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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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Magic Stack-n-Whackier Quilts by Bethany Reynolds. ?Have you always wanted to try your hind at making kaleidoscope, pinwheel, and star designs? Marvel at this simple
method for rotary cutting these versatile blocks. The kaleidoscope effects occur spontaneously, thanks to the ingenious
Stack-n-Whack" techniques.
More than 200 how-to illustrations and dozens of color plates detail the process fully. In addition to covering fabric selection, the chapters provide step-by-step cutting and piecing directions for seven different blocks, and yardage and assembly directions for 14 projects ranging from small wall quilts to queen-sized bed quilts. A chapter on quilting includes designs and strategies to bring out all the beauty of these magical quilts. |
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Stack-n-Whack 18 Degree Fan Ruler. Use this ruler to cut 15 Degree wedges for five-blade fans. Try it for Stack-n-Whack fan and circle designs, as well as for scrap fans and other variations. Illustrations show strip cutting, scrap, and selective cutting methods, plus instructions for finishing the fan blocks with folded points and quarter-circle bases.
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Stack-n-Whack 15 Degree Fan Ruler. Use this ruler to cut 15 Degree wedges for six-blade fans. Try it for Stack-n-Whack fan and circle designs, as well as for scrap fans and other variations. Illustrations show strip cutting, scrap, and selective cutting methods, plus instructions for finishing the fan blocks with fabric trim and simple straight-stitch applique.
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Stack-n-Whackier Quilts by Bethany Reynolds. Are you ready for an adventure into uncharted territory? Within almost every print fabric lies a world of designs waiting to
be discovered. With the instructions and projects in this book, you will be ready to find unique and wonderful patterns in
the most unexpected places. Whether you are a new quilter looking for an easy but intriguing project or a veteran
seeking new challenges, you will find delightful possibilities. The Stack-n-Whack method engages your eyes and mind
through each step of the process, from cutting to piecing to finishing, as new designs emerge and change like patterns
in a kaleidoscope. 12 new Stack-n-Wack quilt patterns.
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Fast-Folded Flowers by Laura Farson. Blooming with Unique Quilting Ideas. Who says you can't have flowers
adorning your home year-round? You certainly can if they are part of any
one of the beautiful handmade quilting projects illustrated in this book.
And the best part of all: Fast-Folded Flowers: Timesaving Techniques for a Quilted Bouquet makes these complicated curved-pieced projects easier than tending a flower patch! You'll be amazed by the way author Laura Farson has developed methods to eliminate the frustration of tricky, time-consuming piecing methods. Using just a sewing machine, ruler, and rotary cutter, you can create beautiful curvy-petaled flowers with these easy step-by-step instructions. Fully illustrated with detailed color photographs of instructions and projects, Fast-Folded Flowers includes:
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Basic Guide to rotary cut Quilts by Marianne Fons and Liz Porter. Welcome to the pleasures of patchwork! We love making quilts for our
homes--wall quilts, baby quilts, bed-sized quilts--and we know you will
too. It's “sew" much fun.
If you've never made a quilt before--this book is for you. We have geared it to help you get started with quick rotary cutting methods, easy machine sewing, and speedy quilting techniques to make your first quilt, and, hopefully, many more. Included in our Getting Started section are tips on buying fabric and acquiring the basic tools you need to begin. We also tell you how to set up your sewing machine for accurate stitching results. Nine Patchwork Lessons teach you how to make the nine blocks used in the projects pictured in the book. We've included step-by-step photos and illustrations to make learning as easy as possible. Making Your Quilt A Quilt tells you how to turn your patchwork into a real quilt by layering it with batting and backing, quilting it, and finishing the edges. Piecing patchwork quilts used to involve meticulous tracing around templates and hours of laborious cutting with scissors. Not any more! The methods we've used in this book--rotary cutting, making strip sets, stitching "diagonal seams", machine piecing, and machine quilting--are used by modern quilters everywhere to make quilts quickly to decorate their homes and keep their loved ones warm. |
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The Perfect Patchwork System V1 by Marti Michell. Just look inside. You'll see how easy it is to combine the versatility of Perfect Patchwork Templates with 69
patchwork block patterns to make the 390 blocks indexed-or even more!
Don't miss "How to Use This Book" on page 7, or the Ohio Star Sampler on page 14, or the great positive /negative treatments on pages 21 and 26. Once you've looked, you'll love it! just cut by the numbers! |
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The Perfect Patchwork System V2 by Marti Michell. ?Perfect Patchwork Templates are very common sizes and a
perfect match for many pattern pieces in your favorite quilt books. The Strip Cutting Charts on the inside front and back
covers and on pages 43 and 44 are very helpful in determining which templates are the right size for projects in other books.
Don't forget-if you own the book, you may write in it! Write the permanent template identification number on the appropriate
piece.
The main advantage of the Perfect Patchwork System books is that the designs are sorted to coordinate with the templates. In other books, you will have to determine which templates match the pattern pieces, if all the shapes you need are available, and the size of the finished block. That isn't true in this book. Here you will find a collection of 81 patchwork designs that can be made with Set A and its related Bonus Set C and/or Set B and its Bonus Set D. |
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The Perfect Patchwork System V3 by Marti Michell. ?Piecing a Perfect Eight-Pointed Star is Possible
If you love 45' diamonds but have trouble getting a flat eight-pointed star, Set E to the rescue' And Vohime 3 for inspiration'
The precision-engineered corners of From MARTI MICHELL Perfect Patchwork Templates make precise alignment of pieces a snap.
Set E has laser-cut holes so you can mark where the seams intersect. Combined with dot-to-dot machine piecing, your stars
will be flat, with perfect seams and pointy points! Time and time again, as I travel around the country teaching Perfect Patchwork
techniques, I hear students say, "This is the first time I've ever made a flat eight-pointed star on the first try!" You can do it,
too.
Quilters have loved star patterns from generation to generation. Many of the designs in this book have been taken from antique quilts. You'll also learn string-piecing and how to use striped fabric to make stars really sparkle. Not all the blocks are stars- you will also find baskets and flowers, a pinwheel and diamonds. Their common denominator is a 45' diamond. |
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Collector Quilts and how to make them by Marti Michell.
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