61"
Goose Trax

40" x 30"
Arabian Nights

Here’s another stunning quilt by Ricky Tims for those who love to work in appliqué! This pattern provides instructions for two quilts: the cover quilt with its glorious center medallion and an album-style quilt made solely from appliqué album blocks (see pattern insert and inside cover). Ricky uses fusible appliqué in his work, but either of these quilts could be made using needle-turn appliqué.

Skill Level: Medallion-style quilt: intermediate

Project Size: Wall (51” x 51”)