Crazy-Quilted Memories

Author: Brian Haggard
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 160705230X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Turn family photos and mementos into quilted scrapbooks with this crazy quilting guide featuring 10 projects and 24 embroidery stitches. In Crazy-Quilted Memories, quilt artist Brian Haggard shows readers how to turn treasured family keepsakes—including photo prints, buttons, beads, and other keepsakes—into meaningful quilt embellishments. He offers a fresh take on traditional crazy quilt techniques, as well as 24 basic and combination embroidery stitches to create never-before-seen motifs. Each of the 10 projects featured in this volume will tell a story about your life and family history in unique and creative ways. Lovingly stitched by hand, these small, portable projects are destined to become prized family heirlooms for generations to come.

Quilted Memories

Author: Mary Lou Weidman
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607050463
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 101

Book Description
Turn your life’s stories into a quilted journal that you, your children, and your grandchildren will cherish forever. May Lou Weidman’s story quilts are beloved by quilters everywhere, and now she shows you how to do it yourself. 9 easy projects teach you the techniques so you can apply them to your own story quilts. Dozens of Mary Lou’s bright, happy celebration quilts are sprinkled throughout the book, plus she shares a gallery of her students’ work to inspire you. Mary Lou covers each step of the creative process, from drawing the initial plans through choosing fabrics and putting it all together. Learn how to expand your imagination and turn your own stories into dazzling celebration quilts. More than just a quilting book - Mary Lou shares her insights for living a peaceful, creative, and productive life.

Crazy Quilting - The Complete Guide

Author: J. Marsha Michler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440208239
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Your one-stop source for crazy quilting know-how! From Victorian quilts to contemporary works of art, crazy quilting has evolved into a beautiful mixture of piecing, embroidery, and fabric techniques. Crazy Quilting - The Complete Guide tells you everything you need to know to create your own beautiful heirloom crazy quilts, including: • 10 different methods for piecing. • More than 100 embroidery stitches for ribbons, flosses and threads. • Techniques for dyeing, painting, stamping, printing, and embroidering on silk, cotton, rayon, wool and linen. • Instructions for adding buttons, beads, tassels, cording and other dimensional embellishments. • Tips for finishing your quilts. Whether you are just getting started or have been quilting for years, Crazy Quilting - The Complete Guide is guaranteed to be the crazy quilting resource you turn to the most.

Quilting — Just a Little Bit Crazy

Author: Allie Aller
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607057727
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Cross traditional crazy quilting with favorite pieced quilt patterns and today’s machine quilting methods, and what do you get? Crazy fun for all kinds of quilters, even those who don’t like handwork. Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell’s guide offers an exuberant mixture of vintage and modern, hand and machine work, and clever ways to make traditional quilts a little crazy. Includes 10 projects in sizes from small wall hangings to bed quilts; photo instructions for 15 crazy quilt and silk ribbon embroidery stitches; and tips for combining crazy quilting with machine piecing and embroidery.

Crazy Quilt of Memories

Author: Lonnie Cruse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description

Embroidered Quilts & Keepsakes

Author: Kori Turner-Goodhart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781683561446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Discover the simple joys of hand appliqué and embroidery! Kori Turner-Goodhart presents a dozen pretty and practical projects, including small pouches, roomy bags, wall hangings, ID tags, a travel pillowcase, and an apron. She shares her stitch-and-flip technique for impeccable appliqué, plus full-size patterns to make stitching easy and fun.

Embroidered Memories

Author: Brian Haggard
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607055716
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Brian Haggard’s back…with a rich compendium bursting with hundreds of embroidery designs for quilting, wearables, gifts, and more. Full-size patterns (reduce or enlarge as needed for any project) for elegant lettering, flowers and vines, plus vintage and whimsical images can be traced or printed on transfer paper. Learn 13 basic stitches and how to mix and match 375 elements (plus 2 alphabets) to create a design that reflects your memories. Pay tribute to your heritage, celebrate your family, or show off your own personal flair with loving needlework. Includes beautiful gallery images of embroidered projects that are sure to inspire.

Crazy Shortcut Quilts

Author: Marguerita Mcmanus
Publisher: Krause Publications
ISBN: 9780896895478
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
The quilt-as-you-go technique in Crazy Short-Cut Quilts eliminates intimidating quilting steps, and empowers sewers with the ability to create full quilts, in no tome, that accent any existing decor. This book provides sewers with time estimates for each step of a crazy quilt patter; demonstrates how to break projects down into manageable pieces and suggests alternate uses for leftover fabrics; and teaches sewers how to make savvy fabric selections to coordinate with existing room or to add new flair.

The Big Book of Baby Quilts

Author: That Patchwork Place
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1604683082
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 688

Book Description
With this collection of delightful baby-quilt designs by top-selling authors, you'll always have the perfect baby gift. Designers include Amy Ellis, Evelyn Sloppy, Jenny Wilding Cardon, Joan Hanson, Karin Renaud, Karla Alexander, Mary Hickey, Nancy J. Martin, Nancy Mahoney, Retta Warehime, Sara Diepersloot, Sarah Bisel, Susan Dissmore, Teri Christopherson, and Ursula Reikes. Get outstanding value with an abundance of adorable quilts for Baby--87 in all Play with fun designs ranging from traditional to modern, ideal for baby showers, birthdays, holidays, and more Discover quilts for every skill level; while most projects are patchwork, some also include charming applique

Hanky-panky Crazy Quilts

Author: Cindy Brick
Publisher: Annie's
ISBN: 9781590120507
Category : Crazy quilts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Cindy answers the question, What shall I do with Grandmother's old hankies? Using the cherished hankies in a crazy quilt along with other sentimental trinkets is the perfect solution. Twelve quilts in full color are shown to give you the inspiration to make your own heirloom that will be treasured for years to come. 32 pages, full-color.