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Author: Louisa L. Smith
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781571201683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe combination of straight lines and gentle curves creates zingy but easy-to-make quilts. You'll be hooked before you know it! Includes 3 quilt projects.
Author: Judy Dales
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Published: 1998-10-08
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1571207716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking with curves in quilts opens the door to a world of immense beauty, excitement, and grace. Quiltmaker Judy B. Dales teaches you her methods for creating free-form curved designs. Step-by-step instructions take you from the design stage through making the master pattern and templates, demonstrating that curves need not be complex or difficult to be effective. Special techniques showyou how to use registration and intersection marks to ensure perfectly flat pieced tops. Learn to create contrasts using the color, value, and texture of your fabrics. Includes 5 projects ranging from intermediate skill level to advanced. Photographs of over 50 finished quilts provide creative inspiration.
Author: Louisa L. Smith
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Published: 2010-11-05
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 1607052997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrip Piecing With Twists and Turns! Start with basic strip piecing, add easy and gently curved edges, and prepare to be amazed! Louisa introduces 4 design concepts, 2 template based and 2 template free, all with step-by-step instructions. Whether you own Louisa’s 2001 best-selling Strips ‘n Curves or you’re new to the world of combining curved-edge and strip piecing, you’ll love the fresh ideas and fabulous inspiration in this book. Learn Louisa’s four new techniques (Half Clamshell, Free-Form Curves, Strips ‘n Circles, and The Swirl); then try them in four complete project quilts! Lots of step-bystep photos and clear instructions ensure your success. Ideas for home décor, garments, and quilts, quilts, quilts!
Author: Nicholas Ball
Publisher: Lucky Spool
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781940655376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo patterns here, but definitely a plan! Explore the freeing power of improvised piecing with Nicholas Ball in his first book, Inspiring Improv. Learn his step-by-step technique-based process to explore six fundamental piecing structures. Practice how to stitch fabric together in an improvisational manner to create blocks or sections before using them to sew unique quilts all your own. Improv piecing doesn't have to mean chaotic end results. Look to the eight original projects included to see how to create sophisticated quilts with structure focusing on repeating blocks or large-scale scrappy designs. Follow along as Nicholas walks you through his original inspiration and follow his plan through to finished pieces, as he discusses which combination of his core piecing methods he used, and how to achieve showstopping, exciting work. From simple strip piecing through to complex circles and rings, you will be eager to experiment with making slabs, gentle curves, insets, triangles and even 9-patch and Log Cabin stacks. In no time, you'll be using them as a stepping stone to sewing original full-sized improvisational designs.
Author: Vikki Pignatelli
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2001-06-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780844242491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning quiltmaker Vikki Pignatelli introduces a revolutionary method of quiltmaking that takes the time, trouble, and frustration out of making a perfect quilt. Her easy techniques in Quilting Curves ensure that your designs come together quickly, with beautiful, graceful results--even for beginners. Ideal for machine quilters, Pignatelli shows you how to make wonderful, flowing curves and perfect star points without the tricky needle turn or precise piecing techniques that traditional quiltmaking involves. She demonstrates how to use a variation on her method for creating three-dimensional effects. A chapter on creativity provides you with the tools to start creating quilts of your own design. Fast, fun, and easy quilt tops that would take weeks to piece using conventional methods come together in hours Trouble-free quilts appear to be intricately pieced but are easy to topstitch by machine Eight complete patterns help you master the technique before moving on to create quilts of your own design
Author: Reynola Pakusich
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781571202352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStretch your creativity, plus have fun as you create beautiful, dramatic quilts!
Author: Maggie Malone
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781402720475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA must-have for every quilter: the ultimate pattern resource, with an astounding 5,500 blocks With 5,500 blocks to copy, adapt, and combine in countless ways, no quilter will ever have to run out of patterns anymore. Some designs are classics and taken from museum collections, handed from friend to friend, or kept in a family for many years. Each pattern is drawn on a grid showing the number of squares to the block which makes it easy to mix-and-match, because they all draft to the same size. The dazzling choices include a Premium Star, Double Pyramid, Strips and Squares, Farmer's Puzzle, Sunburst, Beggar's Blocks, and countless more. They're arranged by type--including 4-, 5-, and 9-patch patterns; circles and curves; octagons; diamonds; and 8-point stars--and all indexed alphabetically by name. There's even information on each block's source. As a special bonus Maggie Malone has included a section of Alphabet Patch Patterns to use for personalizing every block. No quilter can do without this book.
Author: Jean Ann Wright
Publisher: Landauer (IL)
Published: 2015-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935726685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Make perfect curvy log cabin blocks easily with no math and no measuring"--Cover.
Author: Louisa L. Smith
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781617451232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to turn squares and rectangles into circles and ovals with no curved piecing--it's easy! Take an artistic journey with 11 mind-bending quilts that fool the eye with innovative layering, playful patterns, and delightful color choices. The best-selling author of Strips 'n Curves shares three simple construction methods for endless possibilities. With something for every type of quilter, this opulent collection will inspire you to see your fabrics in a whole new light.
Author: Rutherford Aris
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1461232066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since the seminal works on traveling waves and morphogenesis by Fisher, by Kolmogorov, Petrovski and Piscunov, and by Turing, scientists from many disciplines have been fascinated by questions concerning the formation of steady or dynamic patterns in reactive media. Contributions to this volume have been made by chemists, chemical engineers, mathematicians (both pure and applied), and physicists. The topics covered range from reports of experimental studies, through descriptions of numerical experiments, to rather abstract theoretical investigations, each exhibiting different aspects of a very diverse field.
