New Classic Quilt Designs


Book Description

This new pattern book features a complete range of projects; from beginner to advance, small to large, with bigger blocks to showcase special fabrics. Here are 28 quilt patterns with 14 new block designs. Each will inspire you with its innovative layout and beautiful color. Plus, learn how you, too, can design quilts on your computer.




Classic Quilt Blocks


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Abundantly illustrated reference organizes designs by geometric configuration: star (Blazing Sun), triangle (Birds in the Air), circle (Pickle Dish), square (Stained Glass), plus combinations. Includes useful suggestions for drafting templates.




Wonderful One-Patch Quilts


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What can you sew with a 60° ruler and a simple, repeated shape? The possibilities are endless! Favorite authors Sara Nephew and Marci Baker are back with 20 beautifully bold one-patch quilts made from triangles, half-hexagons, diamonds, and more. With their eye-catching color placement and clever pieced units like half-triangles and quarter-hexagons, no two quilts look alike. For even more variety, pick your favorite method—working from scraps or strip piecing yardage—to create an array of quilts from wallhangings to full-size beauties.




From the Cover


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Projects included: Chaco's paw -- Colorado log cabin -- Floral trails folk art -- Snail's trail -- Twilight flock -- Techny chimes -- Fire lily -- Knutson drive -- The Last days -- A Gift tied up with bows -- Working out the blues -- Traveling stars with sunbursts -- Hot tropical sundae -- Twinkling lone star -- Snow birds.




Modern Heritage Quilts


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Use traditional piecing skills to create tomorrow's heirloom quilts. You'll discover how to give your favorite blocks a scrappy, modern look with elegant and up-to-date versions of time-tested quilt designs from popular designer Amy Ellis. Learn a bit about the history behind each block as Amy reimagines them as new classics. Build your confidence to "go modern" with Amy's bright and appealing designs that begin with traditional blocks Tips for using color and negative space ensure a modern look with the fabric from your stash Get handy hints, from Amy and other top designers, that will help you better understand what makes a scrap quilt successful




The Natural History of the Traditional Quilt


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Traditional quilts serve many purposes over the course of a useful life. Beginning as a beautiful bed covering, a quilt may later function as a ground cover at picnics until years of wear relegate it to someone's ragbag for scrap uses. Observing this life cycle led authors John Forrest and Deborah Blincoe to the idea that quilts, like living things, have a natural history that can be studied scientifically. They explore that natural history through an examination of the taxonomy, morphology, behavior, and ecology of quilts in their native environment—the homes of humans who make, use, keep, and bestow them. The taxonomy proposed by Forrest and Blincoe is rooted in the mechanics of replicating quilts so that it can be used to understand evolutionary and genetic relationships between quilt types. The morphology section anatomizes normal and abnormal physical features of quilts, while the section on conception and birth in the life cycle discusses how the underlying processes of replication intersect with environmental factors to produce tangible objects. This methodology is applicable to many kinds of crafts and will be of wide interest to students of folklore, anthropology, and art history. Case studies of traditional quilts and their makers in the Catskills and Appalachia add a warm, human dimension to the book.




Classic Quilt Blocks


Book Description

Invaluable reference with quilting patterns organized according to geometric configurations: stars, triangles, circles, squares, combinations. Also, 139 new quilt patterns.




Roll with the Classics


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Combine timeless, classic quilts with modern jelly roll fabrics! Roll with the Classics is a beautiful collection of quilting patterns for those who love tradition with a contemporary touch. Featuring 12 jelly roll quilt patterns that are beginner-friendly and use today’s pre-cut strips, alleviate the stress and guesswork and just get quilting! With helpful opening sections, you’ll then discover a dozen classic quilt projects featuring beloved designs – from flying geese to pyramids – using modern, up-to-date fabrics. Aside from the incorporation of jelly rolls, most quilts are made using Creative Grids® rulers and quilting tools, plus short cuts for cutting and piecing are also provided, all of which make the process easier.




Multiblock Quilt Designs


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Familiar patterns take on a dazzling new look through unusual color and placement schemes. Color photos of 37 multiblock quilts, scores of suggestions for obtaining similarly vibrant results, 38 diagrams, 7 full-size templates. "




Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter


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Art Quilts Made Easy. Bring out your inner artist - explore 10 approaches to designing art quilts with world-renowned teacher Katie Pasquini Masopust. Techniques work for everyone, from beginner to advanced. Creating a gorgeous art quilt is well within your reach when you try Katie Pasquini Masopust's easy methods. Learn 10 different “game plans” for creating a quilt design, then turn your design into a pattern and complete your quilt. With such a variety of techniques to try, you're sure to find the right one for you.