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Snowball Fight
by Brenda Sutherland
Combination of quilt and machine embroidery designs. Designs not included, but any designs could work.
40885 $12.50
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Opposites Attract
by Brenda Sutherland
Combination of quilt and machine embroidery designs. Designs not included, but any designs could work.
40883 $39.95
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Artistic Photo Quilts
by Charlotte Ziebarth
With your camera, computer, and cloth, transform your digital photos into luminous, original works of fabric art! This accessible guide covers everything from the tools and equipment you'll need, to designing, finishing, and assembling your quilt. Finding inspiration in your own albums, from other artists, and in nature, learn to choose photos and images that really enhance your work (not always the best-looking shots!). Then, use these 11 exercises to alter the images and make stunning large-scale quilts with a standard-size inkjet printer.
Product Details: Softcover, Color, 8.5 x 11", 96 pages.
45251 $27.95
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Inspired to Quilt: Creative Experiments in Art Quilt Imagery
by Melanie Testa
Learn to transform a concept into a finished art quilt using new and innovative ideas while capturing your unique design style. Explore art-quilt design through journaling, technique experiments, and creating small projects with a variety of mixed-media, fiber-art, and surface-design techniques. Jump-start the creative process with hands-on creative and practical exercises shown step by step with beautiful photography. Explore imagery and motifs through techniques like fabric printing, fabric manipulation, stamping, resists, layering, fabric painting, dyeing, stitching, applique, collage, machine embroidery, and beading that become the focal point of your quilt. Learn useful finishing techniques, unique bindings, plus unique projects like fabric postcards, artist trading cards and more!
Product Details: Softcover, Color, 8.5 x 11", 136 pages.
44622 $24.95
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Marvelous Miters
by Susan K. Cleveland
Learn to miter block borders and quilt borders beautifully, easily and accurately. Perfect technique to frame feature fabrics, embroidery, or applique. Miter borders on both square and rectangular block. Multiple borders instructions included (saves valuable time and gives fantastic results). Attic windows included (great use for big prints and novelty fabrics). Handy cutting chart. Learn to use freezer paper to show stitching lines on blocks... no marking seam intersections for set-in seams.
Product Details: Softcover, Color, 8.5 x 11", 96 pages.
44098 $24.99
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Flying Geese & More!
by Joan Hawley
Make a block or a flock of flying geese with this step by step guide to 150 flying geese block designs. This book is based on making flying geese using the Flying Geese x 4 No Math Ruler, #35686.
Product Details: Softcover, B&W Illus, 8.5 x 11", 72 pages.
77284 $23.95
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Flying Geese X 4 No Math Ruler
This fantastic flying geese ruler is wonderful for creating Flying Geese blocks without any math! The ruler makes 4 Flying Geese units from sizes 3/4" x 1 1/2" thru 3 1/2" x 7" with each repeat of this very easy technique. No triangles to cut or sew. All ruler marking are finished sizes. Block possibilities unlimited.
Use with the companion book Flying Geese & More! (#77284)
35686 $19.95
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Lazy and Lovin' It
by Joan Hawley
Lazy and Lovin' It will show you just how easy it is to use the Lazy Angle Ruler, #83660. This book profiles 24 different Lazy Angle Blocks and uses them to make more than 230 block combinations. With color tabs on the book's edge for fast reference, you'll learn how to create simple Lazy Blocks and then two, three and four step blocks. The project cutting chart and yardage calculator will assist in making sure you have the right amount of fabric before starting any project.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos & Illus, 8.5 x 11", 96 pages.
68557 $24.95
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Lazy Angle Ruler
Use the Lazy Angle ruler to easily create lazy angle blocks.
83660 $19.95
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SOFTWARE (NOT A BOOK!)
Digital Essentials
Gloria Hansen is the quilt world's acknowledged go-to person for computer questions. Her book answers every question you have about using the computer - perfect for ALL quilt makers, no matter your computer skill. Easy steps, for both Mac & Windows versions of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements & Paint Shop Pro make it simple to:
- Prepare your digital quilt photos for show entry
- Straighten crooked quilt photos
- Crop photos
- Get rid of distracting backgrounds in quilt photos
- Turn color photos into black & white
- Make ordinary quilt photos look so much better
- Learn exactly how to "cut out the background" around your quilt photo, to make your quilt images look more professional.
- Make your printer color match your screen color
- Get the best quality printouts
- Understand your scanner
- Get ready to print on fabric
- Make images for your Web site
- Create a logo image for your business
- Create PDF files to email or download from your site
- Know what size to make images and thumbnails
- Safeguard your images and files
- Amaze yourself! Learn how easy it is to transform blah photos to brilliant photos. Perfect whether you want to print photos on fabric, or just improve your snapshots of your quilts, pets or grandchildren.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos & Illus, 8.5 x 11", 208 pages.
37160 $30.85
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Piecing with Pixels
Unique Quilts from Your Own Images
Who ever thought your camera and computer could be your most valuable quilting tools? Going far beyond the concept of simply transferring photos to fabric, the authors show you how to transform your favorite photos into dazzling quilts. Learn how to 'piece' traditional blocks and original 'applique' designs using Adobe Photoshop Elements software to create, modify, embellish, and print the designs directly onto fabric. The intriguing digital projects include easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. It is fun and efficient to copy, resize, and reprint your blocks to create larger or smaller quilts, table runners, pillows, or note cards. You'll love using common images in uncommon ways, creating fabrics for your own wonderfully unique quilts.
Product Details: Softcover, Color photos, 8.5 x 11", 96 pages. Adobe Photoshop software NOT included.
41635 $26.95
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Cathedral Window Quilts
Internationally-renowned quilt designer Lynne Edwards returns to this beautiful patchwork technique by popular demand.Lynne's uniquely creative and accessible approach brings Cathedral Window quilts right up to date, capturing quilters' imaginations and inspiring them to learn and enjoy this technique and its variations, Secret Garden and Twisted Window.Using fabulous fabrics and machine short cuts, she shows quilters how to immerse themselves in this flamboyant folded style, free from stuffy traditions and the need to spend hours hand-stitching bits that don't even show.Step-by-step instructions and beautiful color photographs will guide the reader through different projects, from the classic square to layered curves.
Product Details: Softcover, Color photos, 8.5 x 11", 137 pages.
40872 $24.99
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Non-Slip Cathedral Window Rectangle Ruler
The Non-Slip Cathedral Window Ruler will help you to cut out the odd shape speedily and accurately with a rotary cutter and board. Includes instructions.
40969 $18.75
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New Cuts for New Quilts: More Ways to Stack the Deck
The Stack the Deck technique gets new life in this popular author's third book! This new collection of tradition-with-a-twist quilts builds on methods used in the author's previous bestsellers. Expect the unexpected with this fun approach to one-of-a-kind quilts. Use the Stack the Deck technique in 17 all-new projects. Get a complete introduction to the original "Stack the Deck" technique-simply stack, slice, shuffle, and sew. Play with straight, curvy, or funky-cut angles for surprising results in each block.
Product Details: Softcover, Color photos, 8.5 x 11", 96 pages.
23270 $24.95
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Photo-Fabric Play: Quilt & Craft Projects Your Whole Family Will Love
Give someone you love the best gift of all-good memories. These 13 easy projects include a scrapbook quilt with photos of favorite people, a wallhanging that displays a child's artwork, a word-and-picture quilt for beginning readers, a growth chart, scrapbook pages, a scrapbook clock, and other clever ways to display photos and treasured objects.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos & Illus, 8.5 x 11", 48 pages.
39045 $16.95
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Quilts of a Different Color
Quilt first, add color later! This remarkable process will have quilters making wholecloth quilts in an entirely new way. The vibrant and exquisite coloration of these quilts is stunning. Amazingly, it takes only simple tools and easily mastered techniques to achieve the same results for yourself. Everything needed for this colorful process is clearly explained. Start with plain cloth, free-motion quilt your designs, then color and shade the motifs and background areas for a breathtaking new look. You ll love the unique quilts you can make with Irena's guidance!
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos & Illus, 8.5 x 11", 96 pages.
36074 $26.95
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Simply Stunning Woven Quilts
"Wow! How did you do that?" No one will believe how easy it is to make these astonishing quilts. The magic is in the weaving techniques that look difficult but are actually simple to master. Learn to weave straight and curved checkerboards, circles, semicircles, or use weaving to rebuild favorite blocks like Log Cabin-then embellish to create a work of art that amazes everyone.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos & Illus, 8.5 x 11", 72 pages.
35707 $26.95
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Photo Fun
Bring quilting into the new millennium with state-of-the-art inkjet printing techniques from HP. Learn to capture images, create your own printed fabrics and take full advantage of today's technology.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos & Illus, 8.5 x 11", 64 pages.
86946 $17.95
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More Photo Fun
Step-by-step recipes for creating interesting effects on fabric using your digital camera, scanner, printer and/or computer.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos & Illus, 8.5 x 11", 64 pages.
14631 $19.95
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Photo Album Quilts
Capture memories and everyday experiences on applique quilts inspired by photographs. Wendy Butler Berns gives you all the techniques you need, plus instructions and patterns for 3 charming projects. She also provides tips and suggestions for adapting 10 additional quilts to make them your own. You'll use her unique method of creating line drawings of your photos that will serve as guides for transferring those images onto fabric. Your finished work will b a cherished heirloom from one generation to the next.
Product Details: Hardcover, Color, 9 x 10.25", 128 pages.
31582 $24.95
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Innovative Fabric Imagery
Includes 13 Quilt Projects & Exhibition Gallery. 13 innovative projects with step-by-step instructions and inspiring digital techniques. Getting-started chapter on equipment, supplies, and image-editing software. Gallery of more than 40 entries selected for the Innovative Fabric Imagery special exhibit in Houston. This book is filled with inspiration for fabric artists, from projects that show step by step how to make art quilts using your own photos and images, to galleries of stunning art made by some of today's most innovative quilters. Have fun creating artistic effects with image-editing software such as Photoshop Elements and Kaleidoscope Kreator 2, then printing your images on fabric and turning them into fabulous quilts.
Product Details: Softcover, Color, 8.5 x 11", 96 pages.
31584 $27.95
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Painted Face for Beginners
Workshop on DVD
Imagine being able to take a workshop with Bonnie McCaffery without leaving home. The DVD shows you, step-by-step, how to paint each of the features. The booklet includes the color and grayscale photo so you can paint along with Bonnie. You will be amazed that you really CAN do this. Students love taking Bonnie's Painted Face for Beginners Workshop, now they can do it in their own home. This kit includes: An 80 minute DVD with Bonnie demonstrating step-by-step directions for painting shading, lips, nose, and eyes. Instructions for finishing your portrait with hair, clothing, and borders. An 8 page booklet with a color face photo, grayscale face photo, step-by-step reminder, base hair pattern, and finishing instructions so you can paint along with Bonnie.
31415 $29.95
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Happy Villages
Let your imagination run wild as you explore the freedom of raw-edge fabric collage! No seams to sew, no points to match. Fabrics are lightly glue basted then machine stitched with a layer of tulle. Step-by-step your village will magically come to life. A 16" x 16" project you can create in a day with 12 variations offered -- seasonal, international, whimsical, etc.
Product Details: Softcover, Color, 8.5 x 11", 32 pages.
If you like this technique, you will love Karen's Accidental Landscapes!
30691 $16.95
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Posterize It!
Why put a pint-sized photo into a quilt when you can "posterize" it? Blow up a photo to poster size, print it in sections, and sew the sections back together. It's never been easier to personalize a quilt piece by piece-and get picture-perfect results! Five projects show how to use "posterizing" features with your printer-walk step by step to seamless effects. All you need is a color inkjet printer, basic software, and printable fabric to get started. Expand your fabric-printing techniques with photo collages, scrapbook pages, dimensional textures, and more. Includes expert tips on using digital cameras, scanners, and loads of special effects.
Product Details: Softcover, Color photos, 8.5 x 11", 64 pages.
29579 $19.95
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Square in a Square Technique Ruler
The Square in a Square Technique Ruler greatly facilitates the Square in a Square technique. This ruler is 9" x 12" of heavy plastic entirely suitable for rotary cutting. It includes the three angles 60, 90 and 120 degrees the necessary to achieve the 20 options currently available. It comes with an instruction folder, which includes the first seven Options. Everything we do is based on this ruler!! It does all the triangle units and in multiple sizes.
51431 $19.95
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Simple Chenille Quilts
Block by Block
Combine faux chenille and raw-edge patchwork and what do you get? The cuddliest quilts imaginable! Pair two trouble-free techniques for an entirely new twist in these quick-and completely reversible-quilts. Stitch 10 texture-filled projects including lap quilts, a table runner, and a baby quilt. Use the techniques to make applique motifs, from raw-edge hearts to chenille vines. Sew blocks together and you're done-no quilting required!
Product Details: Softcover, Color photos, 8.5 x 11", 96 pages.
23214 $24.95
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The WaveEdge Ruler
Take the traditional strips that you use in a Log Cabin quilt and other strip quilting and use The WaveEdge Ruler to make a beautiful, contemporary quilt from a traditional pattern.
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Sample projects made with The WaveEdge Ruler:
Quilt
Vest
Placemat and Napkin
Sewing Tote
82301 $21.00
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Hawaiian Quilting
by Elizabeth Root
Instructions and full size patterns for 20 blocks.
Product Details: Softcover, Black & White Illus. and Patterns, 8.5 x 11", 48 pages.
15834 $4.95
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Asian Elegance
by Kitty and Sylvia Pippen
Subtitled "Quilting with Japanese Fabrics and More", this book is filled with stunning images of quilts. 8 projects are included, with extensive lessons on Oriental fabrics and quilting techniques, including Sashiko and Hawaiian applique.
85318 $24.95
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