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Learning to quilt has never been easier than with this superb volume featuring 8 simple projects designed for beginners by internationally renowned quilting expert, Lynette Jensen."Learning to Quilt with Jiffy Quilts" provides a complete beginners guide to everything quilting - from finding the right equipment and choosing fabrics to cutting, piecing, and binding. It also includes a comprehensive glossary of terms every quilter needs to know.With its easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographic ins...

An exquisite and authoritative look at four centuries of quilts and quilting from around the world Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlights the splendor and craft of quilts with more than 300 superb color images and details. Fascinating essays by two noted scholars trace the evolution of...

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.

Quilts and Human Rights offers a new understanding of the history of global human rights as seen through textiles of awareness and activism. Of all the textile forms linked to human rights activities, one form-the quilt-has proved an especially potent and popular form for individuals, working alone or as part of organized groups, to subversively or overtly act for human rights. Through a description of this activity over time and space, Quilts and Human Rights advances awareness of critical huma...

Katharine Guerrier shows how to create her freely pieced house blocks and put them together to make your own lively and quirky scrap house quilt. Quilts using this formula can be made any size, incorporating different elements and techniques: novelty fabric for gardens, farmyard or sky, curved seams for landscape panels, block samples left over from previous projects and oddments of fabric you will almost certainly have in your scrap bag. By following these guidelines and techniques, and adding...

Making quilts is a way of handing down traditions and expressing new ideas. This text presents technical information on quilting; covering strip piecing, patchwork and applique, trapunto, stippling, and modern interpretations of quilting traditions from around the world.

20 easy projects help you to make simple, speedy quilts and quilted objects. Ideal for beginners there is expert advice on short cuts and time-saving tips. For those looking for inspiration there are colourful, modern and fun designs with instructions, illustrations and templates.

From the cute Spring Bunnies quilt to the festive Christmas Baubles wall hanging, the classic Cadeaux de Provence quilt to the innovative Coffee and Cream throw, here you will find quilts to suit every home and all abilities. This book features 20 original patterns for fast and simple quilts and great ideas for adapting designs to suit your space. It includes quilting basics and each technique is clearly explained with step-by-step illustrations.

Over 90,000 of the first edition sold! Ten years later, quilters who fancy felines still love The Cat's Meow! This special 10th anniversary edition features Janet Kime's popular litter of cat quilt patterns, plus one dog quilt. Now in full color!

Christine Porter brings a wealth of practical teaching and design experience to this exciting collection of pieced patchwork quilt designs, all inspired by traditional floor tiles. Christine first noticed the relationship between patchwork and tiles when exploring the churches and cathedrals of her native Bristol. Here she provides 10 original patterns, together with variations on each, to inspire the reader to discover this wonderful source of pieced patchwork designs for themselves. Time-savin...