Quick Diamond Quilts & Beyond

Author: Jan Krentz
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051273
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
The popular quilt designer and teacher demonstrates beginner-friendly techniques with these 12 new diamond quilt patterns without inset seams! Quilting with geometric patterns such as diamonds can seem challenging. But in Quick Diamond Quilts & Beyond, award-winning quilting instructor Jan Krentz shares her own classroom-tested techniques that make diamond quilting easy. Artists new to quilting will enjoy these lighthearted, original patterns featuring large shapes, easy piecing options, and fresh fabric combinations. Jan also offers tips on color value, texture, and contrast to enhance your fabric selection, and shows how using geometric fabrics can make your quilts shine.

Diamond Quilts & Beyond

Author: Jan Krentz
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607052253
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
4 gorgeous projects feature shimmering diamonds. Lots of inspirational photos and a breathtaking gallery.

Quick Star Quilts & Beyond

Author: Jan Krentz
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1571209042
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Put a Quilted Star on Every Bed in Your Home! Make 20 simply spectacular star quilts featuring 10 different types of pieced stars. No fussing with tiny pieces! Large-scale quilts go together fast with Jan's time-saving techniques. Inspirational photo gallery of quilts by well-known quilters. You can never have too many star quilts, and Jan Krentz's latest book offers you a whole galaxy of big, colorful, pieced stars. Everything you need to succeed is here-from helpful advice on choosing the right fabrics, tools, and equipment, to step-by-step instructions for pain-free cutting, piecing, and finishing. Includes 5 full-size template patterns.

Hunter Star Quilts & Beyond

Author: Jan P. Krentz
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 9781571202109
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
An exciting new look for an old favorite block! 9 projects use Jan!s innovative techniques.

Lone Star Quilts & Beyond

Author: Jan Krentz
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607053810
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
Explore the world of Lone Star quilts! Expert teacher Jan Krentz shows you how to use today’s techniques to simplify this intricate design. 6 colorful projects - you’ll want to get started right away! Rotary cutting saves you time, while imaginative additions such as appliqué and “designer diamonds” give these Lone Stars a fresh, updated look. Jan teaches you everything you’ll need to know to make the Lone Star quilt of your dreams, from fabric choices to finishing touches. A gallery of eye-catching Lone Star quilts to inspire your creativity

Gemstone Quilts

Author: MJ Kinman
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617459461
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Piece dazzling diamond and gorgeous gemstone quilts Add dimension and luminosity to your quilts with gorgeous gemstone piecing! Learn the basics of abstraction and color theory as you piece stunning works of art with gem quilt expert MJ Kinman. After years of perfecting her technique, Kinman explains freezer paper piecing in brilliant detail with jewel quilting ideas to help you express your own creativity. Get helpful advice on fabric selection and quilting patterns to illuminate each cut. A sample gem quilt pattern helps you practice as you follow along step by step. Then find your own muse and bring any gemstone to life in exquisite detail. Just as gems can sparkle and glow in a million different ways, you’ll be inspired by the author’s work and a gallery of student quilts to help you let go of perfection and embrace the chaos of color and light. Shine on! Learn to create freezer-paper patterns for your own gemstone quilts Build skills as you sew a sample diamond quilt top, with step-by-step instructions See a gallery of ground-breaking jewel quilts from the author and her students

Sweet 'N Sassy Templates® Diamond Quilts

Author: Phyllis Anderson
Publisher: Landauer (IA)
ISBN: 9781935726159
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Using the author's templates readers can learn how to create diamond shapes in three sizes, make sashing strips and setting triangles to piece the diamonds together, and make diamonds from strip sets, as well as how make a second quilt from the trimmings.

Modern Patchwork

Author: Elizabeth Hartman
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 160705549X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
The quilter, pattern designer, and author of Patchwork City offers 12 exciting new patterns designed to help you take your skills to the next level. Ready to go beyond the basics of creative quilting? In Modern Patchwork, pattern designer Elizabeth Hartman will help you expand your skills with new techniques and twelve new and innovative quilt designs. The projects in Modern Patchwork are bold, bright, graphic, and designed to give modern quilters new challenges. Along with her stunning patterns, Hartman introduces new skills and methods like curved seam piecing, working with hexagons, and machine applique. Plus, each project includes additional colorways so you can have fun with all your favorite fabrics.

Spiral Lone Star Quilt

Author: Jan Krentz
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644030632
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 59

Book Description
Create and assemble timeless Spiral Lone Star Quilt! From bestselling author and internationally recognized quilt instructor Jan Krentz, the Spiral Lone Star Quilt, originally published in Lone Star Quilts and Beyond, is now available as a stand-alone pattern pack. This intricate and colorful quilt is fun to create and ideal for perfecting your paper piecing and color placement skills. Don’t be intimidated! The pattern pack includes helpful instructions that will guide you throughout the 30 blocks. The end result is a complex and stunning spiral cherished as a forever masterpiece by every quilter. Visually dynamic medallion quilt simplified with strip and paper piecing techniques Assemble 30 blocks to create a colorful center spiral Learn a new skill! Have a blast piecing together this stunning masterpiece with step-by-step instructions

Star Struck Quilts

Author: Barbara H. Cline
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051486
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Learn to make star quilts that truly shine using variations on traditional blocks and the mix-and-match patterns in this skill-building guide. Quilt designer and teacher Barbara Cline has helped countless crafters expand their creative horizons. Now she helps you reach for the stars with 9 wall-hanging projects. Plus she demonstrates how the featured star block patterns can be transformed into 27 different quilts! Beginning with the classic Lone Star block, Barbara explains the basics of layout and diamond piecing, offering tips and tricks that save time and avoid common pitfalls. Arranged in order of difficulty, each new quilt project offers new challenges with step-by-step instructions designed to build skills as you go. Barbara also shares many valuable life lessons and shows you how to achieve the fine workmanship found in the quilts made in her Mennonite community.