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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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Hoochy Mama Quilts by Mary Lou Weidman. 7 pieced projects for flower lovers.
Hoochy Mama Quilts offer a variety of fun, easy and fast blocks with less cutting and therefore less time. This book takes you through the easy technique of using squares, rectangles and strips to make points either perfect or wonky. These blocks make great quilts or borders for other projects. Mary Lou Weidman believes that making quilts should be a fun activity and here, she provides you with the ideas and avenues to smiling while you sew and later on, when you share your Hoochy Mama quilt with others. |
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A Garden Party of Quilts by Joen Wolfrom. 7 pieced projects for flower lovers.
Pick a bouquet of graden quilts
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Fast Flying Geese Quilts by Karin Hellaby.
Inside you'll find all the help you need to create flocks of fast flying geese, as well as quick and innovative ideas for every quilter from the plucky beginner to the fully fledged expert. For fans of Karin's Sew a Row Quilts and Magic Pillows, Hiddon Quilts here is yet another winner that will send you flying to your sewing machine! |
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Aquamarine Ambience by Jenny Haskins. Finally Curved seams made easy!
Aquamarine Ambience was inspired by the colors of the sea as they change with the water's depth; one color merges into another as the light reflects off the water, and shadows seem to hover just above its surface. So too do the fabrics, threads and embroidery of this quilt all seem to merge. The colors, texture and luster of the fabrics and threads seem to glisten and shimmer to create a special ambience that an aquamarine sea evokes for so many of us; those whose souls find peace in the sights, sounds and smell of the ocean. As each wave brings its own unique form, movement and color, so too does each block of Simon's quilt. This book includes instructions and an embroidery design CD to make the quilt along with those for pillows and a table runner (in different color stories) written in such a way that even a novice can follow them. |
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Foolproof Curves by Barbara Barber. Finally Curved seams made easy!
Barbara Barber's resourceful techniques are just what you need to take your quilting to the next level! Foolproof Curves makes sewing curves fun and easy with two totally different approaches. Plus find exciting ideas for expanding your creativity and opening the door to adventures in design! Part I features an update of Barbara's out-of-print title, Really Sharp Piecing.
Part II teaches her latest methods create the appearance of curved piecing without piecing a single curve!
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bundles of fun by Karen Snyder.
Bundles of Fun features 12 stylish ways to use your fat quarter bundles. From baby quilts to bed quilts, these designs are quick, cute and perfectly coordinated! Cutting diagrams and quilt designs make the most each fat quarter, while the step-by-step instructions make the process easy. Expert quilter Karen Snyder guides you through the basics of choosing color and offers tips for quilting and labeling each design. Features:
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fat quarters small quilts by Darlene Zimmerman.
BIG IMPACT! "Fabriholics," uncover your stash! This is the book you've been waiting for to use up those irresistible and indispensable fat quarters. Author Darlene Zimmerman presents 25 small projects created with a variety of gorgeous fat quarters, from batiks to vintage, appealing to quilters of all ages. Use your imagination and display these projects as place mats, doll quilts, wall hangings or framed pieces of art. In her usual style and clarity, Darlene provides full-color, comprehensive and easy-to-understand instructions. A tool tutorial explains how you can quickly make half-and quarter-square triangles and easily change the size of your quilt blocks.
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The Quilter's Edge by Darlene Zimmerman.
It's here at last! Expert quitter Darlene Zimmerman gives you the edge on finishing your projects in her long-awaited technique book, The Quilter's Edge. This book will become your favorite reference tool as you create a quilt collection that will impress your family, friends and fellow quilters. Trust Darlene's solutions to resolve your quilting quandaries about borders, sashes, block settings and bindings. Features include:
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PILLOWS with Personality by Linda Causee. Have you ever looked for just the right pillow to fit in with your decor, but nothing was quite right? The fabric wasn't the right color, the trims were not appealing or the style wasn't what you had in mind.
As you look through this book of 77 different patchwork pillows, you are bound to find pillows to accent any room in your home. There are fifteen groupings of pillows shown, but you can mix and match any of the blocks using your own fabrics and trims. The possibilities are endless. You can even use the blocks to make a matching quilt for your bedroom, a lap quilt for your den or a wall hanging for the living room. There are complete instructions for each pillow as shown, but you can add fringe where we have added a ruffle, or beading where we have cording. You can make your pillows to your own specifications using the pillow Instructions on pages 12 to 15 as a guide. You will find that you can't stop at just one. You will end up making pillows for everyone on your gift list or for every room in your home! |
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Even More Quilts for Baby Easy as A B C... Combine traditional block designs with fun, colorful prints to create quick quilts for baby! Ursula
Reikes is back with an all-new collection of bright, cheerful quilt patterns that are so simple, even
beginners can stitch up a quilt top in an afternoon or evening-no previous quilting experience required!
Includes: Step-by-step directions for 20 cuddly baby quilts, each shown in two unique colorways ideal for quilters with little time to spare. Popular traditional patterns that are easy, fast, and fun to stitch. Rotary-cutting guidelines, speedy piecing techniques, and complete finishing instructions for each project. |
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The Quilt Maker's Gift. by Jeff Brumbeau "&" Gail de Marken. This charming fable for our times celebrates the joy of giving. A generous quilt maker, with magic in her fingers, sews the most beautiful quilts in the world, then gives them away. A greedy king, his storehouse stuffed with useless treasures, yearns for something that will make him happy ... Will the quilt maker sew a quilt for the king? Will the king ever learn to share? Can the quilt maker teach the king to be happy? What will the king do with all his splendid things?
Look for clues to the story in the quilts.
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