Applique Books

Recapture the charm of yesterday's sweetheart with this ultimate collection of 24 quilt applique patterns. The Sunbonnet characters, created by Bertha Corbett Melcher, were first popular with needleworkers as outline embroidery, then later gained the favour of quilters as an applique pattern. Now you can re-create her simple charm on a treasure trove of fabulous keepsakes, like a seasonal wall hanging, a baby quilt, and bed quilts in various sizes.

Vicky Lawrence

The flowing style and organic motifs of Vicky's original designs hark back to a time when traditional and contemporary tastes were combining for a new (nouveau) look. Use any of the 10 blocks in any of the seven projects to complement or become the basis for a unique style. Designed as hand appliqué work that is easily portable, these patterns can also be fused for quicker results. Projects include fun ideas such as a sachet cover, bolster, and tote, as well as the original bed-size quilt and miniature version, a wallhanging, and table runner. Beginners will learn the basics of appliqué; experienced sewers will appreciate the clear patterns and directions.

Karla Menaugh and Barbara Brackman

Based on mid-19th century quilts, a light-hearted block of the month quilt based on quirky, one of a kind tree patterns. Variations plus additional projects included.

Michelle Hill

Capture the Glory of William Morris' Designs in Exquisite Appliqué Quilts

• Turn William Morris' designs into 6 lovely appliqué projects: quilts, cushions, and wallhangings
• Mix and match more than 50 appliqué motifs to create your own William Morris-inspired designs
• Make your masterpiece quickly with easy fusible appliqué

No artist ever captured the beauty of nature in such exquisite detail as William Morris. Now Michele Hill has transformed his graceful birds, flowers, vines, and woodland creatures into appliqué designs any quilter can master.

Linda Seward

A clear and comprehensive handbook. Contains over 1000 step-by-step illustrations, patterns and templates.

Covering all techniques from basic needlework to more challenging eight-seam joins, caut-and-sew applique and continuous bias binding.

Karen Kay Buckley

Create rich, sophisticated quilts with 12 Circle blocks to hand or machine applique. Instruction booklet and full-size patterns.

Beth Ferrier

Applique that looks needle-turned, with no hand sewing. Use with Wash-Away Fusible Applique Sheets and your ink-jet printer to revolutionise machine applique.

Susan Brubaker Knapp

Celebrate the Beauty of Flowers with Appliqué

• 16 wonderful 12 1/2" bouquet blocks and floral border make a 73" x 73" finished quilt
• Make the whole quilt or use one block as a pillow or wall hanging
• Package includes needle-turn appliqué basics and step-by-step instructions for the project quilt
• Full-size, easy-to-use appliqué patterns

Celebrate the beauty of flowers with this festive floral appliqué quilt. The package includes instructions and photos of a variety of other color and fabric options, including wool appliqué

Sylvia Pippen

Tropical Splendor in Sashiko and Appliqué

• Hand-stitch 6 vivid quilts inspired by tropical flora and fauna
• Learn the secrets of successful Sashiko and appliqué
• Options for both turn-under and fusible appliqué
• Create designs from your own photos
• Embellish your quilts with hand embroidery

These glowing quilts bring together two of quilting's best-loved traditions: Japanese Sashiko and colorful appliqué. A large quilt gallery will inspire you to design your own Sashiko/appliqué creations.

Eileen Campbell

Provides an invaluable collection of how-to instructions for techniques for quilters and other applique artists. It covers many variations of applique, including broderie perse and the three-dimensional and padded types, how to set up a sewing machine for stitching appliques in place, free machine and hand embroidery, and embellishments.

Heavily illustrated, many designs and detailed instructions for traditional style trees, flowers, birds, flying creatures - including a dragon!

Becky Goldsmith & Linda Jenkins

Put Down the Ruler and Free Your Inner Appliqué Artist

• Create 8 expressive appliqué quilts with this foolproof, no-rules approach
• Make your quilts as precise or freewheeling as you want them to be
• Use fabric color and value to make your appliqué come alive

Who says beautiful appliqué has to be fussy? Learn to create fresh and free quilts with your rotary cutter and new improvisational techniques from Piece O' Cake Designs.

Alex Anderson

Fall in Love with Appliqué!

• Learn to add beautiful appliqué to any quilt by hand or machine
• 7 charming quilts get you started
• 3 hand appliqué techniques: needle-turn, raw-edged, and reverse appliqué
• 3 machine appliqué techniques: invisible, raw-edged, and free-motion appliqué
• From beloved teacher and TV/Internet host Alex Anderson

Beloved quilting teacher and TV personality Alex Anderson shows you how easy it is to enhance any quilt with appliquéd flowers, leaves, hearts, and other shapes.

Sieglinde Schoen Smith

Softcover with flaps, 64 pages plus eight sheets of full-size fold-out patterns, 8-3/4" x 11"

This adorable collection is inspired by Sieglinde Schoen Smiths award-winning quilt and children's picture book, Mother Earth and Her Children. Four delightful quilts--Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter--celebrate the changing of the seasons. Each one features Seiglinde's little children as they discover the wondrous world of nature. A unique combination of applique and embroidery, Seiglinde's signature style has captivated the hearts of quilters everywhere. Each pattern is showcased in colorful, close-up photography, so that you can see every part of each quilt in amazing detail. There are step by step instructions for making each one. An introductory chapter explains Sieglinde's technique and features step-by-step hand photography. A template pack, enclosed with the book, includes full-size fold-out patterns for each quilt, ready for transfer onto fabric.

Carol Armstrong

Show off 24 favorite dog breeds with charming little appliqué portrait quilts that practically sit up and say woof!

• Save steps with Carol's easy light box appliqué technique
• Give your canine friends added depth and dimension with relaxed, random quilting designs
• Each pattern includes full-size appliqué templates

From the basset hound's mournful sincerity to the corgi's lively alertness, Carol Armstrong's designs capture that certain something that gives each breed its characteristic look. Now you can immortalize your own canine companion with her easy appliqué and quilting techniques.

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Marsh Radtke

Pre-Civil War blocks redrafted with precision and easy to follow instructions. A classic reference of hard to find very old authentic Baltimore Album patterns. Quilt as you go and fail-safe binding method.

Over 50 delightful projects that blend timeless seaside charm with effortless country elegance.

Kay Mackenzie

50 designs in traditional, modern and whimsical styles. A bonus CD includes all blocks in 5 different sizes (from 6" to 12") and in reverse for endless variety.

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.

Penny Haren

Innovative Techniques for Creating Perfect Blocks

Take the mystery out of creating intricate blocks with Penny Haren's amazingly simple technique.
Begin with nine basic foundation blocks and turn them into 25 "Wow! How did you do that blocks?"
• Flawless points and curves
• No inset seams
• Immediate success
• Full-size templates
• More accuracy, less bulk
• Complete, step-by-step instructions and diagrams

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.

Rose Hughes

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

McCall's Quilting

16 quilt projects with hand, machine and fusible applique. Styles for everyone from florals to wool felts and contemporary motifs.

Dawn Cameron-Dick. The traditional beauty of hand applique, but with the ease of doing it on your machine. Dawn uses contemporary products to create a hand-done finish."

Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins

12 Flowering blocks from Piece o' Cake Designs

A New Block of the Month from Piece O' Cake!

• New, easy-to-use format in attractive packaging

• Package contains all 12 blocks - no waiting for new blocks to arrive

• 14" blocks create a 70" x 75 .5” finished quilt

• 12 ready-to-use appliqué pattern sheets and full-size border motifs

• Instruction booklet included

• Kitting instructions and fabric ideas available

Are you in love with flowers and appliquéd quilts? Then Piece O' Cake Designs has an irresistible new project just for you. Aunt Millie's Garden, a quilt inspired by Linda's Aunt Millie, makes a dramatic color statement with 12 floral blocks and appliquéd borders.

Kay M Capps Cross

Cultivate your fabric choices and embellishments to tend and grow some fabulous quilts.

Try dashes of colour on a dramatic black-and-white background or full-colour variations.

Select quilts from placemat size to full-size with foundation piecing and strip piecing to help construction go quickly

Fabric selection tips, applique and paper-piecing templates, guidance on quilting, embellishment suggestions, and sewing instructions are all provided.

Goldsmith and Jenkins

100 charming 5" block patterns - flowers and fruit, birds and bugs, teapots and baskets - even a piece o' cake!

8 quilt projects feature mix 'n match blocks in applique or embroidery

Complete instructions for fusible-web and hand applique, embroidery, piecing, and finishing.

Holly Knott & Diane Knott

8 small, easy-to-make art quilts using fast assembly with full-size patterns - applique and machine quilt at the same time

Susan Taylor Propst

Quilts and cushions to applique inspired by English roses, Irish shamrocks, Welsh daffodils and more.

Bring your own gorgeous garden of flowers to life with appliqued blooms. Inspired by walks through the refined beauty of British landscapes, each colourful bloom adds a layer of artful splendour to quilts and pillows.

Nancy Halvorsen

Quilt, tote, hangings, table runner, mats and more - all with a heart theme.

Mimi Dietrich

Take a comprehensive class on Baltimore Album Quilts from a famed applique expert!

Mimi Dietrich

13 of Mimi's best-loved quilt designs, long unavailable until now, all with new fabrics, fresh colours and great settings.

Adams, Barb, Allen, Alma, Creamer

Use the garden as inspiration for applique quilts with a riot of colour and flowers from these giftd applique artists and designers.

Sharon Schamber

Learn three different methods for achieving beautiful applique quilts. The hands-on instructions are excellent.

Elizabeth Scott

Decorate your quilts with words, phrases and monograms using applique and embroidery in 6 different lettering styles

Bea Oglesby

15 appliqued, graceful quilts drawn from nature - flowers and fruits - surrounded by serpentine swirls and inventive border designs.

Trice Boerens

24 different templates are included for stunning floral appliques. Projects include individual flowers, a wreath, and a rose with butterfly.

Lorraine Carthew

Lorraine's mosaic tile designs fool the eye and create quilted beauties. Includes half a dozen beautiful mosaic patterns on three large pullout sheets for quilters to make.

Margaret Docherty

The complete pattern for Margaret's prize-winning quilt. Select the flowers, bouquets, birds and garlands you want using any applique method.

Elly Sienkiewicz

A fresh look at Baltimore Album Quilts. Elly's newest Baltimore Album book is designed with smaller, easier, just as appealing!

Freida Anderson

Nearly a dozen fused appliqué projects are perfect for discovering Frieda's tips for successful fusing and her method for making quick-fused binding.

Maggi Bonanomi

Maggie's basket drawing inspired these three projects. Use selected wools with subtle tones and fabrics in soft Spring colours to give Early Blooms its vintage appeal.

Goldsmith and Jenkins.

Learn to hand applique the Piece O' Cake Way. Step-by-step instructions for both right and left-handed stitchers. Learn the secrets of combining piecing, applique and great fabric choice.

Faye Labanaris

48 romantic blocks - classic wreaths, cross sprays and single-stemmed - in Faye's wonderful signature style of dimensional effects.

Carol Armstrong.

15 quilt projects with purrsonality. Irresistible, expressive, lively cats are back in gorgeous hand applique projects by top designer, Carol Armstrong.

Susan McElvey.

Ever-popular Baltimore album quilts go a little bit country in a new collection from this well-known teacher, designer and author. 12 beautiful applique blocks.

Dilys Fronks.

Seven template-free techniques, ten step-by-step projects for hand and machine methods of applique.

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Elizabeth Hamby Carlson

Celebrate sweet strawberries. Find them in fabric vines, blossoms and appliquéd fruits. 7 pieced and appliquéd projects (hand or machine) in a variety of styles from Baltimore Album to Seminole.

Stitch a garden full of quilted berries! Plant them among beautiful appliquéd blossoms, fabric vines, and colorful leaves. Simple techniques make this garden especially easy to grow.
· Create seven cheerful pieced and appliquéd projects

· Try a variety of projects, from a classic Baltimore Album quilt to an appliquéd table runner

· Choose your favorite appliqué technique—instructions are included for both hand and machine appliqué

Pat Sloan

Learn Pat's fast and easy machine applique techniques while creating her "Walk in the Moonlight" quilt and companion projects.

Added in June 2005

Cheryl Malkowski

Create chenille trim in any colours from layers of fabric. 6 easy dimensional projects include quilts, bags and accessories.

Maggie Davies

Maggie Davies' contemporary Hawaiian applique patterns are showcased together with her methods for recreating them in her first book. Her new proven techniques for creating perfect points guarantee success - no more frayed edges: just crisp, sharp points every time. She also takes the mystery out of "V-shapes" and shows you how to work invisible needle turn stitches. Includes 14 projects with full-size patterns.

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Gretchen K Hudock

A whole year of decorating ideas for fans of the bestseller 'Quick Quilts Using Quick Bias'. Seasonal motifs feature snowflakes, hearts, Easter eggs, shamrocks, pumpking and a bounty of flowers.

Dawn Cameron-Dick

More techniques, projects and time-saving tips from the author of Invisible Machine Applique

Anita Shackelford

Re-introduced in paperback, this perennial favourite provides clear instructions on the basics of applique, then mvoes through nine techniques to add dimension to 48 exquisite applique patterns.

Elly Sienkiewicz. Charming quilts and projects for gifts and timeless techniques

Harriet Hargrave. 2nd edition of a classic book covering everything you need to get started and taking you through each technique. Learn to choose and use the right tools.

Angela Madden. Easy m/c applique from family photographs. Turn your favourite photo into tomorrow's family heirloom!

Carol Armstrong. Charming applique designs inspired by the garden. Patterns for 24 wildflowers, 18 insects, frogs and more plus unique background quilting designs.

Helen R Scott. 15 bonnet girls, children, menfolk & pets. Depict movement by simply changing the positions of arms, legs etc.