New Books

Pam & Nicky Lintott

Discover how to make clever quilts with layer cakes, jelly rolls and charm packs that are a million miles from simple strip quilts or scrap charm quilts. Seventeen beautiful projects, from lap quilts to full-sized, show you how to get the most from irresistible pre-cut fabric bundles. Each quilt is made from one jelly roll, layer cake or charm pack (or a combination of these items) making the projects both quick and economical. It includes exciting blocks with stars, triangles and even machine-pieced hexagons. Using the latest fabrics, including delightful collections from Moda, each project consists of a main quilt and an alternative colourway, giving added versatility. Simple step-by-step instructions and illustrations make creating stunning quilts from these desirable fabric bundles accessible to quilters of all abilities.

Susan Briscoe

This is a collection of 14 beautiful bag and purse designs to take you through the week, with a pair of projects for each day and a design for every occasion. Whether it's Wednesday's 'Typo Bag' - great for a work conference - or the 'Quilter's Backpack' and 'Ticket Purse' - perfect for Sunday afternoon trips - Susan Briscoe's new collection of practical designs is sure to inspire quilters of all abilities. Each of the daily duos make a complementary pair and require the same patchwork techniques, so quilters can try out the smaller item before embarking on the main bag. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions ensure that the bags are as pleasurable to make as they are to use. Each pair is 'fat quarter friendly' and uses quick and simple methods popular with quilters, such as bias binding. All of the bags are accompanied by a variation that shows them off in a completely different colour scheme, effectively giving quilters 14 further inspirational designs.

Gladys Love

Recycle Found Treasures into Fun Little Art Quilts to Give, Trade, and Show Off

• 17 small-scale projects give you a quick and inexpensive way to play with new fiber art techniques and materials
• Have fun making artist trading cards, fabric postcards, wallhangings, journal pages, luggage tags, or pin dolls
• Enhance your creations with found objects like wine labels, driftwood, feathers, costume jewelry, even beer cans!
• Make beautiful beads from fabric scraps, stabilizer, wool felt, or recycled-plastic felt
• Includes informative sections on tools, techniques and supplies

Is that a broken thrift store necklace, or the perfect centerpiece for your next artist trading card? Is it an old wine label, or a witty embellishment for a fabric postcard? Learn how to use supplies from your stash (and maybe your trash) to make charming little quilts. You'll find art all around you, once you learn to Embellish with Anything.

Julie Davis & Anne Muxworthy

Easy Japanese Quilt Style" is the perfect book for quilters of all abilities who want to introduce Japanese style into their homes with ingenious quick-to-stitch projects. Anyone who loves beautiful Japanese fabrics will have plenty of excuses to indulge, with 10 projects, ranging from bags to wall hangings, plus several variations. The projects evoke the simplicity of traditional Japanese decor by using well-known pieced patterns, such as fan blocks and strip quilts, together with charming applique. Easy-to-follow step instructions and diagrams offer clever ways to use panels and large-scale patterns to best effect, with helpful advice on fabric choice throughout.

Charlotte Warr Andersen

Create Beautiful Machine Quilting with Almost No Marking

• Sew these 24 graceful machine-quilting designs with ease on your home sewing machine, with almost no marking!
• An elegant alternative to stippling or meandering for all-over quilting, or give your quilt the look of Sashiko without the slow hand sewing
• Many designs can build into more intricate patterns by simply adding more lines
• Scalable patterns are easy to enlarge or reduce to fit even odd-shaped spaces
• Every design includes easy-to-follow instructions and stitched sample; some include full-page pattern

Whether you want to quilt a simple overall pattern or a show-stopping design for a competition, you'll love the elegance of these continuous-line designs. Stitching them is so easy: just sew one line of stitching at a time. Stitch some designs with feed dogs up, others with them down. Designs include cross-hatching, triangles, stars, clamshells, jigsaw puzzles, and many more.

Barb Adams & Alma Allen

You are invited into three special homes. Step inside with us, into places that celebrate art, collections and creativity. Barb Adams and Alma Allen have designed and gathered quilts and projects that borrow from the wealth of ideas that their three friends share. You are sure to be inspired with new ways of thinking about home and art.

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Celebrate the enduring bonds of friendship and create your own authentic version of the "secret" bridal sampler from The Master Quilter
• Get together with other quilters to mix, match, and share 140 traditional blocks
• Enjoy the gallery of sampler quilts made by other Elm Creek readers
• Book includes complete instructions and full-sized patterns for every block from the sampler

The staff of the fictional Elm Creek quilter's retreat-and 72 of author Jennifer Chiaverini's real-life friends-contributed 140 blocks to this beautiful sampler quilt that became Sylvia Compson's wedding gift in The Master Quilter. Now you can join quilters around the world in making this much-loved quilt. Sylvia's Bridal Sampler makes a wonderful wedding gift, guild project, or raffle quilt.

Lorraine Torrence & Jean B Mills

Stock Up Your Creative Toolbox With Indispensable Quilt Design Techniques

• Supercharge your creative spirit with 10 lessons in designing with fabrics-from basic design principles to finding new sources of inspiration
• Take an artistic journey through the creative processes of 8 real-life quilters and learn with them as they work through a series of design challenges
• Learn to experiment, evaluate results, and enhance your designs, working either by yourself or with a group
• Use critique groups to improve your work with other quilters' insights

The lessons you'll learn in this inspiring workshop will help you bring new creativity to any style of quilting or fiber arts, whether your tastes are traditional or contemporary. It's a must for anyone who loves to design with fabric.

Kim Schaefer

Sew a Whole Garden of Blooming Appliqué Blocks

• Create a bouquet of floral quilts with 50 adorable blocks of appliquéd flowers and bugs
• Make 9 complete quilt projects in a lively, contemporary folk-art style
• All 50 blocks are 8? x 8?, for easy mixing and matching into one-of-a-kind quilts
• It's all so easy with quick fusible appliqué and simple piecing

Cheer up that dull spot in your home with an adorable flower-and-bug quilt. Includes 9 colorful quilts to hang on the wall, dress up a table, or snuggle in on the sofa.

Jan Krentz

Put a Quilted Star on Every Bed in Your Home!

• Make 20 simply spectacular star quilts featuring 10 different types of pieced stars
• No fussing with tiny pieces! Large-scale quilts go together fast with Jan's time-saving techniques
• Inspirational photo gallery of quilts by well-known quilters

You can never have too many star quilts, and Jan Krentz's latest book offers you a whole galaxy of big, colorful, pieced stars. Everything you need to succeed is here-from helpful advice on choosing the right fabrics, tools, and equipment, to step-by-step instructions for pain-free cutting, piecing, and finishing. Includes 5 full-size template patterns.

Make Your Quilts Look Like Antiques with Authentic Period Quilting Designs

• Over 300 historically accurate quilting designs, organized into four time periods to make it easy to find the right designs for your quilt
• Essential reference guide for anyone interested in vintage and antique quilts
• Designs for all skill levels, from beginner to advanced
• Use for hand or machine quilting

You've created a beautiful quilt top in the style of your favorite era. But how do you quilt it? This huge collection of historic quilting designs has the answer. With hundreds of designs gathered from old quilts, patterns, books, magazines, and other original sources, you'll find the perfect quilting design to make your quilt look like it was created generations ago.

Brenda Bailey & Bonnie Bailey

!0 Layer Cake Friendly Quilt Patterns

"Piece of Pie" comes with 10 patterns of varying sizes and difficulty levels, though none of them are terribly hard. Each pattern comes with an accompanying mouth-watering dessert recipe.

Over 25 adorable projects featuring angels, snowmen, reindeer and other yuletide favourites.

Step-by-step instructions and actual-sized templates ensure wonderful results whatever your skill level.

Jayne Emerson

20 Easy and Elegant Designs

Create beautiful felted items using a range of fabrics and textiles and a few basic techniques for felting by machine, needle or hand.Jayne Emerson shows how to transform uncomplicated materials into stunning objects accented with felt. From jewelry, wearables, home decor and more, learn new and exciting techniques that will bring your felt to life.

Tricia Cribbs

New Edition. Contains original Turning Twenty pattern plus 5 exciting new designs.

20 fat quarters is all you need to make an outstanding quilt. Stacking and cutting fat quarters will get you started sewing straight away.

Great patterns for building confidence in coordinating fabrics. No intermediate piecing skills required.

Perfect for beginners who want fantastic looking quilts.

Margaret Docherty

Pay homage to the Pennsylvania Dutch design with the exquisite applique mastery of Margaret Docherty in this bold, colourful collection of folk art style birds and tulips.

Ann S Lainhart

Combine the elegance of the classic Mariner's Compass block with the up-to-the-minute technique of fussy cutting for dramatic results!

Suzanne McNeil

12 easy to make quilts using 5" charm squares and 2.5" jelly roll strips.

Rose Hughes

Artful quilts with fast-piece applique. Easy to sew complex looking shapes stitched in a jiffy.

Barb Adams and Alma Adams

Quilts and projects to keep you warm. Features one main quilt in two wonderfully creative versions plus five other quilts, a hooked rug, a cross-stitched pillow sham and two wool projects.

Celebrate the humble apple with quilts, pillow runner, placemats, table topper, aprons, and more.

Create handbags with your personal touch using black, brown grey and beige - use all the colours or pick and choose. A variety of handbags, shoulder bags, you can create that special handbag for that special occasion or event. In Japanese.

Marie Claire

45 designs featuring sewing, felting, hand-dyeing, crochet, applique, cross-stitch, embroidery, knitting, fabric painting - wonderful variety.

Text in Japanese

Enjoy creating for baby quilts, bibs, backpacks, and much more. In Japanese.

Text in Japanese

100 different types of handbag handles. Diagrams include photos to make them easy to understand. In Japanese.

Suzanne McNeil

The strip quilting phenomenon thrives as fabric manufacturers continue offering extraordinary collections of exquisite pre-cut fabrics.

Faster than you can say speed cut, you will have your strips sorted and arranged, ready to be sewn into fabulous quilts in a growing array of designs.

Jelly Roll fabric strips make quilting easier and more enjoyable than ever, especially for those who love to dive into the design process. Skip the exhausting search for coordinating fabrics and the time consuming steps of cutting and get right to the fun.

The designs offered in this collection work well with any color palette, so the variety of quilts that can be created from this fresh collection is nearly endless. For proof, take a look at Prairie Paisley and imagine it worked in Blacks, Whites, and Greys or even zesty fruit colors. It's time to unleash your imagination.

Happy Quilting!!

52 pages - 8 Original Quilts

Six Fast and Easy Quilts with 2 1/2" Strips

This book will show you how to make your own masterpiece quilts with 2 1/2" strips. Full of clear, easy to follow instructions.

Six Fast and Easy Quilts with 2 1/2" Strips

Designed to help you use those fabulous jelly rolls, strip rolls and noodles from your own stash. The gorgeous designs in this book come in multiple sizes, giving you more options to choose the quilt that is right for you.

Susan Briscoe

400 tips, techniques and trade secrets for making quilts

Book Description

An indispensable compendium of technical know-how and troubleshooting tips.

Discover all the tips and special techniques you need to make that special quilting project – plus the trade secrets that will make it stand out from the rest. Step-by-step diagrams and instructions guide you through every step of making a quilt, whether you are new to thecraft or wish to take your patchworking and quilting skills to a higher level. All the most popular techniques are explained in detail, with a host of troubleshooting ideas that show how to put them into practice.

Book Contents

Prelims, Introduction, About This Book, Choosing Equipment, Choosing and Preparing Fabrics, Colour Confidence, Understanding Quilt Patterns (and Designing Your Own), Cutting, Patchwork Techniques, Appliqué and Embellishment Techniques, Choosing Batting and Basting the Quilt, Quilting Designs and Techniques, Binding the Quilt, Exhibition Tips, Resources, Index and Credits

About The Author
Susan Briscoe is a textile designer, author and teacher, specializing in sashiko and Japanese textile design. After graduating in visual art and design, Susan worked as an English teacher in Japan, where she also studied the tea ceremony, traditional textiles, and kimono design and tailoring. Susan has created design kits for Japanese patchwork fabrics, published textile projects in books and magazines, and demonstrates her work at quilt and textile shows.