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Get the know-how you need to create beautiful quilts and decorative quilted items Quilting is a fun hobby - but where do you begin? From selecting fabrics and designing a quilt to stitching by hand or machine, this friendly guide shows you how to put all the pieces together - and create a wide variety of quilted keepsakes for your home. We'll have you in stitches in no time! Discover how to Select the right fabrics and threads Design your masterpiece...

Did you know that the biggest struggle for quilters of all types is color selection? Unlock the secrets to winning color combinations from best-selling author Becky Goldsmith of Piece O' Cake Designs. Learn how every quilt has a foreground and a background, how to use clear versus gray colors, plus other essentials that will shake up your design process. Quilters of all skill levels will appreciate Becky's practical, easy-to-understand advice on neutrals,...

Get ready for new adventures in conventional piecing with celebrated quilter Victoria Findlay Wolfe. Create stunning Double Wedding Ring quilts with breathtaking innovations on the classic pattern. With full-size patterns for 10 quilts, the book will teach you the Double Wedding Ring basics. After you've mastered curved foundation piecing, try your hand at Victoria's unique fabric slashing and "Made-Fabric" methods-it's easier than you think! You'll...

With a hard winter on the way, Grandmother uses her family's rags and stories to create a cozy quilt.

Ready for the next level of creative patchwork? Expand your skills with new designs and techniques from the best-selling author of The Practical Guide to Patchwork, Elizabeth Hartman. She s back with brand new quilts bring her innovative style into your home. Projects are bold, bright, graphic, and designed to give modern quilters new challenges. Learn new skills like curved seam piecing and create your best modern quilt yet. Each project shows additional...

Celebrate any important event in life, from an anniversary or a birthday to a retirement or a memorial, with these 40 beautiful blocks and 7 customizable settings. Created to commemorate the author's 40th anniversary of falling in love with her husband (and making her first quilt for him!), you can read the story behind each block, then make it personal by stitching in your own memories and using blank blocks for personal dedications. Piece and appliqué...

"An inheritance has reunited three estranged cousins. Their grandmother Lucy left Nessa, Flynn, and April her home nestled in the woods near Blossom, Texas, as well as a hope chest to be unlocked after they complete a special task. Together, they must hand-stitch a cherished quilt Lucy left unfinished. It meant everything to her. And now, to three people struggling with their own patchwork pasts . . . To Nessa, the house has always been an escape...

This title features 8 super-colourful stash-busting quilt projects that are perfect for both the adventurous beginner and the confident intermediate quilter. Popular patternmaker Emily Cier sews up all the colours of the rainbow in this gorgeous collection of all-new patterns that include wall hangings and lap quilts. Divided into sections for the "little stasher" or the "big stasher", "Scrap Republic" gives separate cutting instructions for working...

Medallion quilts, known for detailed borders built around a central focal point, have seen a resurgence in the modern quilting movement. Savor the intricate piecing and sophisticated appliqué behind 11 all-new modern medallion quilts. Projects range from basic to complex, with each quilt as unique as its maker. Stitch a ring of Flying Geese, learn how to resize borders, and master useful techniques, such as sewing inset curves and paper piecing,...

Photographs illustrating forty-two old American patchwork quilts, along with patterns and instructions for copying them. Also contains useful information on the materials needed for quilting and who supplies them, and on the care and preservation of quilts.