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Scraptastic!

Author : Ashley Calder

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 247 pages

File Size : 21,44 MB

Release : 2007-11-26

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1599630508

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Jazz up your pages! Get ready to infuse your scrapbook layouts with messy, sparkly, snazzy and exciting new techniques. Go beyond the usual—experiment with art supplies, try unfamiliar tools, go wild and have fun. With Scraptastic! you can take your projects to the next level using innovative ideas for creating playful and artistic pages. Inside you will find 50 illustrated techniques for jazzing up your layouts. Step-by-step photos, complete supply lists and easy-to-follow instructions show you exactly how to create each surprisingly easy project. Plus, you'll find helpful tips and tricks for creating cards as well as getting the most out of your supplies. Grab your tools and try: · watercolor · golf leafing · stamping · embroidery · hand-cut lettering · paper piecing · beading · collage · quilting · and more! Whether you're an art novice or design veteran, let Scraptastic! be your guide to discovering the messy, sparkly, touchy-feely, snazzy world of scrapbooking.



Stashtastic 2

Author : Doug Leko

Publisher : Martingale

Page : 83 pages

File Size : 32,96 MB

Release : 2022-10-03

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1683562372

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On your mark, get set, sew! Looking for a fabulous assortment of prints, colors, and styles? Fat quarters are the most economical way to fulfill that desire! Measuring 18" × 21" (which is a half yard of fabric cut in half at the fold), fat quarters afford the opportunity to cut pieces large and small. According to author Doug Leko, fat quarters are the cream of the precut crop! Inside you'll find a dozen fat quarter-friendly quilt patterns to make cozy throws and bed-size quilts, plus an eye-popping 21 different colorways to jump-start your palette. Whether you have a stash filled with fat quarters to choose from or buy a new array of them when you're ready to sew, the fun begins from the moment you start combining, shuffling, and arranging them to your heart's content. Let's quilt!



Scraptastic!

Author : Ashley Calder

Publisher : Memory Makers

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 26,23 MB

Release : 2007-12-10

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781599630113

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Jazz up your pages! Get ready to infuse your scrapbook layouts with messy, sparkly, snazzy and exciting new techniques. Go beyond the usual—experiment with art supplies, try unfamiliar tools, go wild and have fun. With Scraptastic! you can take your projects to the next level using innovative ideas for creating playful and artistic pages. Inside you will find 50 illustrated techniques for jazzing up your layouts. Step-by-step photos, complete supply lists and easy-to-follow instructions show you exactly how to create each surprisingly easy project. Plus, you'll find helpful tips and tricks for creating cards as well as getting the most out of your supplies. Grab your tools and try: watercolor golf leafing stamping embroidery hand-cut lettering paper piecing beading collage quilting and more! Whether you're an art novice or design veteran, let Scraptastic! be your guide to discovering the messy, sparkly, touchy-feely, snazzy world of scrapbooking.



Scrap School

Author : Lissa Alexander

Publisher : Martingale

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 23,98 MB

Release : 2021-02-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1683561333

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Bring the classroom into your sewing space as you learn from expert quilters how to get the scrappy look you love. Following the wildly popular Sisterhood of Scraps, author and designer Lissa Alexander has gathered more super-talented designer friends to share a dozen scraptastic quilt designs. Not feeling confident with color selection? Unsure of what fabrics to add to the mix? Want to know what makes a scrap quilt sing? Tips and tricks are inside for all this and so much more to help you make the most of your fabric stash! Lissa and her handpicked crew of "instructors" show you how to get an A+ (for awesome) on your next scrap quilts. Scrap School is in session! Lisa Bongean · Gudrun Erla· Sarah Huechteman · Susan Ache· Kim Diehl· Mary Etherington and Connie Tesene· Sherri McConnell· Amy Smart · Amanda Jean Nyberg



String Frenzy

Author : Bonnie Hunter

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 14,69 MB

Release : 2018-12-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1617457337

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Book Description

Are you buried in scraps—big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too tiny to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie’s basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces 3/4” to 2” wide, turning them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts. Have a string piecing party with a best-selling author, the great Bonnie K. Hunter Love your leftovers! Become a scrap quilt addict, sewing fabric strings and crumbs into brand new blocks Hunter fans will love this offering of twelve “use it all” patterns in her signature style



Strip Quilt Secrets

Author : Diane D. Knott

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 92 pages

File Size : 17,54 MB

Release : 2018-12-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1617457582

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Book Description

Get ready for some of the best-kept secrets in strip quilting! You’ll start with the basics of cutting, storing, and piecing fabric strips from 1½” to 3½” wide. Explore five techniques to make strip-pieced rows, triangles, and more advanced blocks. Then make the most of your stash by turning precut strips, sliced yardage, and even selvages into fifteen innovative strip-quilt projects. Customize the look of each quilt with blank coloring pages, laying the foundation to design your own strip quilts.



Modern Selvage Quilting

Author : Riel Nason

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 24,33 MB

Release : 2016-03-21

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1617450847

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Learn to use every last bit of fabric with three methods for sewing with selvages, plus 17 projects. Showcase your selvages the edgy way with 17 projects of all sizes! Like the ticket stubs you keep from a fabulous show, each selvage is a souvenir of a fabric you’ve selected and used. Incorporate these unique scraps with 3 easy-sew methods for narrow- and wide-cut selvages, plus a special trick for half-square triangles. Stretch your growing selvage collection with fabric yardage, and transform specific selvages into awe-inspiring projects from polka-dot pincushions to clever quilts. • Three easy methods for sewing with selvages, plus innovative half-square triangle technique • Waste not, want not! Use every last bit of fabric from your favorite designers • Clever, modern designs use yardage to help stretch even a small selvage collection into something fabulous Praise for Modern Selvage Quilting “This book has lots of projects to try and has very clear, easy to follow instructions! . . . If you are looking for something fun and a little different, why don't you try quilting with selvages?” —Christine Baker, Fairfield Road Designs



Scrapstashtic Quilts: Organizing Your Scrap Fabric Stash and Actually Using It

Author : Janellea Macbeth

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 46,53 MB

Release : 2015-12-02

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781517528614

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Change Your Relationship with Your Fabric Stash, and Become a More Creative Quilter This book is for the creative quilter who knows and appreciates the value of every inch of fabric, but values the organization and order of their sewing room even more. The defined scrap sizes and restricted storage space gives you control over your excess fabric and trains you to funnel it into creative use. ScrapStashtic Quilts will nurture your quilt design creativity and teach you how to "fabricate" fast, unique quilts based on the constraints of the supplies you have on hand. The quilt recipes allow you to explore the creative possibilities of a traditional quilt, while breaking through the implied limitations of a typical quilt pattern. This system will enable you to say, "All I need to design a one-of-a-kind piece of art is my brain and my fabric." ScrapStashtic Quilts is a complete scrap quilting system based on over 30 years of sewing experience and 20 years of productivity and time management study. Janellea Macbeth presents easy to follow steps that will increase your quilting creativity, clean up your sewing space, keep your fabric stash fresh and inspiring, and help you reduce your quilting carbon footprint. If you like books by Kim Brackett, Evelyn Sloppy, and Jane Ford, you will love this book. Buy ScrapStashtic Quilts today to change the relationship you have with your stash fabric from passive to active.



Learn to Quilt-As-You-Go

Author : Gudrun Erla

Publisher : Martingale

Page : 83 pages

File Size : 11,56 MB

Release : 2015-06-02

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1604684909

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Discover a fast-and-fun method of creating (and completing!) quilted projects. When the piecing is finished, so is the quilting! With step-by-step guidance, Gudrun Erla takes you beyond the straight-line piecing associated with the quilt-as-you-go technique to include triangles, squares, and strips, plus the illusion of curves--all in her clean, contemporary style. Start with the basics: learn to choose materials, cut, mark, baste, and sew the patchwork through all the layers Build on the basics with quick-to-stitch projects--coasters, place mats, table runners, and small quilts Sew by number, add triangles, insert prairie points, and use multiple techniques together



Refined Knits

Author : Jennifer Wood

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 399 pages

File Size : 43,1 MB

Release : 2016-02-09

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1632500701

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Elegance at the tip of your needles! Cables and lace are special enough by themselves, but there is something graceful, even magical, about combining the two. Refined Knits concentrates on these two techniques, along with incredibly unique Aran Lace which combines the two, and the results are sure to impress. • Enduring Cables: discover cable-work with interesting structure in its details • Graceful Lace: explore the delicate sophistication of open-work • Elegant Aran Lace: combine lace and cables in unexpected and stunning ways Knitwear designer Jennifer guides you through knitting these timeless, classic techniques, resulting in finished garments and accessories with a decidedly modern feel you'll treasure for years to come.