Rear cover notes: "...Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to 'tryon' quilting designs? Well, now you can! Lee Cleland, one of Australia's most popular quilting instructors, shows you how in this authoritative guide to selecting the perfect qulting pattern for your quilt....Lee's unique approach to choosing a quilting pattern is perfect if you have trouble visualizing how different designs might look on your qult top. You'll see 12 traditional quilt patterns, each pieced five times using the same fabrics and then quilted using five different designs....
Japanese-inspired textiles and fabrics are now more popular than ever - but their large-scale motifs can be challenging to use in quilts. This book shows the best ways to do it.
Quilting 101 is a modern-day primer on the basic skills and techniques of quilting. This book is geared toward the absolute novice and assumes you know little or nothing about the crafts of sewing or quilting. Filled with lots of step-by-step photos, useful quilting tip sidebars, and a detailed glossary, Quilting 101 teaches you how to quilt successfully, even if you have never sewn before. You will learn terminology used regularly in quilting as well as all the basic skills that are the building blocks of the art.
84 pages book by Barb Adams and Alma Allen. Inside you will find two versions of the main quilt and 10 other projects. Colored pictures and full-size templates make this book a must-have. The two artists of Blackbird Designs present to us these projects which combine different techniques (cross stitch, applique, quilting etc.) with their habitual originality and elegance by giving to us a way to face the new trends of the creativity and not limiting them to only one domain.
