General Quilting Books
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Romance

KFR-100
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Take a journey back in time with Kaffe Fassett’s latest collection of glorious original quilt patterns. Kaffe’s newest book will beckon quilters of all skill levels and features the romance of a bygone era.

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Jelly Roll Inspirations

JRI-100
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The Jelly Roll Challenge was an international competition to find the best and most creative use of one Jelly Roll. Gathered here in this new book from the best-selling authors of Jelly Roll Quilts are the twelve fabulous winning entries, with step-by-step instructions on how to make them. Get inspired by these brand new designers and their unique take on the Jelly Roll!

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Patchwork Party

PP-500
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Here’s a beautiful new book featuring 10 festive new quilts and the recipes that inspired them!  Each of these pieced quilts in rich colours was inspired by a delicious dessert! Whip up the recipe to enjoy while you quilt – or when you entertain this holiday season! You’ll learn how to use the colour wheel to create rich colour combinations, making even easy, basic blocks look complex.

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Fabulous Fractures

FF-500
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Here’s a beautiful technique book geared towards art quilters. Use simple strip piecing techniques to create an infinite array of stunning one of a kind fractured designs from large scale prints, panels, or your own digital images. Beautifully illustrated with easy to understand language to make the process easy and fun! You’ll learn four different ways to fracture fabric. Start with the easiest method - the Basic Fracture. Move on to the progressively more challenging and beautiful options. This book was so exciting that some of us here rushed home to start “fracturing” as soon as we saw it!

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Serge & Merge Quilts

SMQ-100

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Learn how to use standard serging stitches to neatly construct and creatively emebllish quilts - from old fashioned scrap quilts to sophisticated wall hangings. Includes 14 projects in a variety of sizes and styles - from perfect starter projects to more advanced techniques. Easy-to-follow directions for using your serger to create dimensional flowers, romantic scalloped edges, enhanced appliques, decorative backgrounds and more. Includes bonus DVD hosted by Nancy Zieman showing you all the techniques in action.
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Scrap Basket Surprises

SBS-100

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Get scrap happy with 18 projects designed for 2½" strips! You can cut strips from your stash or use convenient precut Jelly Rolls. The projects feature easy triangle-free piecing in a variety of fabrics, from batiks and reproduction prints to florals and folk-art designs. Inside are projects for quilters of all skill levels, covering all the basics, from choosing fabrics to sorting strips to cutting and piecing.

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Thoroughly Modern Dresden

TMD-100

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Forget everything you thought you knew about Dresden Plate quilts. The new Dresdens are colourful, clever, and fun - nothing stodgy or old-fashioned here! They're easy to make too with Anelie Belden's new stitch and flip technique. Try this fresh take on an old favourite. Includes 13 colourful Dresden Plate quilts and printed templates. Make it easier with the Fast 2 Cut Dresden Plate Template, sold separately.
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Strip Therapy: Bali Pop Obsession Dynamic Duos

STB-100

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This fun collection of 12 quilt designs is based upon Bali Pop or Jelly Roll strip sets. Each strip set will yeild one larger quilt, plus a smaller quilt using the leftover tidbits from the construction process. Just start with a pack of Helly Rolls (40 - 2-1/2" ready-to-sew strips), add: accent and final border fabrics, stri in: simple piecing and rotary cutting; yield two yummy quilts!
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Pretty Little Cozies

PLC-100

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It's hip to be crazy for cozies! The cozy is now elevated from humble to cool as crafters everywhere embrace it as the latest sewing craze. Thirty-two cute projects show just how great a comeback can be: they're colourful, modern, and playfully feminine. In addition to covers for iPods, cell phones, CDs, and cups, there are wraps to cuddle such delightfully unexpected objects as a French press, scanner, video game controllers, and a pan handle. An overview of sewing basics, embellishment techniques, construction methods, and fabrics make the crafting easy, even for beginners.
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Fat Quarter Fonts

FQF-100

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You’ll love Terry’s new machine appliqué method: no fuss, no fusibles, just fun! The newest book from Atkinson Designs includes projects for fat quarters and charm squares. CD is included with lettering in two sizes, and you’ll find instructions to make quilts, banners, bags, and a pillow.

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Kaffe Fassett Quilts in the Sun

QIS-100

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Gloriously photographed against the sun-kissed backdrop of Portugal, this sumptuous gallery boasts dazzling quilt creations from not only the world-famous Fassett himself, but also such elite designers as Liza Prior Lucy, Mary Mashuta, and Amy Butler. Crafted from both time-honoured classics and exciting new fabrics from the Rowan collection, each of the 20 quilts are accompanied by a sparkling photograph of the finished piece, complete step-by-step instructions, full-colour diagrams and templates, plus a flat shot of the quilt.
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Kaffe Fassett's Country Garden Quilts

KFQ-100

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This fabulous collection of 20 patchwork quilts -- each reflecting a unique floral theme -- is based on Kaffe Fassett’s signature line of Rowan fabrics and designed by some of the world’s finest quilters. These quilt patterns showcase Fassett’s trademark color combinations and each exquisitely crafted quilt is photographed against the stunning backdrop of a lush English country garden. A must-have for your quilting library.

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Beautiful Bargello

BBQ-100

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Bargello quilts are beautiful and intriguing. They look complex, but are really very easy to make. This book contains projects from four quilt designers and provides several different methods for creating bargello quilts. Some projects use the block bethod, while others use the traditional bargello tube method. A variety of designs are included so there are projects for all skill levels. 48 pages, all colour.
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Batik Gems

BG-200

 

Open a treasure chest of Batik Quilts! These quilts celebrate everything that’s glorious about batiks - the rich colours, the exotic prints and the dramatic effects you can get with easy patterns. Laurie makes it easy to create your own masterpiece with complete how-to instructions and lots of tips! Make 29 different vibrant batik quilts in sizes ranging from crib to king.

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Blending Photos with Fabric 2

BPF-100

 

Learn photography and computer tricks that teacher and author Mary Ellen Kranz teaches in her workshops. You’ll learn to take better photos; make do-it-yourself fabric sheets; edit photos in 10 easy steps; fabulous design ideas to incorporate photos into fabric and quilts and lots more. Includes a quilt gallery of examples plus patterns for 10 photo-quilts to make. 144 pages filled with beautiful photographs and easy-to-follow instructions.

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Digital Essentials

DE-400

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Author Gloria Hansen is the quilt world’s acknowledged "go-to" person for computer questions. She has answers to every question you ever had about using your computer, printer, scanner and digital cameras. This book is perfect for readers of all computer skill levels who want to learn to make their printer print better colour, print on fabric, prepare photos for quilt show entry, save images for the web, create PDF files and lots more.

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Easy Japanese Quilt Style

EJQ-100

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Anyone who loves beautiful Japanese fabrics will have plenty of excuses to indulge, with 10 projects ranging from bags to wallhangings! Easy Japanese Quilt Style is the perfect book for quilters of all abilities who want to introduce Japanese style into their homes with evocative quick-to-stitch projects. Includes easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams along with helpful advise throughout.

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French Braid Obsession

FBO-100

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Take your French braid quilts in dramatic new directions with bold new shapes and sizes, techniques, and colours. Here are eight all-new projects featuring lots of spectacular new ways to French Braid your quilts. You’ll find new shapes and sizes for wallhangings, table runners, multi-sided table toppers and more.

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Fast Fat Quarter Baby Quilts

FQB-500

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Now you can make an unforgettable baby gift in a day or less, even if you're a beginner. This delightful assortment by M'Liss Rae Hawley includes a guide to quiltmaking basics and advice on creatively combining fat quarters with large-scale prints and other fabrics. 10 snuggly cotton and flannel quilts for infants or toddlers plus bonus layette set.
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Loose Change

LC-100

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Finally, a book to use with all those great precut fabric collections! Have fun using 5" and 10" squares along with fat quarters in these 12 creative projects. Try a table runner, crib or lap blanket or a full bed quilt - it’s great for fabric swaps or using up your own stash.

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