New Patchwork & Quilting Basics
New Patchwork & Quilting Basics

Author: Jo Avery

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 161745849X

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Build your quilting skills with this beginner’s guide featuring 12 modern projects using basic patchwork, appliqué, curves, and foundation paper piecing. Quilt designer Jo Avery has a wealth of experience teaching beginner and intermediate quilters at her popular workshops and retreats. In New Patchwork & Quilting Basics, she guides you through 12 quilt projects using basic pieced strips, squares, and triangles. Jo’s easy-to-follow instructions make it easy to learn new skills while making your own stylish quilts and other projects. Before long, you’ll have the confidence and expertise to tackle virtually any quilt pattern!

Quilting: the Basics and Beyond
Quilting: the Basics and Beyond

Author: Jeri Simon

Publisher: Landauer (IA)

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780982558638

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Whether you're new to quilting to want to brush up on your techniques, this is a go-to reference guide for today's quilter. Beginning with expert tips on equipment and supplies, choosing fabrics and colors, pressing, rotary cutting, and piecing, you'll then learn the essentials of appliqu , assembly, borders, finishing, binding, labeling, and hanging quilts. With 7 learn-to-quilt practice projects, basic blocks, and an included DVD featuring dozens of techniques explained in easy-to-follow steps, enjoy the beauty of a quilt you've successfully made yourself

365 Free Motion Quilting Designs
365 Free Motion Quilting Designs

Author: Leah Day

Publisher:

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780982993057

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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!"

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quilting Basics
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quilting Basics

Author: Laura Ehrlich

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781615641352

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Sew your own heirloom, block by block. Quilting is an art form that's been passed down through generations. But even if you don't have a quilter grandmother to teach you how to design, cut, piece, and stitch your own quilts, you're not out of luck. Loaded with easy-to-follow instructions, helpful illustrations and photos, and tips for making your quilted pieces uniquely your own, this enjoyable guide gives you everything you need to know to create traditional or one-of-a-kind quilts. In it, you get- A look at the tools you need to start quilting-plus the many fabrics and patterns you'll want Helpful hints for choosing coordinating fabrics, calculation how much you need, and prepping them for use. Tips for making templates, marking your fabric, working with (or against) the grain, and accurately cutting out block pieces. Pointers for piecing your blocks and putting together your quilt top-by hand or machine Easy instructions for the three Bs of quilt assembly- batting, backing and basting. Fun tutorials on quilting stitches and designs, appliquéing, and other finishing touches to make your quilt special.

Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day
Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day

Author: Leah Day

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780997901146

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Ready for a machine quilting adventure? It's time to explore walking foot machine quilting with Leah Day! Specifically designed for quilting on a home machine, this style uses a walking foot to evenly feed the layers of your quilt to produce beautiful quilting stitches. Learn how to quilt thirty designs in seven quilt projects.

Quilting Basics
Quilting Basics

Author: Debra Rogers-Gillig

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0882665510

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Grapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources of fresh juice and tasty jellies. For most growers, the triumph of harvesting fragrant clusters of dusky-bloomed grapes in rose, blue-black, amber, purple, or light red bunches is its own reward--a test of gardening skill. In Great Grapes, you'll learn all you need to know to grow superb grapes, including how to: -Choose the most suitable cultivars for your area -Choose the right site -Prepare the soil -Build trellises -Plant and train the vines -Prune for maximum yield -Propagate new vines -Control pests -Harvest the grapes at the peak of ripeness

Next Steps in Machine Quilting
Next Steps in Machine Quilting

Author: Natalia Bonner

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 161745155X

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50 new modern, sophisticated designs that encourage free-motion quilters of all skill levels to stretch their skills on a home sewing machine. Free-motion fans, rejoice! Natalia Bonner is back with a follow-up to her wildly successful first book that boasts 50 new modern, sophisticated designs that encourage quilters of all skill levels to stretch their skills on a home sewing machine. A variety of simpler straight-line and free-motion motifs invite beginners to dive in, while designs that modernize more traditional patterns will challenge intermediate and advanced sewists. Full-size patterns can be used for practice or marking quilt tops, and tips on a wide range of topics—supplies, embellishments, layering, and basting—open up a world of endless variations. • 50 new modern, sophisticated designs challenge quilters of all skill levels to stretch their skills • Full-size patterns for more elaborate designs can be used for practice or to mark quilt tops • Tips on supplies, layering, basting, and adjusting machine tension

Quilting Modern
Quilting Modern

Author: Jacquie Gering

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-08-14

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1620331535

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From two pioneers of today's modern quilting movement, Quilting Modern teaches quilters how to use improvisational techniques to make graphic, contemporary quilts and quilted projects. Explore seven core techniques and multiple projects using each technique--all presented with detailed instructions. Also included is step-by-step direction from Jacquie Gering and Katie Pedersen on tools, materials, and quilting basics, as well as expert advice on color and design. New and seasoned quilting artists will love making stunning bed, wall hanging, pillowcase, and table accessory quilts with this must-have resource. Quilting Modern is a field guide for quilters who strive to break free from tradition and yearn to explore improvisational work. Quilters can make the 21 projects in the book, but will also come away with the new knowledge and skills to apply to their own unique designs. In Quilting Modern, quilters will find the support, structure, and encouragement they need to explore their own creativity and artistic vision.