Suitable for crafters, this decorative resource brings paper art and quilting together. It features 25 paper quilted projects, and helps you learn how to integrate small paper quilt pieces into greeting cards, scrapbook pages and collages. It includes a basics section that explains how to adhere the paper pieces, and paint background surfaces.

Create your own stunning heirlooms with these full-sized designs. Simple instructions and clear diagrams will assist needleworkers at all levels of expertise through every step. Seventy classic patterns include a wide variety of choices for decorative stitching: pineapple, feather, floral, and swirl motifs, plus a selection of repeating borders.

Theres always a challenge in quilting, and this book guarantees that quilters can rise to that challenge. Quilting and Color Made Easy provides all the basic techniques needed for cutting, piecing, and appliqu; includes shortcuts for sets, borders, and bindings; gives a straightforward explanation of the color wheel and how to use it specifically for quilting; and provides detailed charts for quilters to analyze and organize their fabric stash. Filled with beautiful photographs and written by two well-known professional quilters, this book appeals not only to the beginner but also to intermediate quilters who want to expand their basic knowledge.

Discover how to design and stitch beautiful machine quilting with the walking foot on your home sewing machine. Intimidated by free-motion machine quilting? You don’t need it to beautifully machine-quilt your own tops. Well-known teacher Mary Mashuta’s classroom-tested methods guarantee quilting success. Mary teaches you to use heavier-weight threads on the top of your machine, rather than in the bobbin, so that all your stitching is done on the right side of the quilt. • Learn to combine the right needles, threads, and batting to create exactly the look you want • Add style to your machine quilting with heavy-weight threads and your machine’s built-in decorative stitches • Use paper folding and cutting to create your own simple quilting motifs and border designs • Learn to adapt commercial templates and stencils into quilting motifs

Flip through these colorfully illustrated pages to find a project that fits your lifestyle.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quiltingprovides step-by-step instructions for the different quilting styles-from applique to patchwork. It also includes- The updated edition of an already popular book, now in the over-sized Illustrated format. Includes more than 200 photographs and helpful line drawings. All new patterns, plus a new 16-page color insert (20-25 color photos). Step-by-step directions help even beginners learn to quilt more easily.

Instructions for 86 great designs (geometric, garden, and other motifs) without complicated starts and stops. Includes helpful suggestions for choosing and combining patterns, fitting designs on projects, resizing, selecting materials, and basting. Patterns appear on a background grid for easy resizing, and repeat units and separate sewing paths are clearly indicated.