Stitch 16 stunning quilts and patchwork projects based on four underlying blueprints while learning skills to create your own original designs.

Uncover the mystery of quilt design with Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting. Celebrated fiber artist Anna Maria Parry demystifies her seemingly complex patterns and sumptuous color combinations as she breaks down her signature designs into accessible blueprints, or underlying structures. This accessible, visually inspiring book features:

• A behind-the-scenes glimpse into an expert quilt designer's process
• Four quilt blueprints and accessible projects for different skill levels
• Techniques for intensifying details, adjusting colors, and scaling designs for endless possibilities
• Insight into planning and executing quilting and appliqué techniques
• Clear illustrations and photography for an inspiring and informative experience
• QR codes linked to videos that further illuminate important techniques

With easy-to-follow projects and insightful techniques for all levels of quilters, Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting will empower your quilting journey as you infuse your creations with the beauty and inspiration found within Parry's extraordinary designs.

A book that demystifies quilt design principles and teaches readers how to apply them.

This colorful book clarifies graphic design concepts as they relate to quilts. It allows modern quilters (and any quilters) to learn the definition of design and how to use design, or not, when creating a quilt.

- Clear, easily understandable text and visuals are specifically aimed to be effective for quilters of all levels of expertise.

- Instantly putting quilters at ease, the vivid pages richly demonstrate each concept, using photos of fabric pieces, threads, and quilted options.

- Award-winning designer Irene shows the concepts to you using quilts her own and those of her workshop students.

- Plenty of practice is included to bring each concept to life, as you arrange and rearrange your materials in varied ways.

Crocheting - 7 Simple Steps to Learning How to Crochet and Create Easy to Make Crochet Stitches and Crochet Patterns Today. Learn everything you need to know about crocheting This book is will gift upon you the tools and knowledge that every novice should be aware of when they first begin their crocheting adventure. When you first decide to crochet, it can be quite a tough and confusing time. You will come across a lot of strange conceptions, phrases and equipment that will make you furrow your eyebrows in confusion. This book is meant to decode this new and alien world so you can begin your journey of being an able and skilled individual at crocheting. You could become like those people on YouTube videos who make it seem easy and effortless with their yarn and needle moving at an astounding speed. However, when you first start off you may end up with tangled yarn, strange looking stitches and an inner feeling of utter hopelessness. But don't lose hope. The important thing to remember, like with all things in life, is that practice makes perfect. This book will give you the basic tools of the trade, the knowledge of how to use the equipment, the simple stitches you can employ and the jargon you will run across. You will learn various things. In this book, we will thoroughly go over the basic building blocks of the craft, arming you to the teeth for your crocheting adventure. The first chapter will introduce you to the tools of the trade. What you will be working with when you start crocheting so you won't wander aimlessly in the craft store surrounded by strange merchandise. You will know what you need and you will also know what each item actually does. Once you know the tools of the trade and properly more about yarn then you ever actually wanted to know, it is time to start to learn how to actually use the tools. So we will give you the essential information on how to begin to crochet. We will look at all the basics, for example, how to a slip knot, how to make a chain and the various types of major stitch that you will need to learn. In Chapter 3, we will let our love of everything pretty shine through and will show you how to create some different ascetically pleasing stitches that are fun to try out. By the time you finish reading this book you are going to be able to crochet with skill and precision as well as have the ability to identify various types of stitches and patterns. Why You Must Have This Book >In this book you will learn how to crochet. >This book will teach you the steps to learn crochet stitches and patterns. > In this book you will learn the steps carefully and slowly. We will treat you like a novice in this book and therefore will be straightforward in our instructions. > In this book you will learn the how to make a slip knot and how to create a foundation chain. > This book will guide you through many different things and at the end of it you should be able to crochet various types of stitches that you can employ to make cool things. > This book will teach you the secrets of crochet. > This book you will learn all the basics. What You'll Discover from the Book Crocheting - 7 Simple Steps to Learning How to Crochet and Create Easy to Make Crochet Stitches and Crochet Patterns Today. ** Why you should crochet. ** How to crochet. ** Step by step instructions on crocheting. **The importance of learning crocheting. **What to do with a crochet hook and how to do various types of stitches. **How to use a crochet hook and yarn and use them to make amazing creations. Let's Learn Together Hurry For a limited time you can download, Crocheting - Today. for a special discounted price of only $2.99 Download Your Copy Right Now Before It's Too Late Just Scroll to the top of the page and select the Buy Button.

Are you currently considering a new weekender craft to learn? Do you need new quilting concepts to enhance your quilting abilities? Well, there's no need for you to worry. Keep reading

This book, Quilting for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide To Master The Art Of Quilting with Practical Step-By-Step Instructions And Easy Project Ideas, is loaded with fantastic quilting concepts, which are designed to be much simpler and comfortable to learn.

You know that quilting is a unique craft, and every quilt is a product of love, dedication, cost, and labor. You might begin right if you need to start at it. Newbies like you can learn more about the fundamentals of quilting and master the different quilting types and styles in no time.

Today is the perfect time to get acquainted with quilting equipment and materials. Learn comfortably thanks to this guide to the quilting process as you demonstrate your abilities on patchwork quilting, quilt blocks, negative space, and ground lines.

Further, quilting is considered one of the most sought-after crafts and hobbies, with generations of history that comes with it. With this book, you get exclusive access to practical knowledge.

Here's a quick rundown of what you'll learn in this book:

• Quilting History
• Quilting Techniques
• The parts of a Quilt
• The different Types of Quilts
• How to select the right Quilting Tools and types of Fabrics to Get Started
• Basic Care and Laundering
• All you need to know to Create Your First Quilt
• Creative and Modern Quilt Projects with easy Step-By-Step instructions

...And much more

Mastering the art of quilting isn't as difficult as you think, especially if you have the definitive guide to support you.

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The exquisite Alice's Wonderland Quilt combines a variety of quilting techniques in one stunning sampler quilt which features 100 blocks. Using a variety of machine and hand-sewn techniques, this quilt will improve your sewing skills.

Gorgeous patchwork designs such as square-in-a-square, checkerboard, log cabin and Ohio Star combine with beautiful English paper-pieced blocks and raw edge applique animals, flowers, butterflies, hearts and stars.

Starting with the simplest patchwork techniques and building from there, you will learn one or two basic techniques across ten different blocks, each one creating completely different patterns simply by using new arrangements and placements. Full sized EPP and applique templates, including Alice's hand-drawn designs, are provided. Each block forms a 6-inch square which then joins together at the end with the other blocks to make the finished quilt comprising of 100 beautiful blocks.

After you have made your main blocks, the stunning rainbow border of the quilt is added. It includes a double rainbow border, an ivory border, and a further square-in-a-square rainbow border using prints from the main quilt to tie the whole colour scheme together.

Featuring step-by-step illustrations for all the techniques and full-size templates, this stunning sampler quilt will build your skills and leave you with a treasured heirloom to pass on down the generations.

Twelve quilt block designs to craft your personal quilt, plus shared quilter stories and more quilting projects, in this community-themed quilting book by internationally renowned award-winning teacher Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Foreword by quilting thought-leader Meg Cox, author of The Quilter's Catalog

Victoria Findlay Wolfe is an award-winning quilter, artist, and teacher whose designs balance traditional, modern, and art-quilting styles. In The Quilting Experience, she shares 12 original block designs for quilters to create their own unique Experience Quilt. Each block represents a profound life theme such as Friendship, Travel, Celebration, and Grief, to let crafters reflect their personal life narrative. Clear instructions for each block allow for multiple size and color variations.

Also included are

- thought-provoking, poignant, and amusing stories shared by diverse quilters, to illuminate each Quilting Experience life theme;

- 11 additional projects for quilts and pillows, with lessons and tips on techniques like efficient partial seam construction, to collage together blocks of various sizes beyond a basic grid layout;

- a foreword by quilting thought-leader Meg Cox, emphasizing how diversity among quilters offers strength to all.

Connect through the stories of a diverse community of quilting bees as you're life's journey takes visual shape with The Quilting Experience.

Anyone can design and create their own quilt Honest

The T-Shirt Quilt: Design And Create Your Own Memory Quilt In One Weekend is a book for anyone who has wanted to make their own memory quilt, T-shirt quilt or scrapbook quilt. It is for those who want to commemorate their teen's high school years or their young adult's college years. It is for those who like to Do It Themselves. It is also for those who have lost someone special or close to them and they would like to go on this journey as a way to honor the one they lost or as a way to go through the grieving process.

This book gives you a foolproof concept of how to put the pieces together with a minimum of math and measuring. It will give you tips on cutting, ironing and sewing 1/4 inch seams. But don't worry If your seams aren't perfect or you cut something wrong, there are even tips to handle that.

Every effort has been made to define and describe the techniques used. With over 400 pictures in full color, this book is perfect for the visual learners. By following these easy steps, you will learn to create and design your own work of art.

The concept of choosing your colors will be covered in the first chapter. This will be boiled down to a simplicity that anyone can follow. Preparing the t-shirts is covered in detail along with how to cut them and what sizes to cut. How to incorperate pockets and hoodies are included.

Tips on how to sew straight lines, 1/4 inch seams, how to make blocks that are the same size, how to sew colunms together, how to make your quilt square, how to make it lay flat, how to add borders, choose a back, chose the batting, how to add a binding: all this and more are discribbed and shown in full color detailed pictures so that even the beginning quilter can follow and create their own masterpiece.

The ultimate week-by-week quilt-along companion from best-selling sewing author Debbie Shore and quilting expert Melissa Nayler: learn how to create 52 unique blocks - one for every week of the year - then combine them into a stunning patchwork quilt.

Follow the book from start to finish to create a stunning, harmonious quilt using all the block designs, or dip in and out, experiment with the techniques and then mix and match your favorite blocks to create your own unique creation. The book features:

• An inspiring variety of quilting techniques - from simple machine piecing and appliqué to foundation paper piecing, every block explores a different patchwork and/or quilting method.
• Simple instructions, perfect for beginners - each unique block is accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions, clear photography and full-size templates.
• All the patchwork and quilting techniques needed - from piecing your initial shapes right through to binding your finished quilt.

This book is inspired by Debbie and Melissa's incredibly popular Block of the Month quilt-along from the award-winning Half Yard Sewing Club: www.halfyardsewingclub.com

Improvisational piecing lets you be the boss

Embrace the joy of improvisation as you create quilts and quilted projects, including duffel and crossbody bags, that are truly one-of-a-kind! This book is an introduction, guide, and step-by-step manual for giving you the skills to create modern improvisational quilts and projects that range in difficulty from easy-peasy to fiddly-and-still-fun.

You'll learn three improvisational techniques that take you from start to finish as you complete your first modern improv project. Choose which technique is right for you based on scale, color, and shape. Then, put those techniques to work and create a quilt, a bag, or a set of holiday stockings!

• Learn three powerful beginner-friendly techniques for improvisational piecing to create various projects that play with shape, scale, and color that will make every project unique

• Includes nine unique quilt projects, from classic bed and baby quilts to holiday stockings and functional crossbody and duffel bags

• Includes guidance on building perfect and unique color palettes that complement the modern improv process

Give new life to the fabric you never thought you'd be able to use! Make 16 gorgeous scrap quilts from real scraps--not just strips or precuts. Piece traditional blocks with ease when you start with 3 1/2, 4 1/2, and 5 1/2 squares. A unique cutting system helps beginning and seasoned quilters achieve beautiful results. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment when you transform novelty, holiday, and even mismatched fabrics into striking quilts! Give new life to fabric you never thought you'd use!

Craft stunning quilts while being resource-savvy.
Revolutionize your approach to quilting by eliminating fabric waste and embracing sustainable crafting. Each project serves as a catalyst for additional projects, using all the scraps and leftovers. This mindful approach--intentional fabric buying, using what you have, augmenting as needed, and minimizing waste--embraces purposeful designs in a collection of beautiful projects.
Zero Waste Quilting offers practical insights into sustainable crafting by exploring how to use your stash, shop responsibly, and evaluate leftover fabric. As a bonus, you'll find resources for additional reading, informed viewing, and profiles of shops offering responsibly sourced fabric. Make every stitch count by bridging the gap between crafting and being environmentally conscious.

• Create stunning quilts with confidence and whip up the related projects to use every last bit and piece of leftover fabric, resulting in zero waste
• Discover innovative and unique tips to turn the tiniest fabric scraps into fresh projects while lessening your impact on the environment
• Learn how to creatively incorporate off-cuts and leftovers into charming works of art

Create charming small quilts that will brighten up any space

Best-selling author Kim Diehl presents the fourth and final installment of her Simple Whatnots series, unveiling a fresh collection of 19 small, scrappy projects. Kim continues to share her insightful Extra Snippet tips, decorating ideas, and the advantages of compact projects. The projects showcase Kim's distinctive designs using invisible machine appliqué and wool appliqué techniques. Encouraging you to explore your scrap baskets, Kim continues to teach you how to use triangle squares, flying geese, stars, and more to create uniquely captivating small quilts for charming home decor.

• Best-selling author and fabric designer Kim Diehl shares instructions for 19 fun-to-complete quilts

• Create small yet charming quilts to enhance your home decor, with dozens of charming photographs offering inspiration and displaying ideas

• The fourth book in her best-selling Simple quilting series

Working with medium- to large-scale prints, quilters can create dynamic pieced blocks without hours of planning and precision cutting. The kaleidoscope effects occur spontaneously, thanks to the ingeniously simple 'Stack-n-Whack'(R) cutting technique. By stacking identical repeats of fabric, quilters can efficiently cut the pieces needed for all the blocks. Each block will be unique and unexpected, keeping the quilting experience fresh and exciting With over 200 how-to illustrations and dozens of color plates. Designs include the classic LeMoyne Star, Hybrid Lilies, Kaleidoscope Pinwheel, Hexagon Star, Diamond Ring, Morning Star, and others, all pieced with construction methods that eliminate set-in seams and ensure quick, successful results.

Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, artist Sherri Lynn Wood presents a flexible approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms.

Instead of traditional instructions, Sherri Lynn Wood presents 10 frameworks (or scores) that create a guiding, but not limiting, structure. To help quilters gain confidence, she also offers detailed lessons for stitching techniques key to improvisation, design and spontaneity exercises, and lessons on color.

Every quilt made from one of Wood's scores will have common threads, but each one will look different because it reflects the maker's unique interpretation. Featured throughout the book are Wood's own quilts and a gallery of contributor works chosen from among the hundreds submitted when she invited volunteers to test her scores during the making of this groundbreaking work.

Wood offers a series of techniques, guidelines and lessons on color choice for those ready to explore improvisational quilting. Her book is loaded with full-color photos and examples to inspire. --Dallas Morning News

Quilt unique pieces inspired by the jaw-dropping landscapes from twenty of the United States' most beloved and scenic National Parks.

Capture the beauty and majesty of the most beautiful places in the National Parks and create a spectacular piece of quilt art with Quilting the National Parks. Master quilter and owner of Bookends Quilting, Stephanie Forster, presents twenty original quilting patterns, each one inspired by the most beloved places in our National Parks, from the Grand Canyon to the Indiana Dunes. From pillows to wall hangings, throws to bed quilts, there is a project for every area of your home and skill level. With clear and concise pattern instructions, glorious images of the finished quilts, and full-size removable templates for the fabric pieces, this book will have you creating a modern masterpiece of some of the most classic landscapes our National Parks have to offer.

WIDE VARIETY OF PATTERNS: More than just quilts, you can make pillow covers, wall hangings and more - something for every space in your home.

FULL-SIZE TEMPLATES: Quilting the National Parks features removable, full-size fabrics templates for every pattern so you can get started on your project right away!

WIDE RANGE OF SKILL: Quilting the National Parks presents detailed yet easy-to-read instructions that appeal to a wide variety of skill levels. Whether you're a beginner or seasoned pro, you can find patterns you'll love.

INSPIRING IMAGES: Enjoy stunning images of the national park landmarks that inspired these quilt designs.

Embrace the freedom and creativity of improv quilting with award-winning quilter Laura Loewen (@QuiltFortCo).

The asymmetrical designs offer a refreshing departure from standard quilting fare... This is sure to get quilters' creative juices flowing. Publishers Weekly

Are you ready to embark on an exciting quilting adventure?Discover the joy of ruler-free cutting, explore the world of color play, and dive into fun, fearless creative piecing using Laura's expert guidance.

This book is a must-read for confident beginner quilters eager to discover new skills and looking for a vibrant, playful quilting experience, but any level of quilter can use this book to begin their improv journey. Laura showcases her own working methods - from sketches and fabric play to painterly color movement - covering all the necessary techniques in detail, and helping you to create a solid base of color knowledge before you launch into combining color play with improv shapes.

Inside you'll find:

• 10 stunning colorful step-by-step quilt projects that build your skills as you work through the book
• Techniques throughout, from building harmonious color schemes and value sorting to going ruler free and working with curves
• Stunning photographs and easy-to-follow illustrations, as well as key guidance on quilting essentials including basting, quilting and binding
• Confidence-building prompts for your own improv quilts
• Coloring sheets so that you can work out your colour schemes on paper before committing to fabric

This book is your ticket to fearless, fun, and utterly unique improv quilting. Discover inspirational finished pieces, prompts to begin your own individual improv projects and new ways to design quilts through the mouthwateringly colorful projects inside.

Laura has exhibited quilts at QuiltCon (#quiltcon) in 2019 and 2020, and in 2020 her More Is More quilt won 1st Place in the Appliqué category.

Learn step by step how to easily create dozens of beautiful, modern quilt blocks.

Adapted from the best-selling The Quilt Block Book, Quilt Blocks for Beginners lays the foundation for a captivating journey into the world of quilt blocks. This beginner-friendly reference offers:

• Guidance on three fundamental block-construction methods: quick piecing, foundation (paper) piecing
• Step-by-step instructions for each block
• Links to online patterns for easy printing

The blocks can be used to create quilts, décor pieces, or fashion accents--the possibilities are endless!
With fundamental techniques, easy-to-follow instructions, and printable templates, you can effortlessly create beautiful quilt blocks to use in any number of quilting projects, all while fostering your newfound love of quilting.

Modern quilt artist Andrea Tsang Jackson returns with a book designed to spark creative experimentation and play. She explores five key themes through essays about creative practice: finding order in chaos, creating safe spaces for experimentation, surrendering to process, taking creative responsibility, and building community through craft. The essays are complemented by Quests, which put these concepts into practice, involving hands-on quilting projects that help readers develop both technical skills and creative confidence. The book offers both specific instruction and open-ended exploration, making it valuable for quilters seeking to deepen their practice and develop their creative voice.

Two from One Jelly Roll Quilts:
Learn how to make two different quilts using just one Jelly Roll - half the fabric, twice the inspiration!

Each chapter features two quilt designs made from one Jelly Roll pre-cut fabric pack, using twenty strips of fabric for one quilt pattern and twenty strips of fabric for the other. You don't even have to use a Jelly Roll if you don't want to, you could easily cut strips from your own fabric stash and then follow the step-by-step instructions and quilting diagrams provided with each design.

There are 18 quilt patterns included to help you make your fabric go further, and the finished quilts make great throws, lap quilts, wall hangings, cot quilts and play mats. All of the amazing designs are quick to make, and it is easy to adapt them to make larger bed quilts following the simple guidance provided.

Includes all the basic quilting techniques you need to know to get started, from how to sew a seam, pinning fabric, chain piecing and removing dog ears, to setting on point and how to bind a quilt.

Piece and Quilt as You Go is a must-have beginners' quilting guide. Author, teacher, TV personality, and master quilter Debi Schmitz Noriega offers an introduction to quilting with a historical background of quilting, 8 quilting techniques--including joining strips on the front and the back, sashing, binding edge, batting joined and not joined, heirloom quilt, and crazy quilt; tips from her own quilting experiences; varied quilt designs like bags, scarves, and potholders; and mini patterns throughout her book to excite the quilter and make this book their new quilting favorite. Quilting on the go is a simple way to quilt individual blocks of a larger project and then join them together later without the need of a quilting machine as well as a great way to use up fabrics and incorporate them into exciting designs. Piecing them on the go saves you time as you can quilt anywhere, anytime. Start now and see what beautiful quilts you can make in no time.