Quilter's Academy—Senior Year

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607056712
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Your senior year is a star-filled adventure! Your senior year of Quilter's Academy takes you into the most exciting of all designs-stars! You'll explore a variety of more complex piecing techniques such as Y-seams and partial seams, which put the sewing and pressing skills you've learned thus far to the test. Work through the lessons at your own pace and soon you will be making those really stunning quilts that you never thought you could make! • The fourth installment in this popular university-style series • Build upon the skills you developed in the first three volumes to learn how to make beautiful stars, as well as other more complex blocks and piecing techniques • Fill your creative toolbox with new techniques that allow you to enjoy the process of quiltmaking even more!

Quilter's Academy Vol. 5—Masters Year

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617452335
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Create your own medallion masterpieces. “Quilters of all skill levels have much to gain from this thoughtfully presented, engaging, and educational book.” —Library Journal With a bachelor’s degree under your belt, advance your quilting studies to the next level. This fifth volume of the bestselling Quilter’s Academy series will help you embrace the beauty of medallion quilts. Invent your own stunning quilts, sparked by historic and award-winning medallions. Study the in-depth lessons at your own pace, applying advanced techniques and precision drafting and math—the culmination of everything you’ve learned thus far.

Quilter's Academy, Volume 2—Sophomore Year

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051397
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Get a college-level education in quiltmaking in the comfort of your home with the second in the classic series—plus eleven projects to practice your skills! From the mother-daughter team of world-renowned teacher Harriet Hargrave and Carrie Hargrave, this book in the Quilter’s Academy series will inspire you to put your developing skills to work and challenge you to start designing your own quilts. Drafting exercises help you learn to make any quilt, any size, with or without a pattern. You’ll find loads of tips, techniques, and helpful charts—and a bonus section with eleven projects. This classic series of comprehensive books will take you from the basics to complete mastery with easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises. In Volume 1, you learned the fundamentals of quiltmaking. Now, in Volume 2, you’ll build your drafting skills by using tools like graph paper and linking blocks. “A complete sequence of classes. lessons, exercises and projects to build your skill from one project to the next.” —Fabrications

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!

Skip the Borders

Author: Julie Herman
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 160468402X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Create quilts with simple designs, strong lines, and a modern aesthetic. With this innovative collection, popular blogger and designer Julie Herman, the owner of Jaybird Quilts, inspires you to create stunning quilts--without borders! Choose from 15 easy quilt patterns where design is the star and fabric is the supporting actor Learn the structure of a borderless quilt; explore various bindings and their effect on the overall look See what can be done when color is used in bold ways to support a borderless quilt design

Quilter's Academy—Junior Year

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051702
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Triangle Perfection • Welcome to the 3rd volume in the Hargrave's popular quiltmaking series that takes you from the basics to complete mastery! • Add 8 new methods to your repetoire for creating precise, half-square triangles • Learn how to make three-triangle unit squares, quarter-square triangles, as well as the Flying Geese and Feathered Stars blocks • Discover new “internal frame” border ideas to make your quilt designs even more dynamic Bonus 16 projects! You studied the fundamentals in Volume 1, then you built your design skills and worked with diagonal sets in Volume 2. Now you'll learn how to make a variety of triangle blocks with accuracy, precision and ease. Harriet and Carrie also share creative quilting ideas so you can beautifully complete your quilts.

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."

Adventures in Hexagons

Author: Emily Breclaw
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617452831
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
“Expert step-by-step instructions to help you create a stunning quilt that will make your friends ask, ‘How did you do that?’” —Quilter’s Connection Move beyond one-patch hexagon layouts with eleven show-stopping hexie projects to stitch by hand or machine. Sew blocks in a variety of sizes and pieced combinations for stunning visual effects! You’ll master the Y-seam with a variety of techniques to cut and piece hexagons. Mix it up with the author’s design primer, which gives you the tools to draft your own unique hexie quilt layout. “Breclaw’s thoughtful instruction and logical processes for assembly will guide both beginners and experienced quilters.” —Library Journal

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.

Blanket Weaving in the Southwest

Author: Joe Ben Wheat
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816523047
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
A history and description of southwestern textiles along with a catalog of Pueblo, Navajo, Mexican, and Spanish American blankets, ponchos, and sarapes.