A Treasury of Scrap Quilts


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The best-selling author of Make Room for Christmas Quilts explains how to create stunning quilts from leftover fabrics, introducing eighteen patterns--including both traditional favorities and new twists on classic blocks--featuring a range of color palettes, along with advice on borders, backs, sashings, and home decorating. Original.




Scrap Quilts Using Fast Patch


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Teaches a method of fast-piecing strips of triangles to create scrap quilts, and tells how to store and make the best use of fabric and scrap collections




Fast Patch


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Details the new technique in quiltmaking which enables the quiltmaker to make the old designs faster with the new strip technique for making triangles called Fast Patch




Egg Money Quilts


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Presents instructions for creating thirteen traditional patterns that gained popularity in the 1930s.




15 Minutes of Play


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This title presents improvisational piecing reinvented: learn how to create your own creatively-collaged swatches of fabric in just 15 minutes a day.




Scrap Quilts


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Antique scrap quilts can be the most humble of quilts and, at the same time, the most complicated of all quilts to understand. Roberta Horton shows her techniques for making a scrap quilt, including how to free-hand cut shapes for a folk-art look. A selection of block patterns is provided, with possibilities for pieced, pieced-and-appliqued, and folk-art scrap quilts. Roberta shares advice on the interaction of fabrics within a quilt and how to choose just the right blocks. Unpretentious and honest - and, at the same time, beautitful - old quilts give today's quilters inspiration for coloration, composition, and fabric usage.




The Fabric Makes the Quilt


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This intriguing book of fabrics and quilts will inspire quiltmakers of any skill level. Here she describes how she lets fabrics speak to her, inspiring quilts filled with color, texture, and pattern. The book is divided into five sections. In the first, she discusses creativity and how we can become more creative. Then, in "Basics," Roberta discusses color, value, fabric pattern, design principles, and tools. "Process" deals with all the ways we can use our fabric creatively to build our quilts. The "Gallery" section is a feast for the eyes with quilts from Roberta and her students. Finally, "Techniques" includes more creative ways to approach sewing.




Colorful Stash Busters


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This Quiltmakers Club book is the first title from the Mary's Cottage Quilts designer. Mary Cowan encourages stitchers to dip into their stash and take a fresh, colorful approach to the cottage style. The projects offer a variety of styles, sizes, complexity, and color palettes, and they range from quilts to table toppers.




Schoolgirl Sampler


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Designer Kathleen Tracy is back with more delightful little quilts! This time she's gathered a treasury of 4" blocks reminiscent of those sewn by schoolgirls during the nineteenth century. Make all 72 timeless blocks and combine them in a sampler quilt or select a few favorites to use in any of six other charming quilts. Quick to stitch and perfect for reproduction-fabric scraps, the blocks are easy to make and you can complete several in one sitting or complete a small quilt in a weekend. Kathy includes plenty of tips for sewing small blocks, and her simple cutting instructions and clear piecing diagrams will help you succeed as you stitch each pint-sized treat.




Just Around the Corner


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Can mitered corners really be easy? Yes! Create a "frame" using folded fabric strips, any 90A ruler, a marking pen, and a sewing machine. Then fold back the straight portion of the mitered frame to give it a charming scalloped effect. Skip the math--simple alignment guarantees accuracy every time Choose from nine distinctive projects: quilts, table toppers, a tote, a pillow, and more Pair strips of different colors and turn back the bias strip to reveal a contrasting undersideKari discusses techniques from the book on QNN TV.