Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts
Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts

Author: Laura Wasilowski

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1607051699

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Discover how to create stunning appliqué quilts with these easy-to-follow projects from the author of Joyful Stitching. Laura shows quilters how to make bright, cheerful fused applique quilts. Along the way, she shares 17 different hand stitches that add unique color and dimension, that help the quilter tell a story with each design. The small, take-along size of these projects makes them perfect for your classes or clubs. • 11 fun and easy projects-make an assortment of whimsical houses with full-size templates • Take your art quilts to the next level by hand quilting and embellishing in one step • Learn how to make wavy bindings

Fusing Fun! Fast Fearless Art Quilts
Fusing Fun! Fast Fearless Art Quilts

Author: Laura Wasilowski

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2010-11-05

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 1607053713

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No-Sew (well, almost!) Art Quilts That YOU Can Create! YES YOU CAN create an art quilt this weekend! Engage your right brain with freewheeling collage techniques. Give your sewing machine a rest: no sewing needed except for quilting and binding. Design as you go - no measuring, no math! You can even fuse your way to finishing, binding, and displaying your art! PLUS find fun, no-quilt fabric collage projects. Eye-popping gallery of quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert, Jane A. Sassaman, David Walker, and MORE.

Joyful Stitching
Joyful Stitching

Author: Laura Wasilowski

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1617455687

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Stitch playful projects Dive into Laura’s delightful world of embroidery and learn how to create small, free-form embroidery pieces that are alive with color and texture. With instructions for 21 basic embroidery stitches and 6 projects, all in Laura’s signature colorful, whimsical style, you’ll transform a flat, plain surface into a joyful, design-packed art piece. Stitch on wool, felt, or silk, and enjoy the simple pleasure of slow stitching. Includes a gallery of display ideas, as well as additional ideas for using free-form stitching. • Begin with simple shapes and fill them with improvisational stitchery • Change up the provided designs, swapping out colors and trying new stitch combinations, to create your own unique work • From popular, best-selling author and teacher Laura Wasilowski

Playful Free-Form Embroidery
Playful Free-Form Embroidery

Author: Laura Wasilowski

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1617459941

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Stitch a story! From the best-selling author of Joyful Stitching, Laura Wasilowski brings 6 new hand-embroidery projects with full-sized patterns and step-by-step pictorial directions. Bright and lively project designs include a whirling paint brush, a dancing bird, tea cups tipping, flowers blooming, a fuzzy sheep, and a happy acorn nut house. With the free-form embroidery approach, you can either follow the given directions, or allow your imagination to run wild and improv your own additions—there is no right or wrong! Plus, no special tools are needed—just felt or felted wool, perle cotton #12 and #8 threads, embroidery needles, and sewing equipment. Start your stitch story! Stitch 6 textured projects with easy-to-follow free-form embroidery instructions Each project features a unique stitch combination, including some wool applique Finished creations are visually stunning art work that can be treasured for a lifetime

Utility-Style Quilts for Everyday Living
Utility-Style Quilts for Everyday Living

Author: Sharon Holland

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2021-01-28

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1607656094

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12 well illustrated projects, ranging from table runners to a queen-sized quilt. Great beginner book. Skill-building design tips and suggestions throughout. Teaches each technique in an unintimidating way with a focus on the quilt’s ultimate use—not on unattainable perfection. Author Sharon Holland designs fabric for Art Gallery Fabrics and founded Quilt-it...today and Sew-it...today magazines.

Big Book of Pretty & Playful Appliqué
Big Book of Pretty & Playful Appliqué

Author: Carol Armstrong

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2018-08-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1617457264

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Add a lively touch of nature to your quilting with this massive collection of realistic flora and fauna appliqué designs. Carol Armstrong's stunning garden quilts and true-to-life critters have changed the way we appliqué. Now her best work is featured together in a single volume—a treasure trove of appliqué delights! Sew one hundred and sixty patterns from blooming flowers and birds in flight to household pets as loveable as your own dog or cat. Learn how to trace designs using a lightbox, and practice with four projects to showcase any combination of designs.

Pink Lemonade & Other Delights
Pink Lemonade & Other Delights

Author: Linda Johnson

Publisher: That Patchwork Place

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781564773241

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Bouquets and butterflies, ladybugs and dragonflies--you'll find them all in these fresh, fanciful quilts! This delightful collection of garden-inspired projects combines simple patchwork, hand applique, and embroidery with the cheerful, bright colors of springtime.

Scrap Republic
Scrap Republic

Author: Emily Cier

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1607052202

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Don’t let those scraps sit there—sew them into these bursting-with-color projects from the author of Quilt Remix! Popular patternmaker Emily Cier sews up all the colors of the rainbow in her second collection of all-new patterns that include wallhangings and lap quilts. Divided into sections for the little stasher or the big stasher, this book gives separate cutting instructions for working with all scraps, or with all new fabrics. Emily brings a modern aesthetic to patchwork blocks with a joyful jolt of color!

Quilt a New Christmas with Piece O'Cake Designs
Quilt a New Christmas with Piece O'Cake Designs

Author: Becky Goldsmith

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1607052024

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The bestselling design teams delivers “a fresh take on holiday colors and fun patterns for Christmas stockings, lap quilts, and wall hangings” (The Applique Society Newsletter). Piece O’ Cake Designs fills your home with the Christmas spirit all year round! Half of these new designs give the holiday season a whimsical twist with unexpected fabrics and colors, and the other half are versatile and beautiful quilts that you can use even after the rest of your holiday decorations are packed away. Projects include: Christmas in the Park The All Wonderful Red & Green Quilt Caribbean Christmas Circular Momentum A Treat Before Takeoff! The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney with Care Perky Partridge Pincushion/Ornament “Use the included full-size applique templates to create Christmas stockings, lap quilts, and wall hangings in the distinctive fresh and happy Piece O’ Cake style. Several of the quilt projects can be adapted for year-round use if made in different fabrics.” —American Quilter

Mickey Lawler's SkyQuilts
Mickey Lawler's SkyQuilts

Author: Mickey Lawler

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2011-11-16

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1607052474

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Create your own beautiful fabric landscapes • Master 12 different fabric painting techniques with detailed, step-by-step photos • Build your own stunning stash of fabrics with painted landscapes, water scenes, and dreamy skies • Learn Mickey's "design strip" technique to make dynamic quilts using large, uncut sections of your fabrics • Suitable for all skill levels; 3 projects included With Mickey Lawler, the best-selling author of SKYDYES, even beginners who have never picked up a brush can learn to paint striking scenes on fabric. She demonstrates how to paint every nuanced texture found in nature, from cloudy skies to rosy sunsets, blue water to green fields, and stone walls to wood grains. Includes a gallery of projects made with lush landscape fabrics that is sure to inspire.