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Popular machine quilter Angela Walters will motivate you to try something new! Learn to stitch her fresh continuous-line designs on your longarm or domestic machine. Includes step-by-step instructions for continuous-line swirls, circles, squares, vines, arcs, and points. Using basic free-motion skills you already have, discover how to approach quilting a modern quilt by working with bold fabrics and negative space, uniting a variety of shapes, and...
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Eliminate the guessing games and take your cues directly from your quilt for planning the most complementary quilting design. This unique 4-step approach from expert long arm quilter, Barbara Persing, covers four major quilt groups: Traditional, Contemporary, Art, and Children's. Master your design skills with a variety of free-motion and continuous-line ideas. Try basic all-over patterns or create a custom heirloom style, with no marking required....
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Become a fabulous quilt artist - the fun, easy way! 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. • 4 projects walk...
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The ultimate how-to book for quilters, a workbook with exercises that provide a foundation of much-needed basics to set you on your quilting path.
Two of quilting's most respected teachers combine their different styles to present an incredible reference and project book that beginners and experienced quilters alike will always keep near the sewing machine!
• Loaded with the information you need to make traditional quilts, including selecting...
6) Heirloom machine quilting: comprehensive guide to hand-quilting effects using your sewing machine
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An updated edition of the essential reference for machine quilters.
Drawing on twenty-five years of experience, quilting teacher Harriet Hargrave presents the new edition of her classic Heirloom Machine Quilting. You'll find:
· New information and tips covering the basics and beyond
· Everything you need to know about straight-line and free-motion quilting, elegant feathers, and padded quilting
· In-depth instruction for every step of the process,...
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Modern Bee - 13 Quilts to Make with Friends by Lindsay Conner features 13 projects for a virtual one-year quilting bee. Crafted with a modern aesthetic, the patterns are inspired by traditional quilt blocks as well as bits and pieces of daily life. As you quilt along with this book from month to month, you'll master sewing techniques elevating in difficulty - from easy to advanced. Each project is comprised of block instructions and a pattern to finish...
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Renowned colour expert and quilt and fabric designer Kaffe Fassett explores flowers as a source of inspiration for patchwork and needlepoint in this new quilting guide and pattern collection. Along the way, he shares a behind-the-scenes look at his fascinating design process--from mood boards and "sketching" with colour swatches to planning and sewing the quilts. While the focus is on patchwork and needle--point, the design and color ideas translate...
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Create Quilts Using Your Own, One-of-a-Kind Printed Fabric. Expand the creative possibilities of your quilting with richly colored fabric made from your own photos, it's easy! Learn the secrets of getting the best results from your digital camera, inkjet printer, scanner, photo editing software, and printable fabric sheets. Use a simple organizing system to make your images easy to work with. Enhance your printed fabrics with paints, inks, dye sticks,...
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"This comprehensive how-to book explores all the concepts and techniques involved in creating art quilts, including composition and design; making whole-cloth, pieced, and appliqued art quilts; fabric manipulation and surface design; quilting/stitching; embellishing; and working in a series. Readers will find easy access to information with step-by-step directions and hundreds of full-color photos for clear understanding. Easy projects provide opportunities...
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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...
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"Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy explores natural dyeing methods and details the process of creating a quilt from scratch. With an emphasis on the slow and intentional aspects of hand stitching, Buscaglia's quilts are artful and satisfying to create. By focusing on select dye plants and recipes, which are all ideal for cotton and linen specifically, Buscaglia teaches the reader how to achieve consistent and beautiful results using traditional handwork techniques....
16) Quilting with a modern slant: people, patterns, and techniques inspiring the Modern Quilt Community
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Profiles more than seventy modern quilters, offering step-by-step instructions on their techniques and quilting projects.
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Piece 12 unique, multicoloured scrap quilts in Bonnie's signature style. Turn leftover strips into usable fabric that's readily available for projects with the easy-to-use Scrap User's System. This complete guide to scrap quilting includes full-size templates, 2 paper-piecing patterns, and a full chapter on quiltmaking basics.
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Art lessons every quilter will love. Traditional quilter? Art quilter? Improve ANY quilt with this book! Quick no-sew design exercises to make your talents shine. Build a color wheel from fabric to learn color principles. Discover the easy "Nine-Patches" of color and composition.
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Feeling a little adventurous? Learn how to incorporate bright, decadent fabrics into your quilts without overwhelming your design.
Add fresh, striking dimension and texture to traditional or contemporary quilts with Lisa O'Neill's original "sliver piecing" technique. It's easier than it looks, so you can make your classic or modern quilt blocks really snap with colorful fabric splinters! Lisa shows you how a folded piece of narrow fabric, the sliver,...
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