Organizing Solutions for Every Quilter

Author: Carolyn Woods
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607052091
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
A professional organizer’s handy guide to creating an uncluttered, inviting quilting space for yourself—whether it’s a small closet or a large studio. This practical guide shows you how to organize and maintain your quilting space, no matter what size. Learn handy ways to sort and arrange all of your fabrics and supplies into easy-to-use stations—and find actual organizing solutions from quilters’ studios, including Alex Anderson and Diana McClun. Create a calm and happy place for all your beloved fabrics, books, notions, tools, and even UFOs (unfinished objects). With colorful photos, you'll see real examples of what makes an efficient, functional, and inviting quilting space. You'll identify what's causing the clutter, learn how to turn it into a more creative zone, and find more time to do what you love—quilt!

The Quilter's Catalog

Author: Meg Cox
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761138815
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 628

Book Description
The Bee-all and End-all: The complete quilter's companion and essential resource, jam-packed with information, supplies, expert interviews, techniques, community, and inspiration. All the tools of the trade: rotary cutters, sewing machines, longarms, anddesign software; fabulous fabrics and where to find them; and if you're just starting out, everything that belongs in a quilting basket. The online world made manageable with a guide to the most useful blogs, websites, e-mail lists, free patterns, and podcasts. National and regional shows, guilds, and the best retreats and quilt museums. Batting parties, tutorials on fabric dying, and a breezy history of the quilt boom. Profiles of twenty top teachers-including television's Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, and Ruth B. McDowell, known for her bravura technique. This is a book to help every quilter deepen and grow-keep it as close by as your stash of fat quarters -Cover.

Creating Your Perfect Quilting Space

Author: Lois L. Hallock
Publisher: That Patchwork Place
ISBN: 9781564775696
Category : Artists' studios
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Explains how to transform a cluttered, makeshift space into a functional, beautiful, and well-organized home quilting studio, in a guide that offers dozens of helpful ideas and tips, an innovative selection of practical storage solutions, and before-and-after photographs of real-life makeovers for different sized spaces and a range of budgets. Orig

The Quilting Answer Book

Author: Barbara Weiland Talbert
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1603426531
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
Whether you’re perplexed about piecing, baffled by binding, or curious about cutting, Barbara Weiland Talbert has all your quilting quandaries covered. With answers to more than 200 common quilting questions, this handy reference guide will earn a permanent place in your sewing room. You’ll turn to it again and again for sensible solutions to difficult problems and step-by-step instructions for tricky techniques. From quick-cutting geometric shapes to coaxing the wrinkles out of polyester batting, here is the best quilting advice on the block.

Sewing Room Organization Tips

Author: Clinton Greeno
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
There are lots of quilting techniques that every quilter should master, ten of those methods are on nearly every experienced quilter's 'must know' list. When you're just starting out it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the hundreds of terms and techniques you'll encounter with your first quilt. It's a confusion that can be compounded by the many ways to accomplish every quilt-making task. Be confident that you'll discover which quilting methods work best for you as you become more experienced, but getting comfortable with the must-know skills will help you sew accurate quilts on your very first try.

A Quilting Life Planner and Workbook

Author: Sherri L McConnell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781683561583
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Expert planner and organizer Sherri McConnell of AQuiltingLife.com guides you step-by-step, sharing tips and resources so you can easily and efficiently organize your quilting projects, supplies, and time. Gain a complete perspective of the systems and ideas Sherri finds most helpful. Keep a thorough record of your quilting projects, patterns, tools, notions, and more. Track your progress. Learn how better organization can lead to more free time to sew.

Quilter's Scrap Pantry

Author: SusanClaire Mayfield
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1637413130
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
·This book is a complete and approachable guide to organizing scrap material for quilters. Author shares a methodical and easy method for storing scraps, in addition to scrap block quilt patterns and quilt designs. ·Quilters inevitably have short lengths of full fabric widths as well as smaller leftover pieces from creating countless projects. The beauty is those scrap pieces can be tamed for re-us but are often thrown aside into a growing pile of unorganized leftovers. When scraps are methodically organized and stored, quilters are rewarded with more time to spend on designing and quilting verses spending hours searching for the perfect scraps. ·Features perforated pullout sticker labels ·Author SusanClaire Mayfield has a solid social media presence with 121K subscribers to her Gourmet Quilter YouTube channel. She has 4.8K followers on Facebook, 1.5K on Instagram, and 1.8K followers on Pinterest that visit her site 74.8K times per month. ·This book links with the author's YouTube channel. ·The author introduces tips and techniques for thrift quilting as well.

Organizing Your Craft Space

Author: Jo Packham
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402716027
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Every crafter wants a work space that's usable, attractive, and well-organised, and here's how to achieve that goal. Inside this spiral-bound guide, with colour-coded pages for easy reference, are hints, tips, and dos and don'ts for each individual craft. There are craft categories so that individual problems are addressed (Mosaic and stained glass, knitting and crocheting, needlepoint and embroidery, scrapbooking and papercrafts, painting, beading, stencilling and rubber stamping, and sewing and fabric crafts). Plus, professional artists invite you into their studios to see how they keep things orderly, from smart storage to functional surfaces.

The Quilter's Negative Space Handbook

Author: Sylvia Schaefer
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617456802
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Break down the process of modern quilt design with a scientific approach to design principles. Applying the concept of negative space in 8 key ways, you’ll start with traditional blocks or quilts and transform them into modern masterpieces, step -by -step. Each chapter teaches skills, such as removing elements or disintegration, with a quilt project for each technique! Complete with tips on piecing, choosing fabrics, and machine quilting for an artistic finish, this book has something for every quilter.

Dream Sewing Spaces

Author: Lynette Ranney Black
Publisher: Palmer/Pletsch Publishing
ISBN: 1618470000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
Offering numerous ideas to help save sewing enthusiasts time and money, this reference features architectural drawings, organization and storage ideas, and plans to optimize ergonomics. Special attention is also paid to lighting and shelving to increase accessibility and ease use of space, as well as energy-saving options. Including 25 floor plans that are compatible for a range of budgets, this updated edition, which features new information on green living and sustainable products, will delight homemakers and professional seamsters alike.