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

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.

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."

Baltimore Elegance

Author: Elly Sienkiewicz
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607053136
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
If you always wanted to create a Baltimore Album quilt, you'll love Elly Sienkiewicz' new collection of smaller, less-complex blocks that are perfect for your first Baltimore Album. Or, enlarge the blocks for a larger work! More than two dozen block designs are also ideal for adding elegance to accessories and home dcor, or for creating a very special child's quilt. In-depth how-tos and Elly's skill-building lessons will have you creating block after block.

Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England

Author: Lisa H. Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768977
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
The first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.

Masters in Pieces

Author: Michael Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521671316
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description

The Ultimate Quilt Finishing Guide

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644031019
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
Master Quilt Borders, Backing, and Bindings! Finish your quilt strong with a polished and professional touch! From borders to binding (with batting in between) this is the perfect reference tool with step-by-step instructions on how to complete each finishing touch. Go from ordinary to extraordinary with over 100 different border options to give your quilt pizzaz and explore numerous ways on how to bind a quilt. Plus, you’ll never ruin a quilt again with the wrong choice of batting as tips and tricks will give you the insight and confidence you need to always make the right decision. Take all the guesswork out of finishing quilts with this essential guide! Make more than 100 different borders with step-by-step instructions on how to piece and add them to your quilt top Learn numerous ways to bind your quilt from straight and bias binding to prairie points and beyond This guide is the perfect lifelong reference tool that can be referred to again and again

Beautiful Botanicals

Author: Deborah Kemball
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051672
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
“A wonderful way to bring more beauty into your life . . . sophisticated floral appliqué projects, varying in size from pillows to quilts.” —The Professional Quilter Magazine Plant an indoor garden with a bounty of lyrical appliqué designs. All the project patterns are interchangeable, so you can create endless combinations of flowers and leaves. See how color-saturated cottons, vibrant silks, and tone-on-tone chintzes breathe new life into botanical appliqué. • 14 sophisticated floral appliqué projects include pillows, table runners, and small tapestry-style quilts and wall hangings • Full-size templates for 45 appliqué flowers, 2 butterflies, and 5 borders • Stitch up the projects as shown, or mix-and-match patterns to create your own masterpiece

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!

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!