Now in an easy-to-use reference guide size, this updated block tool includes 110 authentic blocks from America's first mail-order pattern company, the Ladies' Art Company. Each block has instructions for 5 sizes, design details, construction diagrams, inspiration blocks, and even a project! The projects will be a breeze with helpful design hints specific to each block, including pairing them with plain alternate blocks, creating secondary patterns, and using precuts. Make the blocks your own with line drawings ready to fill in with your own colours, plus values-only blocks to spur your creativity, then fly through construction with easy rotary-cutting charts, yardage requirements, diagonal measurements, and more.

Winter, spring, summer, fall-who's the coziest of them all? Make your home warm and inviting with pretty quilts for all four seasons! Sew 20 projects from quilts and table runners to wall hangings and pillows. With a suite of patterns for each season, you'll combine colourful cottons, luscious wool applique, and simple hand stitching. A variety of techniques from patchwork to paper piecing and raw-edge applique will keep you inspired to sew all year long. Say hello to the seasons with quilted decor for your walls, pillows, tables, and more. Build your skills with 20 sewing projects, from small and simple to more advanced quilts. Capture the colours of nature with sweet embroidery, patchwork, and wool applique.

Delve into a beautifully photographed exploration of the spectacular colors, rich textures, and treasured traditions of 65 of America's most remarkable quilts, each hand-selected from the permanent collection at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, the largest public collection of quilts in the world. Each quilt is a precious historic heirloom in its own right, highlighted in stunning, color-saturated photos. You'll be inspired by the beauty, workmanship, and artistry of America's quiltmaking tradition in this lush coffee-table book for all lovers of quilts and textiles. (Patterns not included.)

Perfect colour every time, now in travel-size! Create colour combinations on the go with this easy-to-use reference tool. With 12 colours and five essential colour-plans, selecting colour has never been easier.

Capture the essence of Japanese style in your sewing with this collection of projects inspired by the wabi-sabi concept of 'perfect imperfection'. This collection of 20 sewing projects for home decor and accessories is based on the popular Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi, which celebrates the beauty in the ordinary and imperfect. Designer Karen Lewis, has used a limited palette of earthy tones and the best quality natural fabrics including linen, cotton, denim and wool to create a stunning collection of simple, sewn projects. Try out some simple wabi-sabi style sewing techniques such as hand piecing, sashiko embroidery, big stitch quilting, and visible mending to create unique items for your home whether it's a full-sized bed quilt, simple coasters for your favourite mug or a stunning scarf to wrap up in.

Artist Minki Kim turns her own daily sketchbook challenge into 65 stitchable drawings to mix and match. Embroider and applique 6 useful projects to make and share. These easy-going, whimsical projects include; a patchwork pouch, a statement pillow, and a sweet wall hanging. Minki's uplifting designs, plus an extra gallery of small project ideas from coasters to wall art will appeal to anyone who wants to add personality to their home and personal accessories.

If you can't stand the heat, get out the pot holders! Best-selling author Kim Schaefer shares fifty-two darling hot pad designs to applique, one for every week of the year. Pick one of three fully bound shapes; square, round or oval, and create your own festive kitchen set. With more than four dozen seasonal, holiday, and kitchen-themed motifs, each with full-size applique patterns, you'll want to make these pretty and useful gifts for everyone you know; they're perfect for housewarmings, weddings, bridal showers, and more!

When sixty-eight year old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of the husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, a possible love interest, and of course, crimes to solve and murderers to track down. In the third instalment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries, Sarah and her friends go on a quilting cruise, where they find a gambling debt gone bad, a missing passenger presumed dead and a touch of romance.

Raid the attic! Preserve family memories with new quilts that lovingly tie together the past with the present. Learn how to comb through bits of history and reimagine them into wall art, sewing notions, and more! Gorgeous embroidery adds richness to these vintage hybrids. Full instructions for five projects, fifteen stitch techniques, and a gallery full of ideas will help you rescue bits of history to create a cherished new piece for your home!

Confidently pair fabric prints, using three no-fail strategies: controlled colorway, distinct blocks, or scrap crazies! Whatever your approach, you'll love stripping along with the popular pattern and fabric designer behind GE Designs. Gudrun Erla's quick yet impressive patterns only look complicated. Complete with helpful charts and illustrations, everything from fabric selection to block construction is made clear and simple, even for beginners.

Learn a new way to do applique hand made gifts and projects from this new book that has numerous line drawing to illustrate each project as well as color photos. The authors give tips on construction, embellishments, and framing to helpe even the newest craftsperson become adept at this new technique. 21 color plates and photos of each project.

Learn how to sew 12 three-dimensional quilts each in 4 colourways giving you dozens of dynamic options. Easy piecing with no inset seams! Mix colour values for dimensional effects.

Learn about Civil War friendships across the Mason-Dixon line while you create your own historically inspired friendship quilt with 12 album blocks. Journey through time with Barbara's historical profiles of women from the South and North. Dive into history with historical images and quilt blocks that were popular during the Civil War.

Quilt the illusion of stained glass. This rich resource of approachable techniques from expert Allie Aller will let you jump right in with 6 stained glass-style quilts, from dazzling wallhangings to throws and bedcovers-full-size pattern pullout included. Outline pieced and appliqued shapes 3 different ways-using trims, couching, and bias fabric strips. Explore your own ideas for both simple and intricate stained glass designs, and set yourself up for sewing success with tips on organizing your sewing space, using a design wall, and more. 'To sum up a lovely book that will have quilters itching to get started.' www.myshelf.com

Learn how to do the big stitch technique of sashiko with these 8 simple sashiko sewing projects. Traditional Japanese sewing technique, sashiko, is currently a major sewing trend in craft, interiors and fashion. Big stitches are used to create stunning, geometric patterns and texture to make home wares with a stylish, Japanese minimalist look. This collection, featuring content previously published in The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook and Japanese Sashiko Inspirations, includes eight patterns for home decor so you can try this traditional technique for yourself. Choose from eight simple projects including coasters, cushions, wall hangings, bag and greetings cards.

Learn how to make simple, one-of-a-kind quilts using large-scale print fabrics! Easy Stack is a quick-cutting, fabric-efficient way of making great quilts that are rotary cut and machine pieced. Using only 4 fabric repeats and easy-to-cut strips, you can create 3 kinds of fun and unique blocks. Then play with 8 setting options, with 4 quilt sizes for each option, to create an endless variety of quilts.

Everything you love about the Quick & Easy Block Tool, now with triangle blocks! This ultimate no-maths reference for quilters includes cutting charts, piecing tips, quilt layout ideas, and a visual index of blocks. Plus, get cutting instructions using straight or 60 Degrees triangle rulers for triangles, diamonds, jewels, half diamonds, parallelograms, hexagons, half hexagons, lozenges, and half lozenges. Ultra-portable and indispensable, this is the block guide that no quilter, modern or traditional, should be without!

Be Inspired by the Stories

The 1922, "The Farmer's Wife" magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at the time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired.

Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt:

• 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with assembly diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions
• Complete instruction for making a sampler quilt in any traditional size: lap, twin, queen or king
• CD with easy-to-print, full-sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt construction diagrams
• 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer's Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country's past

With a bachelor's degree under your belt, it's time to advance your quilting studies to the next level. Your favorite instructors, Carrie and Harriet Hargrave, are back in this fifth book of the best-selling Quilter's Academy series. Embrace the beauty of medallion quilts as you study historic and award-winning examples. Learn advanced techniques and precision drafting and math that naturally build upon everything you've learned thus far. Working through the lessons at your own pace, you'll be challenged and inspired to design your own medallion masterwork.

Achieve Bargello's glorious complexity through straightforward techniques. Bargello master Ruth Ann Berry shares 16 all-new projects, from bed quilts to smaller ones - a satisfying next step for fans of her first book. Weaving in more design elements and colourways, you'll be able to work 20 or even 40 fabrics into a single quilt! Track your progress with a design chart and learn expert tips for fabric cutting and strip piecing for quilts that dance as if they're set to music.