In this book, we celebrate the changing of the seasons with quilting and home decorating projects to help you renew your home as nature transforms your surroundings ... You'll use this book all through the year to add beautiful seasonal projects to every room.
Quilting Through the Year features 16 step-by-step quilting projects that capture what we love most about each time of year! With four quilt designs for every season, each design repeats, reshapes, or reorganizes the same or similar motifs, so once you've made a few blocks, the rest is a snap! From striped pumpkins for fall to colorful wildflowers for spring, you'll love recreating these quilt blocks in different ways all year round. Using traditionally cut geometric pieces with no circles and no curves, each design is approachable and fun for every quilter to achieve!
It's a whole new approach to "hand" quilting for kids! Turn children's handprints into fabulously fun quilts. In this follow-up to Handprint Quilts, there's an adorable block to make for every month of the year. Get kids quilting with 14 new projects - simply "stamp" kids hands on fabric; then embellish with rickrack, googly eyes and more. Transform little handprints into creepy spiders, funny reindeer, springtime kites, and summer flip-flops One main quilt features all the blocks, while smaller quilts spotlight each season
Using today's exciting fabrics, quilting experts Christine Porter and Darra Williamson give Sunbonnet Sue a wonderfully updated look. Find 12 small quilts featuring different themes, one for each month of the year Enjoy full-sized pattern pieces and fast-and-easy fusible applique Discover fun embellishing tips with each project
Pat Sloan's 9 folksy quilts and a whimsical penny rug work up quickly with machine appliqué and easy embroidery. This charming collection, featuring spring florals, an Easter Bunny, watermelon slices for summer, an American Flag, fall pumpkins, Christmas gingerbread, and joyful angels, will make every day of the year special! Quilt the Seasons with Pat Sloan (Leisure Arts #3574)
· An approachable quilting project guide that captures the best of every season · Features 4 quilts for each season with interchangeable quilt blocks and motifs that are easy to reshape, reorganize, and repeat for a total of 16 projects · Includes clear step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams · Also contains tips on quilting basics, supplies, fabric, finishing, and further inspiration for novelty designs · Written by Sherilyn Mortensen, who is also the co-author of the best-selling book Mini Wonderful Curves, owner of Sea Sherilyn Sew, and a Gammill quilt artist
Whether you stitch the adventures of designer Bonnie Sullivan's little bird, Bertie, in individual month-by-month mini quilts or you prefer to combine a year's worth of settings to make a larger quilt, the seasonal scenes are sure to delight. A mix of wool, flannel, and simple embroidery combines to depict Bertie's clever escapades, each easy enough to complete in no time! This beloved set of artfully photographed and illustrated patterns--never before compiled in a book--is a must-have for your quilting bookshelf.
The history of quilts, their makers, and usage is an important part of our country's heritage presented here in full detail through 330 vintage photographs. Books on quilt history have, to date, included only a few photos of quilts. This in-depth collection, most of which has never been seen before, date from 1855 to 1955. Each vivid image provides commentary on quilting specifics, photography, costume, and American cultural history, especially toward the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographic formats and a glossary of quilting terms are included to aid the reader in dating their own vintage photographs. This book is a wonderful resource for all quilters, historians, and photographers.