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APPLIQUE

 

FAVORITE APPLIQUE AND EMBROIDERY QUILTS

BETTY ALDERMAN

2 dozen quilt patterns featuring the best of both techniques were created for you!

 

THE COUNTRY LOVE QUILT 

CHERYL A. BENNER & RACHEL T. PELMAN

The Country Love Quilt follows in the stunning tradition of The Country Bride Quilt.  Designed by the staff of the Old Country Store in Lancaster County, Pa this book contains actual size appliqué templates.

 

APPLIQUE BASICS - FLOWER WREATHS           

KAREN KAY BUCKLEY

Learn to make 9 different types of flower wreaths.

 

MASTERING MACHINE APPLIQUE: THE SATIN STITCH

HARRIET HARGRAVE

The author of Heirloom Machine Quilting shows how to satin-stitch appliqués on clothing and quilts and demonstrates mock-hand and other machine techniques, including straight stitch, blanket stitch, broderie perse, curved piecing, cathedral windows, and stained glass.

 

THE COUNTRY BRIDE QUILT

CRAIG N. HEISEY AND RACHEL T. PELLMAN

The Country Bride Quilt is designed by the staff of the Old Country Store in Lancaster County, PA this book contains actual size appliqué templates.

 

QUILTS FROM GRANDMOTHER’S GARDEN

JAYNETTE JUFF

A little handwork-and a few quick tricks-is all it takes to create these striking quilts inspired by old-fashioned Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts. Instead of sewing together thousands of tiny hexagons, make appliqué units instead! Start with one learning place-mat project, and then get creative with ten quilt patterns. Take these perfectly portable projects wherever you go; appliqué units make it easy. Learn how today's inexpensive precut papers make the process a breeze-no need to draw and cut hexagons.

 

MACHINE APPLIQUE FOR THE TERRIFIED QUILTER

SHARON PEDERSON

This DVD has step by step instructions for many different machine appliqué techniques.

 

PIECE BY PIECE – MACHINE APPLIQUE      

SHARON SCHAMBER

Turn edge and raw edge appliqué and paperless paper piecing!  Hand appliquéd look on the sewing machine!

 

BALTIMORE ELEGANCE

ELLY SIENKIEWICZ

This book features 25 new small (8”) blocks and 8 large reproduction blocks and borders. Also included are 6 lessons for building and improving your appliqué skills.

 

CELTIC FANTASY                 

RICKY TIMS

Create an heirloom Celtic quilt with knots, trees flowers and more!

 

DESERT VISIONS                  

RICKY TIMS

An American Southwest Indian inspired quilt.

 

APPLIQUÉ IN REVERSE

TERI HENDERSON TOPE

Reverse appliqué is the process of cutting through background fabric to reveal the appliqué fabrics basted beneath.  Intricate hand appliqué made fast and easy!  The secret? Use large pieces of background fabric underneath the appliqué designs for easier handling.

 

 

 

BATIK

 

CALIENTE QUILTS                        

PRISCILLA BIANCHI

This book shows quilters how to be fearless when it comes to color, which is one of their biggest worries. It includes 10 stunning projects unlike any readers will have seen before.

WATERCOLOR QUILTS                

PAT MAIXNER MARGARET & DONNA INGRAM SLUSSER

Watercolor quilts, often mood pieces intended to be hung on a wall, are constructed with more attention to the fabric design and to color values than to the actual hues used. By manipulating small squares of fabric. Margaret and Slusser explain how it's done--including advice on everything from choosing appropriate fabric designs to stitching and binding--using lots of color photographs to ease crafters through the basics.

BATIK BEAUTIES                          

LAURIE SHIFRIN

Choose from 18 spectacular projects from small wall quilts to full sized bed quilts that showcase the vibrant hues and exotic designs of batik fabrics!

BATIK GEMS                                 

LAURIE SHIFRIN

Make 29 vibrant batik quilts!  Learn how they are made, how to care for them and how to pair them with other fabrics for beautiful quilts.

 

 

LANDSCAPE QUILTS

 

BEAUTIFULLY EMBELLISHED LANDSCAPES

JOYCE R. BECKER

125 tips and techniques to create stunning quilts

QUILTED LANDSCAPES               

JOAN BLALOCK

Use simple string piecing methods, fabrics, and machine embellishments to create realistic landscapes.  Experiment with organza and tulle overlays; learn to couch specialty threads     , and how to fuse chopped fabric in these 7 unique projects.

 

QUILTS WITH A VIEW                   

FAYE LABANARIS

Over forty beautiful album block designs showcase floral fabric backgrounds embellished with three-dimensional flowers and buds in a garden appliqué guide. Full-page appliqué patterns blend with color photos of finished quilts in this basic guide.

 

MINIATURE QUILTS

 

BABY QUILTS WITH LOVE            

ALEX ANDERSON

Modern fabrics make these babies showstoppers!

 

THE LITTLE BOX OF BABY QUILTS

JENNY WILDING CARDON

20 quilts for baby (including boys) each on a card for easier handling.

 

CATS, CATS, CATS                                       

Four Corners

Eight Projects using a cat motif.

 

POSITIVELY POSTCARDS                            

BONNIE SABEL & LOUIS-PHILIPPE O’DONNELL

4" x 6" mini-greetings--and make a one-of-a-kind quilt in an evening. * Follow one step-by-step project to learn the technique; then get inspired by more than 85 creative variations, all shown in close-up photos

 

AMERICAN DOLL QUILTS             

KATHLEEN TRACY

16 Little projects that honor a tradition.  These doll quilts represent quilts made during different periods in American history

  

NEW TECHNIQUES

 

TWO COLOR QUILTS    

BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS

The 36 quilts in this book will inspire you with a fresh look at these high contrast treasures.

 

JAPANESE FOLDED PATCHWORK

MARY CLARE CLARK

Fabric is folded to make a block and is then sewn.

 

DESIGN YOUR OWN QUILTS

JUDY HOPKINS

A reliable step-wise approach to design provides organization and direction while allowing you to make creative decisions.

 

ADVENTURES WITH LEADERS AND ENDERS

BONNIE HUNTER

What if you could piece quilts even faster, work on more than one quilt simultaneously, and save money, fabric and thread all at the same time?

 

SCRAPS AND SHIRTAILS: REUSE, REPURPOSE, RECYCLE! THE ART OF “QUILTING GREEN”

BONNIE HUNTER

From reusing fabrics in our stashes, repurposing thrift store fabrics and recycling cotton clothing from our own closets to learning how to shop at the local quilt shop for green products.

 

SCRAPS AND SHIRTTAILS II CONTINUING THE ART OF QUILTING GREEN

BONNIE HUNTER

More adventures quilting green

 

THE THIMBLEBERRIES BOOK OF QUILTS

LYNETTE JENSEN

Traditional quilts with a twist!   Bring a modern look to an old favorite! Includes instructions for 30

quilts.

 

KALEIDOSCOPES & QUILTS

PAULA NADELSTERN

This book covers the materials and techniques used to make a quilt as beautiful as a kaleidoscope

 

FAST, FUN, AND FABULOUS QUILTS

SUZANNE NELSON

Unique tips, tricks, and techniques shave time off cutting, piecing and appliqué.

 

DYES & PAINTS                     

ELIN NOBLE

This book covers the fundamentals of dyeing and coloring fabric with MX fiber reactive dyes and fabric paints.  Many of the techniques can be adapted for yarn, ribbon, paper, basket reed and even wood.

 

ART QUILTS: PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK

SUE PIERCE & VERNA SUIT

53 Quilters each took inspiration from a playing card and used various mediums and techniques to make these fascinating blocks.

 

FUSING FUN                                   

LAURA WASILOWSKI

Give your sewing machine a rest; no sewing needed except for quilting and binding these eye popping collages!

 

PAPER PIECING

GARDEN-INSPIRED QUILT BLOCK DESIGNS

JODIE DAVIS AND LINDA HAMPTON SCHIFFER

A good beginner’s foundation piecing book!

 

PAPER PIECE A FLOWER GARDEN 

JODIE DAVIS

Paper piece flowers, birds, bees, butterflies, ladybugs and dragon flies!  A comprehensive paper piecing primer is provided for beginners along with full sized patterns and piecing keys for each block.

 

QUICK AND EASY QUILTING - FOUNDATION PIECING

JODIE DAVIS AND LINDA HAMPTON SCHIFFER

More than 150 quilt block designs and borders.  A full color photograph of each finished block and quilt. Quilt finishing techniques.  Patterns for more than 20 finished quilts

 

CAROL DOAK TEACHES YOU TO PAPER PIECE

CAROL DOAK

Learn to paper piece with this DVD.

 

EASY PAPER PIECED MINIATURES

CAROL DOAK

Simply rotary cut oversized pieces of fabric, pin them to the patterns, then stitch along the pattern lines with your sewing machine.  The paper piecing technique is so easy you’ll make tiny patchwork blocks with perfectly sharp angles every time!

 

QUILTS WITH ATTITUDE

DEB KARASIK

Learn error free foundation paper piecing with step by step instructions for the spikiest most precise points ever!  Print your own paper foundations from the CD Rom included with the book.

 

MARINER’S COMPASS                 

JUDY MATHIESON

Complete patterns for 16 Mariner’s Compasses from 9” to 30” diameter.  Learn how to draft designs with many variations.

 

A QUILTER’S ARK                         

MARGARET ROLFE

4”X4” blocks of animals. Simply trace the design onto the foundation, add oversized pieces of fabric and sew on the straight lines with your machine!

 

PAPER PIECING THE SEASONS

LIZ SCHWARTZ & STEPHEN SEIFERT

Beautiful paper pieced pictorial quilts for almost any occasion. Full sized foundation patterns. Tips for working small pieces, points and odd shapes

 

EAST QUILTS WEST

KUMIKO SUDO

Paper piecing 53 western blocks with an eastern influence.

 

RADIANT NEW YORK BEAUTIES         

VALORI WELLS

Go beyond the basics to learn more complex techniques, but suitable for anyone familiar with basic quilt block piecing.

 

 QUILT HISTORY

 

QUILTS OF THE CIVIL WAR          

BARBARA BRACKMAN

An album of quilts crafted during the Civil War.  Plus instructions on how you can make them.

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Show Less GUIDE TO JUDGED QUILT SHOWS

LYNNE F. ERBACH, BEVERLY FINE, LINDA MCCUEAN,

SCOTT A. MURKIN, ANDI PEREJDA, LINDA RASMUSSEN, CINDY SELTZ-KRUG, AND ELIZABETH SPANNRING

This guide to judged quilt shows contains thorough, up-to-date information needed to stage a judged quilt show.

 

NEW JERSEY QUILTS 1777-1950

THE HERITAGE QUILT PROJECT OF NEW JERSEY

A must have book for those interested in quilt history. One of the best state compiled books about the quilts of their state.

 

BLENDED QUILTS

MARSHA MCCLOSKEY AND SHARON EVANS YENTER

This full-color, lavishly-illustrated book takes you on a visual journey of quilts from the 1800s coupled with sixteen modern-day counterparts with complete instructions for making them.

 

WORTH DOING TWICE - CREATING QUILTS FROM OLD TOPS

PATRICIA J. MORRIS AND JEANNETTE T. MUIR

An album of quilts that not only shows a quilt, but explains how to repair a problem or make the quilt yourself.

 

THE STATE OF THE ART QUILT; CONTEMPORARY QUILTS FOR THE COLLECTOR

BARBARA PACKER

The study of the contemporary quilt as an art form.

 

AMERICAN QUILTS AND COVERLETS

AMELIA PECK

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Quilt Collection is showcased.

 

QUILT HISTORY FORMS

HAWAIIAN QUILT MASTERPIECES

ROBERT SHAW

This volume offers some of the finest examples of the islands’ fabric art, highlighted by works of such quilt makers as Elizabeth Akuna, Sharon Balai, and Junedale Lauwaeomakana Quinories, whose clever variations on classic designs are spiced with subtle twists of modernity. This book’s insightful and informative text shows how the designs of these extraordinary Hawaiian creations are grounded in spirituality, the indigenous flora, and the visual expression of history.

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY QUILTS 1900 – 1950

THOMAS K. WOODARD & BLANCHE GREENSTEIN

An album of quilts crafted in the first half of the twentieth century.

 

 

QUILTING TECHNIQUES

THE BEST OF SHIRLEY THOMPSON’S QUILTING PATTERNS

CHERYL BARNES

200 patterns taken from all seven of Shirley’s books have been digitalized to fit into the most commonly sized blocks and borders with dozens of stitching diagrams included

QUILT IT!                                        

BARBARA CHAINEY

Machine quilting including spacer blocks, on point blocks, sashings and borders.

 

QUILT SAVVY

DIANE GAUDYNSKI

Improve accuracy & fluidity of stitches in charming unmarked free motion designs.

 

HEIRLOOM MACHINE QUILTING 

HARRIET HARGRAVE

Everything you need to know about straight line and free motion quilting, elegant feathers and padded quilting.

 

PATHWAYS TO BETTER QUILTING

SALLY TERRY

75 patterns for quilters with traditional sewing machines.

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FAST AND FREE A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO FAST AND EASY FREE MOTION MACHINE QUILTING

PATSY THOMPSON

This DVD begins with a discussion on the basics of free motion quilting, and then turns to a lesson on preparing the quilt sandwich. The viewer is introduced to the concept of fast and free...Patsy's technique of creating countless spin-off designs, just by making a small change in one base design. Patsy discusses how to stitch 18 different quilting designs and gives ideas for additional related spin-off designs. The tutorial ends with a detailed lesson in how to convert your closed toe free motion foot to an open toe foot.

 

 

QUILT STENCILS

FLYING GEESE

FLOWERS

ORANGE

OVERALL FLOWER

OVERALL ICE CREAM

OVERALL WAVES VARIATION

SHELLS

TULIP

WAVES

 

STITCHES AND MOTIFS

 

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRAZY QUILT STITCHES AND MOTIFS                                  

LINDA CAUSEE

There are 90 Crazy Quilt Stitches illustrated with how-to instructions. In addition there are eleven Ribbon Motifs. For each ribbon motif we've included a stitching diagram to use as a blueprint for creating beautiful ribbon work.

 

BORDERS, BINDINGS AND EDGES

SALLY COLLINS

Advice on planning, cutting, stitching and attaching pieced, appliquéd and whole fabric borders.  Learn to make bias binding piped finishes, scalloped edges and more!

 

BEYOND THE BLOCKS, QUILTS WITH GREAT BORDERS

NANCY J. MARTIN

18 gorgeous quilts to make featuring patchwork, appliqué and strippy borders.

 

CRAZY QUILTING - THE COMPLETE GUIDE

J. MARSHA MICHLER

10 different methods for piecing. More than 100 embroidery stitches for ribbons, flosses and threads.  Techniques for dyeing, painting, stamping, printing and embroidery on silk, cotton, rayon, wool and linen.  Instructions for adding buttons, beads, tassel, cording and other dimensional embellishments.

 

THE QUILTER’S POCKET REFERENCE

PEGGY SCHOLLEY

An easy guide to yardage such as how many 4 ½” squares in a yard to how much batting does this quilt need?

 

 

TRADITIONAL PIECING

 

2008 PACIFIC NORTHWEST QUILTFEST

ASSOCIATION OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST QUILTERS

This DVD is slides with a printed caption of this Seattle, WA quilt show.

 

MAGIC BASE BLOCKS                 

PATTY BARNEY & COOKEY SCHOCK

Bypass troublesome bias edges.  Piece an entire block’s worth of large and small half square triangle units in one easy step, without stitching on tricky bias edges.

 

501 QUILT BLOCKS

BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS

A treasury of patterns for patchwork and appliqué blocks.

 

THE QUILTER’S ALBUM OF PATCHWORK PATTERNS

JINNY BEYER

4050 beautiful color designs to choose from. Transparency sheets with 32 common design grids.

 

STAR LOG CABIN QUILTS – QUILT IN A DAY              

ELEANOR BURNS

Instructions for making a log cabin block with stars placed on the inside, outside of blocks and on borders.

 

SALLY COLLINS TEACHES YOU PRECISION PIECING

SALLY COLLINS

This DVD shows many tips to help with matching, cutting etc.

 

QUILTER’S COMPLETE GUIDE     

MARRIANE FONS & LIS PORTER

Guide for drafting, sewing, and quilting projects.  Including a clear explanation of how to use quilter’s tools.

 

VISUAL QUICK TIPS QUILTING

SONJA HAKALA

A pocket reference you take with you for quilting away from home.

 

FAT QUARTER QUILTS  (2007)            

M’LISS RAE HAWLEY

Get the basics on choosing fabrics, techniques and quilting designs unique to fat quarter quilts.

 

FAT QUARTER QUILTS  (1999)             

M’LISS RAE HAWLEY

Get the basics on choosing fabrics, techniques and quilting designs unique to fat quarter quilts.

 

AROUND THE BLOCK AGAIN       

JUDY HOPKINS

200 easy to sew blocks and quilt piecing techniques

 

101 FABULOUS ROTARY-CUT QUILTS

JUDY HOPKINS AND NANCY J. MARTIN

Quilt projects clearly arranged from A-Z graded by skill level and showcased in wonderful color photographs.

 

60 DEGREE SHAPES WITH NO MATH

SHARON HULTGREN

This VCR tape shows how to construct a basic quilt, then how to move into enhancements.

 

QUILTS! QUILTS!! QUILTS!!! 

DIANA MCCLUN & LAURA NOWNES

32 classic quilt patterns, accurate templates, yardage  charts, bed and wall sized charts, and new quick cutting and quick piecing techniques!

 

PRECISION PATCHWORK FOR SCRAP QUILTS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE…

JEANNETTE TOUSLEY MUIR

Preparing a quilt to be worked on any time or anyplace by quilting one block at a time.

 

WONDERFUL FABRIC QUILTS

KAY NICHOLS

One piece of fabric does it all – blocks, borders and binding - all cut from the same fabric.

 

TIPS FOR QUILTERS

RACHEL T. PELLMAN

A group of quilters gave the author their best tips for quilt making.

 

LOG CABIN FEVER               

EVELYN SLOPPY

Choose from 11 projects that mix traditional Log Cabin blocks with baskets, hearts, stars and other motifs.

 

BACK TO BASICS                         

PAT YAMIN

A how to manual for cutting old-time patchwork patterns with today’s accurate templates and quick rotary techniques.

 

THE QUILTER’S KITCHEN             

DARLENE ZIMMERMAN AND JOY HOFF

Quilts inspired by food dishes and the cookbook to make the meal.

 

 

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