The Crazy Quilt Handbook
The Crazy Quilt Handbook

Author: Judith Baker Montano

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1617450332

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The classic guide to crazy quilting, now with new projects, stitches, and techniques For nearly 30 years, The Crazy Quilt Handbook has been the essential guide to the fine art of crazy quilting. This newly updated edition brings you more of everything that makes crazy quilting wonderful: gorgeous stitches, embellishments, fabulous crazy quilt photos, and updated beautiful projects to make for yourself. Learn all the ways you can use crazy quilting to decorate clothing and accessories, beautify your home, share family memories, and create heirlooms for future generations. This is the must-have resource for any crazy quilter, whether you are just a beginner or are an experienced stitcher looking to enhance your technique. • The best-selling crazy quilting guide from world-renowned expert Judith Baker Montano (over 230,000 copies sold!), now updated with new stitches and techniques • Includes 12 beautiful projects, a dictionary of 37 embroidery and silk ribbon stitches, and instructions for additional embellishments • Benefit from Judith’s wealth of knowledge on colors, fabrics, piecing, embroidery, appliqué, embellishing, beading, photography, painting, dyeing, and more

The Crazy Quilt Handbook: Revised
The Crazy Quilt Handbook: Revised

Author: Judith Baker Montano

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2001-10-15

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 160705602X

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Create your own heirloom crazy quilts with help from world-famous expert Judith Baker Montano! This classic guide has been updated in full color. New projects, new photography, and up-to-the-minute techniques make the process more user-friendly than ever. 3 new designs for a total of 10 beautiful projects to get you started, including wallhangings, jewelry, and an evening bag. Judith walks you through the process of putting together a crazy quilt using her unique center piece method, showing you how to choose fabrics and lay the foundation, to adding decorative details and solving problems. Detailed instructions for traditional embroidery stitches, beading, lace, fabric painting, and other creative embellishments. Dozens of color photos of stunning crazy quilts, wearables, accessories, and more. Features historical notes on crazy quilting, an illustrated stitch dictionary, and exciting crazy quilting embellishments

Crazy Quilts
Crazy Quilts

Author: Cindy Brick

Publisher: Voyageur Press

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1610600053

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"Here's your chance to get up close and personal with an amazing collections of crazies!" - Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. Made from the finest silks, satins, and velvets and stitched together with elaborate embroidery, the crazy quilt is a testament to quilters’ rich imagination and artistry. This beautiful book traces the bewitching history of “Crazies” from their earliest origins to the present day. Distinguished quilting teacher and appraiser Cindy Brick follows the crazy quilt from colonial times, the Civil War, the Victorian era, and through today, decoding the mystery and meaning of these curious quilts. Also included is a detailed how-to section on constructing crazy quilts. Brick offers methods for planning, piecing, and embroidering or embellishing your quilt, and gives numerous helpful tips that only an expert could provide.

Crazy Quilts
Crazy Quilts

Author: Betty Fikes Pillsbury

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 082144557X

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Textile artist and instructor Betty Fikes Pillsbury has won hundreds of awards for her homages to the elegance of Victorian crazy quilting. Grounded in traditional methods but crafted with elements of whimsy, each piece stands on its own as a work of art. In this definitive guide, Pillsbury shares her methods for piecing, embroidering, and embellishing. Her instructions equip readers at any level of quilting skill to use those techniques to express their own visions. Encouraging her readers to see functional and artistic possibilities beyond quilts (wall hangings, purses, and pillowcases are just some of the options), Pillsbury shows them how to make each work by hand, the slow cloth way. An inspiring primer for beginning and experienced quilters alike, this meticulously illustrated how-to book is far more expansive than previous guides. Pillsbury—a master of the form—shows us why crazy quilting belongs firmly in the twenty-first century.

Crazy Quilt Décor
Crazy Quilt Décor

Author: J. Marsha Michler

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1440220441

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J. Marsha Michler, the leading designer and author in the area of crazy quilting, now joins the popular quilting technique with home decor. Quilters will follow her innovative techniques and step-by-step instructions for creating 30 crazy quilt home decor projects in popular themes such as Oriental, Victorian, Folk art, Country, Western and Whimsical. Featuring an excellent selection of projects for the home, including small quilts, window treatments, chair and table covers, pillows, baskets, picture frames, and lampshades, this book is well worth the investment. Quilters will learn several methods of crazy quilting, including topstitch applique, confetti piecing, the antique method, one-layer topstitch applique, the heirloom method, and collage method and the stained glass method.

String Frenzy
String Frenzy

Author: Bonnie Hunter

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2018-12-01

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1617457337

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Are you buried in scraps—big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too tiny to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie’s basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces 3/4” to 2” wide, turning them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts. Have a string piecing party with a best-selling author, the great Bonnie K. Hunter Love your leftovers! Become a scrap quilt addict, sewing fabric strings and crumbs into brand new blocks Hunter fans will love this offering of twelve “use it all” patterns in her signature style

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading Basics
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading Basics

Author: Georgene Lockwood

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1101558555

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Includes all the fundamentals readers need to know to enjoy the craft and create successful projects. Clear, well-illustrated instructions guide readers through each step of beading for jewelry and home crafts, including choosing a design and beads, selecting clasps and other findings, stringing on different materials, weaving off and on a loom, working with wire, and finishing any project. • Expert advice on mastering stringing and weaving techniques, plus specialty techniques such as beading flowers, beaded embroidery, and various beaded embellishments. • Choose the best color, size, and shape of beads and the right connectors, fasteners, and clasps for any project • Tons of crisp, instructional black-and-white photos and line drawings

Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley
Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley

Author: Frank King

Publisher: Fantagraphics Sunday Press Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780983550457

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Dive into this collection of rarely seen material that takes a new look at one of the great masters of American comics, giving insight into a developing artist and greater understanding of his inspiration to the generations that followed.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crafts With Kids
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crafts With Kids

Author: Georgene Lockwood

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1988-06-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1101198621

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Hundreds of budget-friendly projects include edible homemade goodies, holiday decorations, toys, musical instruments, and gifts made from wood, metal, glass, leather, clay, and found objects.