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You'll love the dramatic results you get with this modern approach to quiltmaking. Popular author/designer team of Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr present their design and construction methods with 10 projects, then show you how to transform their ideas into quilts that truly express who you are.

Contains things you need to start making fabulous bags for various occasion - from cute little children's pouches to handy totes and elegant evening purses. This title features 10 fat-quarter-friendly projects and a huge gallery of 101 ideas for 'bags' of inspiration.

Want inspiration for your straight-line quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs‿JUST designs‿and will lie flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The fourth in our Quilting Inspiration series, this visual guide is filled with more than seventy-five distinctive straight-line designs from your favourite designers to get you stitching.

Discover the secrets to sewing a stylish wardrobe with staying power! This guide walks you through thirty timeless garments to create, including a must-have button-up shirt, a flattering A-line dress, and a modern classic pencil skirt (pattern included). With a conversational narrative, the authors have created an engaging, informative guide to sewing by tracing the garments‿ origins, offering styling and sewing tips, and sharing a modelled photo gallery and charming fashion illustrations by Beth Briggs.

Best-selling author Judy Gauthier shares twenty unique table runners with coordinating placemats and napkins. Step-by-step instructions are included, with basics on piecing, pressing, and tablescaping.

Sew modern quilts that illuminate your life with the help of ombré fabrics. Easy large-scale piecing shows the entire ombré gradation, while smaller-pieced quilts let colours dance and glow in hundreds of hues, tints, and tones! With a single fabric containing subtle shifts from pale to dark, colour feels exciting and new again. Jennifer Sampou shows you how to make the fabric work for you, with six brilliant quilt projects featuring her Sky Collection fabric.

Over two hundred and twenty five embroidery designs from best-selling author Brian Haggard are now available as iron-on transfers, to make applying and using his designs a breeze. Transfer and embroider beautiful designs from his popular books Embroidered Memories and Crazy-Quilted Memories. From florals and banners to birds and bees, this book has elegant images of all kinds (and in all sizes, too!). All projects, patterns and instructions include both metric and standard imperial measurements.

Applique the quilt of your dreams with hand or machine applique (including fusible applique) with expert Annie Smith. Learn step-by-step techniques.

Add warmth and texture to your home with wool appliqué. Sewing in the popular folk-art style, you'll stitch fifteen projects, including thirteen heirloom-worthy table mats and two versions of an Advent calendar, on a cotton or wool base. Learn how reverse appliqué brings depth and color to your handwork without the bulk of additional layers. This guide offers advice on choosing and using wool (even scraps!), plus valuable techniques and tips for wool hand stitchers.

"This book of 16 projects, plus a gallery, combines wool appliquae with a variety of traditional handwork techniques such as embroidery, rug hooking, punch needle embroidery, and more, while highlighting the importance of working collaboratively with friends"--

Quilting expert Natalia Bonner shares over sixty straight-line quilting ideas for blocks, borders, and allover designs, with step-by-step photos.

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 collection. Piece bejeweled 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.

Sew seventeen projects, from bags and accessories to home decor. Learn how easy it is to work with cork fabric from the designer behind Sallie Tomato, Jessica Kapitanski.

Best-selling author Vanessa Goertzen shares eighteen projects using precut 2 1/2" strips. Sew basic and advanced blocks from precut strips.

Make outfits, accessories, and quilts for girls and their eighteen-inch dolls. Each project comes in two versions: doll size and child size, with tips on self-drafted patterns.

"Combine antique textiles, ephemera, and other items with new elements to create unique and useful items for your home. Includes 5 projects with detailed instructions and patterns, plus many more inspiring projects in gallery form"--From publisher description.

'...for anyone interested in general surface embroidery, it's a wonderful thing to have a nice repertoire of decorative band stitching, and this book provides just that!' Mary Corbet, Needle 'n Thread

Turn back time with color photos and insightful essays about America's quilting past! Admire one hundred antique quilts and textiles you've never seen before, curated from the remarkable Poos Collection. See elaborate hand piecing and appliqué, signature quilts, wholecloth beauties, and an extraordinary war cover quilt that's the only known example from America. An invaluable resource to America's quilt history, the Poos Collection shares its classic, one-of-a-kind quilts.

Embrace the art of quilting with simple instructions to create beautiful Dresden plate blocks. Each variation looks unique and all are astonishingly easy to sew. Use any and all of the twenty-five design elements, including four different edge treatments, a range of sizes (2"-9 1/2"), and an amazing variety of patterns, from sawtooth to flying geese. Mix it up even more by fabric piecing wedges and using up to twenty different colors for each wedge.

Sew stylish shoulder bags, totes, clutches, and drawstring bags! Whether you‿re a total beginner or a confident sewist who loves to finish a project in one sitting, you‿ll love this modern collection of thirteen bags you can truly make your own. Turn flat fabric into handbags of any shape when you learn the basics of construction, transferring a pattern, and finishing details. A must-have primer for the beginner sewist!

With its organic lines, hand applique is the perfect medium for artistic expression. Come into the studio with Kathy Doughty as she shares her passion for quilt design, needle-turn applique, and fabric selection. Draw inspiration from eight projects with full-size patterns and build your skill set with simple, step-by-step instructions for Broderie Perse (Persian Embroidery), Boro-style applique, paper piecing, and hand quilting. Take control of the creative process, experiment with colour, and achieve your creative goals!Everything you need to applique quilts in Kathy's style or your own! Choose fabric, make bias vines, master needle-turn, and much moreAdd to your skills with intermediate and advanced techniques you haven't seen before, with simple instructions that beginners can easily followPractice taking risks in colour and design, with an inside look at Kathy's process.

Add playful texture to your projects with free-motion quilting that begs to be touched! Gain the confidence to quilt like an artist with best-selling author Christina Cameli's tactile approach to quilting. Try your hand at organic and geometric textures, with step-by-step lessons to 65 designs and 10 variations! Find yourself invigorated to finish projects on your home sewing machine or longarm, whether you're a confident beginner or seasoned pro. Bring out the best in your piecing with free-motion quilting that begs to be touchedThink texturally! Improve your quilt's overall impact with a step-by-step guide to quilted texturePerfect to use on home sewing machines and longarms, for advanced beginners and beyond.

Sew 15 quilts from triangles, hexagons, trapezoids, jewels, diamonds, parallelograms, and strip-pieced blocks.

Over 250 embroidery designs as iron-on transfers.

Get ready for some of the best-kept secrets in strip quilting! Learn tips for cutting, storing, and piecing fabric strips in a variety of widths. Start by sewing easy strip sets, then advance to triangles and more complex layouts. Make the most of your stash by turning precut strips, sliced yardage, and selvages into fifteen innovative projects. Customise the look of each quilt with blank colouring pages, laying the foundation to design your own.

Are you buried in scraps‿big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too tiny to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie‿s basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces and turn them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts.

Take your handmade business to a truly professional level with practical advicefrom industry experts!

Showcase your selvages the edgy way with 17 projects of all sizes! Like the ticket stubs you keep from a fabulous show, each selvage is a souvenir of a fabric you've selected and used.

Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood are friends, collaborators, and award-winning quiltmakers. This is the seventh book they have written together. They both work with innovative variations of traditional designs and have a strong commitment to provide students with basic fundamentals, as well as creative approaches.