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Learn the art of combining colors from the rainbow Showcase a spectrum of color with innovative rainbow quilts that awaken the senses. With color inspiration as you've never seen before, this collection of modern designs features striking projects perfect for your favorite designer fabrics. Fourth-generation quilter Rebecca Bryan shares 14 modern quilts that take their cues from the color wheel. From modern-traditional to improvisational and liberated...
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"Become a skilled foundation piecer with New York Beauty blocks and arcs of Flying Geese that amaze! Stitch your way through 31 architectural block patterns, ideal for advanced beginners and intermediate quilters. Practice this straightforward approach to curved piecing, foundation piecing, and simple machine appliqu on 10 full-size quilts and 27 pillow projects. Lively color combinations provide movement and drama, with fabric selections from Tula...
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Learn how to turn squares and rectangles into circles and ovals with no curved piecingit's easy! Take an artistic journey with 11 mind-bending quilts that fool the eye with innovative layering, playful patterns, and delightful color choices. The best-selling author of Strips n Curves shares three simple construction methods for endless possibilities. With something for every type of quilter, this opulent collection will inspire you to see your fabrics...
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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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Stitch playful projects Dive into Laura's delightful world of embroidery and learn how to create small, free-form embroidery pieces that are alive with color and texture. With instructions for 21 basic embroidery stitches and 6 projects, all in Laura's signature colorful, whimsical style, you'll transform a flat, plain surface into a joyful, design-packed art piece. Stitch on wool, felt, or silk, and enjoy the simple pleasure of slow stitching. Includes...
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Create your own Italian tile masterpiece Capture the glory of medieval Italian marble work with 9 breathtaking paper-pieced quilts and 35 mix-and-match blocks designed by Norah McMeeking, author of the best-selling Bella Bella Quilts. Norah's uniquely easy paper-piecing techniques, tips gleaned from years of teaching paper piecing, and comprehensive cutting and materials charts all guarantee your success. Draw on your fabric stash to create new color...
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From best-selling author Judith Baker Montano Globally recognized needlework expert Judith Baker Montano shares 180 stitches and 70 combinations in this must-have stitch guide featuring the best from Elegant Stitches and Floral Stitches. With even more traditional embroidery stitches, silk ribbon stitches, and crazy quilting combinations, this beautiful handbook has an updated section of free-form inspiration for improvisational work. With full-color...
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Stitch. Share. Gift. Repeat. Nothing beats the feeling of giving and receiving a handmade gift. Now starring in the role of Santa: you! Use cotton fabric, wool, or hand-dyed linen, then embellish with simple hand embroidery, rickrack, and trims to bring Christmas cheer to you and yours. Your heart will be brimming with pride and joy when you fill your sleigh with tiny, handmade treasures. Popular author of Bowl Me Over Debbie Busby is back to share...
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Welcome to the "new" crazy! • Jump into crazy quilting with seven enticing projects that include small quilts, a needle cushion, and a softie • Learn four different crazy piecing methods • Try creative techniques on fabric, such as stenciling, photo-transfer, and Angelina fiber effects • Discover how to add beauty and dimension to your work with embellishments like 3-D ribbon flowers, embroidery, beads, and painted lace • Follow along with...
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"The aim of this book is to bring the age-old art of crotchet into the 21st century. Gone are the days where all it was good for was creating placemats and jumpers for your teapots. Aimed at the intermediate crochetier, this book assumes you are already proficient in the basics and are looking to increase your creative output through the use of interesting color and design. With an insight into ten bespoke patterns that can be easily followed, starting...
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Bonnie is back! And this time she's introducing us to a world of string piecing. Strings are strips and scraps usually too small to be useful for other projects, but they are just right for these 13 new quilts. Within these pages you will find a twist on traditional, time-honored designs along with some new ideas straight from Bonnie's scrappy imagination.
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Triangle extravaganza! Create unique, dynamic designs within pieced triangles, then combine those triangles with other shapes to make sassy stars, daisies, and pinwheels. Add a hexagonal quilt to your repertoire-perfect for a wallhanging or tabletop centerpiece. Whether your palette preference runs to vivid or more muted hues, you'll discover how your color schemes will add a hint of movement to your quilts. • Create complex-looking designs...
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The classic guide to crazy quilting, now with new projects, stitches, and techniques For nearly 30 years, The Crazy Quilt Handbook has been the essential guide to the fine art of crazy quilting. This newly updated edition brings you more of everything that makes crazy quilting wonderful: gorgeous stitches, embellishments, fabulous crazy quilt photos, and updated beautiful projects to make for yourself. Learn all the ways you can use crazy quilting...
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Elevate your sewing with a bagmaker's secret-cork fabric, a leather-like, upscale version of the cork you used to know! Learn how easy it is to work with cork from Jessica Kapitanski, the innovative designer behind Sallie Tomato patterns. Using only your regular sewing tools, you'll learn how to sew seventeen cork projects with clean lines and clever details. Have fun adding cork fabric to elegant purses, boxy pouches, gorgeous accessories, and home...
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Learn to draw...with your sewing machine! In this beginner's guide to free-motion, continuous-line quilting designs, the focus is on selecting the right forms and lines that get you where you need to go...because sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next! You'll gain confidence in your innate artistic ability to draw basic shapes, then you'll learn how to put them together into over a hundred different all-over quilting designs....
20) Adventures in design: the ultimate visual guide : 153 spectacular quilts : activities & exercises
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Bring more beauty and balance to your quilt designs • Everything you need to know about the essentials of good design from an internationally reknowned expert • Learn about the key elements of design and how to apply strategies for success • Practice what you've learned with exercises at the end of each chapter • An inspiring gallery illustrates design concepts by many prominent quilters and artists - including Alex Anderson, Paula Nadelstern,...
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