Patricia Kristoffersen's Beautiful Borders Baby Blankets


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Five exquisite baby blankets from master crochet designer Patricia Kristoffersen. Made with worsted weight yarn.




The Perfect Border


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Professional advice on planning, planting, care and maintenance.




Beautiful Borders


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Shows you how to create borders that burst with colour and variety, with depth, structure, staying power and adaptability. Covers design, conditions and aspect, choosing your plants, preparing, growing and maintaining. Written in a clear, accessible style, with helpful checklists and tips, and beautiful illustration.




Every Which Way Crochet Borders


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Step-by-step instructions and symbol charts put these 139 creative new border designs within reach for beginning and advanced crocheters alike. If you’re ready to chart your own crocheted course, Edie Eckman offers plenty of helpful design advice, including how to choose an appropriate border for each project and how to incorporate an element from the main stitch pattern into a new border design. She then explains, with the help of close-up photos, how the same pattern can have dramatically different results depending on the weight of the yarn. With each pattern diagrammed to approach in both rounds and rows, Every Which Way Crochet Borders is an inventive and invaluable resource.




Around the Corner Crochet Borders


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A beautiful border adds the perfect finishing touch to your hand-stitched pieces. A knitted scarf, a crocheted baby blanket, even a store-bought tank top --- they're all elevated by the texture and color of crocheted edgings. Complete with detailed instructions for executing the 90-degree corner turns, Edie Eckman's 150 border designs add pop and whimsy to everything they embellish. "An irresistible book of cute crocheted borders...expands the options for adding a little flair to knit, crocheted, and even sewn projects."---Debbie Stoller author of the Stitch `n Bitch books




Beautiful Borders, Backings & Bindings


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A stunning border sampler, dozens of beautiful borders, backings and bindings and decorative practice projects provide inspiration and information in this comprehensive photographic how-to teaching guide. In clear step-by-step photographs the book presents the important finishing techniques a quilter needs to know.







Borders by Design


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Learn the three principles of border design: Divide the Side, Use the Unit, and Connect the Corner. Start with instructions for more than 30 borders -- then begin to design your own!







Quilting and Color Made Easy


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Theres always a challenge in quilting, and this book guarantees that quilters can rise to that challenge. Quilting and Color Made Easy provides all the basic techniques needed for cutting, piecing, and appliqu; includes shortcuts for sets, borders, and bindings; gives a straightforward explanation of the color wheel and how to use it specifically for quilting; and provides detailed charts for quilters to analyze and organize their fabric stash. Filled with beautiful photographs and written by two well-known professional quilters, this book appeals not only to the beginner but also to intermediate quilters who want to expand their basic knowledge.