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Tile Quilt Revival
Versatile Appliqué Quilts Inspired by 19th Century Tile Quilts. A contemporary take on a charming quilting tradition. Use your favorite appliqué technique-needle turn, machine appliqué, or fused. 6 projects teach you about designing and constructing various styles of tile quilts, from traditional to contemporary. Includes a fascinating history of tile quilts, plus photo galleries of both historic and contemporary quilts. Big blocks of 10" x 10" or even 15" x 15" are great for bold contemporary fabrics. Easy "grouted" designs let you show off curves and irregular shapes. Great way to use many different fabrics, scraps too! Choose solid or pieced backgrounds to enhance your "tiles". Inspired by nineteenth-century tile quilts, these projects work beautifully with today's colorful, contemporary fabrics, but they retain that folk-art style that makes them so much fun to sew and show off.
Fresh Perspectives
Contemporary interpretations of antique quilts from the International Quilt Study Center.
Quilter's 1,000 Blocks
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!
Four Centuries of Quilts
An exquisite and authoritative look at four centuries of quilts and quilting from around the world Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlights the splendor and craft of quilts with more than 300 superb color images and details. Fascinating essays by two noted scholars trace the evolution of quilting styles and trends as they relate to the social, political, and economic issues of their time. The collection includes quilts made by diverse religious and cultural groups over 400 years and a...
Beautiful Botanicals
“A wonderful way to bring more beauty into your life . . . sophisticated floral appliqué projects, varying in size from pillows to quilts.” —The Professional Quilter Magazine Plant an indoor garden with a bounty of lyrical appliqué designs. All the project patterns are interchangeable, so you can create endless combinations of flowers and leaves. See how color-saturated cottons, vibrant silks, and tone-on-tone chintzes breathe new life into botanical appliqué. • 14 sophisticated floral appliqué projects include pillows, table runners, and small tapestry-style quilts and wall hangings • Full-size templates for 45 appliqué flowers, 2 butterflies, and 5 borders • Stitch up the projects as shown, or mix-and-match patterns to create your own masterpiece
Ricky Tims' Kool Kaleidoscope Quilts
Learn Tims’ innovative techniques step-by-step to create a stunning kaleidoscope quilt of your own. • An inspirational gallery of 26 student quilts • Like snowflakes, each quilt you make with this technique will be unique • Includes easy steps to enlarge or reduce the size of your quilt Create a spectacular kaleidoscope quilt with Ricky's unique strip-piecing method for making a multi-faceted pattern. You'll see impressive and intricate results from simple sets of strips; it’s foolproof with little need for pre-planning. The beauty lies in the unpredictability of how the fabric unfolds—just like a real kaleidoscope!
Diamond Chain Quilts
Featuring new techniques that bring the drama of diamonds to traditional designs, bestselling quilt designer and author Barbara Cline showcases 10 striking new quilts. Barbara shows how to create complex looks by combining diamonds with easy shapes like triangles and trapezoids. Quilters learn to strip piece diamond chains, then use them everywhere in stars, in Irish Chains, in sashing, and in borders. . Best-selling author! Build on the success of her two previous books . Quilts include dramatic new daisy, pinwheel, and hexagonal quilt designs with diamond chains . Patterns for quilts in several sizes, from wall hangings to large bed quilts"
Rotary Cutting Revolution
The Make It Simpler? Way of rotary cutting is a brand new method for cutting your fabric pieces quickly'in just one step! Best-selling author and teacher Anita Grossman Solomon shows you how to cut squares into smaller pieces with precision but without waste. When you use her efficient shortcuts, you'll get more bang for your fabric buck!
Women of Design
Quilt historian Barbara Brackman explores the influence of early newspaperbased designers on American quilting, and offers quilt blocks that celebrate those individuals.
Allie Aller's Crazy Quilting
Welcome to the "new" crazy! • Jump into crazy quilting with seven enticing projects that include small quilts, a needle cushion, and a softie • Learn four different crazy piecing methods • Try creative techniques on fabric, such as stenciling, photo-transfer, and Angelina fiber effects • Discover how to add beauty and dimension to your work with embellishments like 3-D ribbon flowers, embroidery, beads, and painted lace • Follow along with a step-by-step photo guide that takes you from cutting to piecing to binding Allie shows you how to make crazy quilting more contemporary with an array of easy-to-master techniques. You'll learn how to combine traditional methods with modern fabric tricks. The photo gallery reveals just how fun crazy quilting can be -and anyone can do it.
