Quiltmaking Tips And Techniques : Over 1,000 Creative Ideas
All books in the category Quilting
by: Jane Townswick, Suzanne Nelson
Topics include: cut out each patch, your fabric collection, figuring yardages, seam allowances over the edges, serger seam, pieced setting, string piecing, long sashing strips, hand piecing, string pieced, your quilt blocks, pieced sashing, cutting layout, your local quilt shop, satin stitching, setting squares, marking quilting designs, background fabric, piecing can, finished quilting, thread basting, prairie points, border segments, triangle template, press each seam
Book Description:
From the Back Cover "This book gets an A+!"--Virginia Robertson, Teacher, Quilt Designer, Owner of The Osage County Quilt Factory "If I had to choose one book for my library, this would be the one!"--Pat Yamin, Teacher, Quilt Designer, Owner of Come Quilt With Me "A quilter's delight! It's like attending a guild workshop with all the best quilting experts."-- Julie Hart, Program Chairman, Des Moines Area Quilters Guild Why is everyone so excited about this book? The answer is easy-- there's something new, useful, fun, and inspiring on every single page. For instance, find out: * Why you should bring a kaleidoscope or pair of binoculars to the fabric store to help choose colors * The quick trick for shortening your rotary cutting time (hint: it's all in how you fold the fabric) * How skateboarders' grid tape and plain old duct tape can make rotary cutting easier than ever * An ingenious way to transform pages from a magnetic photo album into reusable appliqu templates * How changing to a different size needle can instantly improve your hand appliqu * The timesaving way to baste together a quilt sandwich * The best way to erase penciled quilting marks (surprise-- it's a cotton T-shirt!) Page after page is filled with hundreds of other tips like these from expert quiltmakers-- all too good to miss. You'll probably find yourself saying over and over again, "I can't wait to try that!"
Great Reference -- I had first checked this book out from my local library but was in jeapordy of racking up huge over due fines so I bought myself a copy. It's invaluable. It is useful for both expert quilters and beginners. It's chock-full of tips that streamlines and makes my quilting easier and looking better.
Tips Galore! -- This book is the compilation of the expertise of the staff writers from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine and thirty additional well-known and professional quilters. As the Quilting Host at BellaOnline, I have read a number of books on quilting and this is a wonderful book. The information is nicely organized into sections that proceed in the order of how a quilt is constructed, beginning with tips on how to organize your workspace and ending with information on how to care for and display your quilts. There is also a very complete and well organized index at the end of the book so that you can look up specific topics. The individual chapters are composed of "nuggets" of information with a tagline acknowledging the source of the information. The tips are varied in content and show a great deal of creativity. There are helpful tidbits here for everyone and there are numerous illustrations. The reading is light hearted and pleasant - I thoroughly enjoyed reading through it.
Reviews:
Fantastic guide to little tricks and helpful hints! -- This was a great find! My five sewing and crafting buddies are fighting me for first rights to read it from cover to cover! Such helpful morsels for the true seamstress and quilter! It is needed genre in the quilting world. Patterns are easy to find in other books but the truly helpful secrets and tips passed from one quilter to another, from one generation to another, can only be found here!