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Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1617455628
Calling all quilting beginners! Absorb the knowledge of 20+ quilt experts in one place. This comprehensive quilt and patchwork guide includes easy quilting patterns, information on fabric types, sewing by hand techniques, sewing machine basics, and how to perfect your quilt design from color choice to appliqué tips and paper-piecing techniques. This A-to-Z quiltinghow-to glossaryhas everything you need to get started.
Author : Sharon Boggon
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1617453625
See it, stitch it! Thirty-five contemporary crazy-quilting stitches, photographed step by step. Rooted in the Victorian era, crazy quilting has a powerful allure for today's quilters, who use it to let loose and tell a unique story with fabric. Embrace crazy quilting with thirty-five must-know stitches and endless variations, shown in clear, step-by-step photographs for both right- and left-handed stitchers. Fine artist Sharon Boggon reveals design fundamentals to guide you in your process, so you can sew thoughtful, visually appealing blocks. Learn the theory and process behind this fascinating art: how to choose fabrics, piece stitch-and-flip blocks, and embellish seams with embroidery, beads, buttons, and charms. • Learn crazy-quilting techniques with colorful photos that show every detail • Combine fabric, embellishments, and thirty-five stitches, plus endless variations, into stunning crazy quilts as unique as you • Unpack savvy design principals to make order of the chaos and guide the viewer's eye around the block
Author : Jennifer Clouston
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1607057182
“[The author] presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons [and] describes how to take each stitch.” —Publishers Weekly 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 instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; links to full-size patterns for nine hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.
Author : Natalia Whiting Bonner
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1617457663
Discover how to machine quilt using straight lines with one of 48 quilting ideas and 13 variations, from the author of Modern One-Block Quilts. Are feathers and swirls your fallback? Learn how satisfying it is to quilt with only straight lines! Quilting expert Natalia Bonner shares sixty new straight-line motifs to fill in triangles, square blocks, and borders, plus allover designs. Teach your walking foot some new tricks or practice controlled free-motion quilting with rulers. Domestic or longarm machine . . . the choice is yours! Each pattern comes with step-by-step photos, so quilters of all levels can conquer their fears of straight-line quilting, and learn to rock it! • Natalia Bonner fans, unite! Learn forty-eight straight-line quilting ideas and thirteen fun variations • Find freedom in the constraints of straight-line quilting and shine a spotlight on every intriguing angle • Use a longarm or home sewing machine to create geometric perfection, step-by-step
Author : Sonja Hakala
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 047040647X
Quilting is an old but still very popular art. From Amish country to cutting-edge, quilts of various styles appeal to crafters of all different backgrounds. Quilting VISUAL Quick Tips is an excellent resource for beginners as well as experienced quilters, providing step-by-step instructions for a wide variety of quiltmaking techniques. Perfect to throw in a tote bag and take along to a quilting bee, this book's photo-intensive format makes complex tasks seem easy to accomplish.
Author : Linda Jenkins
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1617450146
From planning to binding, learn the right way to do patchwork with best-selling authors from Piece O’ Cake Designs. Before they taught appliqué, Linda Jenkins and Becky Goldsmith shared a love of patchwork—and they’re still avid piecers today! Start with simple shapes, and then stretch your skills with diamonds, curves, and improv piecing. This visual guide to quiltmaking basics includes 10 colorful quilt projects, skill-building techniques, and tips for fabulous fabric selection.
Author : Ellen Pahl
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780875967103
Contains over 700 how-to illustrations for backing quilts, embellishment, paper piecing, machine quilting, and using templates and stencils
Author : Elizabeth Hartman
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1607051621
Quilting basics with modern flair—with twelve projects for beginners, confident beginners, and intermediates. Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award Try a fresh, relaxed approach to making quilts with this new book. The bright aesthetic and clear, simple instructions guide beginners and intermediates alike through the entire process of creating fun and useful quilts that they’ll be proud to call their own. Explore different options for each project in this book—make it with just two colors or scrappy, make it vintage or mod, make it soft or playful. Alternate colorways included with each project show you how swapping out fabrics can change the look of the same block. Learn how to cut, piece, appliqué, machine quilt, bind, and finish. Pick up helpful tips and tricks to stay organized and master the methods.
Author : Katharine Guerrier
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781402722448
This comprehensive guide to traditional and contemporary techniques provides the reader with all the information they need to produce beautiful quilting and patchwork projects. For beginners, there is how-to-start advice and step-by-step photographs, diagrams and instructions to guide them through each stage of their work, and for more experienced quilters there are advanced techniques that they can dip into for help with a particular problem. For the busy but creative quilter, a section on rotary cutting and speed piecing shows how to achieve satisfying results in no time. The book ends with a gallery of stunning items that will inspire the reader to create amazing patchwork and quilting projects of their own, whatever their ability.
Author : Natalia Bonner
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1617455075
Put a feather in your quilting cap Take the fear out of quilting feathers! Explore 68 modern feather designs with step-by-step guidance from award-winning quilter Natalia Bonner. Quilt stunning feathers on a variety of blocks and borders with this beginner-friendly, visual guide. Unlike traditional feather quilting, which relies on exactness and precision, Natalia’s ideas will help you break away from perfection and find creativity in your quilting practice. Use your home sewing machine or a longarm to free-motion feathers with confidence, adding a truly elegant finish to today’s modern quilts. • 68 modern feather designs! Beginner-friendly techniques from best-selling author Natalia Bonner • Kick your feather fears to the curb with an easy-to-use guide for domestic and longarm quilters • Finish blocks and borders with unique feather motifs to complement today’s modern quilts
