Quilting books offer an excellent medium with which you can add to or improve your quilting skills. Listed below are books that will amaze, inspire and stimulate your creativity and enhance your quilting experience!

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Amish-Inspired Quilts by Becky Goldsmith & Linda Jenkins. Tradition with a Piece O' Cake Twist

Amish quilts grew out of the Amish religious tradition. As a people, the Amish live separately from the culture at large, finding meaning in a simpler lifestyle in small communities of faith. We know the Amish by their quilts. The women inside an Amish community often shared piecing and quilting patterns with each other. Sometimes patterns would be shared between women from diferent communities. In this way designs spread through Amish communities, across the United States.

Classic Quilts touched with Amish charm!

• The Piece O' Cake TRADITION continues with another winning title!
• Create a special quilt with Amish influences, easy piecing, and gorgeous quilting
• Dip into your solid fabrics! Rich solids and hand-dyes deliver the luminous look you'll want to create

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Part Number: 1035457. Price: $26.95

Blending Photos With Fabric 2 by Mary Ellen Kranz. More great ideas to combine photography, printing and quiltmaking

Get Ready
Take photos from computer to fabric:

• Choose the best digital camera and printer for your needs
• Take better pictures
• Make do-it-yourself fabric sheets
• Edit photos in 10 easy steps

Design
Learn from Mary Ellen's design ideas how to:

• Avoid the "bulletin board" effect when combining family photos
• Incorporate poetry into your quilt
• Extend quilting from the photo into fabric
• Create a "window pane" effect with a photo

Learn Computer Techniques
Learn to use Paint Shop Pro Photo to:

• Turn any photo into a kaleidoscope design
• Create unlimited color variations of a photo
• Print long strips of text for borders
• Turn one photo into a long photo strip
• Enlarge a small photo to quilt size
• Create large text images to fuse

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Part Number: 1035837. Price: $29.95

Creative Classics by Laura Lee Fritz. 250 Playful Continuous-Line Quilting Designs

Add beauty and special meaning to your quilting projects by using the graceful continuous-line images shown in the following pages. Whether you are quilting by hand, home sewing machine, or with a long-arm machine, this collection of designs will be a generous resource library. Combine them with each other and with interesting background-filling textures. Enlarge or reduce any of the designs to use on your quilts, and feel free to arrange and combine these ideas with more of your own.

Rev up your hand or machine quilting with fresh versions of favorite motifs!

• Recharge the old favorites with 250 playful new continuous-line variations on 5 classic quilting motifs
• Add style to individual blocks, sashings, and borders, or use as overall quilting designs
• All motifs work for both hand and machine quilting, and for long-arm as well as short-arm machines

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Part Number: 1035844. Price: $21.95

Terrific Tees by Roberta De Luz. I Can't Believe It's a T-Shirt Quilt!

T-shirt quilts for real quilters!

• Give new life to your favorite T-shirts by making them into quilts you'll be proud to display or give
• 4 complete projects, plus gallery of 9 quilts and 11 additional settings
• Great for charity or raffle quilts, dorm rooms, and kids' rooms
• Learn the secrets of successful quilting with T-shirt fabric

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Part Number: 1035846. Price: $16.95

Quilters Travel Companion by 10th Edition (2008-2010).

A must for any quilter who travels. With this edition of the Quilters' Travel Companion we have 1900 Featured Shops and (new in this edition) 1000+ Quilt shows across the United States and Canada. You'll be able to travel right to their doorstep! Each shop's listing includes address, telephone, shop hours, directions and a description of merchandise. Also included are addresses and phone numbers for over 1000 additional shops.

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Part Number: 1034893. Price: $18.95

Super Simple Squares by Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith.

Creative Uses for 6 1/2" Squares
Have you ever purchased packets of 6 1/2" squares, but were unsure of what to do with them once you got them home? Super Simple Squares show syou the endless combinations you can create by using fat quarters or packets of precut 6 1/2" squares or strips. This book contains 18 original quilt designs with full directions (including yardage requirements if you choose to cut your own fabrics), as well as comprehensive general directions.