Quilter's Academy Vol 1–Freshman Year

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051060
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
This comprehensive beginner’s guide to quilting skills covers everything from setting up a sewing area to designing your own quilts. Harriet Hargrave has taught quilting all over the world. Now, with the Quilter’s Academy series of coursebooks, you can learn from her mastery and decades of experience. Volume one of the series welcomes freshman quilters with classes, lessons, exercises, and projects that will build your skills from one project to the next. Arranged in order of complexity, each quilt offers new challenges and involves new techniques that will help you continually build your skill level. By mastering the techniques presented in Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1, you will be on your way to creating your own quilts with precise, high-quality piecing. Includes compete instructions for making 13 classic quilts!

Start Quilting with Alex Anderson

Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 157120167X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
Discusses equipment, fabric, tools, and techniques while offering patterns for six simple block quilts.

Pat Sloan's Favorite Techniques

Author: Pat Sloan
Publisher: Leisure Arts
ISBN: 1601406835
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Quilt designer and popular workshop teacher Pat Sloan shares pointers and projects for her favorite techniques: Mock Hand Appliqué, Needleturn Appliqué, Running Stitch Appliqué, Utility Quilting (using big stitches), Trash Bag Quilts (using new fabrics made from scraps), Calendar Quilts (with strips or blocks representing memorable time periods), and Stamping on Labels. 9 projects: Owl and Honey Bee Quilt, Honey Bee and Dragonfly Table Runner, Pomegranate Crossing Quilt, Fresh for the Picking Wall Hanging, Quilters in Paradise Wall Hanging, Seashell Tote, Puppies on Parade Quilt, Beauty from Scraps Quilt, and A Year in Memories Quilt. Pat Sloan's Favorite Techniques (Leisure Arts #4431)

Heirloom Machine Quilting

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1571202366
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description
Instructions from the purchase and care of equipment to techniques for finishing a quilt.

Freemotion Quilting

Author: Judy Woodworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574326710
Category : Crazy quilts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Now you CAN quilt as desired] The tips, techniques, and secrets in this book are must-haves for anyone interested in excellent free-motion machine quilting, including domestic, midarm, and longarm sewers of any skill level. More than 200 color photos show a balance of inspirations for quilt designs, how-to illustrations from start to finish, 28 quilting patterns, and close-ups-front and back-of Judy's extraordinary stitching. This unique free-motion machine quilting book combines inspiration, how-to, and patterns with examples from 19 stunning quilts from a very accomplished competitive quilter willing to share her secrets. OUT OF PRINT

Quiltmaker's Fancy

Author: From the Editors and Contributors of Quiltmaker Magazine
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607052903
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Make these 16 classic favorites from the pages of Quiltmaker Magazine. Includes quilts for every skill level.

The Art of Classic Quiltmaking

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1571208739
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
The ultimate how-to book for quilters—a workbook with exercises that provide a foundation of much-needed basics to set you on your quilting path. Two of quilting’s most respected teachers combine their different styles to present an incredible reference and project book that beginners and experienced quilters alike will always keep near the sewing machine! Loaded with the information you need to make traditional quilts, including selecting and caring for fabric, choosing equipment and supplies, calculating yardage, selecting the piecing technique that ensures the best result, designing borders, and deciding on quilting designs. Designed for those who encounter problems with quilting basics, from confident beginners to experienced quilters. Master piecing methods with step-by-step exercises, helpful hints, illustrations, and photos. Project quilts accompany each basic technique chapter. Numerous variations of the techniques are also presented. Find out how to answer questions such as “where do I go next?” or “what went wrong?”

Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts

Author: Rayna Gillman
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607052652
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Discover there’s no such thing as a mistake when you learn how to create original designs with this no-rules method of quilting. • Create one-of-a-kind quilts with free-form cutting and piecing • Discover how to spontaneously combine your own original units and design as you go! • Blend hand-prints and hand-dyes with commercial fabrics to create truly original quilts Enjoy the freedom of free-form! In this follow-up to Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, Rayna shares her “can’t make a mistake” approach to designing quilts. Learn how to how to trust your instincts so you can work more intuitively, and develop a new appreciation for the therapy of sewing without a plan. With these new skills, you can create new work from leftovers and scraps, dig into those favorite fabrics, and transform all those unfinished projects!

Mastering Machine Appliqué

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C & T Pub
ISBN: 9781571201362
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
A guide to machine applique. It covers everything needed in order to get started, and contains easy exercises to help the reader practise new skills. Each technique is described step by step, and there is discussion on how to choose and use the right needles, threads and more."

Start Quilting with Alex Anderson

Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607050870
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 53

Book Description
Make your first quilt a keeper with this comprehensive beginner’s guide by the host of The Quilt Show and author of All Things Quilting. Alex Anderson has inspired and educated countless quilters with her television programs, fabric lines, and numerous books. In Starting Quilting with Alex Anderson, she takes first-time quilters through every step of the quilting process. With Alex’s detailed instructions and illustrations, you will learn to plan, cut, piece, quilt, and bind a quilt. Starting Quilting with Alex Anderson features eight easy, beautiful projects. This expanded edition features new projects, more quilt sizes, and lots of helpful new tips and shortcuts. If you want to make a quilt but can't tell a rotary cutter from a seam ripper, Alex Anderson will get you quilting—and loving it—in no time!