Celebrate blooms and more as these bestselling authors combine the love of gardening and quilting. Two versions of quilts are presented, plus many projects.
Award-winning quiltmaker Jane Sassaman is known for her bold designs celebrating the energy and miraculous beauty of garden flowers and plants. Joy and enthusiasm radiate from every quilt! Now, in her first book, Jane shares her methods and inspirations.
A little handwork-and a few quick tricks-is all it takes to create these striking quilts inspired by old-fashioned Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts. Instead of sewing together thousands of tiny hexagons, make appliqué units instead! Start with one learning place-mat project, then get creative with ten quilt patterns. Take these perfectly portable projects wherever you go; appliqué units make it easy. Learn how today's inexpensive precut papers make the process a breeze-no need to draw and cut hexagons.
Brighten Your Day with Playful New Designs from Piece O' Cake. Use just one block or all twenty to make pretty garden quilts. Have fun with these light-hearted designs. Includes ideas for using these blocks in other ways, such as a smaller twelve-block quilt, a purse, or a table topper. Patterns are great for solids and small prints in any color way. Blocks also look beautiful in bigger sizes and are easy to enlarge. Bring cheery flowers and cute, chirping birds indoors with Piece O' Cake's newest appliqué blocks. Mix and match up to twenty blocks to create unlimited quilt variations.
In Grandmother's Garden Quilt Eleanor Burns updates a stunning 1928 Nancy Page quilt design with easy applique methods, and introduces her new "Anniversary Floral" fabric line from Benartex. Patterns include a twenty block basket quilt with applique flowers, five wallhanging designs, and a pansy pin. Finishing instructions include lattice and solid block techniques.Patterns include: Crocus, Fuchsia, Rose, Harebell, Poppy, Pansy, Trillium, Bleeding Heart, Tiger Lily, Japanese Balloon Flower, Canterbury Bells, Shooting Star, Jonquil, Bluet, Morning Glory, Tulip, Zinnia, One Block Wallhanging, Four Easy Baskets Wallhanging, Small Basket Wallhanging, Salvage Sally Wallhanging, French Bouquest Wallhanging, Patty's Flowers Pot Wallhanging.
Barbara Brackman and Ilyse Moore present a pattern for a new interpretation of the Garden or medallion or, as Rose Kretsinger called it, The Paradise Garden. They've drawn from serveral applique masterpieces to present Ilyse's Paradise in Kansas.
At Play in the Garden of Stitch provides ways to think about how thread and fabric can bring depth to composition, texture to emotions and line to ideas. Kovarik has won numerous awards for her densely machine-stitched art in which the quilting line is used to draw intricate patterns and pictures. Simple exercises encourage the reader to approach each day with a curious mind willing to make a mess of expectations, embrace the wonky by letting the thread lead, and think in thread while making careful observations of the world. Heavily illustrated with examples and finished art the book provides quilters and artists with new ways to approach this medium.
A scrap quilt as cheerful and bright as a garden of flowers -- Nana's Garden! Written by Mackie, one of Quilt in a Day's favorite teachers, Nana's Garden is a beautiful way to keep memories alive with scraps of children's and grandchildren's clothing, or strips put aside from your favorite quilts. There are so many ways to personalize your Nana's Garden. Use photo transfers in background squares to make a quilt that's a real family heirloom!