Sheila Christensen Cutting and planning triangle-shaped blocks has never been so easy! Everything you love about the Quick & Easy Block Tool, now with triangle blocks! This ultimate no-math reference guide for quilters includes cutting charts, piecing tips, quilt layout ideas, and a visual index of blocks. Plus, get basic cutting instructions using straight or 60° triangle rulers for triangles, diamonds, jewels, half diamonds, parallelograms, hexagons, half hexagons, lozenges, and half lozenges. Ultra-portable and indispensable, this is the block guide that no quilter, modern or traditional, should be without! • Easy-to-use format in a take-along size• Packed with handy reference tables, helpful charts, design tips, diagrams, color inspiration, and more• Keep cutting instructions at your fingertips
Heather Black & Daisy Aschehoug Sew fifteen inspired designs with strong lines and quilted curves!Laced with retro-inspired circles and bold stripes, these modern quilts leave an unforgettable impression. Piecing circles, half circles, and quarter circles is easier than you think, and the authors will teach you to add movement and depth two ways—through easy strip sets or stripe-printed fabric. These aren’t your typical Drunkard’s Path quilts, but distinctive quilts for adventurous quilters! With block-based patterns, some improvisational piecing, and designs ranging from beginner-friendly to complex, there’s something for everyone.
Move beyond common circle-quilt designs to tackle curved piecing with ease
Add stripes to curved piecing and use color to add depth for a simple way to make complex quilts
Piece block-based layouts and improv designs ranging from simple to advanced
Jo Avery Build your quilting skills from the ground up.With a few yards of fabric and this beginner-friendly guide, you’ll learn to piece the simplest blocks and complete your first quilt! Established teacher Jo Avery guides you through twelve projects to whet your appetite for quiltmaking and take it a step further. Move from basic pieced strips, squares, and triangles to intermediate projects with major style. Learn expert tips for foundation paper piecing, appliqué, and even curves. Before long, you’ll have the confidence and expertise to tackle virtually any quilt pattern.
From zero to quilt hero! Become a quilter today with twelve modern projects
Gain new skills and sharpen your technique with an experienced teacher
Start with basic patchwork and branch out into curves, appliqué, and foundation paper piecing
Tantalizing, tasty, sweet . . . sew up something good enough to eat! From the pages of Love Patchwork & Quilting and Today’s Quilter comes a delicious collection of 13 bright, bold quilts that feature the perennially popular jelly roll strips. Strip piecing, basketweave, pinwheels, appliqué, and more—use 2 1/2-inch pre-cut fabric strips in exciting and unexpected ways. Whip up quilts in a range of project sizes and complexity, including a suite of baby projects, a pillow, wall hangings, and bed quilts. Top designers like Susan Briscoe and Jo Avery are featured. Finally, get the best from the pages of the UK’s most popular quilting magazines! Jelly rock-’n’-roll! This project-stuffed book is an easy and affordable way to own stylish patterns from the best-selling modern quilting magazines in the United Kingdom. Piece thirteen projects from 2 ½” precut strips, ranging from bed-size beauties to quick-sew projects Take strip-piecing a step further with innovative techniques and tons of variety
Shirley Hudson Capture the magic of holidays (and every day!) with 30 hand-embroidery projects. Starting with simple stitches, you’ll add sweet sayings and motifs to home decor and gifts. Sew up country-cute pincushions, modern mug rugs, vintage-inspired pillows, and more! Whether you’re refreshing your home decor or sharing meaningful handmade gifts with a friend, you’ll love how quick and easy it is to sew up seasonal designs for each month of the year.
Small, quick, and easy hand-embroidery projects to stitch all year long
Bring meaning to the holidays! 30 seasonal projects to sew and share
Cheerful illustrations to take your vintage-modern handmades to another level
Laura Coia Her instructional videos have inspired thousands to start sewing. Now for the first time, sew-lebrity Laura Coia shares written patterns for the most loved video tutorials on her “Sew Very Easy” YouTube channel! Learn the basics of quiltmaking, from cutting and pressing to borders and finishing. Then practice your skills with a dozen beautiful projects—quilts you’ll come back to time and time again—all suitable for beginners and beyond. You can even use pre-cuts for a quick and easy finish!
Learn to quilt with Laura Coia, the YouTube star behind “Sew Very Easy” videos
Follow along with a dozen of her most popular projects, finally in printed patterns
Up your quilting game with construction basics, plus expert tips and tricks
Dara Tomasson Train your hands to free-motion quilt like a pro! Building your muscle memory, you’ll learn quilting workouts intended to help you master a number of creative stitch designs, with clear step-by-step instructions. Then practice quilting with 10 unique skill-building projects, plus 7 bonus ideas, from modern quilts to gifts and home decor. Whether you’re a total beginner or coming in with a few “races” under your belt, you can confidently walk, jog, or run the path to quilting success! This beginner-friendly guide includes plenty of inspiration and coaching to help you move beyond the basics of free-motion quilting.
Get warmed up with 4 chapters to teach you the basics of free-motion quilting
Exercise your free-motion skills with 10 practice workouts to get you moving
Sprint to the finish line with 17 exciting projects to showcase your talents
Sylvia Pippin This mini forty-eight-page book is packed with mega information on all the key sashiko basics! Best-selling author Sylvia Pippen shares everything from a bit of history and applications for sashiko to the necessary supplies, how to mark the designs, and stitching techniques. Even learn how to create your own sashiko design from your favorite inspirational photo! Or use one of the twenty-seven included designs. Plus, at such a great price, you can afford to buy one for your sewing group, sister, mom, friend, or anyone else you know who loves to sew as much as you do!
Sashiko is easy to do on the go and this guide is perfect to go with you
Twenty-seven designs in a handy pocket size
Tips and tricks to make sashiko embroidery more successful, including how to prepare the thread, how to avoid pulling, successful stitching, and even ironing
Amanda Murphy Use quilting rulers to their fullestStraight lines, curves… there are rulers for every kind of quilting! Amanda Murphy shares an in-depth guide to everything you need to know about rulerwork quilting on both domestic and longarm machines. With recommendations for choosing templates and feet, this technical guide is great on its own, but also makes the perfect sidekick to Murphy’s popular Rulerwork Quilting Idea Book. Plan your quilting to perfection and learn to combine rulerwork with free-motion quilting. Watch your quilting aesthetic begin to evolve; helpful photos show you how to execute quilting designs with basic straight-line and circle rulers, as well as specialty shapes like waves, clamshells, and feathers!
Become a rulerwork expert! Achieve the quilting you want every time
Work on your longarm or domestic sewing machine, with troubleshooting and ergonomic tips for each
Buy the right rulers and feet, plan the quilting, and execute rulerwork with finesse
Katie Fowler Take the guesswork out of choosing color schemes!Looking for the perfect color combination? The Foolproof Color Wheel Set will help you pick a pleasing palette, every time! Die-cut “discs” and a printed color wheel illustrate ten color configurations, including analogous, triadic, and split complementary. The color wheel and viewfinder discs are easy and fun to use and come packed in a handy folder for storage. Find hundreds of color combinations that work together effortlessly—a must-have tool for any artist, crafter, quilter, sewist, or DIYer.
Total tonal harmony! Pick color combinations that work together effortlessly
Educate, inspire, and expand your knowledge of color relationships
Choose from ten incredible color schemes: direct complement, triadic, split complementary, tetradic, double complementary, double double complementary, double split complementary, double triadic, color sextet, and analogous
Carol Dean JonesCozy up with Sarah and her friends for more murder, quilting, and communityWhen sixty-eight-year-old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a love interest. The highly anticipated eleventh installment of this series of cozy mysteries begins with an appearance from Austin Bailey, renowned country singer—but before his concert can get off the ground, a young girl is murdered, and Sarah and her feisty cohort are hot on the case!
The eleventh in a series! Follow your favorite characters from story to story
In the newest installment, Sarah and her friends hunt the murderer of a young girl—despite warnings from official investigators and Sarah’s devoted husband
Aging with grace and spunk! Sarah Miller takes on everything from quilting and friendship to murderers and the demands of the twenty-first century with aplomb
Barbara Brackman Create your own Civil War friendship quiltFrom best-selling author and quilt historian Barbara Brackman comes the fascinating story of Civil War friendships across the Mason-Dixon line. Create your own historically inspired friendship quilt with twelve popular blocks from the Civil War era. Each album block comes with design variations and an optional center flourish, plus setting instructions. Read compelling narratives of the women who found their hearts divided during the war, yet left a legacy of friendship quilts as proof of their bond.
Journey through time with Barbara Brackman’s historical profiles of women from the South and North
Twelve album blocks, endless setting possibilities—create your own unique friendship quilt
Dive into history with historical images and quilt blocks that were popular during the Civil War
Lilo Bowman The creative studio of your dreams!Does your creative den leave you feeling overwhelmed or uninspired? Energize your crafting space with jazzy ideas for organization and accessibility! With over one hundred and fifty photos, this lookbook offers an endless visual parade of ideas to help your studio reach its full potential. Smart storage solutions, furniture, and accessories can help quilters, needle artists, knitters, and crafters keep their creativity on track! Whether you’re undergoing a radical reinvention or looking for tiny tweaks, you’ll finally be able to plan and organize your projects in a workspace that works for you.Inspired workspaces! Get a sneak peek inside creative studios of all sizes, designed on budgets large and small. Keep creativity flowing and stay organized with smart systems in place
Mary Hertel Journey into a land of dreams and fairy tales as you sew unicorns, dragons, mermaids, and their friends!From mystical creatures to a royal princess, a castle, and a brave knight, Mary Hertel’s beloved paper-pieced blocks are simple to sew and easy to love. With sixteen mix-and-match blocks, you’ll unlock the power of imagination in your quilting. Combine the blocks to create seven cute and useful projects ranging from quilts and pillows to a drawstring backpack. With clever patterns and clear instructions, this collection will help paper piecers see that anything is possible.Step-by-step patterns from paper-piecing wizard Mary HertelPiece sixteen blocks of mythic proportions—fairies, a cyclops, a gryphon, and moreShow off the blocks in baby quilts, a wallhanging, or cute pillows for a kids’ bedroom
Makiko Arai 30 Needle Felted Animals to Make and Love Craft a menagerie of miniature animals from simple materials!Author Makiko Arai’s easy felting techniques are perfect for beginners or anyone who enjoys a relaxing handcraft. With a little wool roving and a felting needle in hand, you’ll get step-by-step instructions to make 30 fuzzy friends, with a focus on shaping, color, and texture. Sculpt wire structures for stability, finish faces with lifelike expressions, and turn your creations into adorable pins you can take anywhere! From palm-size pups and curious cats to bunnies, deer, squirrels, and more, it’s time to let your imagination run wild!
Feel all the fuzzies! Everything you need to know to make 30 wool felted friends
Get cozy with basic needle felting techniques, tools, and how-tos
From bears to bunnies—Follow step-by-step instructions for every animal