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Create a quilted masterpiece that will stand the test of time. These gorgeous projects are just what you're looking for to add that special touch to your home over the festive period. You'll find each of these eight timeless patterns are irresistible to make!

Petra Boase presents a guide to the versatil e needlecraft of applique, with 25 original projects special ly designed by today''s leading craftspeople. Included are ov er 300 specially commissioned full-colour photographs. '

New interpretations of antique quilts that range from simple and functional to charmingly picturesque. You'll love these contemporary interpretations of antique quilts from the Internatioal Quilt Study Center & Museum. Award-winning quilters Bobbi Finley and Carol Gilham Jones pored through the museum's collection to find just the right quilts to inspire their latest project designs. Each of their adaptations uniquely mirrors the essential qualities of each original quilt. Fall in love all over...

A great book for quilters looking for a faster, easier way to use applique and add texture to their projects. The book includes a chapter containing templates and patterns, and encourages readers to design their own projects using the methods from the book once they've mastered the techniques. Features 20 folk quilt designs.

Cindy Walter shows how to paint with fabric, using fusible fabric. The guide includes three step-by-step projects. Readers should be able to create abstract art, or reproduce favourite photographs in fabric.

Brighten up your winter with some serious shimmer! Sew a stylish quilt and table runner for your home with two stunning projects featuring Jennifer Sampou’s Winter Shimmer fabric collections. Piece bejewelled backgrounds with precision, and learn Jennifer’s method for turned-edge, fusible machine appliqué with neat edges. Complete instructions and full-size templates are included in this handy pattern pack.

Expand your idea of what a T-shirt quilt can be! Create nine innovative projects from special tees and more. Learn how to cut into clothing and solve common challenges.

Delve into the world of quilts, fabrics, and bowl making! Sculpt your quilt blocks to create tasteful, modern bowls. Great way to make use of scrap fabric and make great gifts.

Skip the tracing and cutting – just pop out templates and jump right into English paper piecing six mini quilts! Begin with a unique English paper piecing glue-pen method and finish with simple appliqué to create six stunning mini quilts.

While improv quilting involves starting a quilt without a pattern, it is a skill and a technique. In modern quilting, every quilter approaches improv with their own style and method, keeping the foundations of traditional quilting in mind. In My Improv Journey, Julie Burton, breaks the seams between traditional and improv in the quilting world. She takes the reader on her journey in a quilting education, showing classic quilt patterns with a modern twist and introducing improv to traditional qui...

In Jacquie Gering's follow-up to her bestselling Walk, she offers new patterns to take your walking-foot quilting to the next level. Based on survey responses from her students, she includes examples of the same quilt top quilted in different designs to help you select the quilting patterns that are just right for your latest finished project. Packed with more point-to-point designs, sashiko-inspired machine quilting and innovative repeated concentric simple shapes, Walk 2.0 will appeal to any q...

Design a completely unique quilt using a library of over 6,000+ blocks with the Electric Quilt 8 Quilt Design Software. Electric Quilt 8 (EQ8) is the most user-friendly quilt design software on the market! It's redesigned from previous versions with a friendly new look that includes large interface elements for faster, more intuitive learning. EQ8 comes with more than 40 new and updated features, including thousands of new block designs and fabrics. With EQ8, you can design your own quilts usi...

A one-stop-shop for quilt pattern identification and inspiration, this fabulous book should be in every quilters' library! Barbara Brackman’s classic quilters' resource, the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, is fully modernized and updated with over 160 new blocks, and presented in full colour for the first time in this third edition! All of the 4,000+ pieced quilt block patterns found in this book are illustrated with both a line drawing and sample colour suggestions to ensure that you wi...

Educator and quilter Betty Ford-Smith keeps the tradition of pinecone quilts alive by passing on her process. Dive into the quilt’s rich history and get detailed instructions for creating one.

Crazy quilting with 350 more seams! This new collection adds stitch combinations with more height and width to work in tricky spots! Get perfectly spaced crazy quilt stitches and embroidered perfection every time with templates.

Create unique art quilts of your favourite places – and the places you want to go! Meri Henriques Vahl shares her simple yet unique method for quilting realistic nature scenes and villages from fabric.

Raid your fabric pantry! The best-selling author of Charm School is back with eighteen projects using precut 2 1/2” strips. Vanessa Goertzen’s fabric recipes will help you cook up basic blocks and more advanced designs—triangles, log cabins, hexagons, and even curves—from precut strips. Slice into convenient fabric rolls, or create your own strips from yardage. Whether you are newer to quilting or a seasoned pro, you’ll spend less time cutting, and more time creating!

You’ll be surprised how easy it is to transform a photo into gallery-worthy fabric art with Leni Wiener’s simple methods. Leni walks you step by step through choosing the right fabrics; creating patterns with free software; depicting common elements, such as grass, trees, water, and faces; layering and sewing your collages; and finishing your work for display. Complete patterns and instructions for two quilts help get you started. Use the included Art Quilter’s Value Scale to choose the perfect...

Quilt the illusion of stained glass. This rich resource of approachable techniques from expert Allie Aller will let you jump right in with 6 stained glass—style quilts, from dazzling wallhangings to throws and bedcovers—full-size pattern pullout included. Outline pieced and appliquéd shapes 3 different ways—using trims, couching, and bias fabric strips. Explore your own ideas for both simple and intricate stained glass designs, and set yourself up for sewing success with tips on organizing your...

With a bachelor’s degree under your belt, it’s time to advance your quilting studies to the next level. Your favorite instructors, Carrie and Harriet Hargrave, are back in this fifth book of the best-selling Quilter’s Academy series. Embrace the beauty of medallion quilts as you study historic and award-winning examples. Learn advanced techniques and precision drafting and math that naturally build upon everything you’ve learned thus far. Working through the lessons at your own pace, you’ll be c...

Deanne Eisenman is on a mission to educate quilters on a brief history of appliqué, alleviate anxiety about the "A" word and celebrate the joy of making patchwork bloom. Inspired by antique quilts, Deanne brings the history of appliqué to life using her signature style of combining appliqué on a pieced background. These nine projects, which include table runners, toppers, and lap-size and full-size quilts, prove that patchwork and appliqué not only go together but enrich each other.

Learn how to create intricate snowflake style designs to feature in your quilts - in medallions, locks, or borders - using simple but effective paper-cut applique techniques. Cut out a paper snowflake, make a pattern, then transfer to fabric, it's that simple!"Sewflakes" features 5 original projects in a variety of themes - including sewing, nautical, and card games - that can be created using hand or machine, needle-turn, or fusible applique techniques. Also included are full-size patterns, and...

Add sophistication and charm to your quilts with the projects inspired by the quilts of the British Isles. The frame or medallion quilt projects echo the historical quilts that greatly influenced American quilt makers in the 19th century. In addition there are strippy quilts easily made using the accurate step-by-step directions and reflecting more of the tradition of British quilts. Each quilt or project is named for a memory of Bettina's travels on her many trips. Travel with tour guide Bettin...