Download or read book French Braid Quilts written by Jane Hardy Miller and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple Piecing - Spectacular Quilts • One great technique, a variety of different looks! • LEARN TO USE VALUE: Create glowing effects by choosing a gradated range of fabrics. • Super-easy piecing means fast quilt construction • Make it yours with pretty borders, separator bands, and other creative variations Color is key when you "braid" a variety of fabrics into an eye-catching quilt. Learn to identify value in fabric and use it to create the effect you want-in these quilts and every quilt you make! Fourteen projects range from striking wall hangings to bed quilts.
Download or read book French Braid Quilts with a Twist written by Jane Hardy Miller and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Braid lovers won’t want to miss the latest evolution of Jane Hardy Miller’s wildly popular design series. Quilters have been asking for more, and Jane delivers with a collection of 8 vivid new quilts that give the French Braid some bold and surprising twists. You’ll want to try them all—from scrappy French Braids, to braids with variable widths and lengths, and much more. Easy strip piecing and clear instructions guarantee success for quilters of all levels. Collect all four of the best-selling French Braid quilt books.
Download or read book French Braid Obsession written by Jane Hardy Miller and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Ways to Indulge Your Passion for French Braid Quilts. 8 all-new projects feature lots of spectacular new ways to French braid your quilts. New shapes and sizes: wallhangings, table runners, multi-sided table toppers, and Christmas tree skirts. New ways to use French braids: borders, variable-width and star-shapes, or with appliqué and variegated fabrics. Spectacular new color palettes with big, bold prints. Take your French braid quilts in dramatic new directions with this sequel to the bestselling French Braid Quilts. You'll love the new shapes and sizes, new techniques, and bold new colors. You'll also love what hasn't changed-the fast strip piecing and crystal-clear instructions that have made French braid quilts a favorite style for thousands of quilters.
Download or read book Modern Quilt Magic written by Victoria Findlay Wolfe and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow your cache of quilter's tricks with 5 awe-inspiring patchwork techniques that are easier than they appear. Learn a new piecing trick in just 15 minutes or less, and watch your skills soar to a whole new level. Say "presto!" with partial seams for both quilts and blocks, Y-seams, mini improv piecing, and free-form curves. Victoria Findlay Wolfe shares 17 projects, including the eye-fooling Herringbone and LeMoyne Star quilt patterns, plus full-size templates and 6 quilt coloring pages to help you work your own quilt magic.
Download or read book Crazy Patchwork written by Janet Haigh and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From pillows and throws to memory book covers and lampshades, Crazy Patchwork takes the theme of traditional crazy quilts and applies its principles to a whole range of ideas for gifts and for the home. Includes all the information a crafter needs to make exciting crazy quilt projects...in no time! All 20 projects can be easily machine-pieced or machine-embroidered and all use a range of brilliant colors, Many of the projects can be completed in just hours!
Download or read book Jelly Roll Sampler Quilts written by Pam Lintott and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling jelly roll experts show you how to create your own unique quilts by mixing and matching more than fifty block designs. Pam and Nicky Lintott’s jelly roll quilting books have sold over 300,000 copies worldwide—and here they bring you a collection of ideas for ten stunning sampler quilts! Jelly Roll Sampler Quilts includes: · Five incredible quick-to-piece sampler quilts, each made using just one jelly roll · Five “pick and mix” designs showing just how easy it is to combine your favorite blocks to make even more quick quilts · Step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams, with alternative colorways for added inspiration Follow one of the stunning patterns or create your own unique sampler quilt from the fifty-five fabulous block designs. “This wonderful 128-page book is a compilation of over 50 patchwork blocks, which can be beautifully mixed, mingled and interchanged to create your own unique customized sampler quilt . . . This book is guaranteed to keep your creative juices flowing.” —The Jolly Jabber
Download or read book The Patchwork Lady written by Mary K. Whittington and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patchwork Lady prepares her colorful patchwork house for her birthday party.
Download or read book Quilt of Souls written by Phyllis Lawson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When four year old Phyllis Lawson is sent to live with her grandmother in Alabama, she has no idea what to expect. What she finds is inspirationthe catalyst for everything good to come. She needed a miracle, and that miracle took the form of a tattered old quilt--a family heirloom stitched together from the clothes of her grandmothers loved ones, telling the tragic stories of their lives and deaths. Born in 1883, Grandma Lula lived to be 103 years old and overcame the ugliness of racism through creating beautiful quilts. She quilted as a way to bring healing into the world, and working on this quilt created something even more powerful: an impenetrable bond between Grandmother and Granddaughter--From author's website.
Download or read book 200 Quilting Tips Techniques Trade Secrets written by Susan Briscoe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains two hundred tips and trade secrets on quilt making, and covers techniques on rotary cuts, speed-piecing, themed designs, cutting freehand curves, printing fabrics, and other related topics.
Download or read book Patchwork written by Anna Balmer Myers and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Patchwork" (A Story of 'The Plain People') by Anna Balmer Myers. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book 350 Quilting Tips Techniques and Trade Secrets written by Susan Briscoe and published by 350 Tips, Techniques & Trade Secrets. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed full of information, this book will answer all your quilting questions, help solve your dilemmas, and provide all the tips and techniques you need to make any quilting project - plus the trade secrets that will make it stand out from the crowd. Techniques are explained with step-by-step photographs, diagrams and clear instructions throughout, and are organised in the order in which you need them, from using the right tools and materials to practical finishing and embellishment methods. Learn the essentials of quilting, such as how to plan a design and chain-piece strips together, and then progress on to exciting new techniques like printing digitally onto fabrics. For those trickier areas, there are troubleshooting tips and expert advice on hand to show you how to take your quilting one step further and get neat, professional results every time. Whether you are just setting out on your quilting journey or an experienced quilter looking to improve your techniques and learn about new ones, this invaluable resource will provide the ultimate go-to guide for quilters everywhere.
Download or read book The Patchwork Bike written by Maxine Beneba Clarke and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award 2019 Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Crichton Award for Debut Illustrator 2017 Selected as a CBCA Honour Picture Book 2017 Shortlisted for PATRICIA WRIGHTSON PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 2018 'Beautifully written and incredibly powerful.' Books + Publishing 'this book is just what many of us need right now' - starred Kirkus Review When you live in a village at the edge of the No-Go Desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a numberplate from bark, if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for going bumpity-bump over sandhills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home. A delightful story from multi-award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van T Rudd.
Download or read book Stitch Bits written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crazy Patchwork with Embroidery written by Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk and published by Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy patchwork is a fascinating craft. Take your patchwork designs to a whole new level by embellishing every patch with your favorite embroidery stitches, and adding ribbons, braids, buttons and beads for more detail. The beautiful squares of fabric you create can be used to make quilts, cushion covers, wall hangings, scarves and evening-bags. Have fun with crazy patchwork and keep in mind that you are supposed to be having fun this is not a competition to see if you can do it better than anyone else.
Download or read book Quilting Patchwork and Applique written by Caroline Crabtree and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and invaluable survey of these universally appealing textiles for anyone interested in art, craft, decorative objects, and interior design. Native American Seminole clothing, Dutch quilted petticoats, Swedish wedding cushions, African-American narrative quilts, Italian appliquéd furnishings, Eastern European braided waistcoats, nineteenth-century American block patterns, traditional English quilts, Korean pojagi, Turkish strip patchwork prayer rugs, Pacific tivaivai quilts, Indian appliqué, Thai baby-carrying cloths, Ghanaian flags, French trapunto, Japanese sashiko, and Spanish inlay appliqué saddle trappings...the traditional crafts of quilting, patchwork, and appliqué are universal and their uses astonishing. This book is the first worldwide survey of these wonderfully decorative techniques: quilting, in which layers of fabric are stitched together; patchwork, in which old or new fabric pieces are cut and re-stitched to produce a new textile; and appliqué, in which old or new fabric pieces adorn another fabric. It is organized in three main sections: Materials: from wool, flax, linen, cotton, and silk to the manufacture of synthetics. Uses: from household items and clothing through the ages to ritual and ceremonial objects such as wedding quilts and banners. Construction: detailed explanations of the many techniques found around the world. The book also includes advice on how to care for your objects, a guide to collections around the world, a detailed glossary, and a bibliography. Caroline Crabtree trained as an embroiderer in the UK and is coauthor of Beadwork: A World Guide. Christine Shaw has taught patchwork, quilting, and dyeing for many years, and her own quilts have been widely exhibited.
Download or read book Making Art with Fabric written by Gillian Chapman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to recycle scraps of fabric into collages, windsocks, puppets, and similar toys.
