Cute, Colorful Quilt Blocks Featuring Your Favorite Animals Discover how fun and easy quilting can be with Ingrid Alteneder’s simple paper-piecing patterns featuring adorable animals like cats, turtles, elephants and zebras. Ingrid guides you step by step through everything you need to know to get started, including a complete beginner’s guide to foundation paper piecing, 20+ inspiring animal-themed quilt block patterns and templates for every pattern. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to sew colorful, professional-looking quilt blocks for pillows, whole quilts, wall hangings, bags and so much more. Even experienced quilters will find endless inspiration in Ingrid’s charming animal world. Add a splash of color to your living room with a bright throw pillow featuring Toni the Toucan or Ali the Alpaca. Give an ocean-themed children’s room or nursery a personal, handmade touch with a blanket that showcases Olly the Orca or Sally the Seahorse. Sew Dominic the Dog onto your child’s backpack so they can bring their best friend to school every day. With a plethora of fun, lovable animal quilt blocks, everyone will quickly find a favorite project to embark on. Whether you’re looking to learn a new craft or enhance your quilting with fresh ideas, Adorable Animal Quilting will have you designing charming quilt blocks all year long.
Bring your quilts to life with animal appliqués that frisk and frolic on backgrounds of vibrant patchwork. Quilters everywhere fell in love with the adorable patterns in Cheri Leffler's Animal Parade. Now she is back with even more delightful designs for the young - and young at heart. 10 beginner-friendly quilts combine simple piecing with easy appliqué Step-by-step instructions for needle-turn and fusible-web appliqué - full-sized patterns are included Create lovable gifts featuring turtles, rabbits, pandas, elephants, raccoons and more
Choose from 10 adorable baby quilts that combine simple piecing with whimsical applique. Each design comes to life with animal applique that portray a sense of innocence and friendliness.
If you love working with precuts, you'll love these creative designs from Scott A. Flanagan. He has created eight stunning quilts using precut 2 1/2”-wide strips along with a bonus mini quilt for each quilt made from 5” charm squares. Choose the size you want to make—or make both. Find hours offun sewing within these pages. Start with your favorite pack of precut strips or squares and start sewing!
Learn quilting basics from a YouTube sensation and practice your skills with 12 fun projects suitable for all skill levels. Her instructional videos have inspired thousands to start sewing. Now for the first time, sew-lebrity Laura Coia shares written patterns for the most loved video tutorials on her “Sew Very Easy” YouTube channel! Learn the basics of quilt making, from cutting and pressing to borders and finishing. Then practice your skills with a dozen beautiful projects—quilts you’ll come back to time and time again—all suitable for beginners and beyond.
Create incredible quilts for your home with this collection of foundation paper-pieced quilt patterns featuring 12 different animals. Learn how to create realistic representations of your favourite animals and birds in stunning paper-pieced quilt blocks. This unique collection of 12 contemporary quilt patterns includes a tiger, butterfly, swan, owl, peacock and polar bear as well as many more. There are instructions to show how to resize the quilt blocks if you want to make them larger, as well as instructions for how to add borders to increase the size of the overall quilt. Author and foundation paper piecing expert, Juliet van der Heijden, explains how your fabric choice can really alter the overall effect of the quilt patterns to create very different results, and she encourages you to have fun and adapt the quilt patterns through your own choice of fabrics. There are step-by-step instructions showing Juliet's foundation paper-piecing techniques and all the pattern pieces are available via a PDF download.
Paper-pieced projects to sew all year long Quilt your way through the calendar with Mary Hertel's cute and oh-so-easy paper-pieced blocks! Assemble 24 blocks, with a pair of pretty paper-pieced designs for every month of the year. Seasonal motifs like snowmen, gnomes, butterflies, and turkeys impress, along with some adorable dressed-up dogs and cats. Each paper-pieced 8” square block is scrap-friendly and worthy to be the centerpiece of 7 fun projects from mini quilts to hand towels and a baby bib. Sew seasonal gifts and holiday home decor that's anything but ordinary—even mixing and matching the blocks with project ideas from Mary's previous books to multiply your creativity! Paper-piece 24 blocks! Stitch 2 seasonal designs for each month of the calendar Mix-and-match themes in 7 creative projects—mini quilts, hand towels, a pillow, baby quilt, and baby bib Easy, cute, and fun paper-piecing that will delight Mary Hertel's fans
