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Want inspiration for your straight-line quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs‿JUST designs‿and will lie flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The fourth in our Quilting Inspiration series, this visual guide is filled with more than seventy-five distinctive straight-line designs from your favourite designers to get you stitching.

Discover the secrets to sewing a stylish wardrobe with staying power! This guide walks you through thirty timeless garments to create, including a must-have button-up shirt, a flattering A-line dress, and a modern classic pencil skirt (pattern included). With a conversational narrative, the authors have created an engaging, informative guide to sewing by tracing the garments‿ origins, offering styling and sewing tips, and sharing a modelled photo gallery and charming fashion illustrations by Beth Briggs.

Best-selling author Judy Gauthier shares twenty unique table runners with coordinating placemats and napkins. Step-by-step instructions are included, with basics on piecing, pressing, and tablescaping.

Sew modern quilts that illuminate your life with the help of ombré fabrics. Easy large-scale piecing shows the entire ombré gradation, while smaller-pieced quilts let colours dance and glow in hundreds of hues, tints, and tones! With a single fabric containing subtle shifts from pale to dark, colour feels exciting and new again. Jennifer Sampou shows you how to make the fabric work for you, with six brilliant quilt projects featuring her Sky Collection fabric.

Over two hundred and twenty five embroidery designs from best-selling author Brian Haggard are now available as iron-on transfers, to make applying and using his designs a breeze. Transfer and embroider beautiful designs from his popular books Embroidered Memories and Crazy-Quilted Memories. From florals and banners to birds and bees, this book has elegant images of all kinds (and in all sizes, too!). All projects, patterns and instructions include both metric and standard imperial measurements.

Applique the quilt of your dreams with hand or machine applique (including fusible applique) with expert Annie Smith. Learn step-by-step techniques.

Add warmth and texture to your home with wool appliqué. Sewing in the popular folk-art style, you'll stitch fifteen projects, including thirteen heirloom-worthy table mats and two versions of an Advent calendar, on a cotton or wool base. Learn how reverse appliqué brings depth and color to your handwork without the bulk of additional layers. This guide offers advice on choosing and using wool (even scraps!), plus valuable techniques and tips for wool hand stitchers.

"This book of 16 projects, plus a gallery, combines wool appliquae with a variety of traditional handwork techniques such as embroidery, rug hooking, punch needle embroidery, and more, while highlighting the importance of working collaboratively with friends"--

Quilting expert Natalia Bonner shares over sixty straight-line quilting ideas for blocks, borders, and allover designs, with step-by-step photos.

Brighten up your winter with some serious shimmer! Sew a stylish quilt and table runner for your home with two stunning projects featuring Jennifer Sampou's Winter Shimmer fabric collection. Piece bejeweled backgrounds with precision, and learn Jennifer's method for turned-edge, fusible machine appliqué with neat edges. Complete instructions and full-size templates are included in this handy pattern pack.

Make outfits, accessories, and quilts for girls and their eighteen-inch dolls. Each project comes in two versions: doll size and child size, with tips on self-drafted patterns.

"Combine antique textiles, ephemera, and other items with new elements to create unique and useful items for your home. Includes 5 projects with detailed instructions and patterns, plus many more inspiring projects in gallery form"--From publisher description.

'...for anyone interested in general surface embroidery, it's a wonderful thing to have a nice repertoire of decorative band stitching, and this book provides just that!' Mary Corbet, Needle 'n Thread

Turn back time with color photos and insightful essays about America's quilting past! Admire one hundred antique quilts and textiles you've never seen before, curated from the remarkable Poos Collection. See elaborate hand piecing and appliqué, signature quilts, wholecloth beauties, and an extraordinary war cover quilt that's the only known example from America. An invaluable resource to America's quilt history, the Poos Collection shares its classic, one-of-a-kind quilts.

Embrace the art of quilting with simple instructions to create beautiful Dresden plate blocks. Each variation looks unique and all are astonishingly easy to sew. Use any and all of the twenty-five design elements, including four different edge treatments, a range of sizes (2"-9 1/2"), and an amazing variety of patterns, from sawtooth to flying geese. Mix it up even more by fabric piecing wedges and using up to twenty different colors for each wedge.

Sew stylish shoulder bags, totes, clutches, and drawstring bags! Whether you‿re a total beginner or a confident sewist who loves to finish a project in one sitting, you‿ll love this modern collection of thirteen bags you can truly make your own. Turn flat fabric into handbags of any shape when you learn the basics of construction, transferring a pattern, and finishing details. A must-have primer for the beginner sewist!

Add playful texture to your projects with free-motion quilting that begs to be touched! Gain the confidence to quilt like an artist with best-selling author Christina Cameli's tactile approach to quilting. Try your hand at organic and geometric textures, with step-by-step lessons to 65 designs and 10 variations! Find yourself invigorated to finish projects on your home sewing machine or longarm, whether you're a confident beginner or seasoned pro. Bring out the best in your piecing with free-motion quilting that begs to be touchedThink texturally! Improve your quilt's overall impact with a step-by-step guide to quilted texturePerfect to use on home sewing machines and longarms, for advanced beginners and beyond.

Sew 15 quilts from triangles, hexagons, trapezoids, jewels, diamonds, parallelograms, and strip-pieced blocks.

Over 250 embroidery designs as iron-on transfers.

Get ready for some of the best-kept secrets in strip quilting! Learn tips for cutting, storing, and piecing fabric strips in a variety of widths. Start by sewing easy strip sets, then advance to triangles and more complex layouts. Make the most of your stash by turning precut strips, sliced yardage, and selvages into fifteen innovative projects. Customise the look of each quilt with blank colouring pages, laying the foundation to design your own.

Are you buried in scraps‿big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too tiny to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie‿s basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces and turn them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts.

Take your handmade business to a truly professional level with practical advicefrom industry experts!

Create a spectacular kaleidoscope quilt with Ricky's unique strip-piecing method for making a multi-faceted pattern. You'll see impressive and intricate results from simple sets of strips; it's foolproof with little need for pre-planning. The beauty lies in the unpredictability of how the fabric unfolds - just like a real kaleidoscope!

Helps to create 12 dramatic projects inspired by urban landscapes and using simple geometric shapes. This title also helps to learn how to find beauty in the basic elements of different environments, as well as how to achieve a dramatic look with more effective use of colour, value, and placement.

The techniques demonstrated in this book are modern, but the projects and patterns are based on quilts from the era of the American Civil War and convey an authentic feel of that period. Photographs, diary excerpts, and letters introduce the women from the North and South who crafted these quilts.

Quilting your projects is just as much fun as piecing them when you know how to decode your quilts!

This collection of kaleidoscope blocks made a stunning display on museum walls; now you can make them for your own walls too! In this workbook, you'll go "behind the seams" to learn Paula's design approach and fabric selection process, as well as her drafting and construction methods. Includes patterns you can follow for all 12 one-block quilts!