Quilting books offer an excellent medium with which you can add to or improve your quilting skills. Listed below are books that will amaze, inspire and stimulate your creativity and enhance your quilting experience!

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Strip Therapy 8: Bali Pop Compulsion by Brenda Henning.

This fun collection of 6 quilt designs is based upon Hoffman Fabrics 2 1/2" Bali Pops strip sets.

Sweetwater's Simple Home by Lisa Burnett, Karla Eisenach and Susan Kendrick. Sew something handmade for every room - 35 projects!

• 35 beginner-friendly projects, including quilts, pillows, table linens, and accessories - many can be made in a day or less
• Fresh, modern ideas for making things pretty and practical
• Bring Sweetwater's popular signature style to all your sewing and craft projects
• Learn simple, creative techniques for decorating with appliqué, stenciling, stamping, and embroidery

Bobbin Quiltin' and Fusin' Fun by Michele Scott.

Explore a variety of fusing and raw edge appliqué techniques.

• Finish off each project with free-motion quilting using decorative threads. Try fun threads in the bobbin and quilt from the back of your quilt!
• Learn how to use a multitude of decorative threads and yarns while machine quilting from the back.
• Practice these newfound skills with fun projects that incorporate fusing and raw edge appliqué - easy, fast, fun!

Jelly Roll Quilt Magic by Kimberly Einmo.

The popularity of Jelly Roll, Layer Cake, Charm Pack, and other precuts hasn't waned, but the quilts made from them have begun to look a lot alike... until now!

• Kimberly presents 12 magical projects using precuts or fabrics from your own stash. Streamlined cutting instructions and a handy shopping list make getting these quilts done super fast.
• Learn to use the "bitlets" left from your quilt projects to make Lovely Little Leftovers quilts - there's a layout diagram and a gallery of ideas.
• Try a round robin with some of your quilting friends from near or far. Kimberly and her friends report on their international exchange. Tips for success and a shipping schedule are included to help get you started. Her ideas will fuel quilt guild projects and challenges for years to come.

A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color and Design by Heather Thomas. The Basics and Beyond

WOW! From the language of color - to the principles of design - to examples of fabulous fiber art creations and 12 workshop lessons, each is spectacularly presented in this exciting, new book developed to help YOU become a better artist.

• Understanding the language of color and design
• Inspiring use of color combinations
• Exploring how design works

Begin your journey into the world of color and design today.

• Fabulous Visuals
• Clearly-Written Text
• Hundreds of Color Illustrations
• Hundreds of Fiber Art Examples
• Color Wheels, Charts and Explanations
• Easy-to-Read and Easy-to-Understand
• 12 Workshop Lessons

Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond by Lynn Witzenburg. The Complete Step-by-Step Visual Guide to Successful Machine Quilting

Enjoy one-on-one machine-quilting lessons from teacher and machine quilter Lynn Witzenburg as she presents the basics from preparation and practice doodling to free-motion and marked-background quilting. With Lynn as your guide, you'll master trapunto, have fun with free-form features and learn about bobbin quilting. After following the step-by-step photography and instructions, and with a little practice, you'll be saying, "I made this quilt from beginning to end."

• Equipment & Supplies
• Preparing to Machine Quilt
• Free-Motion Stitching Techniques
• Machine-Guided Stitching Techniques
• Hundreds of Full Color Photos & Illustrations
• Quilting Border Designs to Fit
• Tips Throughout Each Chapter
• Feather-Stitching Techniques
• Adapting Designs to Fill Spaces
• 12 Projects, Full-Size Patterns
• Original Quilting Designs

Circle of Nine by Janet Houts and Jean Ann Wright. 24 Stunning and Creative Quilts, One Unique Quilt Setting

Introducing The Circle of Nine - A unique setting allowing you to create an endless variety of original quilt patterns - easily and successfully.

• Create your own original quilt using your favorite traditional blocks
• Vary the spacers to enhance a finished quilt
• Play with simple triangles and squares to create new designs
• Use your own fabric choices to design a quilt
• 120 Colorful Pages
• One Unique Setting
• 24 Original Quilts
• Color Options
• Originality
• Easy-to-follow, Complete Instructions
• Hundreds of Clear Diagrams and Illustrations