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QUILTED CLAMSHELL by Reannlily Designs

Our Price: $14.99

A collection of over 70 quilting designs to fit into the class clamshell shape. This reference book is a guide to developing your own unique designs using three simple variables. Sketch, plan, and quilt with confidence!

Magic Inch Quilts from Modern Quilt Studio

Magic Inch Quilts from Modern Quilt Studio

Our Price: $16.00

Learn our most popular improvisational piecing technique by making one
of the six fun projects in Magic Inch Quilts. Endlessly flexible and
relaxing, this technique allows you to customize easily any of the
quilts to any size. Projects include the quilts Chorus Line, Local Hero,
Pick-up Sticks, Splice of Life, Whiskers and the Latticework pillow.
Five of the projects will be demonstrated on two episodes of Sewing with
Nancy beginning in December 2016.

Printed on heavy paper stock. 8 1/2" x 11", 28pp (incl. cover)

Playing With Paper- BASICS of English Paper Piecing

Playing With Paper- BASICS of English Paper Piecing

Our Price: $17.60

This little booklet is full of English Paper piecing ideas. Combinations of shapes that work together to make interesting designs.

Trending Triangles from Bear Paw Productions # CGRBH1

Our Price: $17.99

Create 134 blocks using just half square triangle units!
Three fun, innovative sampler settings each based on a different block size.
Perfect for building a block-of-the-month class.
Guide to using the Creative Grids Half Square 4-in-1 Triangle Ruler CGRBH1 to make 8 HST at a time. RULER SOLD SEPARATE

Create half-square triangles (HST) in multiple sizes using the same tool. Whichever technique is used in the pattern you choose can be completed with this ruler. Designed by Brenda Henning, Bear Paw Productions

Instructions show four different ways to sew HST's. VIDEO

This, however, is just a stepping stone. ANY pattern featuring half-square triangles can be made with one of the four techniques explained in the instructions for this tool. Watch the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RETkZz6x81g) and be prepared to be amazed!

Method #1 - Create eight half-square triangles out of a set of squares.
Method #2 - Cut ready to sew sets of triangles from strips.
Method #3 - Mark and Sew 1/4" seam lines.
Method #4 - Trim Over-sized HST's to the correct size.
Choose the method that works best for you.

Learn to Paper Piece by Nancy Mahoney

Our Price: $18.99

A Visual Guide to Piecing with Precision

Resolve the mystery of precisely constructing quilt blocks with paper piecing. Nancy Mahoney guides you step-by-step through the basics and shows you how fun paper piecing can be. You'll be amazed when you discover how easy it is to master this empowering technique. Welcome to the definitive guide to paper piecing!

Achieve the precision you're after as you learn the secrets of pattern and paper selection, how to choose the right scrap size, and how to keep your piecing accurate More than 30 how-to photos, combined with easy to understand directions, ensure accurate, successful block construction You'll be asking yourself, ""Did I really sew that?"" as you create complex design elements you never thought you could tackle.

All Points Patchwork English Piecing Techniques

All Points Patchwork: English Paper Piecing beyond the Hexagon for Quilts & Small Projects

Our Price: $19.95

The key to perfect patchwork is getting all of the points to match up -- which is no easy feat! Thanks to the rediscovery of a traditional technique known as English paper piecing, success is now possible for quilters of all levels. By cutting the desired shapes from paper, basting the paper to the back of your fabric, and then hand-sewing the pieces together, you’ll ensure perfectly matched points every time.

This complete course in English paper piecing takes you far beyond traditional hexagons with step-by-step photos showing you how to connect triangles, octagons, diamonds, jewels, triangles, tumblers, pentagons, and curved shapes. It even provides dozens of ideas for incorporating the pattern designs into clothing, pillows, quilts, and home decor items!

Foolproof Walking-foot Quilting Designs by Mary Mashuta

Foolproof Walking-Foot Quilting Designs by Mary Mashuta

Our Price: $24.95

Take your machine’s walking foot for a walk on the wild side and move beyond basic stitch-in-the-ditch quilting! In her follow-up to best-selling Foolproof Machine Quilting, award-winning author Mary Mashuta teaches you how to quilt attractive lines, curves, and geometric shapes with a walking foot. The book includes a multitude of designs, each adapted for walking-foot quilting and marked with clock icons to indicate the skill level and time required to accomplish it. This visual guide provides an inspirational gallery of 30 finished quilts and is enhanced by detailed photos of successfully quilted blocks, center panels, sashing, borders, and corners.

Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting

Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting

Our Price: $25.95

Photo tutorials show stitching in action for 50+ free-motion quilting designs to create modern quilts with classic style! Popular blogger and designer, Natalia Bonner, illustrates her instructions with detailed photos that make it easier to get beautiful results on your home sewing machine. Learn how to quilt all-over, as filler, on borders, and on individual blocks…using loops and swirls, feathers and flames, flowers and vines, pebbles and more! Includes tips for choosing batting and thread, layering and basting, starting and stopping, and prepping your machine are included. After you’ve practiced, show off your new skills with six geometric quilt projects.

Next Steps in Machine Quilting: Free-Motion & Walking Foot

Next Steps in Machine Quilting: Free-Motion & Walking Foot

Our Price: $25.95

Professional Results on Your Home Machine
Free-motion fans, rejoice! Natalia Bonner is back with a follow-up to her wildly successful first book that boasts 50 new modern, sophisticated designs that encourage quilters of all skill levels to stretch their skills on a home sewing machine.

A variety of simpler straight-line and free-motion motifs invite beginners to dive in, while designs that modernize more traditional patterns will challenge intermediate and advanced sewists.

Ever since Natalia Bonner wrote her first book, Beginner’s Guide to Free-Motion Quilting, she’s wanted to write a second book on machine quilting . . . and here it is! Now it’s time to take the skills she shared in the first book and move out of your comfort zone, break away from the basics, and add...

Full size patterns can be used for practice or marking quilt tops, and tips on a wide range of topics—supplies, embellishments, layering, and basting—open up a world of endless variations.50 new modern, sophisticated designs challenge quilters of all skill levels to stretch their skills.

Full-size patterns for more elaborate designs can be used for practice or to mark quilt tops.
Tips on supplies, layering, basting, and adjusting machine tension.

Quilt With Tula And Angela - Softcover

Our Price: $26.99

160 pages

Two of the biggest celebrities in quilting take the guesswork out of color, shape and line, giving their brilliant aesthetic punch to 17 quilt patterns. This start-to-finish guide also includes essentials on tools, quilting, backing and binding, plus 24 quilting motifs.

Quilters get almost giddy over Tula Pink's cool, innovative style and use of color. As they move through her latest book, they'll be ready to toss out that primitive color wheel and commit to the Tula Pink approach. In this book, this innovative designer will give you a comprehensive color education by simply pairing one quilt shape with one color family in each chapter. You can step through 17 quilts of varying sizes, including the final rainbow chapter, because ""everyone loves rainbows.""

You will also get to eavesdrop on the creative collaboration between Tula and Angela Walters: no vague advice to ""quilt as desired"" in this book. Angela chooses from 24 quilting motifs she provides to lend the ultimate surface interest to every project. Tips and techniques on binding, backing, piecing and tools are invaluable, and as always the book will be heavy on colored illustrations.