Discover the excitement of creating intricate three-dimensional designs with a needle and thread and your own hands as you see your creations come to life through the fabric manipulation technique of lattice smocking. Learn 20 different ways to sculpt a fabric surfaces to enhance both your accessories and home décor. This book showcases 20 beautiful and captivating patterns, including leaves, shells, and hearts, all carefully selected for their ease of creation and versatility. Each pattern includes front and rear views, stitching diagrams with instructions, and notes on fabric compatibility. This book also features 16 simple projects that incorporate lattice smocking making the technique enjoyable even for beginners to complete on their first attempt.

• Publish Date: 09/07/2026
• Size: 8x10
• 152 pages

Once a luxury for sewing enthusiasts, embroidery machines have become the norm in the home sewing industry. They’re the next step in the sewing journey once the basics are mastered and even non-sewers can learn to embellish readymade objects from towels to T-shirts with an embroidery-capable sewing machine. Like magic, users can download a digitized design in minutes from the thousands of affordable motifs online or even learn to create their own to stitch out. Joi Mahon’s Perfect Guide covers them all. From selecting designs for different fabrics, hooping and stabilizing, downloading and transferring, thread and needle choices, alignment, and even embroidery on pre-made or hard to handle items, this handy guide will be every machine user’s go-to, easy-to follow manual offering crucial information at their fingertips every time they start a project.

• Publish Date: 09/22/2026
• Size: 7x9
• 96 pages

A collection of forty creative designs for easy and colorful crochet blocks. Not your usual granny squares! Celine Semaan has designed more than contemporary and colorful 6" x 6" blocks to get your creativity flowing. Blocks are the best way to try out new stitches and color combinations, and they can then be used to make four projects, including a blanket, pillow, and wall hanging. There is a basic overview on color theory, more than forty granny square patterns, each with: written instructions, chart, and detailed photos, showing stitch detail. 8.7 x 8.8

• Pages: 128
• Publisher: Krause
• Publish Date: 05/03/22
• Size: 8.7in x 8.8in
• Softcover

Hundreds of quilt blocks from today's top designers! From innovative to traditional, whimsical to sophisticated, classic to unique, Quilter's 1,000 Blocks is filled with ideas for your next project! This comprehensive guide covers every block-making approach including applique, foundation-pieced, mixed techniques and pieced. It also features settings and yardages for turning your blocks into beautiful quilts, and quilt-making techniques for easy reference. This extensive block collection is sure to be a quilter's best friend! 10.9 in H | 8.3 in W | 0.8 lb Wt

• Pages: 528
• Publish Date: 11/19/2024
• Softcover

Jen's strong sense for color and pattern gives her quilt designs an unmatched originality. Her style is a unique and unconventional mix of brights, traditional and modern fabrics that make for distinctive, stylish quilts popular worldwide. - Shop appeal: Projects are engineered for shop owners to sell fabrics and quilting notions. - Traditional and Modern: Jen intertwines traditional designs with the modern fabrics to appeal to a wide variety of quilters. She also puts more focus on hand quilting and piecing than other quilting books, which provides hand quilters with a resources and offers machine quilters the chance to learn new techniques. The 9 quilt designs and 6 cushions designs in this book play into the resurgence of hand stitching, as hand piecing, hand applique and hand quilting are the author's passion. Yet these color-infused creations will also appeal to machine quilters looking for a fresh, new quilting challenge. Each design includes instructions and illustrations to reproduce each piece, as well as an appendix of general quilting information.

• Pages: 128
• Author: Jen Kingwell
• Publish Date: 03/11/2015
• Dimensions: 8.27in x 0.48in x 10.87in
• Softcover

More than 200 classic quilt blocks to create a keepsake quilt! From Rosemary Youngs, the author who brought you The Civil War Diary Quilt and Quilts from the American Homefront, comes this treasury of beloved quilt blocks. A stunning collection of classic quilt block patterns and historical anecdotes, this invaluable resource is perfect for quilters of all abilities. Combine the blocks to make any of the projects featured in the book, from full-sized quilts to table toppers and baby quilts. With so many blocks to choose from, you're sure to find inspiration in this book. Includes a digital link to download templates for 202 classic blocks in a ready-to-print PDF!

• Pages: 256
• Author: Rosemary Youngs
• Publish Date: 06/05/2014
• Dimensions: 8in x 0.8in x 8in
• Softcover

The 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at the time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired. Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt: - 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with assembly diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions. - Complete instruction for making a sampler quilt in any traditional size: lap, twin, queen or king. - Access to 106 easy to print, full sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt constriction diagrams. - 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer's Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country's past. - Full size templates are available to be downloaded and printed at https://www.quiltingdaily.com/farmerswifetemplates

• Pages: 256
• Author: Laurie Aaron Hird
• Publish Date: 10/09/2009
• Dimensions: 8.01in x 0.8in x 7.99in
• Softcover

Traditional Japanese embroidery technique, sashiko, is currently a major sewing trend in craft, interior design and fashion. The big stitches are used to create stunning, geometric patterns and texture to make home wares with a stylish, Japanese minimalist look. This collection of 8 simple sashiko patterns allows you try the technique yourself--projects include a tote bag, greetings cards, cushion, table mats, coaster, pocket hanging, a long sampler and Ranru hanging.

• Pages: 48
• Author: Susan Briscoe
• Publish Date: 02/01/2016
• Dimensions: 7.6in x 0.12in x 10.35in
• Softcover

Good & Plenty...lots of great quilts! book by Janet Rae Nesbitt of One Sister. 42 pages, 10 projects including: Where Flowers Bloom...and hope lives: This delightful small quilt features appliqued flower baskets on pieced backgrounds. Made with Janet's "Simply Charming" fabric collection from Henry Glass & Co. Finished size 26" x 38-1/2" A Quilter's Garden : A scrappy, magical springtime garden to enjoy year round with these fun nosegay blocks. Made with Janet's "Love Bugs" fabric collection from Henry Glass & Co. Finished size 71" x 82" Glow: Enjoy the soothing light of these stars with glowing halos radiating warmth and charm! This project requires Tri-Recs Ruler set or Creative Grids 2 Peaks in 1 ruler. Finished size 76" x 76" Christmas Glow: Create a scrappy star quilt that captures the magical, sparkly glow of the Christmas season perfectly! This project requires Tri-Recs Ruler set or Creative Grids 2 Peaks in 1 ruler. Made with Janet’s “Hearth & Home” and “Seeing Stars” Fabric Collections from Henry Glass. Finished size 84" x 84" Round Robin: Slightly different flower blocks for each “round” of this quilt creates interest & movement for this lovely Round Robin style quilt! Made with Janet’s “Hearth & Home” Fabric Collection from Henry Glass. Finished size 84" x 84" Bountiful Blessings: Sleep under this big star quilt made with all the colors of God’s many blessings! A quick and easy make! Made with Janet’s “Bountiful Blessings” Fabric Collection from Henry Glass. Finished size 94" x 94" Summer's End: Simple Star blocks in all the colors of autumn combine for this wonderful quilt. Made with Janet's Thistle & Rye fabric collection from Henry Glass. Finished size 76 x 78-1/2" Simply Scrappy: There’s something just so beautiful about a scrappy quilt that just makes my heart sing! Made with Janet’s “Simply Charming” Fabric Collection from Henry Glass. Finished size 72" x 84" Grateful: This project is one scrappy star block that uses up those small bits of leftovers. Great for gifting or as a coordinating label for the back of your quilt! Made with Janet’s “Simply Charming” Fabric Collection from Henry Glass. Finished size 8" square. Hello, Pumpkin! A quick make featuring plaid pumpkins to welcome guests at your door, or makes a fun pillow. 11" x 13" Author statement: I’ve always loved a good scrap quilt, and this collection of quilt designs contains some of my new favorites! All are traditionally pieced and/or appliquéd. I know there are so many quilts, and so little time, and I am truly grateful each time you choose one of my designs to make and enjoy. As is the case with many of my designs, they are influenced by the beauty I see right outside my window in my garden: the flowers and pumpkins, birdsong and blue sky, always counting my blessings for the gifts I’ve been given. Always remember that you, too, are a gift I’ve been given and I’m so thankful for you! May these quilts bring you joy and many blessings!

Crazylicious Scrappy Quilts by Janet Nesbitt of One Sister are a little bit crazy and a whole lot of scrappy! The projects include Focus: 94” x 94" Froth & Bubble: 82” x 82” Steps to Heaven: 82” x 82” Star Crazy Paws: 73-1/4” x 91-1/4” Stars in My Eyes: 69” x 78” Sunset Flyover: 49" x 49" Glass Stars: 38-1/2” x 38-1/2” My Small House: 28” x 34” Flitter, Flutter, Float: 28” x 34” Wreathed: 28" x 28" Crazy Stars and Bars: 28-1/2” x 28-1/2”

• Pages: 45
• Projects: 11
• Publish Date 02/01/2023
• Softcover

A collection of 6 large and 6 small quilts to enjoy with every changing season! From spooky ghosts and witches on Halloween, to sparkling Christmas ornaments, Easter baskets in the garden, and fun Shooting Stars for a summer picnic, projects to enjoy in every season, each in their own time!

• Pages: 40
• Publish Date: 10/15/2022
• Includes Full Size Patterns
• Softcover

Time for All Season 58” x 72” Seasonal projects to be enjoyed individually or combined for a spectacular year-round delight! Time for All Seasons can be a large quilt or a series of 7 small projects, using a variety of techniques that can be used as teaching/learning opportunities for shop owners. Made with the Time Well Spent fabric line designed by Janet Rae Nesbitt of One Sister for Henry Glass & Co., this line combines a palette of rich vibrant color of the bluebird with the cool and soothing colors of the earth and sky, It includes 33 skus and ships in January 2022. Projects include: - Spring Blossoms: 14in x 54in Table Runner - Sweet for the Soul 20in x 34in Small Quilt - Something to Crow About 24in x 58in Door Banner - Pick of the Crop 24in x 30in Small Quilt - Love Lives Here 16in x 18in Table Mat - Spinning Wheels 23in x 23in Small Quilt - Gathering Baskets 30in x 30in Small Quilt

• Author: Janet Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 12/15/2021
• Dimensions: 8.5in x 11in
• Softcover

This book includes the patterns for 7 quilts and 3 small projects, each reflecting the simple blessings of home.

• Pages: 32
• Publish Date: 2021
• Softcover
• Includes Full Size Patterns

Scrappy snowflake medallion quilt ncorporates both crazy pieced and traditional piecing methods.

• Author: Jane Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 2021
• Softcover

25 Years of Craziness piecing like crazy, sewing like the wind, laughing out loud, and making lasting memories with special friends. This scrap quilt incorporates both crazy pieced and traditional piecing methods.

• Author: Jane Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 2021
• Softcover

Crazy Good Life by Janet Rae Nesbitt One Sister. This book contains 12 projects, 9 from the original One Crazy Sister Club, PLUS 3 new projects! List of Projects: - Crazy Good Life - Dash for the Stars - Log Cabin Hearts - Happiness is Homemade - Happy Fall - Laugh Bloom Grow - Sunny Skies versions 1 & 2 - It’s A Dogs Life - Rainbow Hearts - Itty Bitty Welcome - Pumpkins for Sale

• Author: Jane Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 2020
• Softcover

Drive Me Crazy book by Janet Rae Nesbitt of One Sister includes 6 quilt projects for kids of all ages! Projects in this book include: - To Infinity & Beyond - Vroom Vroom Vroom - Scoop Dig Drive - 'Round About - No Toads Allowed - Crazy Peels

• Author: Jane Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 2019
• Softcover

Absolutely Crazy book by Janet Nesbitt of One Sister is Janet's newest book! Projects in this book include: - Crazy Spring - Songbird - Home Grown Happy - Star Madness - Sparkle - Christmas Sparkle - Dahlia - Hip Hip Hooray

• Author: Jane Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 2018
• Softcover

This book shares with you the work of a lazy summer stitching on my back porch. Twenty pages with five projects including needle-turned and wool applique including the block of the month quilt "On My Back Porch" with an alternate Welcome Flag Project.

• Pages: 20
• Author: Janet Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 2016
• Dimensions: 11in x 0.38in x 8.5in
• Softcover

The birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees, cats and dogs and stars up above, These things I do love! 13 different blocks combine in seven quilts to provide limitless possibilities.

• Author: Janet Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 2016
• Softcover

Wander down this way and you're sure to find designs you'll love! Janet Nesbitt's first book as One Sister provides you with 52 pages, six quilts, and one journal cover, incorporating a variety of piecing techniques including Janet's crazy piecing technique as well as ore traditional piecing practices including applique. Enjoy your quiet time while you applique this fabulous journal cover! It's wonderful both inside and out! Then after your done with your piecing, you can enjoy just a bit of applique on either "Smiling at Me" or "Our Home Town". There's even more to enjoy with the wool applique on "Autumn Sunset" since there are no edges to turn under and it adds so much dimension to the quilt!

• Pages: 56
• Author: Janet Nesbitt
• Publish Date: 2015
• Softcover

Book is 11x10. Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman are the creators of the New York Times bestselling BEAR books, and readers will be delighted to see a new installment with Bear and his friends. It's hard for children to wind down at the end of the day and become tired enough for bedtime. This story is a perfect way to settle kids in for the night.

• Pages: 40
• Hardcover

Cyndi McChesney returns with a third book, guiding quilters through 15 step-by-step projects using all quilt panel types to create full-size quilts and smaller quilt projects, with customizable blocks, colorways, and popular themes.

• Pages: 128
• Size: 8-1/2in x 11in
• Publish Date: 06/30/2026

Celebrate Christmas with the Elm Creek Quilters! New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini shares nine festive quilt projects, an exclusive holiday story, and behind-the-scenes series insights.

• Pages: 96
• Size: 8-1/2in x 11in
• Publish Date: 07/28/2026

Valerie Rankin’s Spring Craft Show turns deadly when a power outage leads to a mysterious death caught on camera, forcing her to unravel secrets and suspects, including her boyfriend’s nephew, before it’s too late.

• Publish Date: 4/28/2026
• Pages: 256
• Size: 5.5x8.5

After discovering a blood-stained 1880s quilt, Emma’s cozy Waxahachie, Texas, quilt retreat turns deadly when a guest is murdered, forcing her to unravel chilling clues before the killer strikes again.

• Publish Date: 2/24/2026
• Pages: 264
• Size: 5.5x8.5

Join Cindy Grisdela, author of Artful Improv and Adventures in Improv, as she guides you through the playful world of improvisational curves—no patterns, no templates, just freehand fun!

• Publish Date: 1/27/2026
• Pages: 88
• Size: 8.5x11

The Quilter’s Quick-Reference Guide is a sturdy, flip-friendly tabletop tool packed with essential quilting info, color-coded tabs, large print, and bonus block diagrams on the back of every page.

• Publish Date: 1/27/2026
• Pages: 48
• Size: 9x5.5

Create origami art with 333 sheets of origami-weight paper in 40 unique designs featuring adorable kawaii-style kittens. Includes 11 projects to inspire beginners and experienced origami artists!

• Pages: 692
• Publish Date: 09/25/2025
• Size: 8-1/2in x 11in

Bird lovers will delight in this intricate coloring book featuring beautiful, full-page, illustrated mandala-style designs with hummingbirds, flamingos, parakeets, and bird motifs!

• Pages: 64
• Publish Date: 08/25/2025
• Size: 11-1/2in x 11-1/2in