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Take your love for modern quilt patterns and incorporate them in your home! The ultimate guide for fresh quilting projects, Modern Day Quilter features 17 contemporary quilt patterns that result in one-of-a-kind projects. From adding patchwork to baseball hats, denim jackets, and shoes to making a steering wheel cover for your car, a unique t-shirt quilt, a tote bag, an advent calendar, and more, this must-have modern quilts guide features step-by-step...
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Learn how to speed up your paper piecing with this innovative technique and create radiant quilts.
Paper piece your way to fast, accurate quilts! "Quick-strip" whiz Peggy Martin combines the accuracy of paper piecing, the speed of strip piecing, and an incredible eye for color to create quilts that seem to glow from within. Discover for yourself this fun, easy, nearly mistake-proof variation on a theme.
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Paper piece your way to fast, accurate quilts! "Quick-strip" whiz Peggy Martin combines the accuracy of paper piecing, the speed of strip piecing, and an incredible eye for color to create quilts that seem to glow from within. Discover for yourself this fun, easy, nearly mistake-proof variation on a theme.
3) Paper piece the quick-strip way: 12 complete projects, create your own designs, paper piece faster
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Full-size patterns for beginners or expand your paper-piecing style by learning to design your own blocks. Try any of the twelve projects, or create your own.
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Learn how to make choosing colors fun! A practical, visual guide to color written specifically for quilters with pieced and appliqued projects to apply your color knowledge. Take the fear out of fabric selection with important, rarely discussed concepts, such as foreground vs. background and clear vs. grayed colors.
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Raid your fabric pantry! The best-selling author of Charm School is back with eighteen projects using precut 2 1/2 strips. Vanessa Goertzen's fabric recipes will help you cook up basic blocks and more advanced designs--triangles, log cabins, hexagons, and even curves--from precut strips. Slice into convenient fabric rolls, or create your own strips from yardage. Whether you are newer to quilting or a seasoned pro, you'll spend less time cutting, and...
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Mind your Ps and Qs... precuts and quilt blocks, that is! Popular designer Vanessa Goertzen puts charm squares to the test with 18 projects using precut 5" x 5" squares. Start with fresh, beginner-friendly patterns and build your skills to sew snowballs, stars, flying geese, and more. Using precuts from your stash or your own charms cut from scraps or yardage, you'll learn tips to take the guesswork out of piecing. Modern and traditional quilters...
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Discover how to add beauty, texture, and special meaning to your quilt projects with this wonderful collection of continuous-line quilting designs.
Laura is back with another collection of brand new continuous-line quilting designs that are sure to please! These creative, continuous-line designs are perfect for all machines-domestic, mid-arm, and longarm. Mix and match Laura Lee Fritz's unique images to personalize your quilts. People, animals, nature,...
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Everything you need to know about quilt marking all in one handy reference book, by the author of 65 Drunkard's Path Quilt Designs.
Quilting stitches do more than hold the layers of quilt together-they add light, shadow, and dimension to create a two-sided work of art. This comprehensive reference on quilt marking is the result of Pepper Cory's years of teaching quilt marking. Inside, you'll learn:
• How to choose designs that complement and contrast...
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People's Place booklet volume no. 4
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Discover why so many Amish and Mennonites, committed to a simple life, make beautiful quilts. This book looks at quilting in plain communities and the possible origins of quilt patterns popular among the Amish and Mennonites. Why do so many Amish and Mennonites who are devoutly committed to a simple, austere life make beautiful quilts? Why this splash of beauty? What are the favorite designs? How has quilting become a part of the very fabric of Amish...
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Create hundreds of quilts with this guide for quilters of all skill levels, featuring over sixty block designs with step-by-step instructions.
From the creative mind of renowned quilter Lynne Goldsworthy comes Ultimate Quilt Block Collection, featuring more than sixty of Lynne's designs-colorful blocks in both classic and modern patterns using a wide range of motifs and fabrics.
From basic units like flying geese to more intricate designs based...
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"Blend a love of collage with a love of quilting, and you get beautifully collaged quilts dedicated to preserving a moment of time in your life. Use your memories, photos, or other images to create captivating pieces of art that you can hang on a wall, wear, or give as a gift. Internationally known author Jane Haworth guides you through the process in a very straightforward and approachable way and includes a beautiful gallery of not only her own...
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Another book of quilting humor -- from the author of the ever-popular book "That Dorky Homemade Look!" Funny woman Lisa Boyer is an expert quilter. And she's determined to enjoy making quilts. In fact, she will not -- absolutely will not -- let the risk of making a mistake, or a less-than- perfect quilt, keep her from relishing the task! In the 34 chapters of this new book, Lisa covers: The need for new fabric colors -- "blurple," "rorange," and "brellow,"...
15) Foolproof crazy quilting: visual guide--25 stitch maps, 100+ embroidery & embellishment stitches
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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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Create modern lap quilts, wall quilts, and table runners with these 20 new projects by the bestselling author of Kim Schaefer's Calendar Quilts.
Go bold with modern tones!
• Simple shapes and easy construction yield sophisticated quilts for every room in the house
• Textured solid fabrics add depth and interest to every fresh design
• Quilt designs are perfect for embellishing with buttons
• Hone your color-matching skills by working with...
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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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Create stunning quilts with flowing curves with this 8-project guide by a designer who offers a fresh take on bargello quilting techniques.
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 pop-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...
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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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Medallion quilts, known for detailed borders built around a central focal point, have seen a resurgence in the modern quilting movement. Savor the intricate piecing and sophisticated appliqué behind 11 all-new modern medallion quilts.
Projects range from basic to complex, with each quilt as unique as its maker. Stitch a ring of Flying Geese, learn how to resize borders, and master useful techniques, such as sewing inset curves and paper piecing,...
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