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Category : Quilts
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Quilt Journal
Author: Quilting Happiness
Author: Diane GillelandPublisher: Potter Craft
ISBN: 077043410X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Why do you love to quilt? Is it the finished quilt itself, or the experiences you had while making it? Do you find more joy in designing a beautiful pattern or in improvising as you go? Are you happiest when making quilts for yourself or for others? Whether it is delighting in the colors and textures of your materials to the sweet satisfaction of curling up under a handmade quilt, quilting holds infinite possibilities for exploring the many joys of creativity. In Quilting Happiness, you will find 20 timeless, adaptable quilting projects that will invite you to try a variety of design styles, as well as a wealth of tips and techniques, inspiring stories, and creative exercises to help you discover even more reasons to love quilting. Learn to make an inspiration board, create more meaningful quilts, or find lifelong quilting friends. Use this book again and again as a guide throughout your quilting life to spark your imagination on each rereading. Embrace new ideas on your quilting adventures and enjoy wherever they take you.
The Quilter's Catalog
Author: Meg CoxPublisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761138815
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Bee-all and End-all: The complete quilter's companion and essential resource, jam-packed with information, supplies, expert interviews, techniques, community, and inspiration. All the tools of the trade: rotary cutters, sewing machines, longarms, anddesign software; fabulous fabrics and where to find them; and if you're just starting out, everything that belongs in a quilting basket. The online world made manageable with a guide to the most useful blogs, websites, e-mail lists, free patterns, and podcasts. National and regional shows, guilds, and the best retreats and quilt museums. Batting parties, tutorials on fabric dying, and a breezy history of the quilt boom. Profiles of twenty top teachers-including television's Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, and Ruth B. McDowell, known for her bravura technique. This is a book to help every quilter deepen and grow-keep it as close by as your stash of fat quarters -Cover.
Comfort and Glory
Author: Katherine Jean AdamsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477309195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Quilts bear witness to the American experience. With a history that spans the early republic to the present day, this form of textile art can illuminate many areas of American life, such as immigration and settlement, the development of our nation’s textile industry, and the growth of mass media and marketing. In short, each quilt tells a story that is integral to America’s history. Comfort and Glory introduces an outstanding collection of American quilts and quilt history documentation, the Winedale Quilt Collection at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. This volume showcases 115 quilts—nearly one-quarter of the Winedale Collection—through stunning color photographs (including details) and essays about each quilt’s history and construction. The selections span more than two hundred years of American quiltmaking and represent a broad range of traditional styles and functions. Utility quilts, some worn or faded, join show quilts, needlework masterpieces, and “best” quilts saved for special occasions. Texas quilts, including those made in or brought to Texas during the nineteenth century, constitute a significant number of the selections. Color photographs of related documents and material culture objects from the Briscoe Center’s collections—quilting templates, a painted bride’s box, sheet music, a homespun dress, a brass sewing bird, and political ephemera, among them—enrich the stories of many of the quilts.
Once Upon a Quilt
Author: Margret AldrichPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610604635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Mary Schafer, American Quilt Maker
Author: Gwen MarstonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472068555
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The story of the woman who helped create the modern American quilting revival
The ABCs of Quiltmaking
Author: Janet Lundholm McWorkmanPublisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617452238
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Quilting school is now in session! Grow as a quilter with Janet Lundholm McWorkman in a 12-lesson quilting course. Skill builders cover everything from traditional patchwork to curves, paper piecing, strip piecing, bargello, set-in and Y-seams, hand and machine applique, and crazy quilting. Finish a timeless alphabet sampler quilt incorporating everything you've learned, plus enjoy smaller projects. Move beyond basic piecing with this block-of-the-month-friendly quilting primer.
Quilts and Health
Author: Marsha MacDowellPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025303227X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Name an illness, medical condition, or disease and you will find quiltmaking associated with it. From Alzheimer's to Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Lou Gehrig's Disease to Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, and for nearly every form of cancer, millions of quilts have been made in support of personal well-being, health education, patient advocacy, memorialization of victims, and fundraising. In Quilts and Health, Marsha MacDowell, Clare Luz, and Beth Donaldson explore the long historical connection between textiles and health and its continued and ever growing importance in contemporary society. This lavishly illustrated book brings together hundreds of health-related quilts—with imagery from abstract patterns to depictions of fibromyalgia to an ovarian cancer diary—and the stories behind the art, as told by makers, recipients, healthcare professionals, and many others. This incredible book speaks to the healing power of quilts and quiltmaking and to the deep connections between art and health.
Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve
Author: Ricky ClarkPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821416596
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"The Western Reserve of Ohio was once part of Connecticut. In some areas, rivers and streams still bear the original New England names, and subtle reminders of early Connecticut's culture and values are still to be found. This book is a tribute to the quilts and quilters from the past and the present who have made the Western Reserve their home." "In Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve, Ricky Clark, one of America's foremost quilt historians, has assembled exquisite examples of calamanco, T-shaped, and borderless pieced quilts to show the influence of Connecticut aesthetics and history on the making of early quilts in this region."--BOOK JACKET.
Piece and Quilt as You Go
Author: Debi Schmitz NoriegaPublisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1637413580
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
·Features 8 quilting techniques: joining strips in the front and back, sashing, binding edge, batting joined and not joined, heirloom quilt, and crazy quilt ·Quilting "As You Go" means to quilt individual sections to join together later rather than the whole quilt all at once. It eliminates the need for long-arm stitching. ·Includes 24 projects (3 for each technique) including quilts, bags, scarves and potholders ·Projects can use purchased and stash scraps