Learn the art of traditional Scandinavian quilt-making by following Trine's simple designs and detailed instructions. Here readers can learn how to use traditional block patterns in new ways that make for beautiful results Trine believes that a good quilt is a well-loved quilt--one that can be used, washed, and loved again. She also gives tips on how to find both beautiful and durable fabrics to piece together amazing creations for the bedroom, kitchen, and the rest of the home.

With a wide variety of projects from:
- full-sized quilts for decorative or practical use
- decorative wall-hangings
- quilted images for picture frames
- welcome signs
- table cloths
- sewn candle wraps

Quilters of all skill levels will find a project that suits them best. As a bonus, full-size patterns on pattern sheets are included at the back of the book to help any quilter get started on their next work of art. Whether you're looking to redecorate a guestroom, make a blanket for a backyard picnic, or create a memorable piece of wall-art, Patchwork Quilts will provide color and comfort for your home.

Kim Schaefer is back with even more ways to infuse your home with fresh color and modern flair. Her new designs are innovative and irresistible in this follow-up to Cozy Modern Quilts. Whether you're a new sewer or a dedicated quilter, you'll love how easy and fun these quilts are to make...and you'll love the dent these projects put in your stash even more! * 20 brand new quilts with an impressive variety of colorways and styles * Choose from lap quilts, wallhangings, or runners to cheer up your space or whip up for a gift * Straight-line piecing with squares and rectangles makes it quick; bright, bold fabrics make it sophisticated

Inspired by the creative fun of her recently released Fresh Picked for all seasons, Dodi Lee Poulsen comes back with 16 new, bold and beautiful projects to delight quilters. She shows you how to use novelty prints to brighten home decor projects. Great for new quilters, quick and easy for experienced quilters, Dodis designs bring a smile and a fresh look that awakens the love of color. 16 wonderful projects in 4 coordinating collections Inspires creative use of dots, stripes and novelty prints Fully illustrated, complete step-by-step instructions Fun for quiltersfrom beginners to experienced A tote, table runners, wall quilts, an apron and more.

A showcase of new design talent, this book offers twelve brand new practical quilt projects to satisfy the ever-growing band of Jelly Roll addicts. Alongside the winning entries, every quilt has been recreated by the authors, ensuring absolute accuracy and providing readers with an alternative colour variation. Each design comes with a full colour styled photograph, comprehensive making instructions and diagrams. Each quilt requires just one Jelly Roll and some additional background fabric to make, ensuring that all the projects are quick, inexpensive and fun. Quilting industry giants, Moda and Singer have provided prizes and support, and specialist quilt shop owners will see the wisdom of stocking a book that so directly promotes sales of fabric product.

Forget everything you thought you knew about Dresden Plate quilts. The new Dresdens are colorful, clever, and fun-nothing stodgy or old-fashioned here! They're easy to make, too, with Anelie Belden's new stitch-and-flip technique. Try this fresh take on an old favorite.

Presenting a variety of quilts and other projects quilters can make from their leftover fabrics! Internationally recognized quilt designer Lynne Edwards has produced a collection of exciting and creative ideas for using up leftover fabrics. In Making Quilts to Use It Up!, she provides quilters with plenty of ideas and inspiration for making quilts and other smaller items from their fabric stash. The full-size quilt projects explore patchwork and quilting techniques ideal for producing quilts from fabrics sorted according to tonal value, such as light, medium and dark fabrics, rather than simply by color or design. Schemes for smaller projects, such as a cushion or a cot quilt, really help the quilter to use up as many scraps of material as possible. Detailed diagrams and color photography of each project are also included inside.

Fascinating introduction to unique form of needlecraft distinguished by bright horizontal patterns and created by sewing, cutting and rearranging strips of multicolored bands. Simply written, profusely illustrated volume includes glossary of important terms and displays varied patchwork patterns along with instructions for reading assembly diagrams.

Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact c&t publishing.

Piecing meets fast and easy fusible wool applique in this follow-up to the best-selling Kim Schaefer's Calendar Quilts. Start a family tradition by hanging a new mini quilt in your home each month! Twelve seasonal wall quilts-one for each month of the year-are perfect for quick projects, gifts, scrap-busting, and block-of-the-month clubs. Cheerful motifs in Schaefer's signature style come with full-size applique patterns.

Quilted images from the FirstWorld War, many created by descendants of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, are depicted in book form and for display to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Beaumont Hamel. Each of the 260 quilt blocks is unique to the craft person who created it; accompanying each of them is a description of the artists inspiration for taking part in the project. The blocks have been sewn into quilts, categorised by theme.

Add a splash of color and a touch of texture with eight fabulous wall quilts by popular designers. Featuring a variety of sizes and styles, this collection showcases fabrics from reproduction prints to batiks. Enjoy adorning a few designs with a dash of easy applique.

"In Philena's Friendship Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio," Lynda Salter Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853. Chenoweth practices what she calls "fabric archaeology" to reveal not only the identity of the quilt recipient and details of her life and community but also a striking feature of the quilt itself--a hidden design element created by the deliberate placement of names on the quilt's surface. Chenoweth also describes nineteenth-century signature quilts and their appeal to Quaker quiltmakers.
Signature quilts, also known as friendship quilts, were often given as mementos to mark important community events. Chenoweth shares the methodology used to determine that Philena's quilt was made for Philena Cooper Hambleton, a resident of Butler Township in Columbiana County before she left Ohio to begin a new life in Iowa with her husband and two daughters. Chenoweth devotes the final chapter to the story of Philena's life and that of her immediate family. It follows her from her birth as Philena Evaline Cooper in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, in 1822, until her death in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1915. The details uncovered from information inscribed on the face of this quilt illustrate the value of quilts as important documents from which history can be recreated and past lives understood.
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Philena's Friendship Quilt "is the fourth book in the highly popular Ohio Quilt Series. The series tells the stories behind the social and historical circumstances that have influenced this unique and enduring American craft.

The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In "Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement" Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map.

Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves's desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, registered quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred driving trails.

With more than fifty full-color photographs, Parron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.

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.

This second volume of original illustrations on a CD gives you even more artistic choices for making personalized labels for your quilts or any creative project. Choose from a variety of themes such as birthdays, weddings, new babies, graduations...or use an all-purpose design. Customize your label by hand or on your computer with your choice of lettering and colors, then embellish it even further with paint or embroidery. * Illustration styles from a wide variety of artists range from contemporary to traditional to vintage * Handy index files are included for searching by image, theme or artist * Perfect for printing on to TAP (R) Transfer Artist Paper * Electronic file formats can be viewed and/or altered with most photo or graphics software applications

The colorful art of applique--the stitching of pieces of cloth onto a fabric background--has been used to produce textiles for a wide range of purposes throughout the centuries. Whether decorative or practical, the results prove that fabrics and threads are every bit as expressive as paints and paper. 225 full-color photos and diagrams.

This ebook helps you create your own impressive interlaced Celtic baskets, hearts and stars, with Angela Madden's tried and trusted technique. No artistic expertise or geometry is needed. Just print the patterns straight from this CD and follow Angela's clear instructions. There are 12 different baskets, 6 basket handles, 5 heart patterns and a star - giving a host of different design possibilities. Angela also gives useful examples to help you make those important decisions about which quilting and needlework techniques to use with your Celtic motifs. This is an indispensable collection for anyone wishing to draft their own Celtic designs.

The dogwood trees, which bloom in April in Kentucky, are favorite springtime blossoms. Now you can enjoy these beautiful blossoms all year long by making a quilt with the patterns in this book. Bonnie Browning, well-known quilting instructor and author of 'Borders & Finishing Touches' and 'Ribbons & Threads: Baltimore Style', has gathered both traditional and new patterns of flowering dogwoods. Whether you enjoy the familiar Dogwood Blossom design from the 1928 'Capper's Weekly', the newly designed Paducah Dogwood, or Signs of Spring blocks, you will find the full-size patterns and assembly diagrams easy to follow. Eleven patterns are included for every level of quilter, from beginner to advanced, using piecing and applique techniques.

African-American quilts possess two unique qualities: more than any other American visual art, they most fully realize the expressive force of jazz, and they bind together generations of African-American families who have made and cherished quilts. In Signs and Symbols, quilt expert Maude Southwell Wahlman introduces readers to a third powerful force in these quilts: their African-derived meanings, patterns, and iconography. She explores the religious, ritual, philosophical, and aesthetic beliefs that have been retained by descendants of Africans in the New World and demonstrates how these beliefs are represented in their textiles. Now back in print, Signs and Symbols remains the most complete illustrated work on this art form.

Images of Jan Krentz's fabulous diamond, star, and landscape quilts make these playing cards irresistible to fabric lovers. Priced for impulse buys, the cards make great small gifts. Display at your register with Ricky Tims' Playing Cards and watch them fly out the door! Also available in single decks.