From apples to cows, kettles to scarecrows, warm country images abound in this delightful alphabet poem.

Quilting school is now in session! Grow as a quilter with Janet Lundholm McWorkman in a 12-lesson quilting course. Skill builders cover everything from traditional patchwork to curves, paper piecing, strip piecing, bargello, set-in and Y-seams, hand and machine applique, and crazy quilting. Finish a timeless alphabet sampler quilt incorporating everything you've learned, plus enjoy smaller projects. Move beyond basic piecing with this block-of-the-month-friendly quilting primer.

You’ve got something unique to tell the world. What better way to get your message across than sewing your words into a quilt? Fiber artist and quilt designer Sam Hunter teaches you to say it all with 12 new projects featuring modern, paper-pieced text blocks. The book includes patterns of an easy-to-read font that includes lower- and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Sam covers everything you need to know about paper piecing, choosing fabrics, and designing your own quilted words. Use Sam’s designs to get started, and then stitch up your own words to give any occasion the ultimate personal touch.

Patterns for quilting and an ABC story for reading.

Quilting has existed for thousands of years, spanning the globe, practiced by women as well as men, and bringing together communities and generations. F is for Friendship: A Quilt Alphabet examines the subject of quilting, as an art form as well as an item of utility, tracing its early history from a cave in Mongolia to patchwork bedcoverings transported in overland wagon trains to present-day exhibits at renowned museums. Topics include patterns, inventions, and fabric choices, as well as quilts as vehicles of American history. Helen L. Wilbur also authored Lily's Victory Garden and Z is for Zeus: A Greek Mythology Alphabet. A former librarian who now works on the electronic side of the publishing world, she lives in New York City. Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen has illustrated more than 20 books with Sleeping Bear Press, including the best-selling The Legend of Sleeping Bear and The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell. He and his wife, Robbyn, live in Bath, Michigan.

Stitch this cute and colourful children's quilt with a combination of patchwork, applique, embroidery and quilting - perfect for a bed or wall, plus a matching cushion, two adorable felt animals and a gorgeous rag doll. This book includes detailed instructions, perforated full size design sheets, and complete embroidery and construction information.