Quilting is painting with needles & a fabric canvas
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Build your quilting skills from the ground up. Learn to complete your first quilt from basic pieced strips, squares, and triangles. Established teacher Jo Avery guides you through twelve projects to whet your appetite for quiltmaking and take it a step further. Graduate to intermediate projects with major style as you try out foundation paper piecing, appliqué, and curves. Before long, you’ll have the confidence and expertise to tackle virtually any quilt pattern!
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Quilters can finally create their ideal landscape with no watering required! Use Amy Friend's 40 adaptable flower, stem, and leaf blocks (plus a snail and a butterfly!) to piece together a garden scene in any number of combinations: from tropical greenery using minimal greens and creams to a cottage garden packed with all of the bold hues of summer. Included are six colorful quilt patterns, and a cute tote, designed and pieced by the author to help get readers started with their planning, as well as inspirational digital layouts to showcase just how customizable these blocks can be. Perfectly pretty patchwork!
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Expand your idea of what a T-shirt quilt can be! Create nine innovative projects from T-shirts, clothing solids, prints, motifs, onesies, ties—anything goes! Learn how to cut into clothing and maximize your fabric, even altering a design to fit special tees. Solve common challenges like motifs separated by zippers and logos that are too big or too small. With a few T-shirt quilt basics under your belt, you’ll soon become an expert at preserving the past.
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The book is packed with hints and tips for successful quilting and will walk you through every aspect of your sewing journey. The book begins with a section on Sewing Room Essentials: a peek in Debbie's sewing room, a guide to all the tools and materials you might need, a labelled diagram of a sewing machine, and in-depth sections covering various types of wadding/batting and interfacing, fabrics and threads. The book contains a comprehensive trouble-shooting section to reassure and guide beginner sewists when they encounter problems, along with a glossary to debunk any unfamiliar terms. | |
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Modern precuts meet classic quilt blocks! Stimulate your creativity with 15 pretty patterns that show off 12” blocks in an engaging variety of settings and sizes. Make a sweet sampler quilt with all 15 blocks or repeat motifs for endless variations. "Instruction for 15 blocks with simple straight-stitch sewing using precuts. Mix and match the 12" blocks to make 15 unique projects"
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- Thready or not! Learn how color, thread, and motif come together in machine quilting
- Compare actual quilted color wheels on a rainbow of various background fabrics
- Make your quilting a design element with solid quilting tips and color fundamentals
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Make your home warm and inviting with pretty quilts for all four seasons! Sew twenty projects from quilts and table runners to wallhangings and pillows. With a suite of patterns for each season, you'll combine colorful cottons, luscious wool appliqué, and simple hand stitching. A variety of techniques from patchwork to paper piecing and raw-edge appliqué will keep you inspired to sew all year long.
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From patchwork pouches to potholders, wallets to water bottle carriers and bibs to baskets, this will be one of the most-used sewing books in your crafty bookshelf. Packed inside is a collection of the 50 fat quarter, charm square, pre-cut or scrap-friendly projects you make the most, from the designers you already know and trust.
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Sew Layer Cake Quilts & Gifts by Carolyn ForsterHighly respected quilter and author Carolyn Forster gives you nine beautiful Layer Cake (pre-cut 10-inch square) quilt designs, made using a variety of patchworking and quilting styles. Also included are nine accompanying 'gift' projects, which range from bags and pincushions to needlebooks and coasters.
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Patchwork, please! : colorful zakka projects to stitch and give
by Ayumi Takahashi
"Sewing should be fun, and Ayumi Takahashi's patchwork projects embody a happy, playful approach. Known for both her distinctive combinations of patterned fabrics and her quirky interpretations of vintage style, Ayumi brings her signature approach to 19 sewing projects. Beginning with the basics, Ayumi discusses and demonstrates basic techniques in patchwork, paper piecing, raw-edged applique;, and machine and hand embroidery. Then it's straight into an appealing assortment of projects for the kitchen, home, family and friends. Along the way Ayumi shares her passion for color and pattern, and even demonstrates how to create unique patterns of one's own by scanning images onto fabric for a truly personal touch"
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