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,...

Give simple quilt blocks a touch of magic, the add-a-strip way! Slice into basic shapes like squares, triangles, and diamonds. Then, piece in a 1˝ strip of contrasting fabric to create dozens of new designs! Quilters of all skill levels can piece geometric patterns that look complex thanks to this innovative technique. Each of the 10 quilt patterns comes with a second variation to inspire your color choices, plus great ideas for sashing, resizing...

The quilter, pattern designer, and author of Patchwork City offers 12 exciting new patterns designed to help you take your skills to the next level. Ready to go beyond the basics of creative quilting? In Modern Patchwork, pattern designer Elizabeth Hartman will help you expand your skills with new techniques and twelve new and innovative quilt designs. The projects in Modern Patchwork are bold, bright, graphic, and designed to give modern quilters...

"The Quilted Home Handbook teaches you everything you need to know about how to create stylish, modern quilts. Each pattern includes easy-to-follow instructions, detailed diagrams and photos, eye-catching designs, and fabric suggestions. Author Wendy Chow's signature beautiful colors and geometric shapes empower you to created quilts that will stand out and look stunning in a modern home." -- Back cover. "Perfect for beginners and experienced quilters...

Plant an indoor garden with a bounty of lyrical appliqué designs. All the project patterns are interchangeable, so you can create endless combinations of flowers and leaves. See how color-saturated cottons, vibrant silks, and tone-on-tone chintzes breathe new life into botanical appliqué. • 14 sophisticated floral appliqué projects include pillows, table runners, and small tapestry-style quilts and wall hangings • Full-size templates for...

Whip up some holiday whimsy. Full-size templates for each appliqu? design. Fun, fresh patterns for Christmas stockings, lap quilts, and wall hangings. Stitch up modern retro projects with a fresh take on holiday colors. Dip into your stash of novelty holiday prints. -- cover.

Lisa Boyer, columnist for Quilting Today magazine, gives readers permission to quilt out of love, and offers principles for frustrated quilters everywhere.

The Quilt Designer Shares Her Technique For Turning Traditional Square Blocks Into Dazzling Kaleidoscope Star Quilts In This Guide Featuring 12 Projects. Quilt Designer Cheryl Malkowski Is Always Experimenting With New Quilting Possibilities. In Blocks To Diamonds, She Shares 12 Kaleidoscope Star Quilt Patterns That Use A Simple Yet Ingenious Design Strategy: Skewing Traditional Blocks Into Diamonds-And Then Forming Those Diamonds Into Stars. As...