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"Put charm squares to the test with 18 quilts using precut 5" x 5" squares. Start with fresh, beginner-friendly patterns and build your skills to sew snowballs, stars, flying geese, and more. Using precuts from your stash or your own charms cut from scraps or yardage, you'll learn tips to take the guesswork out of piecing. Modern and traditional quilters alike will fall in love with these quick, clever, and clean designs!"--Amazon.com.
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Explore new options in improvisational piecing and empower your creativity! Cut and combine solid-color fabrics to create your own -prints- - stripes, polka dots, chevrons, plaids, and more. Forget the rules (and even your ruler) as you piece colorful solids into compelling quilt designs. Use color, pattern, and repetition to develop your personal design aesthetic as you stitch freely to create unique quilts that pack a punch!
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"A natural follow-up to the Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts, this book applies Rayna's no rules, no mistakes, no stress style to modern quilting. Starting with strips and geometric shapes, you'll cut and sew without patterns, required yardage, or complicated diagrams. This freeing method lets you create modern quilts organically as you follow your instincts, ask 'what if ...?', and experiment with scale, colour, value and placement."--Amazon.com....
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Have you ever bought the perfect stack of fat quarters, only to see that same bundle decorating your shelf two years later? Give stashed fabrics new life with 13 quilt patterns to make the most of your precuts! Authors Kate Carlson Colleran and Elizabeth Veit Balderrama show you the basics of how to quilt from your stash, with a special focus on color, print, and scale. Vibrant and versatile quilt patterns are tailored to precut fabric strips, squares,...
6) Kaffe Fassett quilts: shots and stripes : 24 new projects made with shot cottons and striped fabrics
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"Kaffee Fassett presents 24 quilt projects made with his solid-colored cotton fabrics and striped cotton fabrics"-
7) Foolproof crazy quilting: visual guide--25 stitch maps - 100+ embroidery & embellishment stitches
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Complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches.
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The key to perfect patchwork is getting all of the points to match up -- which is no easy feat! Thanks to the rediscovery of a traditional technique known as English paper piecing, success is now possible for quilters of all levels. By cutting the desired shapes from paper, basting the paper to the back of your fabric, and then hand-sewing the pieces together, you'll ensure perfectly matched points every time. This complete course in English paper...
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Aller shows you how to get the look of stained glass on your quilt to help you expand your quilting repertoire. She shows you ways to add "leading" between with pieces without bias tape and includes variations to help you personalize your work. The projects include traditional, picture, and improvisational quilts.
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"Ready to take the triangle challenge? Choose from 70 pieced modern triangle blocks and 11 quilts! Sew beautiful 3-sided blocks from pieced stripes, chevrons, curves, and more. Play with unexpected design elements, choose a winning color palette, and achieve balance and symmetry. Grab your favorite ruler and the included full-size templates to trim up equilateral, isosceles, and right triangle blocks with ease. With no tricky seams, these sampler...
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Carolyn Forster shows you how to transform jelly roll scraps into stunning mini quilts and gorgeous patchwork gifts. Packed with 30 colourful and inventive projects and all the techniques needed to create them, the book contains an abundance of guidance and inspiration for quilters and patchworkers of all abilities. Each section contains a comprehensive step-by-step photographic techniques section and each of the 30 projects contains photography and...
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"Fat quarters aren't just for quilters! All sewers love these inexpensive pieces of fabric and this book shows you how to create 50 fabulous projects from your stash. This unique collection of 50 quick-and-easy sewing patterns includes contemporary ideas for DIY home decor, accessories, gifts and more--all made using fat quarters. Projects range from instant fixes like coin purses needing just one fat quarter, to quilts and wall hangings that need...
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In this follow-up to her popular Strip-Smart Quilts, Kathy Brown provides an astonishing collection of 16 quilt patterns--all based on the same cut from a single ruler. Smart indeed! {u2022}Create mesmerizing designs with speed and accuracy using the Creative Grids 90° Double-Strip Ruler (or another right-angle triangle ruler) {u2022}Make intricate-looking projects easily using fat quarters, precut strips, or yardage {u2022}Find visually appealing...
17) Classic to contemporary string quilts: techniques, inspiration, and 16 projects for strip quilting
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From wall hangings to full-size bed quilts, these 14 fun stash-busting projects take string quilts in a new direction. The author uses strips and scraps of fabric to reimagine traditional and beloved quilt blocks as string blocks.
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Modern Bee - 13 Quilts to Make with Friends by Lindsay Conner features 13 projects for a virtual one-year quilting bee. Crafted with a modern aesthetic, the patterns are inspired by traditional quilt blocks as well as bits and pieces of daily life. As you quilt along with this book from month to month, you'll master sewing techniques elevating in difficulty - from easy to advanced. Each project is comprised of block instructions and a pattern to finish...
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These quilts are so fast they almost make themselves! Sew 16 fresh patterns designed specifically for precut quilting fabric. Save hours choosing and cutting fabric when you start with layer cakes, charm squares, jelly rolls, fat quarters, and half-yard bundles. With the fabric prep out of the way, you'll turn your stashed precuts into eye-catching bed quilts, throws, pillows, wallhangings, and table toppers. Shake up your palette with recommended...
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"Barbara Brackman's classic quilter's resource, the Encyclcopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, is fully modernized, updated with over 160 new blocks, and presented in full color 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 color suggestions to ensure that you will never run out of inspiration! Quilters, quilt historians, and textile enthusiasts...
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