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Quilting
Free-Motion Meandering: A Beginners Guide to Machine Quilting
By Angela Walters
Turn the corner to free-motion success with a meandering makeover! Best-selling author Angela Walters shows you that free-motion machine quilting doesn't have to be scary - with a couple designs in your pocket, you can finish almost any quilt on your home machine and enjoy the process. Practice 8 meandering stitches for beginners plus unique modifications for each, with step-by-step visuals and quilted samples. Improve your free-motion quilting, disguise mistakes, and transition between designs with ease.
**Click Image to Purchase**Free-Motion Quilting Workbook: Angela Walters Shows You How!
By Angela Walters
The master of free-motion quilting, Angela Walters, teaches you everything you need to know in her newest book, Free-Motion Quilting Workbook. Unlike an ordinary how-to manual, this interactive workbook will get your creative juices flowing as you doodle designs of entire quilts, individual blocks, borders, and even negative space. The pages have plenty of line-art shapes and inspiring photographs to help get you started. There's also a bonus section of graph paper to plan your own quilt designs. So, go ahead, start sketching!
**Click Image to Purchase**Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters:
Choose & Use Quilting Designs on Modern Quilts
By Angela Walters
Popular machine quilter Angela Walters will motivate you to try something new! Learn to stitch her fresh continuous-line designs on your longarm or domestic machine. Includes step-by-step instructions for continuous-line swirls, circles, squares, vines, arcs, and points. Using basic free-motion skills you already have, discover how to approach quilting a modern quilt by working with bold fabrics and negative space, uniting a variety of shapes, and blending designs. Draw inspiration from striking pictures of 20 modern quilts showing Angela’s designs. You’ll love her practical advice for choosing the perfect pattern to give your modern quilt maximum impact.
**Click Image to Purchase**Quilt With Tula And Angela:
A Start-to-Finish Guide to Piecing and Quilting Using Color and Shape
By Tula Pink & Angela Walters
Add color and punch to your next project with Quilt with Tula & Angela.
Known for her cool, innovative style, Tula Pink will inspire you to toss your colour wheel and commit to her signature approach to combining colours. Angela Walters creates the complementary finish and surface texture for each design, resulting in the perfect marriage of colour and style for each of the featured 17 quilt projects.
Pairing one shape with one colour family in each chapter, you'll step through quilts of varying sizes, at the same time enjoying a front row seat to the creative collaboration between these mavens of style.
In addition to the 17 signature Tula Pink quilt designs and 42 quilt design motifs from Angela Walters, you will also be treated to useful tips on choosing fabrics and mixing up prints and approaching the quilt process.
Featuring bold illustrations and gorgeous photographs, Quilt with Tula & Angela is the comprehensive approach to intuitive colour choices you've been waiting for.
**Click Image to Purchase**Longarm Quilting Workbook:
Basic Skills, Techniques & Motifs for Modern Longarming
By Teresa Silva
Learn to Longarm with Confidence!
Go from novice to successful longarm quilter with this complete guide to modern longarm quilting. Author Teresa Silva knows exactly what it's like to stand before a new longarm machine wondering where to begin. After years of longarm quilting for some of the biggest names in the quilt community, she's sharing her expertise and giving you the skills you need to longarm with confidence. Teresa covers every detail from thread selection and loading the quilt to planning a design, sewing textured stitches, and more!
In Longarm Quilting Workbook, you'll learn:
- Longarm machine basics, including essential features to look for when investing in your first machine
- The best tools, materials, and supplies to get the job done
- 20+ quilting motifs, from basic swirls and bubbles to more complex paisleys or clamshells
- How to visualize, plan, and execute multiple styles of quilts through an inspiring gallery of finished samples You'll also enjoy three pieced projects perfect to practice your longarm skills and stir your creative juices. So go ahead, grab your Longarm Quilting Workbook and work aside Teresa Silva to longarm beautiful quilts in no time!
**Click Image to Purchase**Rulerwork Quilting Idea Book: 59 Outline Designs to Fill with Free-Motion Quilting, Tips for Longarm and Domestic Machines
By Amanda Murphy
Quilting rulers have long been used by longarm quilters to make uniform shapes, but now, with the advent of the domestic ruler foot, domestic quilters can join in on the fun, too! Amanda starts with how to use 6 basic shapes of machine quilting ruler to lay a foundation for your quilting, then moves on to executing 59 different designs. Finish up by following Amanda's suggestions for filling in background space with free-motion quilting.
**Click Image to Purchase**Free-Motion Quilting Idea Book: • 155 Mix & Match Designs • Bring 30 Fabulous Blocks to Life • Plus Plans for Sashing, Borders, Motifs & Allover Designs
By Amanda Murphy
Take the guesswork out of free-motion quilting with 155 fresh ideas—each handpicked for a specific space on a quilt. Mix and match the designs from each chapter to artfully quilt 30 traditional blocks, borders, sashing, and more! This must-have reference includes an inspiring gallery of finished quilts, tips for domestic and longarm quilters, and complete instructions for a table runner project to hone your skills.
**Click Image to Purchase**Tula Pink's City Sampler: 100 Modern Quilt Blocks
By Tula Pink
Create a sampler quilt as unique as you are!
Tula Pink gives you an inspiring quilt block collection with Tula Pink's City Sampler. Make a beautiful, modern quilt of your own design with the 100 original quilt blocks or try one of the 5 city-themed sampler quilts designed by Tula.
A note from Tula:
"You will notice...that the blocks are not named but simply numbered. This is intentional. I may have designed the blocks and given you the instructions on what to cut and where to stitch, but I have not infused the blocks with any meaning. This is your quilt. The fabrics that you choose, the colors that you use and why you are making it are what will give the quilt a purpose. Name your blocks, write in the margins, cross out the ones that you don't like, draw hearts around the ones that you love. In a perfect world, everyone's book would end up looking like a journal, coffee stains and all. The more adventurous ones might rename the book and write their own introduction. Tula Pink's City Sampler is a collaboration between you and me. I am the platform and you are the speaker, so stand on my shoulders and tell the future who you are and why you make."
**Click Image to Purchase**Quilts from the House of Tula Pink: 20 Fabric Projects to Make, Use and Love
By Tula Pink
Inspired fabrics and designs await you in "Quilts From the House of Tula Pink"!
Welcome to the world of cutting-edge fabric designer Tula Pink, where clever quilts show off fanciful fabric, and your imagination can be let out to play. Featuring fabrics that you know and love, Tula offers 20 patterns with her signature flair for colour, design and original style. Between 10 amazing quilts and 10 extra-cool companion projects, you'll be inspired to play with fabric, colour and design in a way like never before!
Step inside to find:
- 10 large quilt patterns, perfect for the bedroom or snuggling on the couch.
- 10 accessory sewing projects, like an embroidered lampshade and a fabric cuckoo clock, to make your everyday life extraordinary.
- Tips from Tula on choosing and combining fabrics, selecting a quilting motif, and even sketching your own fabric and pattern designs.
- Step-by-step illustrations (hand-drawn by Tula herself) and super-simple sewing techniques for successful quilt makingCome on into Tula's house for the ultimate in sewing, style and fabric innovation!
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Layer Cake, Jelly Roll & Charm Quilts
By Pam Lintot
Jelly Roll, Layer Cake and Charm Quilts provides seventeen beautiful projects that show you how to get the most from pre-cut fabric bundles. The projects range from smaller lap quilts to full-sized bed quilts and each is made from one jelly roll, layer cake or charm pack (or a combination), making the quilts quick and economical. Using the latest fabrics, the authors provide a main quilt and an alternative colourway for added versatility. Simple step-by-step instructions and illustrations make creating quilts from bundles fun and easy, regardless of your skill level.
English Paper Piecing
**Click Image to Purchase** Quilting On The Go: English Paper Piecing
by Sharon Burgess
In her new book Quilting On The Go: English Paper Piecing Sharon shares with you her love for English Paper Piecing and Fussy Cutting. She will guide you through all the steps of English Paper Piecing, starting with the basics. Work your way from the humble hexagon to stars, curves and more. Sharon shares her tips, techniques, and her preferred products to help you achieve great results and what to look for when choosing fabrics to fussy cut.
**Click Image to Purchase**Hexa-Go-Go: English Paper Piecing • 16 Quilt Projects
By Terry Bruecher
Fat Quarterly Magazine co-founder Tacha Bruecher takes a fresh look at an old favorite—English paper-pieced hexagons—with current fabrics and settings for quilts, table toppers, and more. Modern and traditional designs are both featured, including rosettes, stars, and free form. Learn how to combine settings and how to creatively quilt hexagons. Projects are varied for any skill level or time commitment – make a few hexagons, make a few more, or make few hundred. Making the individual hexagons are perfect for modern quilters on the go; they are terrific stash busters (and stress busters) that take your priceless handwork from repetitive to remarkable!
**Click Image to Purchase**All Points Patchwork: English Paper Piecing beyond the Hexagon for Quilts & Small Projects By Diane Gilleland
The key to perfect patchwork is getting all of the points to match up — which is no easy feat! Set yourself up for success with the rediscovered technique of English paper piecing. Using paper templates to guide your pattern, you can expertly fit your quilting shapes together before you even start sewing. All Points Patchwork takes you far beyond traditional hexagons and accommodates triangles, diamonds, octagons, and even curved shapes. Simple instructions for decorating clothing, bedding, and home decor open up astounding possibilities for quilters of all levels.
