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Fat Quarterly Magazine co-founder Tacha Bruecher takes a fresh look at an old favorite-English paper-pieced hexagons-with current fabrics and settings for quilts, table toppers, and more. Modern and traditional designs are both featured, including rosettes, stars, and free form. Learn how to combine settings and how to creatively quilt hexagons. Projects are varied for any skill level or time commitment - make a few hexagons, make a few more, or make few hundred. Making the individual hexagons are perfect for modern quilters on the go; they are terrific stash busters (and stress busters) that take your priceless handwork from repetitive to remarkable!

Celebrate the decorative intricacy of tiled mosaics in your next quilting or sewing project. Paula proves how easy it can be to get perfect precision patchwork on a small scale. Create wonderfully colorful patterns using lots of different fabrics in these miniature quilts, table runners, tote bags, and many other projects. Good things really do come in small packages! * Learn easy piecing techniques to create more than 30 different complex-looking blocks * Includes fusible grid guides for either 1/2" or 1" tiles * All of the project designs are fat quarter-friendly

Free-spirited Quilting Techniques Gives You The Freedom To Create the Perfect Design. Create decorative quilting designs on any sewing machine that fit your quilt the best. Use the troubleshooting guides to solve common free-motion quilting problems. Create stunning designs using your own doodles as patterns. Add movement, personality, and texture to your quilts. Discover the beauty and ease of working with decorative and metallic threads Are you looking for a faster way to create custom quilting designs? Then you'll love free-motion quilting! Not only is it relaxing and calming, but the free-style approach is so much fun you'll want to make a quilt for everyone you know!

Best-selling author Hari Walner is back with brand new quilting patterns, as well as some variations on old favorites. This book has something for everyone, from sophisticated motifs to sweet animal faces. Directional diagrams make it easy to smoothly stitch your design from start to finish in one continuous line.

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SPRING AND EASTER ORNAMENTS Have fun creating a variety of cute and comical ornaments that will make the family look forward to the coming of Spring and Easter. Use two simple stitches to create all of the ornaments. Then, let the children have fun decorating the Easter tree, which can be made with artificial or real Spring branches or flowers. Inside, you'll find: - 30 full-size templates for the ornaments; - clear, easy, step-by-step instructions for creating the ornaments; and, - an abundance of illustrations and photographs to make the project even easier and more fun for everyone.

Master the art of quiltmaking with this step-by-step guide. "Quilter's Academy" is the "must-have" series that guides beginners step-by-step from the basics of quiltmaking to complete mastery with easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises. Building on the lessons found in the first three volumes, "Quilter's Academy Vol. 4 - Senior Year" explores a variety of more complex piecing techniques such as Y-seams and partial seams, as well as introducing the most exciting design yet - the star. This volume also includes a bonus section with complete instructions for 16 projects that are perfect for practicing your new found skills.

Quilts get super sleek and ultra modern with these gorgeously graphic designs that use lots of open space to show off the simplicity of the quilting. Add a splash of sophistication to your home by draping one over your bed or couch, or change up the color palette to make one for baby's room. These beginner-friendly quilt projects work well with any decor, in any room, for everyone in your family!

Some quilts beg to be snuggled under, hot cocoa in hand. Renowned patternmaker, Monique Dillard, delivers plenty of just such quilts in this jam-packed book. Quiltmaking basics for 11 fat-quarter quilts demonstrate how stash scraps can create interesting interplay that's both familiar and fresh. These handsome Americana-style quilts are comforting and cozy and perfect for everyday enjoyment.

Celebrate the holiday season with this festive sampler quilt dressed in the classic yuletide colors of red and green. Each of the 12 sampler blocks features a NinePatch twist. Betsey Langford and Carolyn Nixon also created a medallion of Poinsettia and NinePatch blocks.

Learn how to use black and other dark fabrics as the contrasting color in your pieced quilts. Favorite blocks like Log Cabin, Pinwheel, and Bear's Paw will glow like you've never seen before! Includes a useful chapter with the basics you need for making these projects just perfect-learn techniques for the stitch-and-flip, making half-square triangles, and more.

Simple patterns for lap quilts are provided in a well organized format. These patterns are perfect for quilts to be donated to charitable causes, but also make wonderful gifts. Patterns can be expanded easily to make larger quilts. Many of these patterns work with two or three fabrics OR a bag of assorted scraps. These patterns have been tested by members of the author's quilt guild. Quilts are approximately lap size (42 by 50 inches) but can be easily expanded by adding blocks or borders. Basic quit making instructions with explanatory drawings assist the novice quilter. Each pattern includes an easy-to-use table of fabric requirements and cutting instructions. Suggestions are provided for using scraps, additional fabrics, or alternate block/color layouts for many of the patterns.

A great book for cooks and quilters, quilters and cooks, or want- - to- - -be both Delicious aromas will fill the kitchen, mixed from 140 plus, time tested family recipes. Blended with these, are the quilted treasures throughout your home, pieced from the 18 favorite "quilt recipes" also included in Quilts in the Kitchen.

In this book I will show you with detailed instructions and pictures showing each step of how to make this beautiful quilt. Do you hate curved piecing and pinning? No more of that with this wedding quilt pattern. You will have a beautiful quilt to pass along to generations in your family and only you will know how easy it was to make.

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.

The masterminds behind Blue Underground Studios bring you 10 colorful new quilts that are perfect for your cherished scraps, a new collection of fat quarters, or just a wild mash-up of your favorite prints and batiks! Each project includes the yardage requirements and cutting instructions for multiple quilt sizes. Play with color and size with these easy-to-construct modern quilts.

Create unique, dynamic designs within pieced triangles, then combine those triangles with other shapes to make sassy stars, daisies, and pinwheels. Add a hexagonal quilt to your repertoire-perfect for a wallhanging or tabletop centerpiece. Whether your palette preference runs to vivid or more muted hues, you'll discover how your color schemes will add a hint of movement to your quilts.

Best-selling author Kim Schaefer's latest designs shine a spotlight on slender spaces! These quick skinny quilt projects are a great way to bring your scrap stash to life. Accent those special little spots in your home with a splash of color and personality.

Be fearless with your free-motion quilting! This intermediate-level guide is filled with 92 modern quilting designs for borders, blocks, and fillers many are continuous-line. These fun, freeform shapes and lines give an imaginative spark to any quilt. Pebbles, waves, vines, and finials are just a few things that inspire Bethany Pease s hip and doodly designs. Quilting diagrams show you how to put designs together for the best effect. Bethany runs a long-arm business and doodles every chance she gets. She ll also show you how to spot interesting patterns wherever you look to translate into your quilting.

What makes this fat-quarter quilt book different is its emphasis on using every last bit of each piece of fabric -- from block to backing to binding, nothing is wasted. Each project includes Monica Dillard's clever shortcuts as well as streamlined techniques for easy piecing. Each pair of blocks creates interesting secondary patterns when they're combined to reveal a more complex look. You'll get terrific results stitching up these classic, traditional favorites from your stash of fat quarters.

Learn how to create your own one-of-a-kind fabric for sewing quilts, crafts, clothing, home decor, and more! Explore a variety of fabric painting techniques and discover how to add a distinctive touch to your quilts with this superb new book from acclaimed quilter Cindy Walker. In "Fabric Painting", you'll learn how to create colourwashes and use resist techniques, paint a Hawaiian quilt and a traditional block quilt, as well as use fun sun-printing, scrunching, and salting techniques to create uniquely personal fabrics. With 11 different techniques and three lush quilting projects, you'll be designing and making your very own one-of-a-kind fabrics in no time.

Charlotte does it again! Her latest collection of unique quilting designs can be achieved with any sewing machine. These geometric patterns require no marking and can be adapted to fit any size quilt or block. Just stitch your patterns row by row, one line at a time, and you will love the result.