Download or read book Magic Crazy Patchwork written by J. Marsha Michler and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crazy Quilting The Complete Guide written by J. Marsha Michler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your one-stop source for crazy quilting know-how! From Victorian quilts to contemporary works of art, crazy quilting has evolved into a beautiful mixture of piecing, embroidery, and fabric techniques. Crazy Quilting - The Complete Guide tells you everything you need to know to create your own beautiful heirloom crazy quilts, including: • 10 different methods for piecing. • More than 100 embroidery stitches for ribbons, flosses and threads. • Techniques for dyeing, painting, stamping, printing, and embroidering on silk, cotton, rayon, wool and linen. • Instructions for adding buttons, beads, tassels, cording and other dimensional embellishments. • Tips for finishing your quilts. Whether you are just getting started or have been quilting for years, Crazy Quilting - The Complete Guide is guaranteed to be the crazy quilting resource you turn to the most.
Download or read book The Magic of Crazy Quilting written by J. Marsha Michler and published by Krause Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete crazy quilting book guides readers in creating a crazy quilt from start to finish. Featuring over 15 embellishment techniques, four piecing methods, and 1000 embroidery stitch variations, combinations and patterns, it will enthral quilt lovers, embroidery enthusiasts, and ribbon artists of all levels.
Download or read book Crazy Quilts written by Betty Fikes Pillsbury and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textile artist and instructor Betty Fikes Pillsbury has won hundreds of awards for her homages to the elegance of Victorian crazy quilting. Grounded in traditional methods but crafted with elements of whimsy, each piece stands on its own as a work of art. In this definitive guide, Pillsbury shares her methods for piecing, embroidering, and embellishing. Her instructions equip readers at any level of quilting skill to use those techniques to express their own visions. Encouraging her readers to see functional and artistic possibilities beyond quilts (wall hangings, purses, and pillowcases are just some of the options), Pillsbury shows them how to make each work by hand, the slow cloth way. An inspiring primer for beginning and experienced quilters alike, this meticulously illustrated how-to book is far more expansive than previous guides. Pillsbury—a master of the form—shows us why crazy quilting belongs firmly in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Crazy Quilting for Beginners Handy Pocket Guide written by Sharon Boggon and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy quilting basics to get you started Rooted in the Victorian era, crazy quilting has a powerful allure for today's quilters, who use it to let loose and tell a unique story with fabric. These quilts are as beautiful as they are intimidating to beginner quilters — how do you know which fabric to choose and what in the world is a herringbone stitch? This beginner's guide covers all the basics — but just the basics! — to get you started on crazy quilting. Trained in fine arts, Sharon Boggon guides you through choosing fabric and introduces piecing methods for crazy-quilt blocks and solutions to common piecing problems. You'll then navigate Boggon's generous overview of foundation stitches, linear stitches, and motif stitches. Move forward in your crazy quilting journey with confidence, and use this handy pocket guide as a robust resource to lead the way! Easily make embellishing decisions, including lace, ribbon, braids, and doilies Learn how to correctly start and finish stitches Start your project knowing how to mark the fabric and decorate seams, and combine stitches with a gallery of images by your side
Download or read book The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design written by Sharon Boggon and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See it, stitch it! Thirty-five contemporary crazy-quilting stitches, photographed step by step. Rooted in the Victorian era, crazy quilting has a powerful allure for today's quilters, who use it to let loose and tell a unique story with fabric. Embrace crazy quilting with thirty-five must-know stitches and endless variations, shown in clear, step-by-step photographs for both right- and left-handed stitchers. Fine artist Sharon Boggon reveals design fundamentals to guide you in your process, so you can sew thoughtful, visually appealing blocks. Learn the theory and process behind this fascinating art: how to choose fabrics, piece stitch-and-flip blocks, and embellish seams with embroidery, beads, buttons, and charms. • Learn crazy-quilting techniques with colorful photos that show every detail • Combine fabric, embellishments, and thirty-five stitches, plus endless variations, into stunning crazy quilts as unique as you • Unpack savvy design principals to make order of the chaos and guide the viewer's eye around the block
Download or read book The Crazy Quilt Handbook Revised written by Judith Baker Montano and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2001-10-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create your own heirloom crazy quilts with help from world-famous expert Judith Baker Montano! This classic guide has been updated in full color. New projects, new photography, and up-to-the-minute techniques make the process more user-friendly than ever. 3 new designs for a total of 10 beautiful projects to get you started, including wallhangings, jewelry, and an evening bag. Judith walks you through the process of putting together a crazy quilt using her unique center piece method, showing you how to choose fabrics and lay the foundation, to adding decorative details and solving problems. Detailed instructions for traditional embroidery stitches, beading, lace, fabric painting, and other creative embellishments. Dozens of color photos of stunning crazy quilts, wearables, accessories, and more. Features historical notes on crazy quilting, an illustrated stitch dictionary, and exciting crazy quilting embellishments
Download or read book The Crazy Quilt Handbook written by Judith Baker Montano and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes how-to information.
Download or read book Splice Magic written by Tiffany Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splice Magic is a groundbreaking quilting technique by Tiffany Hayes of Needle in a Hayes Stack. Tiffany Hayes, together with Kristie J. Smith and a host of friends, created a pattern book of 10 quilts to showcase the Splice Magic technique. The book is sponsored by Stitchin' Heaven, in Quitman, TX.
Download or read book Crazy Quilts by Machine written by J. Marsha Michler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a Breathtaking Heirloom Known for their lavish embellishment, bold colors, and refined composition, crazy quilts are Victoriana at its best. Crazy quilts are traditionally pieced and embellished with hand methods, but now you - regardless of your skill level - have an all-in-one resource for creating crazy quilts solely by machine or by combining hand and machine methods. Besides providing four machine piecing and patching methods, this lavishly illustrated volume includes: • An encyclopedia of machine embellishments suitable for any machine that will do straight and zigzag stitches • Complete instructions for 20 original, unique crazy quilted projects • Designs for bed, wall, and children's quilts, throws, table covers and pillows • Full-size templates
Download or read book Crazy Quilts written by Cindy Brick and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here's your chance to get up close and personal with an amazing collections of crazies!" - Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. Made from the finest silks, satins, and velvets and stitched together with elaborate embroidery, the crazy quilt is a testament to quilters’ rich imagination and artistry. This beautiful book traces the bewitching history of “Crazies” from their earliest origins to the present day. Distinguished quilting teacher and appraiser Cindy Brick follows the crazy quilt from colonial times, the Civil War, the Victorian era, and through today, decoding the mystery and meaning of these curious quilts. Also included is a detailed how-to section on constructing crazy quilts. Brick offers methods for planning, piecing, and embroidering or embellishing your quilt, and gives numerous helpful tips that only an expert could provide.
Download or read book The Crazy Quilt Handbook written by Judith Baker Montano and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic guide to crazy quilting, now with new projects, stitches, and techniques For nearly 30 years, The Crazy Quilt Handbook has been the essential guide to the fine art of crazy quilting. This newly updated edition brings you more of everything that makes crazy quilting wonderful: gorgeous stitches, embellishments, fabulous crazy quilt photos, and updated beautiful projects to make for yourself. Learn all the ways you can use crazy quilting to decorate clothing and accessories, beautify your home, share family memories, and create heirlooms for future generations. This is the must-have resource for any crazy quilter, whether you are just a beginner or are an experienced stitcher looking to enhance your technique. • The best-selling crazy quilting guide from world-renowned expert Judith Baker Montano (over 230,000 copies sold!), now updated with new stitches and techniques • Includes 12 beautiful projects, a dictionary of 37 embroidery and silk ribbon stitches, and instructions for additional embellishments • Benefit from Judith’s wealth of knowledge on colors, fabrics, piecing, embroidery, appliqué, embellishing, beading, photography, painting, dyeing, and more
Download or read book Crazy Quilting Volume I written by Kathy Seaman Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in a series of Crazy Quilting instructional books. The "basics" and more are covered in this first volume. Topics include: How to apply the Principles of Design to guarantee balanced results. Take the guess work out of selecting colors of fabric and embellishment supplies. Dye your own ribbons, lace and fabric. Stitch fancy seams that are easy, always beautiful, uniformly spaced and balanced. Use diagrams of the surface embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, and surface beading stitches to help you create these perfectly every time. Plus 94 seam designs, template patterns, and eight full size block patterns are inside. This is a great book for the novice crazy quilter or even stitchers that have never done a crazy quilt, embroidery of any kind, but want to learn to create beautiful embellished crazy quilt projects.
Download or read book Crazy Quilt D cor written by J. Marsha Michler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Marsha Michler, the leading designer and author in the area of crazy quilting, now joins the popular quilting technique with home decor. Quilters will follow her innovative techniques and step-by-step instructions for creating 30 crazy quilt home decor projects in popular themes such as Oriental, Victorian, Folk art, Country, Western and Whimsical. Featuring an excellent selection of projects for the home, including small quilts, window treatments, chair and table covers, pillows, baskets, picture frames, and lampshades, this book is well worth the investment. Quilters will learn several methods of crazy quilting, including topstitch applique, confetti piecing, the antique method, one-layer topstitch applique, the heirloom method, and collage method and the stained glass method.
Download or read book Foolproof Crazy Quilting written by Jennifer Clouston and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[The author] presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons [and] describes how to take each stitch.” —Publishers Weekly 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 Included are complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; links to full-size patterns for nine hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.
Download or read book Quilting Just a Little Bit Crazy written by Allie Aller and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross traditional crazy quilting with favorite pieced quilt patterns and today’s machine quilting methods, and what do you get? Crazy fun for all kinds of quilters, even those who don’t like handwork. Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell’s guide offers an exuberant mixture of vintage and modern, hand and machine work, and clever ways to make traditional quilts a little crazy. Includes 10 projects in sizes from small wall hangings to bed quilts; photo instructions for 15 crazy quilt and silk ribbon embroidery stitches; and tips for combining crazy quilting with machine piecing and embroidery.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Crazy Quilt Stitches and Motifs written by Linda Causee and published by DRG Wholesale. This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 90 Crazy Quilt Stitches are illustrated with how-to instructions. In addition to these amazing stitches, you will find ribbon motifs that are perfect for adding dimension to your crazy patchwork.
