Download or read book The Quiltmaker s Gift written by Jeff Brumbeau and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a greedy king, but only under certain conditions, she causes him to undergo a change of heart. Each page highlights a different quilt block pattern whose name relates to the unfolding story.
Download or read book 200 Blocks from Quiltmaker Magazine written by That Patchwork Place, Inc and published by That Patchwork Place. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techniques range from simple patchwork to appliqué, foundation piecing, hand embroidery, and yo-yos - Block index is alphabetical by designer; a special gallery offers additional inspiration - Settings, yardages, new quilting designs, and much more
Download or read book Quiltmaker s Color Workshop written by Weeks Ringle and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a beginning or experienced quiltmaker, Quiltmaker's Color Workshop will help you use color more creatively in your designs. Through a showcase of more than 35 great quilts, ranging from contemporary to traditional styles, the authors show how colors work together to support a "big idea." Learn to go beyond simple, formulaic color concepts, and instead, have fun exploring color through individual and group activities that will help you see color in a completely new way.
Download or read book Dare to Be Square Quilting written by Boo Davis and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davis's designs, which range from skulls to owls to alarm clocks, are a far cry from the traditional designs of years past. Yet all of them draw on simple squares and rectangles, and all are inspired by traditional techniques.
Download or read book Color Harmony for Quilts written by Weeks Ringle and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a beginning or experienced quiltmaker, Color Harmony for Quilts will help you use color more creatively in your designs. Through a showcase of more than 35 great quilts, ranging from contemporary to traditional styles, the authors show how colors work together to support a "big idea." Learn to go beyond simple, formulaic color concepts, and instead, have fun exploring color through individual and group activities that will help you see color in a completely new way. Book jacket.
Download or read book West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers written by Fawn Valentine and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valentine, involved in a project to seek out, document, and help preserve West Virginia quilts, presents a fabulously beautiful collection of quilts created prior to 1940. Coverage of each work includes a map showing the county in which it was created, its maker, the date it was finished, its pattern, and a lively description of the quilt's composition, including patterns, fabrics, and techniques employed and its relationship to other quilts of the same era. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Quiltmaker s Butterfly Forest written by Felicia T. Brenoe and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let your creativity take flight with eight whimsical projects inspired by the beautiful butterflies of the Amazon rainforest. Discover new quilting inspiration—from Ecuador’s Tiputini Biodiversity Research Station in the Amazon rainforest, where designer Felicia Brenoe was mesmerized by the sights that surrounded her, especially the butterflies. With this book, you can sew eight projects that capture nature’s beauty, beginning with the magnificent 12-block sampler of butterflies and wreaths—an ideal block-of-the-month quilt. Introduce contrast, embellishment, and negative space as you sew other large quilts, pillows, wallhangings, and placemats. Links to full-size appliqué patterns are included, plus an easy guide to raw-edge fusible appliqué.
Download or read book More Quilts from The Quiltmaker s Gift written by Joanne Larsen Line and published by Orchard (NY). This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides step-by-step instructions on creating nineteen different traditional quilts.
Download or read book Symmetry written by Ruth B. McDowell and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ruth guides the quiltmaker in exploring and developing truly original designs. She presents 17 new quilts based upon the 17 pattern concepts, and she leads the reader through the fun of applying the concepts to the creation of new quilts. Her students have often called this process the most useful design workshop they have ever taken. For the beginning designer, she presents the possibilities inherent in very simple asymmetric block designs. Each chapter presents a new block design and a new concept, illustrated by a quilt shown in color, with templates, yardage chart, and directions. Each of the new blocks can be used in other symmetries to produce new patterns. And each of the concepts can be applied to thousands of other blocks.
Download or read book Quiltmaker s Guide written by Carol Doak and published by Amer Quilters Society. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers fabric selection, yardage estimation, the grid system, block design, templates, fabric marking and cutting, patchwork, applique, machine piecing, quilting, and bindings
Download or read book Quilts from the Quiltmaker s Gift written by Joanne Larsen Line and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides detailed instructions and measurements for quilt patterns as found in the children's picture book, "The Quiltmaker's Gift."
Download or read book Michael James written by Michael James and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artistry of world-class quilter Michael James is spotlighted in this third volume in the Art & Inspirations series. It includes a retrospective of the artist's past work and includes his most recent creations, showing an approach to color, fabric selection, and composition that is radically different from his past work. 83 color illustrations.
Download or read book All the Colors of the Earth written by Sheila Hamanaka and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1999-09-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of love--not black or white or yellow or red, but roaring brown, whispering gold, tinkling pink, and more.
Download or read book Loving Stitches written by Jeana Kimball and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how much is enough quilting, which designs to use, and how to make short, evenly spaced stitches. Follow Jeana's clear directions to lap quilt or quilt in a hoop or frame.
Download or read book A Year in the Big Old Garden written by James D. Witmer and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Year in the Big Old Garden is a collection of children's stories in the spirit of beloved classics by Thornton Burgess and Beatrix Potter. These twelve short stories are crafted to be read aloud, mixing whimsical storytelling with the love and knowledge of backyard wildlife. Turn waiting rooms, car trips, and bedtimes into moments of enjoyment as you meet animals like Sammy the squirrel, Jasper the chipmunk, and Smudge the rabbit, and follow their adventures through the seasons.
Download or read book Dead Eye Dan and the Cimarron Kid written by Glenn McCarty and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead-Eye Dan Crowley is a United States Marshal and a frontier legend. He's gone toe-to-toe with the most fearsome outlaws in the West and brought them all to justice. But when Dead-Eye Dan finds himself alone on the banks of the Cimarron River in New Mexico with no idea who he is, or how he got there, he must confront his most formidable challenge yet. Can Dead-Eye Dan find a way to remember? Can his memories be trusted? And can he discover himself in time to make things right? In this thrilling tale of heroism and justice set in the frontier world of Tumbleweed Thompson, readers will find a new hero for the old West.
Download or read book Quiltmaker s 1 000 Blocks written by Carolyn Beam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of quilt blocks from today's top designers! Quiltmaker magazine has long been regarded as the place to find blocks that range from innovative to traditional, whimsical to sophisticated, classic to unique! Now, these blocks are together in Quiltmaker's 1,000 Blocks. 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. The editors of Quiltmaker magazine have compiled an extensive block collection that is sure to be a quilter's best friend!
