Download or read book RX for Quilters written by Susan Delaney-Mech and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2000-03-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research confirms that simple sewing tasks lower your heart rate and blood pressure. Quilting and other stitching activities offer relaxation, calming rhythms, and healthy benefits. "Rx for Quilters" is just what the doctor ordered! Gentle, encouraging health advice from a quilter who is also an M.D. How to care for your body so your stitching life can be comfortable and pain-free. Avoid common injuries to your hands, wrists, neck, shoulders, and back. Improve fitness and manage weight with real-world tips for healthy eating and simple daily exercise. Maximize quilting time in a life busy with obligations to family, friends, employers, and yourself. Learn how hormonal shifts, pregnancy, aging, and personal injury or illness affect your stitching. Customize your work area at home, workshops, and retreats.
Download or read book The Quilter s Catalog written by Meg Cox and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bee-all and End-all: The complete quilter's companion and essential resource, jam-packed with information, supplies, expert interviews, techniques, community, and inspiration. All the tools of the trade: rotary cutters, sewing machines, longarms, anddesign software; fabulous fabrics and where to find them; and if you're just starting out, everything that belongs in a quilting basket. The online world made manageable with a guide to the most useful blogs, websites, e-mail lists, free patterns, and podcasts. National and regional shows, guilds, and the best retreats and quilt museums. Batting parties, tutorials on fabric dying, and a breezy history of the quilt boom. Profiles of twenty top teachers-including television's Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, and Ruth B. McDowell, known for her bravura technique. This is a book to help every quilter deepen and grow-keep it as close by as your stash of fat quarters -Cover.
Download or read book Hand Quilting with Alex Anderson written by Alex Anderson and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to quilt in all directions and customize your stitch. Includes 6 small projects.
Download or read book Cut Loose Quilts written by Jan Mullen and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18 fun, colorful projects - with no points to match! Jan's designs are easy enough for beginners, but interesting enough for expert quilters.
Download or read book Quilting The Complete Guide written by Darlene Zimmerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quilting - The Complete Guide lives up to its name! It covers all of the essential knowledge you need to complete any quilting project: the tools, formulas, methods, finishing techniques, and quilt care you need to know. It's the perfect companion for all quilting projects.
Download or read book Magical Four Patch and Nine Patch written by Yvonne Porcella and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted fiber artist Yvonne Porcella turns her talents to the most basic quilt block patterns, Four-Patches and Nine-Patches, and she will turn your world upside down! Join her on the journey to creating your own innovative quilts. 10 incredible quilting projects. Quilts are constructed using simple strip piecing and foundation piecing. Yvonne's "e;Magical Numbering System"e; makes choosing fabrics practically painless. Suggestions for personalizing your work to make it yours alone.
Download or read book Celebrate the Tradition with C T Publishing written by Sharyn Craig and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C&T celebrates 20 years of beautiful books! Join C&T Publishing in celebrating 20 years of top-quality quilt books and paying tribute to the authors who made it possible! In honor of our 20th anniversary, the world’s best quilt designers, fiber artists, and quilting teachers - all C&T authors - have designed quilt blocks for us (and you!), plus share advice and memorable stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry. Over 70 commemorative blocks from longtime and brand-new C&T authors combined into 4 extraordinary anniversary quilts. Author reminiscences and qulting tips, plus block illustrations and basic instructions. The inspiring story of how C&T got started in 1983. Fun bonus - a glimpse of first quilts from famous authors alongside their latest work
Download or read book Smashing Sets written by Margaret J. Miller and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Miller offers a new perspective for settings using traditional blocks. You'll find hundreds of ideas for combining simple but unexpected designs, easy piecing, and a bit of fabric savvy.
Download or read book The Quilters Ultimate Visual Guide written by Ellen Pahl and published by Rodale. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 700 how-to illustrations for backing quilts, embellishment, paper piecing, machine quilting, and using templates and stencils
Download or read book Simply Successful Applique written by Jeanne Sullivan and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning applique quilting artist, Jeanne Sullivan, shows you how to create flawless appliqué in just minutes—by hand or machine. Get pinpoint accuracy more easily with this comprehensive visual guide (includes bonus CD of full-size template patterns). Anyone can learn her stress-free methods, even if you’ve never tried appliqué. Seasoned quilters and sewers will also love these new techniques for more complex designs and for faster, easier ways to make ruching, narrow lines, reverse appliqué, Broderie Perse, and more. Plus “what you see is what you get” with Jeanne’s process…work with your fabrics and templates right side up!
Download or read book Free Style Quilts written by Susan E. Carlson and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact C&T Publishing. Susan Carlson's incredible quilts of underwater landscapes, floral designs, fish, and portraits come to life as she shares her easy, "no rules" fabric collage technique and shows how to create your own beautiful free-style quilt designs. - Includes step-by-step instructions and 3 different patterns for Susan's fish designs, as well as how-to's for making flowers and butterflies - No limits, no rules to follow. The technique is fun and easy, and you don't need a degree in art to produce images that are imaginative, creative, and artistic - Using Susan's collage technique, cut fabric shapes freehand or use a pattern, building up layers as you go. Once your design in in place, you're ready to machine quilt. - Helpful hints for choosing fabric, drawing your own patterns, and finishing as a bound quilt or framing under glass
Download or read book Freestyle Machine Embroidery written by Carol Shinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the possibilities of freestyle machine embroidery and its applications for quilting and fiber art with this inspirational guidebook for all skill levels. This overview of all the basic methods and stitches for each technique includes step-by-step photographs and illustrations, diagrams, close-ups of sample swatches, troubleshooting tips, and design guidance, altogether elevating crafters' skills to an artistic level. Beginning with an introduction that includes a list of necessary supplies, chapters cover adjusting thread tension, understanding fabric distortion as it relates to stitching direction, and caring for a sewing machine. This comprehensive guide is sure to move crafters beyond the basics of the stitching process to using color and texture creatively in unique designs and professional-grade finishes.
Download or read book Quilter s Complete Guide written by Leisure Arts and published by Oxmoor House. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information and detailed instructions for beginning and advanced quilters on the techniques of quilting and on the details of making a variety of popular patchwork and quilting patterns.
Download or read book Quilting for Dummies written by Cheryl Fall and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quilts Quilts and More Quilts written by Diana McClun and published by From the Authors of the Best S. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a storehouse of quilt patters, as well as a textbook of all the techniques you will need to make these magnificent quilts, by hand or machine, pierced or appliqued, from your initial fabric and pattern choices to the final stitch. Each step of every process is explained clearly, with helpful diagrams, suggestions, and professional secrets.
Download or read book Quilter s Complete Guide written by Marianne Fons and published by Oxmoor House. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expertise of Marianne Fons and Liz Porter has expanded into a national television show, as well as the magazine For the Love of Quilting. Their book is literally the complete guide to the art of quilting with its easy-to-understand instructions and photography to guide quilters through every step of the quilting process. This revised edition is expanded to cover topics such as using computers, photo transfer, new quick-piecing techniques, stamping fabric, signing quilt blocks, creating memory quilts, and much more!
Download or read book All Things Quilting with Alex Anderson written by Alex Anderson and published by C&T Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Anderson's "big book" of quilting includes indispensable, straightforward advice-essential tools, binding basics, and easy-to-understand piecing and appliqué. Become a master of hand and machine quilting, and finish with professional touches that will turn you into a confident, lifelong quilter. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced quilter, this must-have compendium will find a permanent home next to your sewing machine!
