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| Author | : Rayna Gillman |
| Publisher | : C&T Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2011-12-16 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1607052652 |
Discover there’s no such thing as a mistake when you learn how to create original designs with this no-rules method of quilting. • Create one-of-a-kind quilts with free-form cutting and piecing • Discover how to spontaneously combine your own original units and design as you go! • Blend hand-prints and hand-dyes with commercial fabrics to create truly original quilts Enjoy the freedom of free-form! In this follow-up to Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, Rayna shares her “can’t make a mistake” approach to designing quilts. Learn how to how to trust your instincts so you can work more intuitively, and develop a new appreciation for the therapy of sewing without a plan. With these new skills, you can create new work from leftovers and scraps, dig into those favorite fabrics, and transform all those unfinished projects!
| Author | : Rayna Gillman |
| Publisher | : C&T Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2017-11-01 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1617454451 |
A natural follow-up to the best-selling Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts, this book applies Rayna’s no rules, no mistakes, no worries style to modern quilting. Starting with strips and geometric shapes, you’ll cut and sew without patterns, required yardage, or complicated diagrams. This freeing method lets you create modern quilts organically as you follow your instincts, ask "what if...?", and experiment with scale, color, value, and placement.
| Author | : Ashley Nickels |
| Publisher | : Taunton Press |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 9781641550024 |
Quilters want to finish their quilts--and that means doing their own machine quilting. In Free-Motion Quilting 101, teacher and quilter Ashley Nickels provides in-depth instruction on learning the technique of free-motion quilting, combined with simple small projects that reinforce the technique. Quilters will have fun while learning the necessary steps to complete a quilting project. Free-Motion Quilting 101 is divided into three parts--workbook-style practice; project session and in-depth reference for finishing a quilt 15 foundational designs 3 simple projects and 1 larger project that is a culmination of the techniques learned in the book Free-Motion Quilting 101 is squarely on mastering the technique on a regular home sewing machine and will be the book new quilters pick up first to learn how to free-motion quilt successfully.
| Author | : Leah Day |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : Machine quilting |
| ISBN | : 9780982993057 |
In 2009, Leah Day started a new blog, the Free Motion Quilting Project, and set out to create 365 new free motion quilting designs. Each design was published online with photos and a video tutorial for free for everyone in the world to enjoy. This book is a compilation of those 365 designs, and within it you will find a treasury of ideas and inspiration you'll return to again and again. - Find hundreds of filler designs to work in all the different areas of your quilts. From the blocks, to the sashing, and into the borders, you're sure to find the perfect designs to fit your quilt. - Feeling confused with free motion quilting? Get back on track with Leah's quick tips on everything from machine settings to how to prepare your quilt top and backing before quilting. - Build your repertoire of continuous line quilting designs by stitching a different design every day. This book will definitely help you break out of the Stippling rut! Inside you'll find a high quality photo of each meticulously stitched design. For practice, trace the design, or visit www.LeahDay.com/365 to find video tutorials for every single design in this book. While this is not a primer on free motion quilting basics, this book is a helpful companion and the largest collection of free motion quilting designs ever published! This second edition offers a spiral binding to help the book lay flat near your sewing machine. Challenge yourself to memorize - not mark - a new design every day for a year. Stitch the designs exactly as shown or play with creating your own variations. The possibilities are endless! See why quilters like you have called this book "an amazing resource," "just what I needed" and "the best quilting book ever!"
| Author | : Gail Garber |
| Publisher | : C&T Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2010-11-05 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1607051494 |
Tips and techniques for unleashing the designer within and creating your own original quilts. Let your imagination take flight! Gail Garber teaches you step-by-step techniques to create your own unique quilt designs, or to make any of the five bonus projects in this book. Draft shapes such as Flying Geese, triangles, and diamonds to fill strips of fabric that weave in and out of your design. Easy paper-piecing instructions help you make all your designs more accurate, from landscapes to radiating sunlight to flowing ribbons. Links to full-size foundation patterns are included, plus a gallery of quilts made by Gail and her students. Learn how to make intriguing quilts with techniques for using free-form strips and shapes to create dimension, illusion, and flow. There’s no limit to the designs you can invent!
| Author | : Karen McTavish |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-09-09 |
| Genre | : Machine quilting |
| ISBN | : 9780974470672 |
Expanded and completely revised, this book is the perfect companion for longarm, sit-down, or hand quilters to add a simple but beautiful background filler to their quilting repertoire. Dubbed "McTavishing" after its creator, it has become the most popular new design concept in quilting today. As shown in the extensively illustrated projects, McTavishing may be added to any quilt or garment, from wholecloth to contemporary art quilts, and done by hand, domestic machine, or longarm technique. The book's how-to chapters demonstrate the uses of the McTavishing stitch--as an addition to an open quilt block, in a border, to highlight complex applique, to custom tailor a favorite garment, or as part of a larger overall design--while the accompanying DVDs provide lessons from the author. Accompanied by interviews with accomplished hand and domestic machine quilters, this guide offers readers an unparalleled view of the exciting new quilting process. This edition boasts revised how-to chapters, new graphics, new text, and a simpler teaching method. Additional pages feature new quilts and quilters as well as a new section on modern quilting styles.
| Author | : Angela Walters |
| Publisher | : C&T Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2012-06-01 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1607055368 |
Popular machine quilter Angela Walters will motivate you to try something new! Learn to stitch her fresh continuous-line designs on your longarm or domestic machine. Includes step-by-step instructions for continuous-line swirls, circles, squares, vines, arcs, and points. Using basic free-motion skills you already have, discover how to approach quilting a modern quilt by working with bold fabrics and negative space, uniting a variety of shapes, and blending designs. Draw inspiration from striking pictures of 20 modern quilts showing Angela’s designs. You’ll love her practical advice for choosing the perfect pattern to give your modern quilt maximum impact.
| Author | : Sujata Shah |
| Publisher | : C&T Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2014-11-01 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1607056747 |
For crafters “looking for patterns based on ethnic designs, modern quilters who love blocks with asymmetry and anyone who loves bright, exciting quilts!” (Sleeping Dog Quilts) Bold, vibrant, striking—and amazingly easy to make! This collection of 15 modern quilts draws on handmade crafts from India, the American South, and Africa to create a style that’s at once traditional and contemporary, artistic and practical. A simple stack, cut, shuffle, and stitch technique makes the sewing fun for quilters of any level, and also makes every quilt a one-of-a-kind creation. No two are ever alike! The author provides alternate settings, plus an inspiring photo gallery of the crafts that shaped her style. Use these projects to enrich your quilting by bringing in textures, patterns, and colors from around the world. “An inspired designer . . . The 15 free form block projects featured in this book are a celebration of this ‘melting pot,’ and brim with ideas. The book is accompanied, refreshingly, with photographs illustrating some of the inspirations and stories behind the projects, and it’s a pleasure to see how Sujata has translated them into works of quilted excellence.” —Popular Patchwork “A graphic designer and quilter, she finds inspiration all over the world—in the quilts from Gee’s Bend, the Indian godharis and the bold, colorful fabrics from Africa . . . A colorful and inspiring book. Highly recommended!” —Down Under Quilts Magazine “Sujata Shah takes a different look at traditional blocks and adds her interpretation with 15 simple and fun free-form block projects.” —McCall’s Quick Quilt
| Author | : Stephanie Soebbing |
| Publisher | : Fox Chapel Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2020-10-13 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1607658305 |
• The perfect resource for quilters of every level to turn fat quarter bundles (a pre-assorted collection of coordinating fabric scraps) into gorgeous quilts • Contains 12 beautiful step-by-step projects and patterns all using convenient, color-coordinated bundles of fabric • Includes insightful details on how to choose fabrics and colors to use in your quilt projects, as well as essential quilting techniques • Stephanie Soebbing, author of the best-selling Super Simple Quilts for the Modern Home, is the owner of Quilt Addicts Anonymous and the Fat Quarter Shop where she provides a fat quarter subscription service for quilters
| Author | : Bill Volckening |
| Publisher | : C&T Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2018-10-01 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1617456500 |
Borrow from history for your next quilt with ninety free-motion quilting designs reinterpreted from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century quilts. Honor the elegance of the past with collector Bill Volckening and quilter Mandy Leins, who modernizes motifs such as the orange peel, feathers, and quatrefoil into continuous-lines designs that are perfect for all of today's quilts. Plus, learn tips for marking, combining motifs, and quilting.
