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Fabulous Flowers - Never Need Watering, Always in Bloom! Make roses, calla lilies, birds of paradise, and 14 more “perennial" favorites. Projects for all skill levels, with easy step-by-step instructions and how-to photos. Make one or a dozen, a single variety or a mixed bouquet. Use as seasonal home accents and gifts for friends and family. Flowers so lifelike, you'll want to reach out and touch them! Now you can make them yourself, even if you're a beginning sewer. The secret is wool felt and simple fabric sculpting techniques created by expert Lynne Farris. The book includes 17 complete projects with patterns and easy-to-follow instructions. Toss in a few everyday craft supplies and you'll be well on your way to creating your own glorious, stitched flower garden. Simplify Your Felt Flower Projects with SIMPLY STEMS Ready-to-Use, Pre-Wrapped Wire Stems. Available in 1/4" Diameter and 1" Diameter
Deck the Halls with Christmas Projects for the Whole House! Dress your home in cheery holly, sporty Santas, darling angels, and folksy favorites this Christmas! Mix and match appliqué designs to fit your holiday spirit. Wrap up your home with adorable quilts, tree skirts, table runners, and other holiday accessories. Can’t choose? Make a few for yourself or give them as gifts—they’re quick and easy using fusible appliqué, simple piecing, and other speedy techniques. 17 projects and over 90 full-size patterns to mix and match.
Stock Up Your Creative Toolbox With Indispensable Quilt Design Techniques. Supercharge your creative spirit with 10 lessons in designing with fabrics-from basic design principles to finding new sources of inspiration. Take an artistic journey through the creative processes of 8 real-life quilters and learn with them as they work through a series of design challenges. Learn to experiment, evaluate results, and enhance your designs, working either by yourself or with a group. Use critique groups to improve your work with other quilters' insights. The lessons you'll learn in this inspiring workshop will help you bring new creativity to any style of quilting or fiber arts, whether your tastes are traditional or contemporary. It's a must for anyone who loves to design with fabric.
If you're a fabric-lover, then you know that sewing basic patterns with straight lines is the quickest (and possibly the most satisfying) way to get yourself to a finished quilt. Squares and rectangles are not just for beginners With no-fuss piecing, you're free to explore all kinds of exciting possibilites with different colours, fabrics, and layouts. You'll love how easy it is to customize these quilts and make them your own. This book also shows you how to alter patterns for a completely different look by resizing the blocks, trying a different setting, or changing the colour palette.
Add flair to any room with 22 color-rich felt projects. Learn all the different ways to work with wool felt-hand or machine needle felting, wet felting, sewing with felt fabric, even felting with silk.
Create Personalized Mementos for Your Favorite People. Turn favorite pictures and objects into one-of-a-kind gifts to treasure. 13 fun projects easy enough to complete in a day or a weekend. Personalize your projects the easy way with your digital camera, scanner, printer, or all-in-one. Give someone you love the best gift of all-good memories. These 13 easy projects include a scrapbook quilt with photos of favorite people, a wallhanging that displays a child's artwork, a word-and-picture quilt for beginning readers, a growth chart, scrapbook pages, a scrapbook clock, and other clever ways to display photos and treasured objects through printing on fabric.
Here, readers can discover how to add dramatic depth to their landscape applique quilts using easy-to-follow techniques from master quilter Gloria Loughman."
Sophisticated Style with Simple Piecing Multiple sizes, alternative colorways, and design tips are included for all 10 project quilts Patterns range from "quick and easy" to "involved but inspiring" Learn about color theory, fabric selection, and elements of design Build your skills with step-by-step instruction and tips on piecing, hand or machine appliqué and quilting, and finishing This is your "go-to" book for contemporary quiltmaking! You'll love the dramatic results you get with this modern approach to quiltmaking. Popular author/designer team of Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr present their design and construction methods with 10 projects, then show you how to transform their ideas into quilts that truly express who you are.
Design one-of-a-kind art cloth for your favorite quilting, sewing, home décor, and garment projects! This comprehensive guide to water-based resist dyeing techniques makes the process easy to learn (and even more fun to play with) using textile artist Lisa Kerpoe’s test-driven instructions for creating depth on a flat surface. Create dimensional effects with ingredients like oatmeal, sugar, and soy wax—mix and match 8 resists with 7 application techniques for endless possibilities. Paint, stamp, stencil, splatter, layer…and come away with soft, touchable fabric. Materials for non-toxic resists are easy to find, starting with your kitchen cupboards!
“Carol and Bobbi have done a stunning job of transforming the designs . . . a valuable source of information and inspiration for all quilt lovers.” —Machine Quilting Unlimited You’ll love these contemporary interpretations of antique quilts from the International Quilt Study Center. Bobbi Finley and Carol Gillham Jones pored through the museum’s collection to find inspiration quilts for their latest project designs, ranging from simply functional to delightfully pictorial. These projects show off a remarkable array of styles, settings, and colorways—each adaptation uniquely mirrors the essential qualities of each quilt. Celebrate our rich quilt heritage by making these projects using various techniques like appliqué or improvisational piecing with traditional blocks. Plus you’ll learn how to approach designing an artistic spin on your own antique treasures. “As the saying goes, what goes around comes around and we are still drawing inspiration from quilters whether their work is classed as antique or innovative.” —Fabrications Quilting for You