Piece beautiful blocks from your scraps or uniformly plan your approach from fabric yardage--the choice is yours! Start with 8 quilt patterns, each shown in 2 distinct looks, plus get easy sewing and pressing tips to remake quilts in your favorite fabrics. With line drawings of each quilt to color in, the possibilities are endless! Even beginning quilters will be able to jump right in and sew their own colorful stash quilts.

Put your quilter’s stash to work with 8 easy patterns that can be made in scrap or yardage variations for a total of 16 fabulous quilts! These 8 quilt patterns, each shown in 2 distinct looks, will have you reimagining your stash! Piece beautiful blocks from your scraps or uniformly plan your approach from fabric yardage. Plus get easy sewing and pressing tips to remake quilts in your favorite fabrics. With line drawings of each quilt to color in, the possibilities are endless! Even beginning quilters will be able to jump right in and sew these colorful stash quilts.

Want to be a scrap quilter? Great! Want to think like a scrap quilter? Learn from a master! Lissa Alexander has spent three decades honing her scrap-quilting talents, and in her first solo book, she offers page after page of tips for making dazzling scrap quilts bursting with colors, prints, and textures. Learn Lissa's secrets for deciding which fabric combinations work (and understanding why others don't). Best of all, with a dozen patterns to choose from you'll discover how to (finally!) use your unique stash to make scrap quilts that sing. Includes a preface by renowned quilt historian Barbara Brackman.

Play the sunset -- Red and green elegance -- Sapphire nights -- Spring's bounty -- Jeweled flowers -- Blue and yellow stash quilt -- Blue posies -- Victorian stars -- Fire stars -- Plum crazy -- Star medallion -- Soft scrap quilt -- Hometown -- Midnight stars -- Nature's garden.

Find fresh new ways to combine the scraps you've been collecting. Perfect for budget-minded quilters, these visually pleasing designs give a modern slant to traditional quilt blocks. Discover three "scrap equations" that will make you fearless about fabric: neutrals + scraps = balance, value > color, and more = better Choose from 11 appealing projects for confident beginners and beyond Learn time-saving techniques for sorting and storing your scraps so you can easily transform them into fabulous quilts

Discover the secrets to turning your fabric scraps into stunning quilts. Who knew scrappy quilts could look so sophisticated? Filled with full-colour illustrations and step-by-step instructions, "Stash Magic" shows quilters of all levels how to take ordinary scrap quilts to the next level. Featuring 7 original designs in two different sizes, making a total of 14 harmonized projects, and featuring a variety of techniques - including paper foundation piecing, string piecing, and interlacing Celtic applique - this is a must-have for anyone who wants to put their scrap fabric to good use.

Use stash, buy splash! All quilters have a fabric stash at home that they don’t know how to use. Cindy Casciato gives you inspiring quilt patterns, many with size and color variations, to showcase your stash fabrics with a zinger fabric thrown in for splash. You will also learn time-saving techniques, explore new fabric cutting methods, and receive tips and hints from quilting expert Nancy Zieman. With Stash with Splash Quilts, you will: · Combine your stash fabric with an exciting splash fabric to create one-of-a-kind quilt. · Make fourteen pieced and appliquéd quilts in a variety of sizes and color palette. · Use up your fabric stash with patterns specifically designed for strips, squares, fat quarters and leftover scraps · sidebars and notes from sewing and craft expert Nancy Zieman sprinkled throughout the pages offer more expert advice. Learn to put your fabric stash to good use in both classic and new designs, while still having fun hunting for that eye-popping splash fabric that will turn up the “Wow” factor on your quilt!