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Make Your First Quilt a Success! Alex guides you every step of the way as you learn to plan, cut, piece, quilt, and bind your quilt. Get started with 8 easy, beautiful projects. Expanded edition includes new projects, more quilt sizes, and lots of helpful new tips and shortcuts. So you want to make a...

Appliqué that Looks Needle-Turned, with No Hand Sewing! Create machine-sewn appliqué that looks like you spent hours needle turning by hand. Use fast assembly-line techniques to reduce preparation time. Learn to adjust your machine to create stitches that no one will believe were machine sewn. Have...

With 15 projects you can easily make in a day, best-selling author Linda Johansen teaches you to sew creative containers of all shapes and sizes. Corral your odds and ends with sturdy fabric bowls, boxes, and vases. Each project includes stylish variations and embellishment ideas ranging from artistic...

Intimidated by free-motion machine quilting? You don't need it to beautifully machine-quilt your own tops. Well-known teacher Mary Mashuta's classroom-tested methods guarantee quilting success. Mary teaches you to use heavier-weight threads on the top of your machine, rather than in the bobbin, so that all your stitching is done on the right side of the quilt.

Colorful spaceships, magical mermaids, and jungle friends—Kim Schaefer is back with more imaginative appliqué! The best-selling author of Quilts, Bibs, Blankies...Oh My! rolls out 14 quilts and small projects for kids and toddlers in cheerful, engaging themes. Full-size appliqué patterns in her bold,...

If you can’t stand the heat, get out the pot holders! Best-selling author Kim Schaefer shares fifty-two darling hot pad designs to appliqué, one for every week of the year. Pick one of three fully bound shapes—square, round, and oval—and create your own festive kitchen set. With more than four...

You don’t have to be a doll maker…if you craft and sew, you’ll love learning how to create a whimsical fairy, an impish elf, or a sweet pincushion girl. All four projects have head-to-toe instructions for fabric sculpting, expressive faces, perfect hair, cute clothes, and an abundance of accessories....

Enjoy the freedom of free-form! In this follow-up to Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, Rayna shares her “can’t make a mistake” approach to designing quilts. Learn how to how to trust your instincts so you can work more intuitively, and develop a new appreciation for the therapy of sewing without...

Cross traditional crazy quilting with favorite pieced quilt patterns and today's machine quilting methods, and what do you get? Crazy fun for all kinds of quilters, even those who don't like handwork. Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell's guide offers an exuberant mixture of vintage and modern, hand and...

Create A Rainbow Of Color From Just 4 Basic Dyes. Step-by-step instructions for everything from preparing your work area to mixing the dyes to washing and drying your hand-dyed fabrics. 4 easy-to-follow charts for dyes, colors, and gradations. Dye formulas use standard measurements like cups and spoonfuls...

New Ways to Indulge Your Passion for French Braid Quilts. 8 all-new projects feature lots of spectacular new ways to French braid your quilts. New shapes and sizes: wallhangings, table runners, multi-sided table toppers, and Christmas tree skirts. New ways to use French braids: borders, variable-width...

Stitch an inviting neighborhood, with 9 full-size patterns and border designs, to make a full-size quilt or 4-block wallhanging. Personalize your village with embroidery and learn applique tips and techniques.

Author Lisa Walton shows you how to start with an easy quilt block like Four Patch or Flying Geese, stitch it up in several different sizes, then build your blocks into striking improvised quilts with up-to-the-minute style using solids, batiks and hand dyed fabrics. The piecing couldn’t be easier,...

Sew 8 whimsical projects inspired by Amazon rainforest butterflies, including a 12-block wreath and butterfly sampler quilt - an ideal block-of-the-month quilt. Full-size applique patterns are included, plus a raw-edge fusible applique guide.