Create lively, colorful quilts--and say bye-bye to agonizing over color choices. With this collection of scrappy two-color and three-color quilt patterns, choosing colors is a snap. Plus, you can use up every scrap! Start with yardage, scraps, or precuts: the choice is yours. And if you've got a LOT of one color in your fabric collection, these bright and beautiful quilts will make that color sparkle. The more of one color, the merrier!

Celebrate the season with the Moda All-Stars! They're back with 15+ handmade gifts to give or keep. Choose from speedy stockings, pincushions, and coasters to make in multiples. Or, pick a patchwork project: lap quilts, table runners, and other deck-the-halls designs abound. Complete most projects in a weekend or quicker--no need to fear the holiday time crunch! And just for fun, learn all about the favorite seasonal traditions of the All-Stars in a series of Q&As. Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.

From Masako Wakayama, comes these five sheets of premium, single-sided fusible paper sheets for fine applique. Wash for a touchably soft finish; the unique double-layer substrate is flexible yet thick enough to provide stability.

This pretty, practical password keeper, featuring a beautiful quilt from Bonnie K. Hunter, stores all of your online passwords in one handy place. The pages are organised alphabetically by website for easy reference, while the spiral binding provides quick access to each page. Bonnie K. Hunter fans will want to buy one for themselves and one as a gift!

Build your quilting skills from the ground up. Learn to complete your first quilt from basic pieced strips, squares, and triangles. Established teacher Jo Avery guides you through twelve projects to whet your appetite for quiltmaking and take it a step further. Graduate to intermediate projects with major style as you try out foundation paper piecing, applique, and curves. Before long, you'll have the confidence and expertise to tackle virtually any quilt pattern!

From best-selling author Kim Schaefer comes this collection of 21 engaging piecing and applique projects for autumn, including tried-and-true motifs such as pumpkins, sunflowers, acorns, turkeys and autumn leaves. Plus, celebrate Halloween with spooky spiders, friendly bats, expressive jack-o-lanterns and much more. Make projects in a variety of sizes, from tea towels and place mats to lap quilts and table runners. These quick and easy projects will brighten up your home for autumn.

An exquisite quilt collection from the world-renowned textile designer. In Kaffe Fassett's Heritage Quilts, the legendary talent turns his attention to a collection of 20 notable 18th- and 19th-century quilts and reinvents them for today. Each quilt is lovingly and respectfully redesigned in the bold, contemporary, vibrant fabrics designed by Fassett himself, as well as designers Philip Jacobs and Brandon Mably. You, too, can create the 20 remarkable, historic quilts recreated by Fassett. In addition to 100 rich photographs of the quilts themselves, which you will pore over again and again, Kaffe Fassett's Heritage Quilts contains full step-by-step piecing instructions, 80 detailed diagrams, and patchwork how-to tips to refresh techniques or build new ones.

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.

This comprehensive guide to traditional and contemporary techniques provides the reader with all the information they need to produce beautiful quilting and patchwork projects. For beginners, there is how-to-start advice and step-by-step photographs, diagrams and instructions to guide them through each stage of their work, and for more experienced quilters there are advanced techniques that they can dip into for help with a particular problem. For the busy but creative quilter, a section on rotary cutting and speed pieceing shows how to achieve satisfying results in no time. The book ends with a gallery of stunning items that will inspire the reader to create amazing patchwork and quilting projects of their own, whatever their ability.

A popular classic is back! Famed quilt collector Roderick Kiracofes sumptuous hardcover book of 150 offbeat quilts became an instant classic when it was published in 2014, inspiring a nation of quiltmakers and fine artists. The books unforgettable quilts (largely made by anonymous quilters in the American South) and essays by leading curators and industry personalities (Amelia Peck, Kaffe Fassett, Denyse Schmidt) eventually went out of printuntil now. In a copublishing venture with Quiltfolk, the long-overdue 2nd edition of this beloved book will be released with a new introduction by internationally lauded author and curator Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. It also includes 20 additional never-before-seen quilts from Kiracofes private collection. At long last, the 2nd edition of Unconventional & Unexpected will be available again to audiences clamoring for its return.

Grow your cache of quilter's tricks with 5 awe-inspiring patchwork techniques that are easier than they appear. Learn a new piecing trick in just 15 minutes or less and watch your skills soar to a whole new level. Say "presto!" with partial seams for both quilts and blocks, Y-seams, mini improv piecing and free-form curves. Victoria Findlay Wolfe shares 17 projects, including the eye-fooling Herringbone and LeMoyne Star quilt patterns, plus full-size templates and 6 quilt colouring pages to help you work your own quilt magic.

Home is where the quilt is! Quilt your own home or your dream home with this collection of inspiring designs for quilts, wall hangings and cushions. Choose from townhouses to quaint cottages, seaside beach huts, converted barns and even shepherd's huts. There's a quirky quilted home for everyone, whatever your taste! Janet's distinctive style includes lots of freehand machine embroidery, hand stitchery and applique. As well as the 15 main quilt projects there is also a collection of extra ideas to sew smaller projects including a keyring; decorated napkins and even a quilted felt brooch. Janet uses a combination of sewing, quilting and applique techniques to create her quilt patterns including freehand machine embroidery and hand quilting, which are currently both very popular sewing techniques. All the quilting and pattern templates are included at full size for instant sewing. And templates can be mixed and matched to create your unique designs.

English Paper Piecing (EPP) is a popular and easy method of creating beautiful, hand-sewn patchwork designs. The fabric is cut and folded over a paper template and the resulting shapes are stitched together by hand, making it ideal for sewing whether you're on the move, or at home. Successful and established author Alistair Macdonald provides 18 fabulous projects, including a lovely baby's play mat, a stylish gentleman's scarf, a useful hobby bag, a tea cosy, a gorgeous tote bag and a make-up purse. All the patchwork is done by hand sewing, using the English Paper Piecing method in fresh, bright cottons and with clear, step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs. There is some machine sewing for putting projects together, but you can hand sew if you prefer. Actual size templates for every project are included.

Learn the secrets of colour theory and how you can use it to improve your quilting projects. The founding members of Fat Quarterly, the popular e-zine on quilting, share their expertise of how to use colour successfully in quilting. The book is split into 6 colour-themed sections with block ideas for every colour theory combination, so there's plenty to inspire you to create colourful projects with ease. The colour theory is then applied to 12 beautiful quilted project patterns. Choose from full sized bed quilts and quick projects such as bags and cushion covers. Includes six colour themed sections exploring colour theory with the use of popular quilt blocks, as well as two practical quilting project ideas for each colour. Also features a basic quilting techniques section including binding and finishing.

Create four pictorial quilts with easy-to-use, paint-by-numbers colour keys! These complex quilts may look difficult, but Kerry Foster takes the guesswork out of fabric choice so that you can sew animal portraits with sophisticated areas of light and shadow. Use the colour keys and diagrams to easily choose a palette from your fabric stash and create amazing portraits with turned-edge machine applique. Choose from a fabulous fox, an adorable raccoon, a majestic stag, and a fierce bear!

Stuart Hillard is on a mission to help quilters all over the world realize their quilting dreams and prove it ain t what you do, it s the way that you do it one simple shape at a time. In the follow-up title to the bestselling Use Scraps, Sew Blocks, Make 100 Quilts, Stuart shows you how the easiest of shapes can make extraordinary quilts. The book is divided into five main pattern chapters:

• One-Patch Quilts 20 quilts using a single, repeated shape.
• Strips and Squares 20 quilts that turn strips and squares into a tessellated triumph.
• Triangles 20 quilts using half, square triangles, half rectangles and equilateral triangles.
• Curves 20 quilts that show off your curves.
• Foundation Piecing 20 quilts to create unique blocks from the easiest shapes using paper foundation piecing.

Simple Shapes Stunning Quilts teaches you the basics of quilt design; this book is packed full of pattern blocks that use the simplest shapes in order to build up your quilt. Each of the 100 blocks can be used to make one of Stuart s quilt designs. Alternatively, quilters can adapt any of the pattern blocks; they can personalize treatments, colours and arrangements, add extra borders, and more. Making your own design is as easy as 1, 2, 3;

1. Select a simple shape to work with.
2. Sew the shapes together to make the pattern block.
3. Repeat the block to build up the full, stunning quilt.

Alongside the patterns, and quilt design, Stuart has drawn on years of teaching experience to include the ultimate quilting hacks, tips and tricks, as well as his rules for successful quilting. The techniques chapter cover basic skills, design skills, cutting skills, paper piecing, easy appliqué techniques and advice on how to add border and binding with the help of step-by-step photographs. This book is perfect for beginners attempting their first quilt, and experienced quilters looking for new inspiration. Stuart s designs and irresistible enthusiasm reveal the power of simple shapes and will inspire you to make spectacular quilts your way.

A collection of classic sampler quilt block patterns from quilting expert, Lynne Edwards. Features step instructions for creating 9 classic quilting blocks which can be quilted as you go. Includes techniques for finishing, quilting and how to turn them into a sampler quilt or wall hanging. Choose from classic quilt blocks including Rail Fence, Log Cabin, Dresden Plate and Maple Leaf. A great introduction to the world of quilt block piecing.

A collection of quick and easy quilting projects including designs by authors such as Lin Clemens (The Quilter's Bible), Marion Elliot and Tacha Bruecher from Fat Quarterly. The projects include home decoration notions such as hanging hearts, quilted oven gloves, table mats and cushions. Every project is quick and easy to do even if you've never quilted before. Choose from hand or machine quilted projects and make fabulous gifts for friends and family.

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.

The simple petal shape takes center stage in this charming book, Playful Petals, by Corey Yoder. Each of the 18 applique projects employ simple piecing techniques; the applique is straightforward, eliminating the need for reverse templates, additional seam allowances, and time consuming methods. The techniques are well suited for sewists of all levels.