Acclaimed author and quilter Susan Briscoe presents an irresistible new collection of patchwork bag designs to excite and inspire bag-lovers everywhere. From exquisite evening bags to practical portfolios and robust rucksacks, each project is presented with full step-by-step instructions and illustrations, allowing you to create your own unique accessories with ease, and prompting the question wherever you go, 'where DID you get that bag?!' The book features 21 gorgeous patchwork bags produced from 13 basic designs, specifically with quilters in mind. Each bag is shown with variations in colourways or adapted for a different purpose, to inspire you to take the designs further. These bag designs allow quilters to explore several new techniques on a small scale, while making something useful and beautiful at the same time. Essential information is also included on fabric selection, secure fastenings, and comfortable carrying straps and handles. With this book you will be able to: make practical bags for your quilting essentials; produce exquisite gifts for friends and family; embellish away with charms and creative stitching techniques; create designer solutions to your carrying needs; and add a unique twist to old favourites. Beautiful photography of the finished bags is accompanied by detailed step-by-step photographs and piecing diagrams to guide you through each design, while a useful techniques section at the back of the book covers patchwork techniques including cutting fabric strips, machine piecing patchwork and how to create patchwork blocks such as Seminole, triangle squares, flying geese, log cabin, as well as foundation piecing and crazy patchwork. Applique and quilting techniques, both by hand and machine, are also included, along with specific bag making techniques such as making and attaching bindings, how to insert a zip, making straps, adding pockets and inserting linings. A stitch library of decorative stitches you can use to embellish your bags, advice on fabric colour themes and a patchwork block library complete the book.

This is a collection of beautiful Christmas designs from top designer Lynette Anderson. The simple patchwork techniques Lynette uses are a great backdrop for the festive applique and stitchery designs. It features a wide range of ideas, a useful mixture of gifts and keepsakes for you to create, from quick-to-stitch gifts, including a Christmas Friends pillow, Santa's Sweet Stockings and Santa Tea Towel to beautiful decorations, including Star Tree Decorations, festive placemats and napkins, and a stunning wall hanging quilt. Beautiful fabrics, festive colours and cute designs are enhanced by a book design that captures Lynette's heart-warming, quirky style. Lynette includes the basic techniques you will need to make and finish off the projects in this book, from transferring designs to binding a finished quilt. Beginners should find it very useful! With a festive mix of patchwork, applique and stitchery the delightful projects in this book will help you create a Christmas to remember, with keepsakes you will want to bring out year after year. Transform your home with these beautiful Christmas craft projects to stitch and sew. Lynette Anderson's quirky designs and distinctive palette are the perfect combination for this gorgeous collection of Christmas sewing ideas.

Introduce yourself to an easy quilt-as-you-go technique that's creative and expressive. With this method, instead of dealing with precise paper patterns and cutting measurements, fabric gets pieced directly onto small manageable batting blocks. The blocks can then be quilted (not the entire quilt!), whether in large abstract zigzags or small structured stitches. After the blocks have been joined, simply add backing fabric and binding and - voila - it's finished! A modern approach to quilting that's fresh, fun, and simpler than it sounds. Great for moms or anyone with a busy schedule-it's easy to bring these 13 projects along, so you can pick up where you left off. Go your own way: This method can be used with a pattern or intuitively improvised, creating a wide variety of design options. Save money! Learn how to finish quilts without the use of a longarm professional. Quilt As-You-Go Made Vintage, the follow-up book by Jera Brandvig, is now available.

More than 20 inspired quilting and sewing patterns

As a generation of mostly self-taught, creative women takes to the world of fabric, quilting and sewing are joining forces in a way that they never have before. Long-time quilters, committed to their craft for decades, are starting to experiment with a bit of home sewing or simple sewing for their grandchildren. The younger side of the sewing community is embracing the world of patchwork and quilting, a world that once seemed inaccessible or even undesirable to younger seamstresses. With Fabric & Thread seamlessly bridges the language and intimidation gap between these two crafts and delivers a unique collection of projects that appeal to sewers and quilters alike.

Featuring 20 new projects, "With Fabric & Thread" marries the nomenclature of both sewing and quilting to create an effortless set of instructions that anyone can follow. Plus, a special section features six patterns that can be accomplished two different ways: one using sewing techniques and one using quilting techniques. The result is two unique looks from a single pattern.Provides an excellent stepping-off point for sewers learning to quilt, and quilters learning to sewChic projects, well-styled photos, and modern illustrations speak to this increasingly unified audienceGood, basic, understandable instructions

If you're a quilter experimenting with sewing, or vice versa, the beautiful designs in "With Fabric & Thread" give you everything you need to bring these two crafts together to make unique and inspired projects.

Greet each season with beloved designer Pat Sloan leading the way! Pat's clear instructions and encouraging "You can do it!" attitude make this collection of seasonal projects a snap to create. Choose from 14 simple patchwork and applique projects for: * Spring: stitch a bouquet of scrap-happy tulips * Summer: make a pillow in sky blues and sunny yellows * Fall: harvest a fun pumpkin wall quilt * Winter: get cozy with a Nordic-style snowflake quilt Each season offers something special to celebrate--and Pat's easy-to-make projects will help you to welcome each turn of the calendar page. She'll be cheering you on every step of the way!

As a younger generation discovered sewing and traditional quilting, they yearned for a less restrictive way to express their creativity in fabric. By experimenting with the use of colour, asymmetrical blocks, fabric, and improvisational sewing techniques, their quilts took on a new aesthetic and the Modern Quilting movement was born. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May shares the stories and work of 80 renowned modern quilters, as well as the techniques and patterns that serve as the foundation of the craft. With step-by-step tutorials to guide newer quilters, this book offers first-hand guidance on the quilting process and experience.

Quilter Sarah Hibbert finds inspiration in the everyday objects around her. Her unique approach includes using readily available, recyclable materials for paper collage, then she uses this design as the springboard for her quilts. From Collage to Quilt is the first craft book of its kind, detailing how to create a paper collage and turn it into a quilt. Sarah incorporates found objects, such as card stock, pages from magazines, and even canned food labels, into her collages which then go on to form the design inspiration for her incredible quilts. The result is stunning, and, with 15 projects to try, you can create your own masterpiece! Sarah's work is incredibly artistic, and soon, you'll be able to execute one-of-a-kind designs at home.

Flower lovers praise best-selling author Erica Kaprow's floral designs featured in her easy-to-follow, yet brilliantly coloured, 14-block (plus border) hand embroidered, appliqued, and quilted cotton quilt.

A collection of beautiful quilted designs from top designer Lynette Anderson, focusing on a popular 'country garden' theme. The simple patchwork techniques Lynette uses are a great backdrop for the decorative applique and stitchery designs. This title features a wide range of ideas, from quick-to-stitch projects that make ideal gifts to larger wall hangings and bed-sized quilts. Beautiful fabrics, warm colours and a homely feel is enhanced by a book design that captures Lynette's heart-warming, quirky style.

Kaffe Fassett's fabrics, with their trademark range of colourways in each pattern, are the perfect choice for his 20 different patchwork cushions in this book. He has created a cornucopia of eye-catching designs, with something for every style and for every level of patchwork skill, using both his sumptuous florals and his neat geometric prints to great effect.

Want inspiration for your free-motion quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs - JUST designs - and will lay flat on your work surface to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The first in a new series, this visual guide is filled with over 75 continuous-line designs from your favourite designers to get you stitching.

Quilt the rainbow with Tula Pink and Angela Walters! Add color and punch to your next project with Quilt with Tula and Angela. Known for her cool, innovative style, Tula Pink will inspire you to toss your mundane color wheel and commit to her signature approach. Angela Walters creates the complementary finish and surface texture for each design, resulting in the perfect marriage of color and style for each of the featured 17 quilt projects. Pairing one shape with one color family in each chapter, you'll step through quilts of varying sizes, at the same time enjoying a front row seat to the creative collaboration between these mavens of style. In addition to the 17 signature Tula Pink quilt designs and 24 quilt design motifs from Angela Walters, you will also be treated to useful tips on tools, piecing, backing, binding, and even long arm quilting. Featuring bold illustrations and gorgeous photographs, Quilt with Tula and Angela is the comprehensive color education you've been waiting for.

Try something totally new today, and create the illusion of handhooked wool rugs with the ease of machine embroidery! Kathy MacMannis' innovative rag wool applique technique uses your home sewing or embroidery machine to make 3-D applique from wool "cutlets," 1/4" felted fabric pieces stitched in place with invisible thread. 20 rag wool applique designs to use in 28 different projects, including clothing, accessories, and home decor; Technique can be done on any sewing machine, or use a computerized embroidery machine with the bonus pattern CD-ROM (included); Themes feature Americana, harvest celebrations, sports, sweet baby designs, and lots more; Cut your own wool strips from new or recycled wool, or shop from the sources offered in the book

Are you swimming in fabric scraps from sewing garments, bags, and quilts? Learn to rescue and reuse fabric leftovers with 12 stunning, colorful quilt patterns for scrap lovers. Judy Gauthier teaches you her indispensible system for cutting usable squares from "real," oddly shaped scraps, not just strips or precuts! Cut scraps into 3 1/2 , 4 1/2 , and 5 1/2 squares - a magical combination for both beginning quilters and more advanced piecers - using traditional rotary cutting or Judy's fast2cut (R) Simple Square Templates. Judy's clever organizing and quilt-assembly tips will help you uncover hidden treasures from your stash. 'Find colourful ways to use up all your scraps, no matter what odd shape. May your scrap bag be forever empty. Recommended.' www.yarnsandfabrics.co.uk

Embrace your inner cat lady with contemporary cat-themed projects! Play with texture and style to create 16 unique projects from bags and decor to seven different quilts. Use dozens of techniques from basic piecing, hand embroidery, and machine sewing for a vintage-meets-modern aesthetic. Experiment with different textiles and fabrics to create bags, accessories, home decor, and quilts.

Who knew just two fat quarters can be used in so many ways? Turn your left-over fabrics or stash of odd fat quarters into 16 beautiful bags! The projects inside range from accessory essentials like an evening clutch and cross-body handbag, to invaluable carriers such as a foldable shopper and lunch tote that will see you through your daily tasks. Start off with an easy-to-follow crash-course on the essential sewing techniques you'll need - from adding a zip to creating patch/slip pockets. Then, jump straight into the projects and get stitching! Each project includes inspiring photography, instructive hand-drawn illustrations and heaps of handy hints and tips from your favourite bag-sewing expert, Debbie von Grabler-Crozier. Ideal for sewists of all abilities, this is the ultimate, affordable, fat quarter-friendly project book that will get you making practical items straight away.

This striking collection of colourful crocheted blocks is inspired by patchwork quilt block designs. The inspiration comes directly from the tradition of piecing together scraps of fabric and it also stems from the characteristics and stitches of crocheted pieces. There are 49 fabulous blocks to make, which echo their stitched counterparts with names such as Flying Geese, Hourglass, Tumbling Blocks and Log Cabin - and all of them can be put together into larger designs. Whether you are building up patterns with leftover yarn or setting out with a specific colour scheme in mind, this is a wonderfully creative process of creating a larger design from lots of smaller units. There are four beautiful projects to make: a shoulder bag, a baby blanket, a geometric cushion and a beautiful lap blanket. A useful crochet techniques section describes the various stitches used, notes on colourwork and reading patterns and charts, and there is also advice on assembling the blocks and edging them. And, once you've got to grips with all of this, you can use the lovely blocks as inspiration to create your own lovely crocheted block pieces.

Perfect for showcasing reproduction fabrics, each nostalgic design in this charming collection is inspired by quilts from the 1800s. Be inspired by top-selling traditional patterns from Red Crinoline Quilts. Bask in the beauty of 12 bed-sized quilt patterns reminiscent of nineteenth-century designs Enjoy the stories and photos--fascinating tales of yesteryear bring each quilt to life Follow detailed project instructions to successfully create the look you loveVideo

Reproduction-fabric collectors and antique quilt lovers, the much-anticipated follow-up to Tributes and Treasures is here! Enjoy an all-new, jaw-dropping collection of patterns from the talented design team behind Red Crinoline Quilts--you'll learn streamlined techniques for creating 13 of their vintage-inspired designs. Each quilt is paired with a fascinating true story from the 1800s. More than 70 beautiful photos capture the style and sentiment of this unique time in American quilting history.

Savor the richness and beauty of wool applique-its texture, depth, color, and design. Well-known, award-winning folk artist Rebekah L. Smith will ignite your passion for Americana home decor with her simple and elegant designs. Hand stitch 14 folk-art projects, each with full-size patterns and step-by-step instructions. Applique pillows, bed toppers, and table runners from woven wools, felted wools, and wool felt-upcycling at its finest! Staying true to early decorative arts, the antique color palette and natureinspired designs translate seamlessly to many modern living spaces.

Take your modern quilt designs from concept to completion with practical advice, colour and fabric ideas, quilting tips, and more. Includes four modern quilts patterns from award-winning quilt designer Heather Black.

Who else but Alex could make machine quilting easy enough for all of us, and so much fun we can't wait to get started? Learn to set up your space, adjust your machine, choose the right supplies, and mark and baste your quilt. And, oh, you're going to love these gorgeous projects!

Handmade Style is a thoughtful collection of a variety of sewing projects to stretch your skills and keep you enjoying the process of creating throughout the year. Each project builds upon the other and is designed to help any sewist create a complete cohesive handmade simple and sophisticated look. Unlike other sewing titles that include a random combination of projects, Anna has spent years compiling a well-edited collection of projects to ensure that her fans will want to make each and every one. From wearables and accessories to quilts and pillows: these projects are made to live together to create the ultimate handmade style for every modern sewist.

Patchwork Quilted Bags helps you create unique bags that put a little charm into your wardrobe. Full-sized quilting patterns and step-by-step instructions for 19 different projects, along with techniques for assembling the perfect patch, make this quilting book ideal for novice and practiced crafters alike. Projects range in size from large totes to small pouches in a zakka vein. With Patchwork Quilted Bags you can make: A bird-themed travel bag An elegant lace-rimmed bucket bag A colorful clasp purse A round bag/basket A fold-away eco bag A baby bag with bottle "cozy" Adorable animal-themed totes A Union-Jack themed pouch And more! This colorful and user-friendly quilting book shows you lots of creative ways to use every type of patch from squares to yoyos, and every kind of print from florals to newsprint. Pages showcasing different patchwork quilts add inspiration for mixing traditional and contemporary forms. It's the perfect way to have fun with fabric and make a practical work of art.