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Inspired by the events and activities of their daily lives, quiltmakers in preindustrial America produced colorful covers in extraordinary numbers. Titles for their handiwork ranged in theme from biblical (Job's Tears, Garden of Eden) and historical (Lincoln's Platform, Underground Railroad) to sociable (Always Friends, Next-door Neighbor). As the nation expanded, many of the same popular designs continued to spring up elsewhere under new names. Birds...
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The master of free-motion quilting, Angela Walters, teaches you everything you need to know in her newest book, Free-Motion Quilting Workbook. Unlike an ordinary how-to manual, this interactive workbook will get your creative juices flowing as you doodle designs of entire quilts, individual blocks, borders, and even negative space. The pages have plenty of line-art shapes and inspiring photographs to help get you started. There's also, a bonus section...
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From free motion quilting to adding borders and sashing to blocks, experienced quilters will learn several techniques for thread painting using raw edge applique. Showing each step for building the quilt, how to thread paint with various embellishments, blocking, squaring, finishing the quilt, and so much more, step-by-step instructions and coordinating photography will guide readers through to the completion of a beautiful thread painted quilt. Written...
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Photo tutorials show stitching in action for 50+ free-motion quilting designs to create modern quilts with classic style! Popular blogger and designer, Natalia Bonner, illustrates her instructions with detailed photos that make it easier to get beautiful results on your home sewing machine. Learn how to quilt all-over, as filler, on borders, and on individual blocks... using loops and swirls, feathers and flames, flowers and vines, pebbles and more!...
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Diamond quilts don't have to be difficult to be stunning. Dazzling Diamond Quilts gives you options for making those diamonds with ease in both classic, traditional settings and more contemporary patterns. Whatever style you prefer, this book has it covered. The guide contains 10 projects, a 30" by 21" pattern insert, and tutorial sidebars including How to Cut Diamonds, Cutting Diamonds from Strips, Making Diamonds from Isosceles Triangles,...
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Featuring patterns that lend themselves to any fabric or style, the designs in this quilter's resource utilize precut pieces for making a wide variety of styles and quilts. This book contains projects that are easy and fast to make and has options for using either traditional or paper-style piecing. With nine patterns, the book features projects of different sizes and timeless designs that work well with any fabric.
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Demystify the world of fusible products used in quilting and never accidentally get the wrong one again! Whether you need an interfacing, fusible foam, or fusible web, correctly choose which one you need and learn how to best use it with this resourceful pocket-sized book, Guide to Interfacings. Containing over 50 pages of helpful information on types of fusible products, what to use them on, how they work, and so much more, you won't want to start...
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Create your own stunning heirlooms with these full-sized designs. Simple instructions and clear diagrams will assist needleworkers at all levels of expertise through every step. Seventy classic patterns include a wide variety of choices for decorative stitching: pineapple, feather, floral, and swirl motifs, plus a selection of repeating borders.
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If you liked the way Judy Sisneros' best-selling 9-Patch Pizzazz and Rectangle Pizzazz turned simple shapes into knockout quilts, you'll love the magic Judy works with pieced circles. Learn the easy way to piece three different circle blocks, then mix and match them into curvaceous quilts full of movement and color. Use Judy's no-waste method to turn the leftover fabric into bonus quilts with appliquéd circles or rounded borders.
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With nine unique themes for knitting decorations for a table, this handbook to home accents is the perfect resource for beginners or those with a more advanced skill set. Each theme, which include occasions such as Movie Night, Let's Party, Wine & Cheese, a Quilting Bee, and a Christmas Braided Star, can be given personalized touches with paper accessories that match each of the quilted toppers and include mats, coasters, runners, and napkins. With...
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Get scrappy with best-selling author Alex Anderson. Use your stash and your scrap bin to make 7 colorful quilts. Get in on Alex's best scrap quilting secrets: which blocks and settings work best in scrappy quilts; how to combine fabric colors, prints, and values so your creations look exciting, not overpowering; and how to choose quilting motifs that will highlight your design. Includes complete instructions for 6 one-block scrap quilts.
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See what one simple block can really do and build your skills one quilt at a time! Further your skills as you work with one magical and versatile block, the Country Crown block, to create 10 beautiful quilts that require different techniques and slowly increase in difficulty. With step-by-step instructions and coordinating diagrams and illustrations to guide you along the way, this is a must-have guide to creating stunning, intricate quilts using...
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Get your kids camping, playing, and exploring with 21 fun-to-make projects that provide countless hours of indoor and outdoor enjoyment for both boys and girls. Everything you need to outfit a child to go adventuring is here: backpacks, teepees, sleeping bags, sun hats, cargo vests and shorts, outdoor-themed bedroom sets with quilts, and much more. The whole family will also enjoy the bonus nature-themed crafts and recipes for camp treats like Peanut...
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This leaflet is part of a collection of projects made with Jody Houghton's art panels. This second installment contains four fast-and-easy projects that include Jody's sentiment art panels that use words and are inspirational. The patterns are designed so that the different panels can be interchanged and, because they come in standard sizes, there are endless possibilities for using them.
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Alex Anderson, Sharyn Craig, Carol Doak, Nancy Johnson-Srebro and Ruth B. McDowell. Tips for getting started including selecting tools and notions, choosing fabrics, and creating a workspace and design wall. Tricks for accurate cutting, pinning, piecing, and pressing. Ideas for settings, borders, and sashing to make your quilts one-of-a-kind. Paper-piecing basics from Carol Doak. Easy how-tos for curved piecing and set-in Y seams. A show-it-all piecing...
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Use your 2 1/2"-wide strips to create a variety of creative designs. Use leftover strips, a new collection of precuts or strips you cut yourself to make projects ranging from casserole carriers, catchall baskets, lunch bags, purses and more. Make projects to use for yourself or to give as gifts.
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Here's the book you've been waiting for. 14 animal projects perfect for every season or any room using easy fusible applique and easy piecing. Use these whimsical projects for gifts or simply make them because you love them. Whether you like farm animals or safari you'll find something you'll just have to make. Chris Malone has done it again. Another collection of projects with her special brand of whimsy.
279) Get Addicted to Free-Motion Quilting: Go from Simple to Sensational with Sheila Sinclair Snyder
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Give your quilts the fancy finish they deserve with more than 60 lively continuous-line quilting designs from quilting pro Sheila Sinclair Snyder. Learn to stitch free-form spirals, feathers, flowers, bubbles, leaves, cables, and much more. Sheila shows you how to combine individual motifs into fluid designs for quilting blocks, borders, sashing, and all over the quilt. All designs work equally well on home sewing machines, mid-arm, and long-arm quilting...
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For quilters seeking to have some fun with improv quilting but aren't quite sure how to approach the technique, this is a must-have guide that offers some sought-after structure using a very familiar quilt block — log cabins! With the log cabin quilt block structure, you can explore a variety of improvisational possibilities while still ending up with a quilt that beautifully goes together! Featuring a collection of log cabin quilt designs that...
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