Quilting Books


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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Quilt This Start With a Sweatshirt: Sew a Stylish Jacket by Nancie M. Wiseman.

With Nancie's expert guidance, learn to deconstruct simple sweatshirts, layer them with beautiful fabrics, and stitch them into five comfortably soft jackets. The finished look is sophisticated and chic, nothing like a sweatshirt! Asymmetrical openings, unique collars, and clean finishes give the garments style. With easy construction, these project allow even those new to sewing to succeed.
  • Sweatshirt fabric acts as a quilting layer and eliminates any need for lining
  • Projects feature beautiful fabrics accented by small areas of patchwork
  • Garments provide warmth without bulkiness


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Part Number: 1036452. Price: $16.99



Quilt This Quilting in the Limelight by Philippa Naylor. The Life, Art & Techniques of an Award-Winning Quilter.

Internationally-known, award-winning quilter Philippa Naylor has penned an autobiographical book detailing her extraordinary career as a quilt artist and teacher. Philippa is known for her intricately designed quilts and her fans will find that same kind of meticulous detail in Quilting in the Limelight! Inside the pages of this vibrant, full-color book she shares all her secrets that will inform, inspire and instruct quilters, such as:
  • Precision piecing
  • Trapunto design
  • Hand-dyeing fabrics
  • Free-motion machine quilting
  • Single and double edge piping
  • Mitered binding
Philippa's strong, dramatic quilt designs attract attention from a distance but also draw viewers in to see the fine workmanship involved. She leaves nothing out of her rich, personal narrative.

The master quilter also explains the most important elements of her quilts: drama, contrast, movement, balance, depth and layering.

As a quilt instructor, she stresses the importance of confidence, enthusiasm and persistence—qualities she exemplifies and that shine through in her stories and teachings. Admirers of Philippa's work will feel like they are having a private lesson in her studio and will learn techniques to bring their quilting up to this award-winning level.

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Part Number: 1036458. Price: $29.95



Quilting UFOs Quilting UFOs with Helen's Hints by Helen Squire.

"Beam Up" those UFOs (UnFinished Objects) and get started quilting!
  • Follow Helen's four-question formula to focus on the decisions and quilting choices needed for every unfinished project. Banish those dread three words: quilt as desired!
  • Over 100 original patterns, all full size, with 45 illustrated examples of mitered borders and blocks, sashing strips and pantographs—many adapted and coordinated within the same design series. Suitable for both hand and machine quilters.
  • A galaxy of quilting suggestions are grouped by 17 sub-chapters for easy reference, including: fabric choices, structural quilting, marking techniques, and Helen's Hints. The large-page format makes for handy copying and use.


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Part Number: 1036457. Price: $24.99



Hand Quilting Hand Quilting by Alex Anderson: Hand Quilting with Alex Anderson presents basic instructions in a concise format to learn the art of traditional hand quilting. Six manageable projects designed for beginners are included, but seasoned quilters seeking to improve their stitch or looking for a "quick and easy" project will find a wealth of information.

Alex teaches you how to quilt in all directions and customize your own quilting stitch. Detailed photos and individual instructions are given for both left handed and right handed quilters. Included are classic quilting motifs, along with Alex's original feather designs. As host of Home and Garden Television's premiere quilt show, "Simply Quilts," Alex Anderson shares with millions of viewers each week, demonstrations and how-to information on making quilts. For almost two decades, Alex's quilts have been winning prizes and national acclaim.

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Part Number: 1022008. Price: $13.50



Easy Machine Paper Piecing Easy Machine Paper Piecing by Carol Doak.
Paper piecing is not a new idea. Early quiltmakers pieced their scraps of fabric to paper in random fashion because the paper provided stability. Designs sewn in a straight-seam sequence are as old as the traditional Log Cabin block. Quiltmakers took this idea a step further when they drew the sewing lines on the wrong side of the paper, placed the fabric pieces right sides together on the front of the paper, then sewed from the wrong side of the paper. This technique provided stability to the fabric and accuracy in the piecing.

This book combines both of these concepts. Traditional patchwork blocks that are sewn in a straight-seam sequence were my primer. Then I began to create adaptations and variations of these designs. Through the use of the computer, I was able to draw the designs in quilt settings with different color schemes and see the wonderful patchwork possibilities these designs offered. One design led to another until I had a compilation of over one hundred and sixty designs. I soon realized it was time to stop making designs and smell the roses. This book contains some of my favorite designs, and I invite you to stop and smell the roses with me.

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Part Number: 1011509. Price: $21.95





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