Go beyond basic scrap quilts with this guide to turning fabric bits snips into striking modern art quilts—featuring 8 quick and easy projects. In Scrappy Bits Applique, fabric designer and quilt artist Shannon Brinkley shares her secrets to putting sewing room scraps to use. With her easy stitching and collage techniques, she shows how simplicity can produce dramatic results. Shannon’s “scrappy” approach to quilting uses a fast raw-edged technique. With step-by-step instructions, she teaches you how to intuitively choose, cut, and sew bits of fabric to create a collage of unique images and textures. Included are eight engaging quilt projects to try out your new skills.

Your Complete Reference For All Things Appliqué. A comprehensive workbook on the most popular appliqué techniques. Plenty of photos and illustrations to help you along the way, plus a gorgeous gallery of quilts and other projects. Learn how to choose appliqué techniques with confidence for the perfect quilt, every time. Give new life to your quilts with design principles that engage the eye.

Turn cut-paper snowflakes into intricate fabric sewflakes that add dazzle to your quilts. 5 projects.

This sewing guide reveals a breakthrough method to simplify learning stitches of all kinds, with more than 100 stitches from the simple to the fanciful. As makers, we tend to learn different stitches over time without thinking much about how they relate to one another. But when Natalie Chanin and her teams at Alabama Chanin and The School of Making began to look at needlework closely, they realized all stitches are based on geometric grid systems. They also discovered that learning new stitches—even elaborate ones—became simple and easy when using grids as guides. In The Geometry of Hand-Sewing Chanin presents their breakthrough method, featuring illustrated instructions (for both right- and left-handed stitchers) for more than 100 stitches—from the basic straight and chain to complex feather and herringbone. Photos of both right and wrong sides are included, as well as guidelines for modifying stitches to increase one’s repertoire further. The book also offers downloads for two stitching cards with the grids on which every stitch in the book is based. These printable cards can be used as stencils for transferring grids to fabric.

A fresh take on quilting and appliqueÌ ! Kevin Kosbab shows quilters that not only is appliqueÌ fun and easy to do, it can open up a world of design possibilities. The Quilter's AppliqueÌ Workshop teaches you everything you need to know to create appliqueÌ â€"both as embellishment and as the focus of projects. The book is divided into three sections that each explores a basic appliqueÌ approach: raw-edge, prepared-edge, and needle-turn appliqueÌ . Each section includes detailed instructions, tips, and illustrations. Twelve home-decor projects, including bed quilts, wall quilts, table runners/toppers, and pillows, illustrate the techniques and allow you to explore more specialized methods such as broderie perse, felt appliqueÌ , and bias-tape appliqueÌ . The Quilter's AppliqueÌ Workshop gives you the tools to mix and match appliqueÌ techniques and create any design you can imagine.

Learn how to use felt, cotton, and linen to create beautifully layered designs full of texture and contrast, then embellish with just a handful of basic embroidery stitches.

Bringing a wealth of essential and new applique techniques to the modern sewist.