These precut fabric bundles aren’t just for quilters—create fifty fabulous sewing projects from your stash! This unique collection of fifty quick and easy sewing projects includes contemporary ideas for DIY home decor, accessories, gifts, and more—all made using fat quarters. Projects range from instant fixes, like coin purses needing just one fat quarter, to quilts and wall hangings that require up to ten fat quarters—which will really bust your fabric collection! Ten talented designers from across the blogosphere contribute their patterns—including cases and cosies, bags and baskets, pillows and playmats, quilts and clothes. Bloggers featured include Kaye Prince, Kevin Kosbab, and Cynthia Shaffer from the United States.
More than 28,000 quilters have sewn along with the Splendid Sampler community online. Now Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson return with 100 all-new block patterns to inspire quilters all over the world, all over again! Choose blocks designed by Pat and Jane plus superstar quilters Lissa Alexander, Carrie Nelson, Jenny Doan, Susan Ache, Betsy Chutchian, and many more. Blocks made with patchwork, applique, embroidery, and paper piecing provide plenty of opportunities to try new techniques. You'll discover fun ideas for arranging your blocks in a gallery of sampler quilts. Share your progress online and experience the joys of quilting with this "Splendid" community of quilters!
Make quilted bags for every day, from coin purses to backpacks to laptop bags, using precut fabrics—from the author of The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook. Susan Briscoe’s new collection of practical designs for bags and purses are sure to inspire. She takes you through a collection of fourteen designs—a duo for every day of the week—with each complimentary pair featuring easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions that make the bags quick and fun to create. Every bag is accompanied by a variation that shows off the details in a completely different color scheme, essentially giving you fourteen additional inspirational designs.
Whether you are a seasoned quilter with many years of piecing experience or a novice just beginning this exciting journey, this book is written for you. Simply Fat Quarters presents ten exceptional quilts for your enjoyment, and each is designed using fat quarters. Fat quarters are readily available and are very user friendly. All ten of our quilts give you four size options from crib to king. You will find that the designs in this book are carefully written and beautifully illustrated. Both cutting and piecing instructions are written with precise detail, making the entire process simple and easy. Step by step directions take you through the construction of each block and the assembly of the quilt top, even showing you which direction to press each seam. If you want to celebrate a marriage, commemorate an anniversary, welcome a new baby, accompany a young person to college or just decorate your own home, you will find a quilt here that perfectly fits the bill. Quilts warm both the body and the soul, each one a labor of love. They bridge the gap between generations and bring cultures together in a unique way which will stand the test of time. It is our hope that you will be inspired by our designs and that you will enjoy making these quilts for your family and friends. Welcome to the world of Simply Fat Quarters!
Discover a fresh take on the traditional Irish Chain--known for its wonderful diagonal movement, easy piecing, and beautiful collaboration of color. Melissa Corry presents exciting patterns that open a whole new world of Irish Chain designs. Though they share a common theme, these quilts are as individual as the fabrics they embrace. Choose from 15 inspiring quilt patterns and achieve outstanding results Explore a variety of construction methods--options include traditional and improvisational piecing as well as fusible appliqué Learn to use squares, rectangles, wonky shapes, dots, and even flowers to create one-of-a-kind Irish Chain designs
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!
Two, four, six, eight: what do quilters think is great? FAT QUARTERS! Nothing inspires quilters to get in the game more than a stack of pretty fat quarters. The Moda All-Stars are back with a collection of patterns designed for 2 to 32 of those fun little cuts of fabric. Whether quilters collect fat quarters by the bundle or one by one--or even if they have just a couple on hand--they'll find a winning project within these pages. With a patchwork tote, a two-tone pillow, plus runners, wall quilts, lap quilts, and more to choose from, quilters are sure to score a gold medal--with their fat-quarter stash! Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to Special Olympics.