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You don't have to be a master embroiderer to create beautiful crazy-quilt seams! With 480 seam designs to inspire your creativity, you'll learn to stitch with uniform spacing for a professional appearance. Line everything up perfectly with five pages of full-size stitch templates and dozens of step-by-step illustrations. Then dress up embroidered seams with sparkly beads, buttons, sequins, and silk ribbon embellishments for endless creative combinations!...
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Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston's gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn:
• which fabrics, threads, and needles to use
• how to piece crazy quilt blocks
• how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments
• how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt, and more
Included are complete...
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The classic guide to crazy quilting, now with new projects, stitches, and techniques For nearly 30 years, The Crazy Quilt Handbook has been the essential guide to the fine art of crazy quilting. This newly updated edition brings you more of everything that makes crazy quilting wonderful: gorgeous stitches, embellishments, fabulous crazy quilt photos, and updated beautiful projects to make for yourself. Learn all the ways you can use crazy quilting...
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For busy moms who want to quilt • 16 one-of-a-kind quilt projects to make for babies and kids. • Almost all the patterns offer sizing for baby quilts and 7 of the patterns easily adapt to fit sizes baby, crib, and twin. Also includes instructions for a pillow and quillow • Fun, full-color photographs throughout the book are sure to inspire both beginner and novice sewers Growing Up Modern shows how anyone can make a child's quilt that will...
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The prize-winning landscape quilter shares easy tips and timesaving techniques in this guide featuring mini-landscape quilts for all skill levels.
In Quick Little Landscape Quilts, Joyce Becker shows you simple ways to work with landscape-themed fabrics to make a quilted wallhanging you'll be proud to show off. This skill-building guide covers a variety of techniques, such as incorporating overlays for perspective; embellishing with machine embroidery;...
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"Move beyond common circle-quilt designs to tackle curved piecing with ease. Add stripes to curved piecing and use color to add depth for a simple way to make complex quilts. Piece block-based layouts and improv designs ranging from simple to advanced."--from cover.
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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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Everything you need to know about making quilts with precuts Master precuts with this compete and indispensable guide to working with Charm Packs, Layer Cakes, Jelly Rolls, Turnovers, and more! Sew 25 traditional blocks from squares, half-square triangles, and precut strips with timesaving tips and tricks from the one and only Missouri Star Quilt Company. You'll cover all the basics, including precut options, standard quilt sizes and needle types....
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2014
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Get into shape: The ultimate visual guide for free-motion quilting in specific geometric shapes Follow step-by-step illustrations to create more than 70 free-motion quilting designs to use in specific shapes, negative space, and borders Features full-page quilt photos, close-up details of stitched designs, and a comprehensive visual index Best-selling author Angela Walters takes you to the next level in free-motion quilting by showing ...
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2015
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Big-block quilts to whip up this weekend A quilt in one weekend! Indulge in your favorite hobby when you piece graphic, bold blocks. Well-known blogger Barbara Cain invites you make simple patchwork scaled to dynamic proportions, so pattern pieces are quicker to cut and easier to sew. Each of the 10 beginner-friendly, big-block quilt designs features 2 sizes and 6 colorways for 120 striking possibilities! Use elements from the quilt top to make a...
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2017
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Dramatic curves and angles for today's adventurous quilter Become a skilled foundation piecer with New York Beauty blocks and arcs of Flying Geese that amaze! Carl Hentsch simplifies a technique loved by many with his straightforward approach to curved piecing, foundation piecing, and simple machine appliqué. Stitch your way through 31 architectural block patterns, ideal for advanced beginners and intermediate quilters. Then it's time to practice...
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Tropical Splendor in Sashiko and Appliqué • Hand-stitch 6 vivid quilts inspired by tropical flora and fauna • Learn the secrets of successful Sashiko and appliqué • Options for both turn-under and fusible appliqué • Create designs from your own photos • Embellish your quilts with hand embroidery These glowing quilts bring together two of quilting's best-loved traditions: Japanese Sashiko and colorful appliqué. A large quilt gallery...
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2011
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Step out of stippling Be fearless with your free-motion quilting! This intermediate-level guide is filled with modern designs inspired by the world around us. Pebbles, waves, vines, and finials are just a few of the things you'll find in Bethany's hip and doodly quilting designs. You'll also learn how to spot interesting patterns everywhere you look to translate into your quilting. Over 90 unique quilting designs for borders, blocks, and fillers-many ...
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2012
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Discover your artistic voice Expand your creative horizons and embrace the process of developing your design skills using your own intuition. Jean provides you with more design guidelines and new exercises to hone your natural intuitive skills, then she encourages you to go out there and express yourself! Packed with inspiring quilt images, this book walks you through effective approaches to art quilting from journaling your ideas to unifying your...
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Add New Dimension to Your Favorite Hexagon Quilts • Your favorite One-Block Wonders authors are back with new graphic techniques using triangles, cubes, and appliqué • Learn how to create optical illusions with your fabrics • Bonus projects include totes, coasters and placemats for using up left-over hexagons • Create interesting shadow effects with clever fabric placement • Try new kinds of borders with uneven edges, creative shapes,...
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