Crazy Quilting for Beginners Handy Pocket Guide

Author: Sharon Boggon
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644033593
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
Crazy quilting basics to get you started Rooted in the Victorian era, crazy quilting has a powerful allure for today's quilters, who use it to let loose and tell a unique story with fabric. These quilts are as beautiful as they are intimidating to beginner quilters — how do you know which fabric to choose and what in the world is a herringbone stitch? This beginner's guide covers all the basics — but just the basics! — to get you started on crazy quilting. Trained in fine arts, Sharon Boggon guides you through choosing fabric and introduces piecing methods for crazy-quilt blocks and solutions to common piecing problems. You'll then navigate Boggon's generous overview of foundation stitches, linear stitches, and motif stitches. Move forward in your crazy quilting journey with confidence, and use this handy pocket guide as a robust resource to lead the way! Easily make embellishing decisions, including lace, ribbon, braids, and doilies Learn how to correctly start and finish stitches Start your project knowing how to mark the fabric and decorate seams, and combine stitches with a gallery of images by your side

The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design

Author: Sharon Boggon
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617453625
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
See it, stitch it! Thirty-five contemporary crazy-quilting stitches, photographed step by step. Rooted in the Victorian era, crazy quilting has a powerful allure for today's quilters, who use it to let loose and tell a unique story with fabric. Embrace crazy quilting with thirty-five must-know stitches and endless variations, shown in clear, step-by-step photographs for both right- and left-handed stitchers. Fine artist Sharon Boggon reveals design fundamentals to guide you in your process, so you can sew thoughtful, visually appealing blocks. Learn the theory and process behind this fascinating art: how to choose fabrics, piece stitch-and-flip blocks, and embellish seams with embroidery, beads, buttons, and charms. • Learn crazy-quilting techniques with colorful photos that show every detail • Combine fabric, embellishments, and thirty-five stitches, plus endless variations, into stunning crazy quilts as unique as you • Unpack savvy design principals to make order of the chaos and guide the viewer's eye around the block

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.

Foolproof Crazy Quilting

Author: Jennifer Clouston
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607057182
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
“[The author] presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons [and] describes how to take each stitch.” —Publishers Weekly Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston’s gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn: which fabrics, threads, and needles to use how to piece crazy quilt blocks how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt, and more Included are complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; links to full-size patterns for nine hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.

Stunning Stitches for Crazy Quilts

Author: Kathy Seaman Shaw
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617457744
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
Find endless inspiration for stitching your crazy quilts in this treasure trove of seam designs and templates by the creator of Shawkl Designs. You don't have to be a master embroiderer to create beautiful crazy-quilt seams! With 480 seam designs to inspire your creativity, Stunning Stitches for Crazy Quilts will also teach you the simple techniques that give your stitches a professional appearance. Line everything up perfectly with full-size stitch templates and dozens of step-by-step illustrations. Then dress up embroidered seams with sparkly beads, buttons, sequins, and silk ribbon embellishments for endless creative combinations! This eBook edition includes links to printable full-size templates.

Crazy Quilts

Author: Cindy Brick
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 9780760332375
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
An exquisitely illustrated history of the Crazy quilt from colonial days to ours, with expert instructions for planning, piecing, and embroidering or embellishing your own “Crazy.”

Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery

Author: Sharon Boggon
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617458783
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Find endless inspiration with this photo guide to embroidery stitches. Discover the 120 hand-embroidery stitches that every embroiderer should have in their stitching arsenal, with clear, step-by-step photos you can come back to time and again! Contemporary needlework teacher Sharon Boggon’s forward-thinking ideas will help you view hand embroidery through a vibrant new lens. Beginners and seasoned embroiderers will gain the confidence to create new patterns by playing with the stitches—manipulating the height and width, making asymmetrical loops, stacking up designs, or filling multiple rows with the same stitch. With so many creative variations and the author’s gorgeous samplers, you’ll be inspired to incorporate new techniques in your own crazy quilts and modern projects. Essential guide to surface embroidery! 120 contemporary stitches, including left-hand stitches, with step-by-step photos See how tiny tweaks to each stitch can take your needlework to unexpected places Play up the possibilities with modern fill patterns, asymmetry, luscious texture, and crazy quilting

Crazy Quilt Stitches

Author: Dorothy Bond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960608607
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description

Crazy Quilts

Author: Betty Fikes Pillsbury
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082144557X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 528

Book Description
Textile artist and instructor Betty Fikes Pillsbury has won hundreds of awards for her homages to the elegance of Victorian crazy quilting. Grounded in traditional methods but crafted with elements of whimsy, each piece stands on its own as a work of art. In this definitive guide, Pillsbury shares her methods for piecing, embroidering, and embellishing. Her instructions equip readers at any level of quilting skill to use those techniques to express their own visions. Encouraging her readers to see functional and artistic possibilities beyond quilts (wall hangings, purses, and pillowcases are just some of the options), Pillsbury shows them how to make each work by hand, the slow cloth way. An inspiring primer for beginning and experienced quilters alike, this meticulously illustrated how-to book is far more expansive than previous guides. Pillsbury—a master of the form—shows us why crazy quilting belongs firmly in the twenty-first century.

The Crazy Quilt Handbook

Author: Judith Baker Montano
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1571201734
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Includes how-to information.