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RX for Quilters

Author : Susan Delaney-Mech

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 114 pages

File Size : 49,90 MB

Release : 2000-03-10

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1571208747

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Book Description

Research confirms that simple sewing tasks lower your heart rate and blood pressure. Quilting and other stitching activities offer relaxation, calming rhythms, and healthy benefits. "Rx for Quilters" is just what the doctor ordered! Gentle, encouraging health advice from a quilter who is also an M.D. How to care for your body so your stitching life can be comfortable and pain-free. Avoid common injuries to your hands, wrists, neck, shoulders, and back. Improve fitness and manage weight with real-world tips for healthy eating and simple daily exercise. Maximize quilting time in a life busy with obligations to family, friends, employers, and yourself. Learn how hormonal shifts, pregnancy, aging, and personal injury or illness affect your stitching. Customize your work area at home, workshops, and retreats.



The Quilter's Catalog

Author : Meg Cox

Publisher : Workman Publishing

Page : 628 pages

File Size : 48,44 MB

Release : 2008-03-04

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780761138815

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Book Description

The Bee-all and End-all: The complete quilter's companion and essential resource, jam-packed with information, supplies, expert interviews, techniques, community, and inspiration. All the tools of the trade: rotary cutters, sewing machines, longarms, anddesign software; fabulous fabrics and where to find them; and if you're just starting out, everything that belongs in a quilting basket. The online world made manageable with a guide to the most useful blogs, websites, e-mail lists, free patterns, and podcasts. National and regional shows, guilds, and the best retreats and quilt museums. Batting parties, tutorials on fabric dying, and a breezy history of the quilt boom. Profiles of twenty top teachers-including television's Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, and Ruth B. McDowell, known for her bravura technique. This is a book to help every quilter deepen and grow-keep it as close by as your stash of fat quarters -Cover.



Hand Quilting with Alex Anderson

Author : Alex Anderson

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 37,96 MB

Release : 1998-12-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1617450375

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Book Description

Learn how to quilt in all directions and customize your stitch. Includes 6 small projects.



Quilting - The Complete Guide

Author : Darlene Zimmerman

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 34,80 MB

Release : 2013-10-07

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1440220999

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Book Description

Quilting - The Complete Guide lives up to its name! It covers all of the essential knowledge you need to complete any quilting project: the tools, formulas, methods, finishing techniques, and quilt care you need to know. It's the perfect companion for all quilting projects.



Cut-Loose Quilts

Author : Jan Mullen

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 38,72 MB

Release : 2001-01-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781571201546

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Book Description

18 fun, colorful projects - with no points to match! Jan's designs are easy enough for beginners, but interesting enough for expert quilters.



Magical Four-Patch and Nine-Patch

Author : Yvonne Porcella

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 53 pages

File Size : 22,66 MB

Release : 2010-12-16

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 157120878X

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Book Description

Noted fiber artist Yvonne Porcella turns her talents to the most basic quilt block patterns, Four-Patches and Nine-Patches, and she will turn your world upside down! Join her on the journey to creating your own innovative quilts. 10 incredible quilting projects. Quilts are constructed using simple strip piecing and foundation piecing. Yvonne's "e;Magical Numbering System"e; makes choosing fabrics practically painless. Suggestions for personalizing your work to make it yours alone.



Celebrate the Tradition with C&T Publishing

Author : Sharyn Craig

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 19,49 MB

Release : 2003-09-08

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1571208909

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Book Description

C&T celebrates 20 years of beautiful books! Join C&T Publishing in celebrating 20 years of top-quality quilt books and paying tribute to the authors who made it possible! In honor of our 20th anniversary, the world’s best quilt designers, fiber artists, and quilting teachers - all C&T authors - have designed quilt blocks for us (and you!), plus share advice and memorable stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry. Over 70 commemorative blocks from longtime and brand-new C&T authors combined into 4 extraordinary anniversary quilts. Author reminiscences and qulting tips, plus block illustrations and basic instructions. The inspiring story of how C&T got started in 1983. Fun bonus - a glimpse of first quilts from famous authors alongside their latest work



Smashing Sets

Author : Margaret J. Miller

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 13,62 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781571201102

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Book Description

Margaret Miller offers a new perspective for settings using traditional blocks. You'll find hundreds of ideas for combining simple but unexpected designs, easy piecing, and a bit of fabric savvy.



Simply Successful Applique

Author : Jeanne Sullivan

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 22,80 MB

Release : 2012-10-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1607054817

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Book Description

Award-winning applique quilting artist, Jeanne Sullivan, shows you how to create flawless appliqué in just minutes—by hand or machine. Get pinpoint accuracy more easily with this comprehensive visual guide (includes bonus CD of full-size template patterns). Anyone can learn her stress-free methods, even if you’ve never tried appliqué. Seasoned quilters and sewers will also love these new techniques for more complex designs and for faster, easier ways to make ruching, narrow lines, reverse appliqué, Broderie Perse, and more. Plus “what you see is what you get” with Jeanne’s process…work with your fabrics and templates right side up!



Loose Change

Author : Claudia Plett

Publisher : Martingale

Page : 235 pages

File Size : 47,27 MB

Release : 2008-10-14

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1604681012

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Book Description

Finally, a book to use with all those great precut fabric collections! Have fun using 5" and 10" squares and fat quarters or quarter-yard cuts in 12 creative projects. Try a table runner, crib or lap blanket, or even a bed cover Get up to speed on rotary cutting, traditional and foundation piecing, and easy optional applique and embroidery Great for fabric swaps or using up your stash