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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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Neutral Essentials. by Alex Anderson.
Elegnat, subtle quilts that harmonize with any decor.
7 quilts that add elegance to any decorating
scheme-in colors that never go out of style!
Learn to use neutral colors, light/dark
contrasts, and a variety of print textures
to create beautiful fabric blends
Scrap-friendly projects designed for
confident beginners, plus a chapter on
quilting basics
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Optical Illusions for Quilters. by Karen Combs. Learn how to unravel the mystries of creating space, depth, and perspective in your quilts - textile pictures that play tricks on your eyes! Karen reveals these secrets by examining masterpiece quilts, created by well-known quilt artists, and explains their use of optical illusion. Each session explores different visual illusions. Hundreds of illustrations and traditional block designs are used to show how dimension
and movement can be added to quilts and wallhangings. Chapter 8, illusions of color contains information helpful in producing all types of illusions. This book contains full-size patterns for 12" quilt blocks showing illusions, and complete instructions for the cover quilt using isometric perspective.
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New Twist on Triangle. by Mary Sue Suit. Create the illusion of curves without difficult piecing or tedious applique-instead, sew straight seams using two remarkable triangle shapes! With "Wing" and "Kaleidoscope" triangles and Mary Sue's unique piecing system, you can make an endless variety of wonderfully curvy quilts. Step-by-step cutting and piecing instructions will help you match angles in a whole new way-just combine triangles to make squares, then combine the squares to make a ton of new topsy-turvy blocks.
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Quilt It Book by Barbara Chainey. An essential resource for quiltmakers of all skill levels, Quilt It! features practical and inspirational ideas for making the most of your quilting stitches. With easy-to-follow suggestions suitable for both hand and machine quilting, you'll soon be planning all of your quilting designs with ease. Quilt It! features: 400 ideas for attractively quilting all of your favorite pieced and appliqued designs. Guidance for quilting a single block, a series of blocks, wall hangings, sampler quilts, and full-size quilts. Tips on quilting difficult sections, such as spacer blocks, on-point blocks, sashings, and borders.
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Triple Irish Chain Quilts by Wendy Gilbert.
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Fat Quarter Quilts by M'Liss Rae Hawley. If you're a collector of fat quarters, you know they're colorful, inspiring-and often too darn tempting to pass up. But what can you do with those fun little fabrics once they're yours? We've got your answer! Choose from eight wonderful quilt plans that show you how to successfully use those addicting 18" x 22" pieces of fabric. With just six coordinating fat quarters and a background fabric, you can stitch up a fabulous quilt top easy enough for any quiltmaker. Included are:
Quick-to-stitch quilt patterns, including Broken Bricks, Houndstooth, Roman Stripes, and Woven Ribbons-plus an exciting mystery quilt. Step-by-step instructions for rotary-cutting fat quarters easily and efficiently and ideas for enlarging your quilts with additional fat quarters.
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Bears in the Woods Quilt by Eleanor Burns.
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Quick & Easy Log Cabins by Michele Crawford. Don't be afraid to try the Pineapple Log Cabin design. The design lends itself perfectly to a Christmas color theme, and a holiday pillow can be placed almost anywhere to add a little bit of Christmas to any room.
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