RX for Quilters

RX for Quilters
Author: Susan Delaney-Mech
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2000-03-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1571208747

Research confirms that simple sewing tasks lower your heart rate and blood pressure. Quilting and other stitching activities offer relaxation, calming rhythms, and healthy benefits. "Rx for Quilters" is just what the doctor ordered! Gentle, encouraging health advice from a quilter who is also an M.D. How to care for your body so your stitching life can be comfortable and pain-free. Avoid common injuries to your hands, wrists, neck, shoulders, and back. Improve fitness and manage weight with real-world tips for healthy eating and simple daily exercise. Maximize quilting time in a life busy with obligations to family, friends, employers, and yourself. Learn how hormonal shifts, pregnancy, aging, and personal injury or illness affect your stitching. Customize your work area at home, workshops, and retreats.

The Quilter's Catalog

The Quilter's Catalog
Author: Meg Cox
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2008-03-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780761138815

The Bee-all and End-all: The complete quilter's companion and essential resource, jam-packed with information, supplies, expert interviews, techniques, community, and inspiration. All the tools of the trade: rotary cutters, sewing machines, longarms, anddesign software; fabulous fabrics and where to find them; and if you're just starting out, everything that belongs in a quilting basket. The online world made manageable with a guide to the most useful blogs, websites, e-mail lists, free patterns, and podcasts. National and regional shows, guilds, and the best retreats and quilt museums. Batting parties, tutorials on fabric dying, and a breezy history of the quilt boom. Profiles of twenty top teachers-including television's Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, and Ruth B. McDowell, known for her bravura technique. This is a book to help every quilter deepen and grow-keep it as close by as your stash of fat quarters -Cover.

Cut-Loose Quilts

Cut-Loose Quilts
Author: Jan Mullen
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781571201546

18 fun, colorful projects - with no points to match! Jan's designs are easy enough for beginners, but interesting enough for expert quilters.

Magical Four-Patch and Nine-Patch

Magical Four-Patch and Nine-Patch
Author: Yvonne Porcella
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 157120878X

Noted fiber artist Yvonne Porcella turns her talents to the most basic quilt block patterns, Four-Patches and Nine-Patches, and she will turn your world upside down! Join her on the journey to creating your own innovative quilts. 10 incredible quilting projects. Quilts are constructed using simple strip piecing and foundation piecing. Yvonne's "e;Magical Numbering System"e; makes choosing fabrics practically painless. Suggestions for personalizing your work to make it yours alone.

Smashing Sets

Smashing Sets
Author: Margaret J. Miller
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781571201102

Margaret Miller offers a new perspective for settings using traditional blocks. You'll find hundreds of ideas for combining simple but unexpected designs, easy piecing, and a bit of fabric savvy.

Celebrate the Tradition with C & T Publishing

Celebrate the Tradition with C & T Publishing
Author: Liz Aneloski
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2003
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781571202154

In honour of C&T Publishing's 20th anniversary, the world's best quilt designers, fibre artists and quilting teachers, all C&T authors, have designed quilt blocks for you, plus share their favourite tips and stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry.

Quilting - The Complete Guide

Quilting - The Complete Guide
Author: Darlene Zimmerman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440220999

Quilting - The Complete Guide lives up to its name! It covers all of the essential knowledge you need to complete any quilting project: the tools, formulas, methods, finishing techniques, and quilt care you need to know. It's the perfect companion for all quilting projects.

Free-Style Quilts

Free-Style Quilts
Author: Susan E. Carlson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781571201027

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. Susan Carlson's incredible quilts of underwater landscapes, floral designs, fish, and portraits come to life as she shares her easy, "no rules" fabric collage technique and shows how to create your own beautiful free-style quilt designs. - Includes step-by-step instructions and 3 different patterns for Susan's fish designs, as well as how-to's for making flowers and butterflies - No limits, no rules to follow. The technique is fun and easy, and you don't need a degree in art to produce images that are imaginative, creative, and artistic - Using Susan's collage technique, cut fabric shapes freehand or use a pattern, building up layers as you go. Once your design in in place, you're ready to machine quilt. - Helpful hints for choosing fabric, drawing your own patterns, and finishing as a bound quilt or framing under glass

Hand Quilting with Alex Anderson

Hand Quilting with Alex Anderson
Author: Alex Anderson
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1998-12-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617450375

Learn how to quilt in all directions and customize your stitch. Includes 6 small projects.

Simply Successful Applique

Simply Successful Applique
Author: Jeanne Sullivan
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607054817

Award-winning applique quilting artist, Jeanne Sullivan, shows you how to create flawless appliqué in just minutes—by hand or machine. Get pinpoint accuracy more easily with this comprehensive visual guide (includes bonus CD of full-size template patterns). Anyone can learn her stress-free methods, even if you’ve never tried appliqué. Seasoned quilters and sewers will also love these new techniques for more complex designs and for faster, easier ways to make ruching, narrow lines, reverse appliqué, Broderie Perse, and more. Plus “what you see is what you get” with Jeanne’s process…work with your fabrics and templates right side up!