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Jelly Roll Quilts

By Pam Lintett

David & Charles
Paperback (128 pages)

Jelly Roll Quilts
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Jelly rolls are the new fat quarter bundle! They consist of 2 ½ inch strips of color-coordinated fabric, rolled up to create a solid disk and tied with a ribbon. Jelly Roll Quilts is the first book to show quilters the best ways to use these desirable, laborsaving fabric packs. The author shows how to make 15 quilts; each perfectly suited to the color-coordinated jelly rolls and includes variations in color, style and size for each project. Jelly roll quilts are suitable for quilters of all skill levels, especially those quilters with a passion for a variety of fabrics. With names like Bars of Gold and Blue Lagoon, the quilts demonstrated in Jelly Roll Quilts are on the cutting edge of the craft.

Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists (The Masters)

By Martha Sielman

Lark Books
Paperback (416 pages)

Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists (The Masters)
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These art quilts showcase such versatility, innovation, and beauty that readers can’t help but be truly inspired. The gifted artists come from across the globe—including Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America—and their work displays their varying sensibilities, backgrounds, and talents.
Abstract appliquéd shapes cascade across the surface of Ita Ziv’s brilliantly colored quilts, creating vibrant celebrations of life. Noriko Endo captures her deep feeling for trees in a stunning interplay of light, shadow, and leaves. Gloves appear in nearly every quilt by Jane Burch Cochran, representing probing hands and, sometimes, angel wings. John Lefelhocz’s fantastic imagery—including an airplane silhouette that lights up—grabs viewers’ attention.
Esteemed curator Martha Sielman contributes an illuminating essay for each of the 40 featured artists, who are showcased in eight-page features.
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One-Block Wonders Encore!: New Shapes, Multiple Fabrics, Out-of-This-World Quilts

By Maxine Rosenthal

C&T Publishing
Released: 2008-06-10
Paperback (80 pages)

One-Block Wonders Encore!: New Shapes, Multiple Fabrics, Out-of-This-World Quilts
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Follow-up to the dazzling One-Block Wonders--more than 32,000 sold!

* Six quilt projects plus more than a dozen gallery quilts and techniques

* Create dramatic effects: hollow cubes, blocks tumbling into borders, more!

One-Block Wonders definitely wasn’t a one-hit wonder. This fresh, fun follow-up spins more one-block quilts, new visual effects, and great ways to add even more color to your quilts with multiple fabrics. Whirling kaleidoscopic hexagons...simple straight-line piecing (no Y-seams!)...and the dramatic large-scale prints that make these colorful quilts a fabric-lover’s favorite. They’re all here, sure to make One-Block Wonders Encore a big, bit hit on all the charts.

Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters

By Susan Stein

Creative Publishing international
Paperback (128 pages)

Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters
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A comprehensive source of all the newest and most popular fiber art techniques!

This technique-driven book explores a wide range of new possibilities and materials available to fabric and journal artists. Each unique technique is presented with an inspirational, full-page photo of a fabric journal page. How-to steps with photos explore all the possible results from applying the technique. The reader can create journal pages and/or quilt blocks, which can be sewn together to make one large journal quilt, matted and framed individually, displayed on a meditation screen, or used as book pages sewn into a traditional journal format.

  • Full-page fabric journal block to introduce each technique
  • Step-by-step photos for exploring and executing the technique
  • Gallery showing ways to display and use the fabric journal blocks
  • Great value. Like two years of classes rolled into one book.
  • Beautiful "journal page" opens each of 28 technique chapters
  • All techniques are easily mastered by anyone. No complex dying involved. All products are readily available at craft, fabric, and quilt shops.

Last-Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts

By Joelle Hoverson

Stewart, Tabori and Chang STC Craft Melanie Falick Book
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Last-Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts
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More than half of the projects in this book can be completed in less than 8 hours

In an age of mass-produced, look-alike merchandise, there’s no greater pleasure than to receive—or to give—a handmade gift. To make gifts for family and friends testifies to your esteem for them and to your loving dedication of precious energy and time.

And there’s the rub. These days, few people have time to create elaborate hand-fashioned gifts. Understanding the demands on contemporary crafters’ schedules—but understanding, too, their wish to express their love and care in this very personal way—led Joelle Hoverson to write Last-Minute Knitted Gifts. Now, in the follow-up to that extremely successful 2004 volume—with nearly 80,000 copies in print—Hoverson and photographer Anna Williams present Last-Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts.

The book—designed for use by both first-time and longtime quilters—features 30 patchwork and quilted projects organized according to the amount of time it takes to complete them: less than 2 hours, 2 to 4 hours, 4 to 8 hours, 8 to 12 hours, and 12 hours or more. The gifts are inspired by Amish, Appalachian, and Japanese quilting traditions, among others, and range from easy pillowcases and covered scrapbooks to simplified (but heirloom-worthy) log cabin and crazy quilts. Hoverson also shares an overview of her approach to color as well as the tools and techniques she used to complete the projects in the book.

Machine Quilting Made Easy

By Maurine Noble

That Patchwork Place
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Machine Quilting Made Easy
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At last! Machine Quilting Made Easy makes learning to machine quilt easy and fun. Get familiar with the basics as you do the exercises; then use the samples you make as handy references.

• Learn to machine quilt with sixteen lessons in straight-line quilting with a walking foot, freehand quilting with a darning foot, quilting with decorative threads, and more

• Includes five comprehensive charts for selecting needles, thread, and batting

• Find guidelines for planning quilts and basic techniques for finishing quilts

Alabama Stitch Book: Projects and Stories Celebrating Hand-Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery for Contemporary Sustainable Style

By Natalie Chanin

Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Hardcover (176 pages)

Alabama Stitch Book: Projects and Stories Celebrating Hand-Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery for Contemporary Sustainable Style
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“Haute homespun out of the Deep South.” That’s how Vogue magazine has described the fashion of Natalie Chanin. Alabama Stitch Book brings us a collection of projects and stories from her clothing and lifestyle company, Alabama Chanin, known for the cutting-edge twist it puts on tried-and-true sewing, quilting, and embroidery techniques, applied mostly by hand to recycled cotton jersey.

This long-awaited book from Chanin begins with her story. After living in New York and Vienna for over 20 years, she began to transform cotton T-shirts into high fashion using the needlework skills she learned as a child in Florence, Alabama. When she moved home, Chanin hired local women (many of whom had worked in the state’s now defunct textile factories) to stitch her couture collections with her.

What follows is a step-by-step guide to the stitching, stenciling, and beading techniques used in the 20 projects showcased in the book: T-shirts, skirts, and corsets that are sold at chic shops around the world, plus a journal cover, sampler quilt, and tablecloth, among others. Also included are a pullout stencil, perforated postcard for bead-embroidery, and reusable patterns. Throughout are Robert Rausch’s beautiful photographs set against the back roads, farms, and homesteads of the rural South.

The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life: How to Sew a Sampler Quilt & 49 Other Pioneer Projects for the Modern Girl

By Jennifer Worick

Taunton
Released: 2007-10-16
Hardcover (208 pages)

The Prairie Girl s Guide to Life: How to Sew a Sampler Quilt & 49 Other Pioneer Projects for the Modern Girl
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Frontier fun meets a home-spun touch in this heart-warming mixture of pioneer projects and wistful nostalgia. Jennifer Worick teaches readers how to sew a quilt, master the art of bread-and-butter pickles, speak old-time slang, and much much more. This is for the legions of Laura Ingalls Wilder fans who have dreamed of what a pioneer life out on the prairie would be like. Combining step-by-step how-to on crafts, with tongue-in-cheek instructions on prairie slang, winning a spelling bee, and singing a lullaby, The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life allows fans to finally act out their childhood dreams or to simply enjoy the vicarious thrill of reading about it one more time. This is a book that will pull at the heart strings of every childhood Laura and also teach us a few prairie-time crafts along the way.

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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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

Simply Stunning Woven Quilts: 11 Easy Techniques, Great Results

By Anna Faustino

C&T Publishing
Released: 2008-05-27
Paperback (72 pages)

Simply Stunning Woven Quilts: 11 Easy Techniques, Great Results
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Eleven amazingly easy weaving techniques...for stunning results!

* Includes step-by-step directions and photos

* Full-size patterns for circle weaving plus cutting diagrams

They look hard...but they’re not! Simply Stunning Woven Quilts features step-by-step directions and photos to help any quilter master eleven amazingly easy weaving techniques--no seams, no corners or points to match! Learn to weave straight and curved checkerboards, circles, and semicircles, or try weaving to rebuild favorite blocks such as Log Cabin. Use precut fabric strips for the weaving, then construct your fantastic new quilts using fusible appliqué and stitch-in-the-ditch. Wow! Full-size patterns for circle weaving technique and cutting diagrams for 26 different quilts mean it’s simple to create a work of art that will dazzle everyone.

 
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