Stitch a seam a day Choose from over 500 crazy-quilt seam treatments, each with a detailed photo and guide for the basic stitches included. Learn 61 basic embroidery stitches, including silk ribbon and beaded stitches, through step-by-step photos, plus get crazy-quilt block piecing instructions and helpful information on tools and supplies. Then put it all together in a gorgeous, intricate sampler. Join the author's popular Facebook group, Joyful Embellishments, to stitch along with fellow embroiderers. - This book will inspire you to stitch daily. - Create a beautiful sampler, with a different treatment for each individual seam. - Intricate and creative embroidery, silk ribbon, and beaded stitches.

• Pages: 144
• Author: Valerie Bothell
• Publish Date: 01/07/2018
• Dimensions: 7.52in x 0.36in x 9.44in
• Softcover

Raise the bar with your next Bargello quilt! Achieve Bargello's glorious complexity through straightforward techniques. Bargello master Ruth Ann Berry shares 16 all-new projects, from bed quilts to smaller ones. A satisfying next step for fans of her first book. Weaving in more design elements and colorways, you'll be able to work 20 or even 40 fabrics into a single quilt! Track your progress with a design chart and learn expert tips for fabric cutting and strip piecing for quilts that dance as if they're set to music. - Take the next steps in Bargello with 16 bed quilts, wall hangings, and lap quilt projects. - Showcase dozens of favorite fabrics in a single quilt--a wonderful outlet for your fabric obsession! - Grow your confidence with a best-selling author's simple construction methods for advanced designs

• Pages: 80
• Author: Ruth Ann Berry
• Publish Date: 12/07/2017
• Dimensions: 8.42in x 0.24in x 11.04in
• Softcover

Dresden plates, pinwheel blocks, and flying geese. Piece like a pro with The Piper's Girls! Starting with the simplest patchwork squares and working your way up to more challenging applique and paper piecing, you'll sew through a cheery, 11-row sampler quilt and 2 bonus projects. Build 25 specific quilting skills such as getting an accurate 1/4in seam, constructing on-point squares, and using the 45 degree angle on a ruler. Straightforward how-to photos and full-size patterns are included. Gain confidence and learn new tips along the way, whether you're just a beginner or a more experienced quilter.

• Pages: 72
• Author: Jeanette White and Erin Hamilton
• Publish Date: 10/03/2017
• Dimensions: 8.45in x 0.25in x 11.05in
• Softcover

Transform a single fabric print with marvelous piecing magic! Best-selling author Maxine Rosenthal and Linda Bardes share stunning One Block Wonders quilts, with contributions from their popular Facebook design community. Learn how to choose the right 60-degree ruler, pick the most useful fabric, and change the look of a quilt with a different strip size. See what others have done - the beginning fabric and the ending projects - and courageously cut into that beautiful yardage! Sew simple pieced hexagon blocks with no "Y" seams, and enjoy the thrill of arranging and rearranging them on your design wall.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Maxine Rosenthal and Linda Bardes
• Publish Date: 11/01/2017
• Dimensions: 8.5in x 0.29in x 11.04in
• Softcover

Endless inspiration from your favorite quilters Want inspiration for your free-motion quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs. JUST designs, and will lay flat on your work surface to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The first in a new series, this visual guide is filled with over 75 diverse block designs from your favorite designers to get you stitching. - Perfect for domestic and longarm machines. - Full-page spreads with innovative block designs. - Lays flat for easy reference while quilting.

• Pages: 160
• Publish Date: 12/07/2017
• Dimensions: 5.82in x 0.64in x 9.07in
• Spiral Bound

Turn treasured tees into something brand new¿a T-shirt quilt! Sew 8 special memory quilts, from a pillow or baby throw to bed quilts in multiple sizes. Learn the secrets to choosing, cutting, and interfacing tees. Get troubleshooting tips, like working with too-small shirts and adding other clothing and fabric. Whether it's your first quilt or your hundredth, this book is filled with fresh ideas for piecing your T-shirts to help you celebrate those special times.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Lindsay Conner and Carla Hegeman Crim
• Publish Date: 07/01/2017
• Dimensions: 8.47in x 0.27in x 11.07in
• Softcover

In this updated edition of best-selling Intuitive Color & Design, Jean's workshop assignments get your creative juices flowing, giving you challenges to expand your quilting horizons. Start by learning to see line and color; study the nuts and bolts of design; develop your color work and composition; and when you get stuck, there's expert advice on problem solving. Design and piece spectacular, free-form quilts you'd never have guessed you could create!

• Pages: 112
• Author: Jean Wells
• Publish Date: 07/01/2017
• Dimensions: 8.54in x 0.35in x 10.98in
• Softcover

Take the first steps to becoming an art quilter with popular teacher and best-selling author Katie Pasquini Masopust. Starting with an inspiration image, choose fabrics to create your own artistic log cabin quilts. Learn to navigate visual pathways and composition, applying easy techniques and experimenting with color. Student work is showcased to prove that anyone can create an art quilt! Design and make your masterpiece with freeform log cabin blocks using this versatile method.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Katie Pasquini Masopust
• Publish Date: 05/01/2017
• Dimensions: 8.42v x 0.21in x 11.11in
• Softcover

Become a skilled foundation piecer with New York Beauty blocks and arcs of Flying Geese that amaze! Stitch your way through 31 architectural block patterns, ideal for advanced beginners and intermediate quilters. Practice this straightforward approach to curved piecing, foundation piecing, and simple machine appliqué on 10 full-size quilts and 27 pillow projects. Lively color combinations provide movement and drama, with fabric selections from Tula Pink, in collaboration with Carl Hentsch.

• Pages: 96
• Author: Carl Hentsch
• Publish Date: 05/01/2017
• Dimensions: 8.55in x 0.25in x 10.96in
• Softcover

Learn simple design principles to create unique improvisational quilts. Without using patterns, learn 5 easy piecing techniques for your improvisational toolbox (including circles, blocks, and strips), and watch the art unfold before your eyes. Focus on color combos and negative space to discover your personal style, and then add dazzling texture with free-motion quilting. Includes tips to hang finished art quilts without a sleeve, plus tried and true improv tips to encourage creative play.

• Pages: 96
• Author: Cindy Griselda
• Publish Date: 10/01/2016
• Dimensions: 8.55in x 0.26in x 10.96in
• Softcover

Learn the ropes from best-selling author Alex Anderson, who has taught hundreds of thousands of people to quilt with her books, beloved television show, and online learning platform. Make classic Arkansas Crossroad blocks, and then choose one of the layout options to put it all together. Includes material and cutting instructions for 4 sizes—wall/baby, lap, twin, and queen. Master the basics, from rotary cutting to borders and machine quilting. Take this portable guide with you or keep it right by your sewing machine. It includes a lay-flat binding, yardage and cutting instructions, and a construction checklist to keep you on track every step of the way.

• Pages:
• Author: Alex Anderson
• Publish Date: 07/07/2016
• Dimensions: 6.05in x 0.39in x 8.91in
• Softcover

Cutting and planning blocks has never been so easy! The ultimate no-math reference for quilters is back and better than ever, with 110 traditional quilt blocks in 5 sizes each! Ultra-portable and indispensible, this updated reference keeps the cutting instructions at your fingertips with more blocks, more diagrams, and more practical tips. Highlights include dozens of precut-friendly designs and a complete block index, plus convenient rotary-cutting charts and reference tables that no quilter should be without. Exploded block diagrams and repeat layouts make construction a breeze. With color-filled sample blocks, blank line drawings, and design tips to spur your creativity, you can easily create a unique project for each block!

• Pages: 128
• Publish Date: 01/18/2016
• Dimensions: 5.86in x 0.55in x 9.27in
• Softcover

With a bachelor's degree under your belt, advance your quilting studies to the next level. This fifth volume of the best-selling Quilter's Academy series will help you embrace the beauty of medallion quilts. Invent your own stunning quilts, sparked by historic and award-winning medallions. Study the in-depth lessons at your own pace, applying advanced techniques and precision drafting and math-- the culmination of everything you've learned thus far.

• Pages: 144
• Author: Carrie Hargrave and Harriet Hargrave
• Publish Date: 01/07/2016
• Dimensions: 8.53in x 0.34in x 11in
• Softcover

Piece stunning Log Cabin blocks from 60° shapes like diamonds and triangles! Best-selling authors Sara Nephew and Marci Baker are back with a new slant on the classic Log Cabin. This updated second edition includes 6 amazing new patterns, for a total of 40 projects! Cutting is fast and easy with the 10in Clearview Triangle ruler. A robust "design your own" section with setting shapes, alternate blocks, and border options will help you uncover infinite possibilities. This fully illustrated guide includes easy-to-use troubleshooting tips and detailed material lists for all the quilts.

• Pages: 136
• Author: Sara Nephew and Marci Baker
• Publish Date: 12/07/2015
• Dimensions: 8.47in x 0.36in x 11in
• Softcover

Are you crazy for precuts? We are! With over 30 precut friendly blocks and all the reference information you could need at your fingertips you are going to love this tool. From 3 easy ways to make half-square triangles to time saving tips and tricks, you can sew up your Jelly Rolls, Turnovers or Charm packs right now.

• Pages: 32
• Publish Date: 11/07/2015
• Dimensions: 5.69in x 0.39in x 9.03in
• Spiral-Bound

With more than one million books sold, the author who taught the world to quilt is back again! Internet and television personality Alex Anderson's all-in-one "big book" includes essential quilting tools, binding basics, and a visual guide to piecing and appliqué. Master both hand and machine quilting, and learn professional touches to become a confident, lifelong quilter. No matter your experience level, this must-have guide will find a permanent home next to your sewing machine!

• Pages: 176
• Author: Alex Anderson
• Publish Date: 08/07/2015
• Dimensions: 8.53in x 0.52in x 10.98in
• Softcover

Have you ever bought the perfect stack of fat quarters, only to see that same bundle decorating your shelf two years later? Give stashed fabrics new life with 13 quilt patterns to make the most of your precut collection! Kate Carlson Colleran and Elizabeth Veit Balderrama, both of Seams Like a Dream Quilt Designs, show you the basics of how to quilt from your stash, with a special focus on color, print, and scale. More than a dozen vibrant and versatile quilt patterns are tailored to precut fabric strips, squares, and fat quarters. Learn how to add additional yardage, mix and match different fabric lines, and design a stunning quilt from fabric you already have on hand.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Elizabeth Balderrama and Kate Colleran
• Publish Date: 06/07/2015
• Dimensions: 8.52in x 0.3in x 10.82in
• Softcover

Color. It has the power to set a mood, make a statement, bring a design vividly to life. Now Joen Wolfrom’s classic guide to creating with color has been completely updated to make it easier than ever to enhance your creative work with the beauty of well-chosen colors. Joen covers it all, from color combining basics to how to use nature’s tricks to create an illusion of depth, reflections, shadows, and highlights. Learn the emotional meanings of colors, their physical effects on people, and much more - all richly illustrated with photos of nature and of beautiful quilts.

• Pages: 144
• Author: Joen Wolfrom
• Publish Date: 08/01/2014
• Dimensions: 8.48in x 0.38in x 11.07in
• Softcover

Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston's gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn which fabrics, threads, and needles to use; how to piece crazy quilt blocks; how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments; how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt; and more. Includes complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; full-size patterns for 9 hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.

• Pages: 112
• Author: Jennifer Clouston
• Publish Date: 01/07/2014
• Dimensions: 8.46in x 0.37in x 10.88in
• Softcover

Cheryl Malkowsi makes it easy to free-motion quilt by mastering your doodling skills! In her beginner’s guide to continuous-line quilting designs, learn how to select the right shapes to get where you need to go; sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next. Squiggles, swirls, flowers, feathers…learn which are best for confined spaces and which work better traveling across your quilt. Gain confidence in your ability to draw basic shapes, then learn how to put them together into over a hundred all-over quilting designs. Includes drawing exercises and tips for transferring designs from paper to fabric.

• Pages: 88
• Author: Cheryl Malkowski
• Publish Date: 12/16/2012
• Dimensions: 8.54in x 0.25in x 10.9in
• Softcover

This title lets you discover 20+ quick-and-easy techniques for creating your very own landscape art quilt. Let the fabric do the work! In "Quick Little Landscape Quilts", award-winning quilter Joyce Becker shows you uncomplicated ways to work with landscape-themed fabrics to make a quilted wall hanging you'll be proud to show off. You can learn how to quickly build an eye-catching scene using her proven techniques for painting, fusing, embellishing, and embroidering.

• Pages: 48
• Author: Joyce Becker
• Publish Date: 01/16/2011
• Dimensions: 8.59in x 0.13in x 11.14in
• Softcover

How big is a twin-size quilt? How many squares can you cut from the amount of fabric you have? What’s the best way to sew a mitered border? How do you make bias binding? The All-in-One Quilter's Reference Tool gives you fast answers to these and dozens of other quilting questions. Now this indispensable guide has been updated to include more answers, more techniques, more quilt settings, and more blocks than ever before.

• Pages: 72
• Author: Harriet Hargrave and Alex Anderson, Sharyn Craig, and Liz Aneloski
• Publish Date: 02/07/2014
• Dimensions: 5.76in x 0.2in x 9.04in
• Spiral-Bound

This book includes 16 projects, twelve using my strip-pieced method from Not Your Grandmother s Tumbling Blocks and several updated designs from Sara Nephew s most popular book Big Book of Building Block Quilts including Hollow Cube, Honeycomb Waffle, Downtown, and Space Crystal. You will be inspired to explore the world of 3-D with the full color photos and step-by-step illustrations. With no set-in seams these traditionally challenging designs are now easy enough for beginners. Everyone from the beginner to the experienced quilter will find enjoyment and success. The methods throughout this book make 3-D designs as easy as ABC.

• Pages: 128
• Author: Marci Baker
• Publish Date: 04/07/2015
• Dimensions: 8.51in x 0.38in x 10.97in
• Softcover

Everything first time quilter need to succeed, with 8 quick, easy and beautiful projects. Alex guides you every step of the way as you learn to plan, cut, piece, quilt and bind your quilt. Expanded edition includes new projects, more quilt sizes and lots of helpful new tips and shortcuts. Uses Creative Grids CGR24.

• Pages: 48
• Author: Alex Anderson
• Publish Date: 09/16/2009
• Dimensions: 8.6in x 0.15in x 11.13in
• Softcover

With both a new way to make quilts and a new approach to color for quilters, French Braid Quilts teaches crafters to identify color values and use them to create intriguing braided pieces. Fourteen projects, from wall hangings to bed quilts, are just the beginning of the great looks sewers can achieve. Uses Creative Grids CGR24 and CGRBR6. Color is key when you "braid" a variety of fabrics into an eye-catching quilt. Learn to identify value in fabric and use it to create the effect you want-in these quilts and every quilt you make!

• Pages: 80
• Author: Jane Hardy and Arlene Netten
• Publish Date: 04/01/2006
• Dimensions: 8.63in x 0.22in x 11.11in
• Softcover

Simple steps to dazzle friends and impress people: 1. Buy One-Block Wonders. 2. Follow precise directions to choose a large-scale print, calculate yardage, and cut and piece these drop-dead gorgeous quilts. 3. Graciously accept cheers and accolades from all. Big pieces and clever shortcut methods make these quilts go together fast so that quilters can spend more time with their admiring public. 6 quilt projects, plus over a dozen gallery quilts and techniques for creating endless one-block variations. Create dramatic new design effects: hollow cubes, cubes sliced open, & blocks tumbling into the borders. Still no Y-seams! All piecing is easy straight lines.

• Pages: 72
• Author: Maxine Rosenthal
• Publish Date: 03/01/2006
• Dimensions: 8.68in x 0.23in x 11.12in
• Softcover

Popular quilting expert Ricky Tims presents an imaginative, new piecing technique that quilters will adore! Convergence quilts feature two or more fabrics cut into strips, sewn together, then cut and pieced again. Nothing could be simpler - or more magical! Ricky offers lots of creative guidelines but no hard-and-fast rules, so every Convergence quilt is a unique work of art.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Ricky Tims
• Publish Date: 10/01/2003
• Dimensions: 8.64in x 0.24in x 11.11in
• Softcover

Journey through a historic time in American history with Barbara Brackman, bestselling author and quilt historian. Barbara's book features fifty quilt blocks that commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Each block (most were first published in the 1930s) was selected for the symbolism its name lends to recounting stories from the era's women. This compilation of quilt block patterns includes period photos and first-person accounts. Choose from pieced or appliquéd blocks, each in two colorways with instructions for 8” and 12” sizes. Dig into your reproduction fabrics and enjoy combining blocks to make your own tribute quilt.

• Pages: 112
• Author: Barbara Brackman
• Publish Date: 01/16/2013
• Dimensions: 8.41in x 0.32in x 11.1in
• Softcover

Here’s Bargello like you’ve never seen it before: stunning quilts full of free-form twists, turns, and 3-D effects that look like Op-art paintings. The biggest surprise is how simple these quilts are to make! Designer Ruth Ann Berry shows you how to use easy, straight-line strip piecing to create the illusion of curves in motion. 8 projects with complete instructions plus directions on how to create your own designs. Slice up your stash—novelty fabrics and even ugly fabrics look good when cut up for Bargello piecing. Large-scale quilts look spectacular on a bed or on the wall.

• Pages: 64
• Author: Ruth Ann Berry
• Publish Date: 06/01/2014
• Dimensions: 8.5in x 0.21in x 10.95in
• Softcover

Discover how to create amazing optical illusion on fabric with these easy techniques using simple geometric shapes. Take your quilting to a higher dimension with this stunning new volume filled with techniques and design strategies for using simple geometric shapes to create dramatic imagery that seems to defy logic! "One-Block Wonders Cubed!" features 10 fantastic quilt designs, plus bonus projects for leftover fabrics - such as tote bags, coasters, and placemats.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Maxine Rosenthal and Joy Pelzmann
• Publish Date: 04/16/2010
• Dimensions: 8.66in x 0.26in x 11.15in
• Softcover