This redesigned collection of three of Carolyn Forster's bestselling books -Twenty to Make: Jelly Roll Scraps, Sew Jelly Roll Quilts & Gifts and Little Quilts & Gifts from Jelly Roll Scraps - is ideal for any quilter wanting to bust their Jelly Roll stash with 44 gorgeous gift projects and 24 quilts. There is a mix of hand and machine quilting, and full instructions are given for backing, binding and finishing your quilts. All the techniques needed are clearly explained step by step, and all the required templates are given at the back of the book.

This delightful planner is a helpful, convenient way to track projects both individually and in the context of larger goals. There are no dates, so you can start at any time.

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!

Perfect your patchwork with a visual, step-by-step guide to 21 popular quilt blocks. Piecing expert Patty Murphy shows you how with fail-proof techniques that can be used in all types of quilt designs, from traditional to modern. Say goodbye to patchwork problems like mismatched seams, blunt points, and too-small blocks, and learn to avoid common mistakes in sashings, borders, and bindings. Though mistakes happen to all of us, these easy techniques will help beginning and intermediate quilters achieve quiltmaking success every time.

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.

Pick your project then pick your block: mix and match 8 super-easy projects with 16 adorable paper-pieced blocks just for Christmas. Simply follow Mary's clearly illustrated instructions to create fun and fresh holiday blocks. Plus, use her time-saving technique for paper piecing with less waste to create custom winter decor ranging from tree skirts and table toppers to gift bags, mug rugs, pot holders and more. Sew by number and watch your image emerge.

Want inspiration for your straight-line quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs-JUST designs-and will lie flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The fourth in our Quilting Inspiration series, this visual guide is filled with more than seventy-five distinctive straight-line designs from your favourite designers to get you stitching.

Sew (and design) graphic paper-pieced patterns! Learn about every stage of the process with piecing basics, a guide to pattern design, and choose-your-own-adventure design prompts to create your own foundation paper piecing (FPP) patterns. With an annotated overview of the best FPP methods, countless tips, and over thirty paper-pieced quilt blocks plus seven design exercises to put your skills to the test, you'll have the tools you need to thrive when confronted with any paper-piecing challenge.

Let's play with colour! The #1 complaint of quilters? Mastering effective colour combinations. The Quilter's Field Guide to Color is a practical guide showing effective and not-so-effective colour combinations. Each chapter calls on readers to use the skills they learn through an optional series of 'Patchwork Challenges' which can be used to create a quilt by the book's completion. Along the way, readers are guided through fabric auditions so that they can ask themselves questions for evaluating their own fabric pulls. Forget the dry colour theory! This book is fun, conversational, practical and beautifully inspiring.

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.

Planning a sewing getaway on your own or with friends? Patchwork USA includes over 20 road-trip inspired patchwork projects created just for you whether your retreat is for a day, a weekend or even a leisurely summer vacation with time for a long-term project. Because anticipation is sometimes the best part, Heidi Staples of sewing blog Fabric Mutt covers everything you need to know to prepare for takeoff, including helpful packing tips and organising your sewing space. The book is organised with travel in mind, featuring small, medium-sized, and large projects to be achieved on your perfect sewing retreat. Day trips: Small projects including a Bookmobile Sleeve, Road Trip Pillow, Snapshot Needlebook, Sewing Bee Pincushion and Coffee Shop Coasters. Weekend Getaways: Bigger projects including: a Patio Pillow, Beachcomber Pouch, Laundromat Coin Pouch, Kitchenette Set, Scout's Honour Pouch and a Colour Book. Finally, Summer Vacations: Extended projects including a Big Bear Cabin Quilt, Palm Springs Bag, and three more quilts.

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.

Patchworking & Quilting: A Maker's Guide contains 15 beautiful step-by-step projects for crafters at all levels. Each one takes its cue from a different historical tradition - from English wholecloth quilting to Indian kantha, from Japanese boro patchwork to the improvisatory strip-pieced quilts of North America. Projects include classic English paper-piecing blocks; a bed cover in the iconic log cabin pattern; a graphic quilted wall hanging inspired by Amish designs; a pincushion inspired by the exquisite cord quilting in an early 19th-century corset; a wraparound cushion cover that uses the techniques and designs of classic Korean wrapping cloths; and a small bag made with the vibrant applique technique from Panama known as mola. Designed by teachers and practitioners at the leading edge of today's craft revival, the projects are both functional and fashionable, and include tips on how to take next steps towards developing your own designs. This modern maker's guide will inspire all readers with the confidence to express their creativity through the age-old crafts of patching and quilting.

This is a precious collection of beautiful quilted gifts for every occasion, including birthdays, mother's day, weddings and Christmas. Create elegant home accents using pieced patchwork and applique, all with Barri Sue Gaudet's stylish country charm. The complexity of each project reflects the amount of notice you might receive for an occasion, meaning gifts for a dinner party's hostess are quick-to-stitch and presents for a new born baby are more heirloom. Embellish your designs with embroidery for an extra special personal touch that friends and family will adore.

Experience the magic of patchwork and quilting centre, Cowslip Workshops, with this collection of patchwork projects by owner Jo Colwill. Jo is an expert patchworker and quilter with over 25 years experience and she has created this stunning collection of patchwork projects for you to try. Based on the most popular classes she runs at Cowslip Workshops, this collection includes patterns for 10 large quilts including full-sized bed quilts and large wall hangings, as well as 10 small patchwork projects. The small patchwork projects include a motif or design taken from the original quilt to provide a quick patchwork project and make fantastic gifts. These small projects include cushions, patchwork hangings, a needle cushion and a cuddly rabbit and offer a fantastic 'taster' of Jo's designs if you don't feel ready to tackle a full quilt. There are, however, plenty of larger scale projects for the more experienced sewer looking for a challenge. Jo demonstrates a wide range of patchwork and quilting techniques including template-free and bondaweb applique, hand and machine quilting, embroidery and embellishing. This range of techniques means that the projects are suitable for beginners right through to more experienced sewers, plus full-sized templates are provided with two pull-out pattern sheets.

Extracted from popular designer Helen Philipps' bestselling book Pretty Patchwork Gifts, this festive collection draws all the Christmas designs into a low-price, high-value collection, perfect for the holiday season. Eight simple sewing patterns include designs for a stocking, doll, mouse toy, gift bags, tree decorations and more - all made with love by this respected designer. Easy to follow and a joy to behold, this Christmas sewing pattern collection will delight sewing, patchwork and quilting fans everywhere and help them to make their Christmas extra special.

Did you know that the biggest struggle for quilters of all types is color selection? Unlock the secrets to winning color combinations from best-selling author Becky Goldsmith of Piece O' Cake Designs. Learn how every quilt has a foreground and a background, how to use clear versus gray colors-plus other essentials that will shake up your design process. Quilters of all skill levels will appreciate Becky's practical, easy-to-understand advice on neutrals, value, and contrast. Put your newfound knowledge to the test with 10 pieced and appliqued projects designed to focus on specific aspects of color. With visual examples used to explain all color topics, this go-to guide will give you an edge when it comes to quilt design.

Transform a single fabric print with marvellous piecing magic! Best-selling author Maxine Rosenthal and Linda Bardes share stunning One-Block Wonder quilts, with contributions from the popular Facebook community. Learn how to choose the right 60 Degrees ruler, how to pick the most useful fabric and how to choose the best starting strip size for your fabric. See what others have done - from the beginning fabric to the ending project - and courageously cut into that beautiful yardage! Sew simple pieced hexagon blocks with no Y-seams and get addicted to the thrill of arranging and rearranging them on your design wall.

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.

Make quick quilts and love them lots--that's living the prairie life! With Lynne's Layered Patchwork, you can eliminate many of the pitfalls of traditional piecing, including tricky points, mismatched seams, and bulky seam allowances. The simple technique--cut shapes and topstitch them to a base fabric--will help you get to the finish line faster. Simplify blocks that include triangles (yay!) and even curved pieces like Orange Peels. Projects hold up wonderfully, wash after wash. Prefer traditional patchwork? You'll find plenty of projects for those methods too! From gorgeous quilts to runners and pillows, you can infuse home and hearth with the prairie-life look, no matter which sewing methods you like to use.