Turn your child’s room into an oasis of fun and creativity without spending a fortune! Whether you’re preparing a nursery for a newborn or redecorating a toddler’s domain, sisters Jennifer and Carolyn show you how to build a safe, loving environment for your baby around a favorite theme or inspiration. 8 custom baby and children’s rooms, from sweet pastels to bright and bold. Covers everything from walls and floors to furniture and fabrics. Features both sewing and no-sew projects. Over 30 projects include a quilt for each room plus more bedding designs; accessories such as a lampshade, a mobile, and a keepsake box--even a wooden picket fence headboard and a painted floorcloth!
It was December 1929 - a period of reflection as the nation reeled from the stock market crash of the previous October. But it was a time of much-needed cheer as well. So The Kansas City Star published a 12-installment collection of delightful nursery rhyme patterns called Santa's Parade, inspired by the city's annual Christmas parade. Here's everything you need to create this redwork nursery quilt.
A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of one of the most significant and intriguing quilters of the 21st century, featuring 109 color plates of Wells's narrative quilts with intimate commentaries by Wells herself
Winner of the 2022 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–1950 is a look at the quilts of the state from before Alabama was part of the Mississippi Territory through the Second World War—a period of 268 years. The quilts are examined for their cultural context—that is, within the community and time in which they were made, the lives of the makers, and the events for which they were made. Starting as far back as 1682, with a fragment that research indicates could possibly be the oldest quilt in America, the volume covers quilting in Alabama up through 1950. There are seven sections in the book to represent each time period of quilting in Alabama, and each section discusses the particular factors that influenced the appearance of the quilts, such as migration and population patterns, socioeconomic conditions, political climate, lifestyle paradigms, and historic events. Interwoven in this narrative are the stories of individuals associated with certain quilts, as recorded on quilt documentation forms. The book also includes over 265 beautiful photographs of the quilts and their intricate details. To make this book possible, authors Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff and Carole Ann King worked with libraries, historic homes, museums, and quilt guilds around the state of Alabama, spending days on formal quilt documentation, while also holding lectures across the state and informal “quilt sharings.” The efforts of the authors involved so many community people—from historians, preservationists, librarians, textile historians, local historians, museum curators, and genealogists to quilt guild members, quilt shop owners, and quilt owners—making Alabama Quilts not only a celebration of the quilting culture within the state but also the many enthusiasts who have played a role in creating and sustaining this important art.
These examples evince both the art and the craft during a golden age of handcrafting, from the early 1800s until 1946, a time before the widespread use of motorized sewing machines, synthetic fabrics, and prefabricated batting."--BOOK JACKET.
