Scrap Quilting with Alex Anderson

Scrap Quilting with Alex Anderson
Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607057565

Get scrappy with best-selling author Alex Anderson (more than 950,000 books sold!) Use your stash and your scrap bin to make 7 colorful quilts. Get in on Alex’s best scrap quilting secrets: which blocks and settings work best in scrappy quilts; how to combine fabric colors, prints, and values so your creations look exciting, not overpowering; and how to choose quilting motifs that will highlight your design. Includes complete instructions for 6 one-block scrap quilts, plus bonus sampler quilt and an inspiring gallery of 11 contemporary and antique scrap quilts. All quilts are easy enough for confident beginners.

Start Quilting with Alex Anderson

Start Quilting with Alex Anderson
Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2001
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 157120167X

Discusses equipment, fabric, tools, and techniques while offering patterns for six simple block quilts.

Alex Anderson's Hand & Machine Applique

Alex Anderson's Hand & Machine Applique
Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607051044

Fall in Love with Appliqué! Learn to add beautiful appliqué to any quilt by hand or machine. 7 charming quilts get you started. 3 hand appliqué techniques: needle-turn, raw-edged, and reverse appliqué. 3 machine appliqué techniques: invisible, raw-edged, and free-motion appliqué. From beloved teacher and TV/Internet host Alex Anderson. Beloved quilting teacher and TV personality Alex Anderson shows you how easy it is to enhance any quilt with appliquéd flowers, leaves, hearts, and other shapes.

Start Quilting with Alex Anderson

Start Quilting with Alex Anderson
Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607050870

Make your first quilt a keeper with this comprehensive beginner’s guide by the host of The Quilt Show and author of All Things Quilting. Alex Anderson has inspired and educated countless quilters with her television programs, fabric lines, and numerous books. In Starting Quilting with Alex Anderson, she takes first-time quilters through every step of the quilting process. With Alex’s detailed instructions and illustrations, you will learn to plan, cut, piece, quilt, and bind a quilt. Starting Quilting with Alex Anderson features eight easy, beautiful projects. This expanded edition features new projects, more quilt sizes, and lots of helpful new tips and shortcuts. If you want to make a quilt but can't tell a rotary cutter from a seam ripper, Alex Anderson will get you quilting—and loving it—in no time!

Beautifully Quilted with Alex Anderson

Beautifully Quilted with Alex Anderson
Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2003-03-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607054922

Explore the Endless Possibilities for Hand or Machine Quilting Designs! Are you stumped about the right quilting design for your latest materpiece? It’s America’s favorite quilting instructor to the rescue! 5 classic quilt projects allow you to put your new skills into practice. Learn how to decide on the best quilting design for each individual quilt. Step-by-step instructions for drafting your own designs, plus ideas for customizing commercial quilting patterns and stencils. Full-size, ready-to-trace patterns for traditional quilting motifs, such as feathers, wreaths, and more.

Machine Quilting Made Easy

Machine Quilting Made Easy
Author: Maurine Noble
Publisher: That Patchwork Place
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1994
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781564770745

Anyone can learn to machine quilt! Lessons in quilting with a walking foot, freehand quilting with a darning foot, and quilting with decorative threads are included.

Ricky Tims' Kool Kaleidoscope Quilts

Ricky Tims' Kool Kaleidoscope Quilts
Author: Ricky Tims
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 160705163X

Learn Tims’ innovative techniques step-by-step to create a stunning kaleidoscope quilt of your own. • An inspirational gallery of 26 student quilts • Like snowflakes, each quilt you make with this technique will be unique • Includes easy steps to enlarge or reduce the size of your quilt Create a spectacular kaleidoscope quilt with Ricky's unique strip-piecing method for making a multi-faceted pattern. You'll see impressive and intricate results from simple sets of strips; it’s foolproof with little need for pre-planning. The beauty lies in the unpredictability of how the fabric unfolds—just like a real kaleidoscope!

Simply Stars

Simply Stars
Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1996
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781571200198

Alex Anderson, the host of Home & Garden Television's premier quilt show, "Simply Quilts", takes you on a journey into the exciting world of star making. Discover how traditional stars translate beautifully into contemporary pieces. Explore how fabric, size and scale of print, color, and basic design decisions can make even the simplest star shine. Alex presents a stunning collection of star quilts in her new book, Simply Stars: Quilts the Sparkle. You will learn simple hints for making perfect stars. The book includes 12 quilt projects and a gallery of star quilt variations that will provide inspiration for all your star making.

Gemstone Quilts

Gemstone Quilts
Author: MJ Kinman
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2020-10-25
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617459461

Piece dazzling diamond and gorgeous gemstone quilts Add dimension and luminosity to your quilts with gorgeous gemstone piecing! Learn the basics of abstraction and color theory as you piece stunning works of art with gem quilt expert MJ Kinman. After years of perfecting her technique, Kinman explains freezer paper piecing in brilliant detail with jewel quilting ideas to help you express your own creativity. Get helpful advice on fabric selection and quilting patterns to illuminate each cut. A sample gem quilt pattern helps you practice as you follow along step by step. Then find your own muse and bring any gemstone to life in exquisite detail. Just as gems can sparkle and glow in a million different ways, you’ll be inspired by the author’s work and a gallery of student quilts to help you let go of perfection and embrace the chaos of color and light. Shine on! Learn to create freezer-paper patterns for your own gemstone quilts Build skills as you sew a sample diamond quilt top, with step-by-step instructions See a gallery of ground-breaking jewel quilts from the author and her students