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Comprehensive reference book offers 30 patterns for 76 distinctive border motifs — each in 5 sizes. Instructions for selecting appropriate pattern size and design.

Blocks can be customized easily and adapted for use as wearables and home decorations Color photographs inspire quilters to create new projects for themselves and for others Step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and full-size quilt blocks make quilting easy even for beginners.

Explore the Endless Possibilities for Hand or Machine Quilting Designs! Are you stumped about the right quilting design for your latest materpiece? It’s America’s favorite quilting instructor to the rescue! 5 classic quilt projects allow you to put your new skills into practice. Learn how to decide on the best quilting design for each individual quilt. Step-by-step instructions for drafting your own designs, plus ideas for customizing commercial quilting patterns and stencils. Full-size, ready-to-trace patterns for traditional quilting motifs, such as feathers, wreaths, and more.

Make a quilt in a weekend? Yes, you can! Breeze through the simple blocks, easy piecing techniques, and small-size projects found in this book to make a stunning quilt in no time. Make a fusible wall hanging, strip-piece a colorful throw, stitch an irresistible baby quilt--and much more--using the step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams found inside. Whichever projects you choose, you'll love the ease and speed in which you can create them. Enjoy! 11 quilts: Red-and-White Romance, Suite Dreams, Daisy Basket, City Blocks, Oh, Baby!, Dressed to the Nines, Twirling Kaleidoscope, Tropical Calypso, Cool Watercolors, Party Stripes, and Hint of Tint. Better Homes and Gardens® The Best of Weekend Quilts (Leisure Arts #4571)

Hundreds of full-color photos, charts, and diagrams accompany start-to-finish lessons on quilting styles — hand, machine, trapunto, appliqué — plus a wealth of patterns and sewing tips. Suitable for beginners to experts.

Get scrappy with best-selling author Alex Anderson (more than 950,000 books sold!) Use your stash and your scrap bin to make 7 colorful quilts. Get in on Alex’s best scrap quilting secrets: which blocks and settings work best in scrappy quilts; how to combine fabric colors, prints, and values so your creations look exciting, not overpowering; and how to choose quilting motifs that will highlight your design. Includes complete instructions for 6 one-block scrap quilts, plus bonus sampler quilt and an inspiring gallery of 11 contemporary and antique scrap quilts. All quilts are easy enough for confident beginners.