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Fantastic Stash Quilts
8 Projects 2 Ways Using Yardage or Scraps
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Piece beautiful blocks from your scrap bag or uniformly plan your approach from fabric yardage - with line drawings of each quilt to color in, the choice is yours! Joyce Dean Gieszler starts you off with 8 quilt patterns, each shown in 2 distinct looks, plus gives you easy sewing and pressing tips to...
by Sarah Veblen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Here is the ultimate reference for fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns! No matter what size or shape you are, wearing garments that fit perfectly makes you look and feel better. Rather than making commonly accepted changes to a commercial pattern, the method presented...
Freehand Machine Embroidery
Learning to draw with your sewing machine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Break the rules with a sewing style that's all about irresistibly rough edges, uneven stitching and mismatched fabric! Step into the studio of popular textile designer Poppy Treffry, as she demonstrates how to create quirky, fun and memorable sewing projects using freehand machine embroidery, in this...
by Jennifer Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Conventional shaft loom weaving constricts the weaver into making only a single layer of fabric that is no wider than the loom. Increase your loom's capabilities with Doubleweave Revised & Expanded!
In this comprehensive guide to doubleweave, master-weaver Jennifer Moore revisits the tips and...
Amazingly Simple Triangle Stars
Deceptively Easy Quilts from One Block
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Turn a single block into eight distinctive quilts—the magic is in the fabric! Best-selling author and well-known teacher Barbara H. Cline takes an easy-to-sew triangle block and then shows countless intricate designs for you to experiment with color and value. Stunning triangle-star quilts are perfect...
Quilted Celebrations
18 Designs to Capture Life's Milestones with Needle & Thread
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Don’t let the important occasions in life pass you by. Quilt them! Gift meaningful milestone quilts for religious celebrations, graduations, anniversaries, important birthdays, and more. Best-selling author and fabric designer Amanda Murphy presents 10 projects and 18 designs to celebrate life’s...
A Complete Guide to Creative Embroidery
Designs, Textures, Stitches
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
'A Complete Guide to Creative Embroidery' illustrates a wealth of ideas from two internationally renowned embroiderers. It is divided into two sections: the first, 'Design to Embroider' by Jean Littlejohn develops ideas showing that anyone can design as well as decorate fabric and paper for embroidery....
by Jody Summers
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
The “How to Knit” book features a wide range of knitting instructions, guides, tips, and tricks. Whether you’re a novice, intermediate, or professional level, these tips will help improve your knitting ability by great strides.
“How to Knit” not only gives you tutorials, but hopefully it...
Sew kraft-tex Bags
17 Projects, Tips & Techniques for Working with Kraft Paper Fabric
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
It’s the hot new substrate that wears like leather but sews up like fabric—create more with kraft-tex! This game-changing material is the perfect accent for wallets, totes, and purses. Don’t fall into the same traps as beginning bag-makers. Experts Betsy La Honta and Gailen Runge use their design...
Stashtastic!
12 Patterns for Fat-Quarter Quilts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Fat-quarter fanatics, you've found the perfect book for your fabric! Make beautiful lap- and bed-sized quilts with fat quarters--those fun little cuts of fabric that are just right for sewing super-scrappy quilts. Gather as few as eight or as many as 30 fat quarters and let the creativity begin! Designer...
Sew Charming
Scrappy Quilts from 5" Squares
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Cut 5" squares from your favorite fabrics or use charm packs and stitch a quilt today--it's that easy! Each scrumptiously scrappy quilt pattern is shown in two versions: one made with precut charm squares, and another created with scraps of fabric cut into 5" squares.
Take your pick...
by Dena Dale Crain
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Designer Pinwheels are patchwork quilts based on four-fold rotation of a tessellated right triangle: sounds challenging and fun, and it is!
Discover how to design original Designer Pinwheels from scratch. Follow carefully detailed instructions to draw a basic repeat unit by hand or on computer....
I Love Precut Quilts!
16 Fast, Fun Projects - Use Jelly Rolls, Charm Squares, Layer Cakes, Fat Quarters & More
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Sew 16 fresh precut quilt patterns with author Tricia Maloney. Save hours choosing and cutting fabric when you start with layer cakes, charm squares, jelly rolls, fat quarters, and half-yard bundles. With the fabric prep out of the way, you'll turn your stashed precuts into eye-catching bed quilts, throws, pillows, wallhangings, and table toppers.
Knitting
Stitch-led Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Knitting is one of the most versatile and exciting of textile structures, and this book rediscovers its potential by exploring new ideas for design through the power of the stitch. Written for the dedicated knitter, it goes into the fine detail of how knitting works, questioning and examining how...