Innovative Quilt Border Designs

Innovative Quilt Border Designs
Author: Kathy McNeil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2016-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781535222143

Let's add some Razzle Dazzle to your finish line. Innovative borders add an extra layer of excitement and discovery to enhance the visual impact of your quilt. Use them to enrich your color scheme, dramatize a theme, bring unity, balance, or create movement. Learn helpful principles of design as they apply to borders. Kathy shares tips for choosing complimentary innovative designs, construction of various options and quilting your borders. This book includes over 70 colorful images from many award winning quilters to inspire you. Borders are a splendid place to play. I hope this book fills you with excitement, and leads to new border ideas.

Blended Borders

Blended Borders
Author: Pamela Mostek
Publisher: That Patchwork Place
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)
ISBN: 9781564779304

Learn how to create stunning quilts with fabulous artistic borders with these quick and simple techniques. In this great new book, popular quilter Pamela Mostek shares the secrets of her innovative Blended Borders technique, which softens the line between the quilt top and the border. Rather than 'colouring inside the lines', Pamela makes artful use of large-scale applique shapes to create quilts of unparalleled artistry. "Blended Borders" features five exquisite projects that showcase some of today's fabulous large, dramatic prints, alongside a full-colour photo gallery for added inspiration. Also included in this volume is an extensive techniques section, which means even novice quilters can achieve expert results.

Skip the Borders

Skip the Borders
Author: Julie Herman
Publisher: Martingale
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 160468402X

Create quilts with simple designs, strong lines, and a modern aesthetic. With this innovative collection, popular blogger and designer Julie Herman, the owner of Jaybird Quilts, inspires you to create stunning quilts--without borders! Choose from 15 easy quilt patterns where design is the star and fabric is the supporting actor Learn the structure of a borderless quilt; explore various bindings and their effect on the overall look See what can be done when color is used in bold ways to support a borderless quilt design

Shape by Shape Free—Motion Quilting

Shape by Shape Free—Motion Quilting
Author: Angela Walters
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607057891

Get into shape: The ultimate visual guide for free-motion quilting in specific geometric shapes • Follow step-by-step illustrations to create more than 70 free-motion quilting designs to use in specific shapes, negative space, and borders • Features full-page quilt photos, close-up details of stitched designs, and a comprehensive visual index • Best-selling author Angela Walters takes you to the next level in free-motion quilting by showing you how to manipulate shapes into modern designs It's easy to plan your machine quilting - simply open Shape by Shape Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters and find creative inspiration on every page. User-friendly and visually exciting, the contents are first divided into three sections: Blocks, Negative Space, and Borders. Then, to make it even more accessible, the Blocks section is further organized by five shapes: Squares, Triangles, Circles, Diamonds, and Hexagons. With an illustrated index, more than 70 free-motion quilting designs, crystal-clear instructions, and gorgeous full-page photographs, this is the go-to resource you’ll want handy before starting any quilting project.

Quilting with Stash or Cash

Quilting with Stash or Cash
Author: Linda J. Hahn
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607658585

Make the most of the fabric you have and the fabric you want! Featuring 10 quilt patterns and two options for each – one “stash” and one “cash” – decide whether you want to use your fabric scraps or the new yardage you just bought. With step-by-step instructions, expert tips, and helpful diagrams, Quilting with Stash or Cash offers so much to love with 20 total quilt designs and possibilities. You’ll also learn different ways to piece traditional quilt blocks for easy construction, make your stash fabrics work with patterns, cut and sort your scraps, add sashing and borders, and other techniques to strengthen your quilting skills.

Modern Triangle Quilts

Modern Triangle Quilts
Author: Rebecca Bryan
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617453145

Ready to take the triangle challenge? Choose from 70 pieced modern triangle blocks and 11 exquisite quilts that wow! Fourth-generation quilter Rebecca Bryan is back—this time with beautiful 3-sided blocks sewn from pieced stripes, chevrons, curves, and more. A dedicated graphic design chapter will help you choose a winning color palette, play up unexpected elements, and achieve balance and symmetry. Grab your favorite ruler and the full-size block templates to create equilateral, isosceles, and right triangles with ease. With no tricky seams, these sampler blocks are perfect to mix and match.

Borders by Design

Borders by Design
Author: Paulette Peters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)
ISBN: 9781564770820

Learn the three principles of border design: Divide the Side, Use the Unit, and Connect the Corner. Start with instructions for more than 30 borders -- then begin to design your own!

Quilts with Unique Borders

Quilts with Unique Borders
Author: Annie's Staff
Publisher: Annie's
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Appliqué
ISBN: 9781573674560

Turn an ordinary quilt into something spectacular by exploring border options with this book. Sometimes all a simple quilt needs is a different border to make it special. These nine quilted projects show just a few ways to accomplish a stunning finish, providing you with ideas you can incorporate into other projects. You are only as limited as your imaginaton.

Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs

Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs
Author: Mary M. Covey
Publisher: That Patchwork Place
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-02-05
Genre: Quilting
ISBN: 9781564778178

Mary is back with her third volume of continuous-line quilting designs, even more of what quilters need to quilt as desired ! Simply trace, transfer, and sew to create gorgeous quilted motifs without stop-and-start hassles. Find an all-new collection of 20 pattern groups featuring coordinating designs for blocks and borders, along with Mary's latest quilting tips Full-sized patterns are perfect for a home sewing machine, a long-arm quilting machine, or for hand quilting Includes a 16-page booklet with complete how-to instructions

Lines by Design Quilts

Lines by Design Quilts
Author: Debbie Grifka
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440244014

Discover the beauty of a simple line! A line is any shape distilled to its most basic form--but it has unlimited potential! From bold, straight lines to lush curves and lines that draw pictures, Lines By Design will show you how to get the maximum effect out of minimum composition. Using bias applique, machine applique and traditional piecing techniques, author Debbie Grifka offers designs for bold, modern pieces for your home. Featuring twelve bed-sized quilts plus pillows, placemats, table runners and more, you'll be able to choose from something pictorial, such as Community Isolation, featuring outlines of houses and trees, or try your hand at an updated classic, such as Forever, a riff on the classic Double Wedding Ring design. No matter which design you choose, you're sure to fall in love with the simple elegance of lines.