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Kaffe Fassett's Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts: 23 Original Quilt Designs

By Kaffe Fassett

STC Craft/A Melanie Falick Book
Hardcover (192 pages)

Kaffe Fassett s Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts: 23 Original Quilt Designs
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  • ISBN13: 9781584798378
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In Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts, world-renowned quilter Kaffe Fassett demonstrates how basic geometric forms—squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, circles, and quarter-circles—found in natural and manmade environments inspire his quilt designs. Twenty-three of his magnificent, inventive quilts—ranging from the relatively simple Tilt, ideal for beginners, to the more complex Circle of Stars, for more advanced stitchers—are showcased in the book, along with step-by-step instructions for making each one.
 
Along the way, Fassett also offers over a hundred photos of geometric inspiration from around the world—everything from triangular watermelon slices, to rectangular sheets of metal on African scrap dwellings, to lollipop-shaped topiary trees in Japan. In the accompanying text, Fassett reveals how he experiences the colors and basic shapes around him, how we can train our own eyes to see this rewarding source of creativity, and how we can, just as he does, combine striking fabrics with simple shapes to create our own spectacular quilt designs.

The Aloha Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

By Jennifer Chiaverini

Simon & Schuster
Paperback (336 pages)

The Aloha Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
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Another season of Elm Creek Quilt Camp has come to a close, and Bonnie Markham faces a bleak and lonely winter ahead, with her quilt shop out of business and her divorce looming. A welcome escape comes when Claire, a beloved college friend, unexpectedly invites her to Maui to help launch an exciting new business: a quilter’s retreat set at a bed and breakfast amid the vibrant colors and balmy breezes of the Hawaiian Islands. Soon Bonnie finds herself looking out on sparkling waters and banyan trees, planning quilting courses, and learning the history and intricacies of Hawaiian quilting, all the while helping Claire run the inn.

As Bonnie’s adventure unfolds, it quickly becomes clear that Claire’s new business isn’t the only excitement in store for her. Her cheating, soon-to-be ex-husband decides he wants her stake in Elm Creek Quilts, which threatens not only her financial well-being but her dearest friendships as well. Luckily she has the artistic challenge of creating her own unique Hawaiian quilt pattern to distract her—and new friends like Hinano Paoa, owner of the Nä Mele Hawai‘i Music Shop, who introduces Bonnie to the fascinating traditions of Hawaiian culture and reminds her that love can be found when and where you least expect it.

The Quilters Ultimate Visual Guide: From A to Z-- Hundreds of Tips and Techniques for Successful Quiltmaking

Rodale Books
Paperback (288 pages)

The Quilters Ultimate Visual Guide: From A to Z-- Hundreds of Tips and Techniques for Successful Quiltmaking
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  • ISBN13: 9780875969879
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Everything you ever wanted to know about quilting!

You've hit the jackpot with this quilter's ultimate answer book. From A to Z you'll find combined wisdom from a star-studded cast of 60 expert quilters. Lavishly illustrated, this fun "look-and-learn" reference book covers every aspect of quiltmaking:

* Basic quiltmaking techniques
* Hard-to-find information on specialized techniques
* Reviews of tolls and supplies
* Basic quilt types explained and illustrated
* Definitions of terms every quiltmaker should know
* Creativity and inspiration

500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work (500 Series)

By Ray Hemachandra

Lark Books
Paperback (432 pages)

500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work (500 Series)
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A beautiful new addition to the successful series

A vibrant and growing community of crafters has embraced quilting, and this outstanding international collection will inspire and captivate them. Juried by Karey Bresenhan, one of the most prominent figures in quilting, it presents 500 magnificent contemporary art quilts, made in fabric and other media, and showcasing diverse designs, materials, and techniques.

From their very inception, these quilts were destined for display rather than practical use, with an extraordinary quality of image, form, line, and composition. 

 

Artists include:

Pamela Allen  -  Alice Beasley  -  Eszter Bornemisza  -  Jane Burch Cochran  -  Judith Content  -  Chiaki Dosho  -  Noriko Endo  -  Caryl Bryer Fallert  -  Jamie Fingal  -  Linda Gass  -  Jenny Hearn  -  Judy Coates Perez  -  Yvonne Porcella  -  Susan Shie  -  Jen Swearington  -  and many more!

The Quilter's Album of Patchwork Patterns: 4050 Pieced Blocks for Quilters

By Jinny Beyer

Breckling Press
Hardcover (464 pages)

The Quilter s Album of Patchwork Patterns: 4050 Pieced Blocks for Quilters
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Providing quilters, researchers, and design enthusiasts with a comprehensive tool for finding, identifying, and drafting more than 4,000 unique patterns, this encyclopedia of quilt block designs presents a method of categorizing designs that eliminates duplication and allows quilters to understand exactly how each one is constructed. Each design is analyzed in terms of the grid on which it is drawn, making it easy recreate the pattern in any size or color scheme desired. Each block is thoroughly researched and listed according the original name and date of publication. Double names and duplicates are cross-referenced for easy use. Packed with information and inspiration, this also contains photographs of full quilts, as well as a detailed bibliography and indexes.

Liberated Quiltmaking II

By Gwen Marston

American Quilter's Society
Paperback (128 pages)

Liberated Quiltmaking II
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At long last! Gwen Marston has updated her signature Liberated Quiltmaking! The fascination with Gwen's Liberated Quiltmaking has generated a demand for more, more, more! Introduced in 1996, her distinctive methods for creating original quilts are expanded in this new volume including Liberated Square Within-a-Square, Liberated Medallion, and Recut Blocks and Sashing. Gwen presents nine Liberated Quiltmaking processes and each is clearly illustrated with step-by-step instructions, pieced samples, and loads of example quilts. Multiple techniques and variations are given. Liberated Quiltmaking II provides a way of working without using templates or set patterns. Truly original quilts result that engage the quilter's intuition and emotion as well as technical skills.

The Sugar Camp Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts Series #7)

By Jennifer Chiaverini

Simon & Schuster
Paperback (336 pages)

The Sugar Camp Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts Series #7)
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  • ISBN13: 9780743260190
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History is thick with secrets in The Sugar Camp Quilt, seventh in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series from bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She discovers that a quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob with five unusual patterns of his own design contains hidden clues to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. The heroic journey she undertakes leads to revelations about her own courage and resourcefulness -- newfound qualities that may win her the heart of the best man she has ever known.

The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt: Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired

By Laurie Aaron Hird

Krause Publications
Paperback (256 pages)

The Farmer s Wife Sampler Quilt: Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired
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Be Inspired by the Stories

In 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at that time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired.

Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt:

  • 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with construction diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions
  • Complete instruction for making a sampler quilt in any traditional size: lap, twin, queen or king
  • CD with easy-to-print, full-sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt construction diagrams
  • 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer’s Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country’s past

Cozy Modern Quilts: 23 Easy Pieced Projects to Bust Your Stash

By Kim Schaefer

C&T Publishing
Paperback (64 pages)

Cozy Modern Quilts: 23 Easy Pieced Projects to Bust Your Stash
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Modern doesn't have to be hard-edged. Make a soft statement with these irresistibly cozy, contemporary quilts built from simple squares and rectangles.

Stellar Quilts

By Judy Martin

Crosley-Griffith Publishing Co., Inc.
Perfect Paperback (128 pages)

Stellar Quilts
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Stellar means "exceptional" or "outstanding." It also means "of or relating to stars." Stellar Quilts, then, are star quilts that are also exceptional quilts. In Stellar Quilts Judy Martin does for stars what she did for Log Cabins: She creates breathtakingly beautiful quilts and explains clearly how to make them.

Stellar Quilts
features:
* 13 complete and accurate quilt patterns
* each pattern presented in 3 sizes
* color photos
* big detail photos
* lots of color variations
* lots of setting variations
* lots of stellar ideas and tips to help you
* your choice of templates or rotary cutting

Each pattern has
* big color photo of entire quilt
* closeup photo showing fabric and quilting
* fat quarter requirements
* patch quantity requirements
* quilt size and block size listed
* piecing diagrams, complete with what direction to press the seams and what order to sew the patches
* quilt construction diagram
* pieced border
* quilting suggestions

Stellar designs + stellar instructions = stellar tips = Stellar Quilts. Now that's a simple equation for making your most memorable quilts ever!

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