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Take your quilt tops to the next level! Learn how to use quilting designs to tell a story, highlight the piecing, or achieve unique effects such as an illusion of depth. Angela Walter's machine-quilting strategies add dimension and distinction to any quilt. You get ten great projects plus creative machine quilting techniques together in one book. Each chapter features a design concept and technique that's tailored to a specific project. Quilting is...
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"Scrappy Improv Quilting is the first quilting book of its kind that breaks down the intimidating technique of improv piecing to a smaller scale, making this approachable how-to guide perfect for quilters of any level. Featuring 22 mini quilt patterns, step-by-step instructions, tips on selecting and combining scraps, and so much more, create a collection of mini scrappy quilts that will inspire you to move onto larger-scale improv!"--
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"For Heather Jones, inspiration can be anywhere. For her debut book, Quilt Local, she designed a collection of 20 quilts, each inspired by objects and places close to home--country roads, cityscapes, street signs--the landscape of her existence. Then, in a fascinating exercise in color theory and design play, she reworked each one in a second palette to show what a striking difference just a few basic changes can make. Pattern by pattern, Jones takes...
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Discover there's no such thing as a mistake, when you learn how to create original designs with this no-rules method of quilting.
• Create one-of-a-kind quilts with free-form cutting and piecing
• Discover how to spontaneously, combine your own original units and design as you go!
• Blend hand-prints and hand-dyes with commercial fabrics to create truly original quilts
Enjoy the freedom of freeform! In this follow-up to Create Your Own Hand-Printed...
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Popular machine quilter Angela Walters will motivate you to try something new! Learn to stitch her fresh continuous-line designs on your longarm or domestic machine. Includes step-by-step instructions for continuous-line swirls, circles, squares, vines, arcs, and points. Using basic free-motion skills you already have, discover how to approach quilting a modern quilt by working with bold fabrics and negative space, uniting a variety of shapes, and...
7) Five-minute quilt blocks: one-seam flying geese block projects for quilts, wallhangings and runners
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Learn to make beautiful quilts in only 5 minutes with this clever one-seam technique. Get 12 great projects for making quilts, wall hangings, and table runners, with color photographs and detailed step-by-step instructions.
10) Strip your stash: dynamic quilts made from strips : 12 projects in multiple sizes from GE designs
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Bust your stash with 12 strip quilts, perfect for those larger pieces of leftover fabric that you aren't quite sure how to use. Learn how to cut, sort, store, and sew 2 1/2" strips to make a variety of quilts in two or more sizes. Confidently pair fabric prints, using three no-fail strategies: controlled colorway, distinct blocks, or scrap crazies! Whatever your approach, you'll love stripping along with the popular pattern and fabric designer behind...
11) Block party--the modern quilting bee: the journey of 12 women, 1 blog & 12 improvisational projects
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"The quilting bee gets a modern makeover"--From publisher description.
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"Skill-building: The Handmade Quilt features a 21-block sampler that starts with the easiest techniques and progresses to more challenging skills--with no need for a sewing machine! Comprehensive: this book is a complete learning experience for a new quilter and a stunning sampler project for experienced stitchers. Unique: no other book available today covers the how-to of hand-stitching blocks in such a thorough manner. Portable: you can hand-stitch...
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Raid your fabric pantry! The best-selling author of Charm School is back with eighteen projects using precut 2 1/2 strips. Vanessa Goertzen's fabric recipes will help you cook up basic blocks and more advanced designs--triangles, log cabins, hexagons, and even curves--from precut strips. Slice into convenient fabric rolls, or create your own strips from yardage. Whether you are newer to quilting or a seasoned pro, you'll spend less time cutting, and...
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"Take an in-depth look at the artistry of Angela Walters, a true visionary in the modern quilting movement. This coffee table book delves into her free-motion quilting journey in gorgeous detail. The best-selling author gives insight into her design process, with full-page photography of her own work and commissioned quilting for well-known designers. Learn the secrets behind Angela's stitches, as she sketches with grand details and lavish texture...
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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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Immerse yourself in the sumptuous world of Jelly Rolls with 17 exciting quilting projects… Turn gorgeous Jelly Rolls into fabulous quilts, each of which can be made from just one roll. Features unique advice on making the most of this fresh approach to fabric, as well as tips on adapting the quilts to your existing stashes. Step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams ensure that untying your beautifully rolled fabric will be the first...
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At Elm Creek Manor, the week after Thanksgiving is "Quiltsgiving," a time to commence a season of generosity. From near and far, quilters and aspiring quilters gather for a special season of quilt camp, to make quilts for Project Linus, dedicated to providing handmade quilts to children in need. Love and comfort are sewn into the warm, bright quilts they stitch, and their stories collectively consider the strength of human connection and its rich...
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Become a fabulous quilt artist - the fun, easy way! Popular quilting expert Ricky Tims presents an imaginative, new piecing technique that quilters will adore! Convergence quilts feature two or more fabrics cut into strips, sewn together, then cut and pieced again. Nothing could be simpler - or more magical! Ricky offers lots of creative guidelines but no hard-and-fast rules, so every Convergence quilt is a unique work of art. • 4 projects walk...
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Don't let the important occasions in life pass you by. Quilt them! Gift meaningful milestone quilts for religious celebrations, graduations, anniversaries, important birthdays, and more. Best-selling author and fabric designer Amanda Murphy presents 10 projects and 18 designs to celebrate life's hallmark moments. Space is cleverly, built into the designs so you can personalize them with numbers, dates, messages, and signatures. Amanda's patterns are...
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