Quilts from the Garden

Quilts from the Garden

Author: Laurie Bird

Publisher: Leisure Arts

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 9781601402042

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Whether your favorite posies adorn flowerbeds or feather beds, you're sure to cultivate a special affinity for these summer-inspired quilts from Laurie Bird. Appliqué a quartet of gardeners who happily tend blossoms at their windows. House friendly honeybees in a cozy skep. Or celebrate the serenity of a twilight garden by surrounding a nearby star with a blooming vine. Select your fabrics from an array of pastel prints, and treat yourself to some old-fashioned gardening fun -- no gloves, soil, or perspiration necessary! 3 Projects: Country Star (large appliquéd star entwined with flowers in center panel); The Desert Shall Blossom (appliquéd bee skep and flowers in center panel, with corner blocks of Shoo Fly and Double Monkey Wrench); and Flower Boxes (4 blocks, each with an appliquéd woman in bonnet, tending flower box).


Japanese Garden Quilt

Japanese Garden Quilt

Author: Karen Buckley

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2009-11-01

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1607052199

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Create Rich, Sophisticated Quilts With Circle Blocks. Discover how to make Perfect Circles® every time! Full-size patterns are ready to use and easy to trace. Tips for both hand and machine appliqué make the patterns in this book very versatile. Create fabulous stitching on appliqué with the right tools. Discover how to make Perfect StemsTM and covered cording. Learn Karen's favorite method for “turning the edge” to create a perfectly smooth seam. Instruction booklet & full-size patterns give you everything you need to create unique circle blocks like a pro-in less time than it takes to measure and cut a single square block! Take Karen's Perfect Circles® technique to new heights when you use the skills learned in this book to create your own designs.


My Whimsical Quilt Garden

My Whimsical Quilt Garden

Author: Becky Goldsmith

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2010-11-05

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 1607051311

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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.


Floral Abundance Quilt

Floral Abundance Quilt

Author: Deborah Kemball

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1617456608

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Craving more gorgeous appliqué from award-winning author Deborah Kemball? This pattern pack includes complete instructions and full-size pattern sheets for a floral quilt (52 ̋ x 52 ̋) in 2 colorways, plus instructions to turn any of the 9 blocks into a sophisticated pillow. Stitch the 24 motifs using needle-turn appliqué; then embellish with embroidery stitches. Simpler than they appear, these detailed projects are a joy to create.


Beautiful Botanicals

Beautiful Botanicals

Author: Deborah Kemball

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1607051672

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“A wonderful way to bring more beauty into your life . . . sophisticated floral appliqué projects, varying in size from pillows to quilts.” —The Professional Quilter Magazine Plant an indoor garden with a bounty of lyrical appliqué designs. All the project patterns are interchangeable, so you can create endless combinations of flowers and leaves. See how color-saturated cottons, vibrant silks, and tone-on-tone chintzes breathe new life into botanical appliqué. • 14 sophisticated floral appliqué projects include pillows, table runners, and small tapestry-style quilts and wall hangings • Full-size templates for 45 appliqué flowers, 2 butterflies, and 5 borders • Stitch up the projects as shown, or mix-and-match patterns to create your own masterpiece


Through the Garden Gate

Through the Garden Gate

Author: Jean Wells

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781571200655

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11 quilt projects, each inspired by a quilter's garden; includes a variety of gardens and guilts: a cottage garden in the mountains, a quilter's garden wedding, a folk art garden deep in the woods, an Americana theme in a suburban garden, a garden in the city.


Thimbleberries Classic Country

Thimbleberries Classic Country

Author: Lynette Jensen

Publisher: Landauer (IA)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781890621100

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For best-selling quilting author and fabric designer, Lynette Jensen, all the comforts of home are found in this lovingly restored two-story Colonial she shares with her husband Neil and two grown children. Through a tour of her home and gardens in this lavishly-illustrated book Lynette shares her secrets for successful classic country decorating and her love of quilts and quilting. She shows you how to easily mix and match colors, blend decorating styles, and highlight favorite family pieces through a simple planning process that takes you from basic to beautiful in a matter of minutes. Each chapter is devoted to a season -- spring, summer, harvest, and holiday -- filled with ideas, recipes and projects for fun with fabric, surface design, home decor, woodpainting and stenciling. Step-by-step how-tos, illustrations, full-size patterns, along with a complete guide to materials and sources, provide a hands-on guide to creating it yourself, Lynette has also included a special section of swatches to go -- coordinating her fabric and color chips with each season that blend perfectly to transition you through the year in style. If making harmony the heart of your home is as important to you as it is to Lynette, then Classic Country is meant for you!


Sampler Spree

Sampler Spree

Author: Susan Ache

Publisher: Martingale

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1683561384

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Indulge your passion for color and fabric with a smorgasbord of blocks to use in a quilt that's a visual feast. The fun begins with more than 100 beautiful quilt blocks that all finish at 6" square, making them perfect for using scraps and for easy mixing and matching. Whether you prefer traditional or modern, you'll find so much to love in the varied assortment of block designs. Susan Ache (you may know her as @yardgrl60 on Instagram) shares 50 expert tips throughout, plus step-by-step instructions for making half-square triangles, flying geese, stitch-and-flip corners, and more. Once your tantalizing blocks are stitched, arranging them in the stunning sampler quilt is sheer pleasure!


Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9781893824973

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Barbara Brackman's classic quilter's resource, the "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns," is fully modernized, updated with over 160 new blocks, and presented in full color for the first time in this third edition! All of the 4,000+ pieced quilt block patterns found in this book are illustrated with both a line drawing and sample color suggestions to ensure that you will never run out of inspiration! Quilters, quilt historians, and textile enthusiasts will love the detailed information on pattern names and publication sources included with each block pattern.The book is easy to use in a multitude of ways: look up block designs by name to find a perfectly themed pattern, search by layout and construction information to find the name of the pattern in a historic quilt, or just browse the pages until your next quilting project catches your eye! Combine the book with "BlockBase" software (sold separately) to easily design and print custom templates, rotary charts, or foundation patterns for any of the blocks in the book.As a one-stop-shop for quilt pattern identification and ideas for your next quilting project, this fabulous book should be in every quilter's library!