Responding to what today's quilters really need, this seventh book in the Dear Helen Series is an evolution of experiences from a career of quilting and teaching. Enhance your quilt top with this expansion of Helen's reliable patterns, offered in sizes ready to trace, scan, or photocopy. Learn how to mix, match, and adapt your patterns! Over 100 quilting patterns have been grouped into the following seven categories: More Helen's Hints II, Framing Ideas, Traditional Patterns, Continuous-Line, Beautiful Scrolls, Grids VII, and Secondary Designs. Pattern pages feature placement diagrams, combinations, helpful hints, and a range of designs that can easily be adapted from hand to machine quilting, and vice versa. Fifteen secondary designs, including edge-to-edge quilting patterns, illustrate what happens when you combine multiple repeats into new placement possibilities. See how framing techniques help to establish the main motifs in your quilt. Over two dozen continuous-line patterns are included for use on home quilting systems and professional quilting machines. Also, discover how to manipulate a pre-purchased stencil to fit into the corners, blocks, and borders of any size quilt.

Popular quilting pattern designer Helen Squire, well known for her 'Dear Helen, Can You Tell Me...?' series of nine pattern books, updates any quilting library with 75 of the best patterns from twenty years of 'Helen's Hints, ' her American Quilter magazine column. Mix and match the patterns and watch secondary designs come alive. Reduce, enlarge, and play with arrangements to suit your quilt's personality. Quilt as desired? No problem; the combinations are endless! All 75 patterns are suitable for hand or machine quilting

'Beam up' those UFOs and get started! Helen shows you how to turn your unfinished projects into finished quilts. Learn what type of quilting patterns are appropriate for your patchwork or appliqued quilt tops. Follow her four-question formula to determine where and what to quilt. Based on the most popular workshop Helen teaches, Quilting UFOs offers visual solutions to the dilemma of 'quilt as desired.' Learn how easy it is to make any pattern fit your individual quilt top. Refer to the illustrated examples of mitered borders and blocks, all made with the same design, and simply choose your favorite. A galaxy of original patterns are divided into categories for easy reference. They are presented full-sized in a larger, landscape format for handy copying and use. This collection is the eighth in the Dear Helen series of quilting pattern books. Most recent AQS publications by the author include Helen's Mix & Match Quilting Patterns, Helen's Copy & Use Quilting Patterns, Create with Helen Squire: Hand and Machine Quilting, plus three CD-ROMs with printable patterns.

"Here are 17 new designs from Helen Philipps exploring her love of fabrics, patchwork, and colour. There is a selection of inspiring projects including quilts, pillows, a spring wreath, little deer toy, handstitched pincushions and other sewing notions, pretty fabric bags, coasters, charms and decorations. Helen's style is fresh and modern and her work includes extra details and embellishments to inspire your own creativity." --Page [4] of cover.

You don't have to be an artist or expert quilter to use and enjoy Helen Squire's newest offering in the Dear Helen Series. This carefully planned edition can be used simply as a pattern book, with more than 80 versatile patterns. Some are for hand quilting and some for machine. Or, for those a bit more adventurous, follow Helen's hints to discover how easy it is to design your own quilting patterns. 'Create with Helen' also contains medallion designs for wholecloth quilts, a medley of floral blocks patterns, marking advice for using silhouette stencils, quilting grids to combine with the other patterns, and a pull-out section for larger designs.

From sisters Jenny Pedigo, Helen Robinson, and Sherilyn Mortensen comes this assortment of 30 quilt blocks – each with both curved and straight piecing. Featuring a total of 14 quilting projects consisting of three sampler quilts and 11 unique mix-and-match combinations, the beauty of the blocks is that there are endless possibilities for you to create your own original quilt designs! With an insightful section on how to use the Wonder Curve Ruler, also included are step-by-step instructions, helpful diagrams, alternative color and layout suggestions, and more.

Open a sweet new range of possibilities with rolls of precut strips and these eighteen quilting projects. Raid your fabric pantry! The bestselling author of Charm School is back with eighteen innovative projects using precut 2 1/2” strips. Vanessa Goertzen’s fabric recipes will help you cook up basic, beginner-friendly strip-pieced blocks and more advanced designs: triangles, stars, log cabins, hexagons, and even curves. Use convenient fabric rolls, or create your own stunning strips from yardage. Whether you are newer to quilting or have lots of experience, you’ll spend less time cutting, and more time creating. • Sweet and simple! Sew eighteen jelly-rific quilts made from 2 1/2” precut fabric strips • Learn precut shortcuts with bestselling Charm School author Vanessa Goertzen • Start with basic quilt blocks, and build your skills to piece triangles, hexagons, curves, and more