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ABCs of Longarm Quilting (Spiral-bound)
by
Patricia C Barry
(Author)
This long-arm quilting book accomplishes what other references only strive
to, by instructing serious quilters in the manner they learn best - using a
variety of teaching styles. Whether you favour precise plans and extensive
details, or thorough concepts demonstrated via illustrations, everyone can learn
from this diverse tutorial. This comprehensive long-arm quilting guide:
*Explains capabilities and generalities of long-arm machines
*Demonstrates basic techniques using pantographs and free-hand quilting
*Includes four projects and two patterns
Price:$62.95
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Extreme Quilting Patterns by Janie Donaldson
This highly anticipated new pattern book is filled with fancy, fun, and
fantastically up-to-date continuous line quilting patterns. In other words,
they're extreme! In response to numerous requests from enthusiastic quilters
familiar with the earlier books in this series, the designs include textures,
hearts, scrolls and feathers, angels, horses, palm trees, and lily pads. This
pioneering longarm quilter presents a wealth of color-coded patterns, grouped by
complexity, for the professional and home quilter alike. Working with these
patterns will elevate your quilting skills, whether you're working on a longarm
or domestic sewing machine.
Price:$44.00
Rhapsody Quilts by Ricky Tims'
Make One-of-a-Kind Contemporary Quilts With a Traditional
Flair - Ricky Tims Shows You How!
• Learn to design, choose fabrics, and make templates for these one-of-a-kind
beauties
• Handle curves easily with Ricky's sure-fire method for No-Pin Precision Curved
Piecing
• Start with 5 ready-made design outlines, then expand the possibilities by
composing your own Rhapsody quilts
• Learn Ricky's secrets for enhancing your designs with appliqué
• Get inspired by the gallery of Rhapsody quilts made by Ricky and other
quilters just like you!
Rhapsody Quilts are medallion-style quilts with graceful, curved designs in a
reversed and mirrored arrangement. Like a musical rhapsody, the form is flexible
and lets you express an endless variety of themes and motifs. Ricky shows you
how to work with your quilt's basic “skeleton,” then enhance your design themes
with original appliqué or lush quilting. You'll take away all the techniques you
need to start making your own beautiful quilt rhapsodies.
Price: $53.50
Creative Classics by Laura Lee Fritz
Rev Up Your Hand or Machine Quilting With Fresh Versions
of Favorite Motifs
• Recharge the old favourites with 250 playful new continuous-line variations on
5 classic quilting motifs
• Add style to individual blocks, sashings, and borders, or use as overall
quilting designs
• All motifs work for both hand and machine quilting, and for long-arm as well
as short-arm machines
Make your quilt sing with these exuberant new variations on 5 classic quilting
motifs. Master quilter Laura Lee Fritz shows you dozens of fresh takes on
clamshells, waves, serpentines, Baptist fans, and feathers. Helpful tips show
you how to make the most of each pattern.
Price: $48.00
Thread Painting made Easy by Terry White
More and more quilters are using thread to add texture and excitement to
their quilts as colours, types, and styles of threads abound! Here is everything
you need to know to get started. This long-time quilter shares all the tips and
tricks she has gleaned from years of experimentation with free-motion machine
stitching with threads. Here is a complete guide to the tools, supplies, and
stitches you will need. Sewing machine setup, needles, thread, fabric,
stabilizers all are covered. The author's Get set up and GO! attitude will have
quilters jumping into the wonderful world of machine thread painting. Her
encouraging, right there-beside-you style will give quilters all the confidence
they need.
Price: $48.00
 Pieclique
by Sharon Schamber
Award-winning quiltmaker Sharon Schamber shares her quiltmaking secrets from
her years of professional garment sewing. Her need to produce projects fast and
accurately evolved into a new machine technique she calls 'Piec-lique'
(pronounced like applique). This method provides the speed and control to make
curved piecing fun. There are four different applications of the technique:
layered for gently curved seams, inset for enclosed shapes, combined for seams
interrupted by other elements, and free-form for spontaneous piecing without
templates. Three dozen gorgeous block patterns have been designed or redesigned
with simple curved elements. The author's original designs include beautiful
flowers, like the simple daisy, charming blue bells, and sophisticated
black-eyed Susan. Quiltmakers will also find excellent information on fabric
selection and help for figuring yardages.
Publisher's Review
Piec-Liqué: Curves the New Way by Sharon Schamber doesn t just come from a
quilter; it comes from the originator of a new method of quilting: one which
uses curved shapes from piecing which looks like appliqué. Thirty-six block
pattern examples using this simple curved technique range from flowers to block
quilt patterns. No pins are needed to use Piec-liqué, which helps make curved
piecing without pins. -Library Bookwatch, September 2005, Midwest Book Review
Price: $44.00
Machine Quilting for Beginners by Kim Brunner
Successful machine quilting consists of more than just putting
pretty designs on a quilt. The finished quilt must be flat and square, have
evenly balanced quilting throughout, and most of all, the quilter must enjoy
working on it! Let award winning quilter Kim Brunner teach you the important
fundamentals of machine quilting. With several Teacher of the Year nominations
under her belt, Kim brings her popular humour and experience to the world of
in-home DVD classes. You'll learn how to deal with quilts that have 'issues,'
how to make sure the quilt is loaded straight and square and stays that way
throughout the quilting process, how to set up your studio and machine in the
most efficient way, and more! With techniques that are applicable to any machine
quilting setup, this DVD is suitable to all beginner level stand-up machine
quilters.
Price: $40.00
Refining Technical Skills by Linda V Taylor
1 hr DVD with Linda Taylor. In this class we
will begin custom quilting with the technical skills needed to quilt designs in
specific areas of the quilt.
Techniques covered include: Proper setup of the
quilt, stabilizing the quilt, stitch in the ditch, borders and corners, dead-end
borders and sashing, pattern placement, setting designs using the laser light.
Price: $35.25
Whitework Quilting
BACK IN STOCK!! Limited numbers...
by Karen C. McTavish
Whitework Quilting by
Karen C. McTavish is here!!!
Whitework Quilting, Karen McTavish’s reprinted book, combines the best of how-to,
history and art. Karen has amassed 60 award-winning quilts and each is displayed
on their own two-page spread. This book is more than a how-to book; it is a
comprehensive guide to wholecloth quilting. Karen’s insight, from the first
chapter on using architecture to influence design to the last on incorporating
her techniques to a pieced quilt top, clearly explains the concepts for creating
custom heirloom quilts.
This book moves beyond the typical how-to instructional guide. The
photography was done by one of the counties best quilt photographers. His
expertise is evident in the incredibly detailed pictures of the quilts; some
shots allow the reader to see each quilted stitch. In addition to these studio
shots you will see sumptuous location photography. A select number of quilts
were taken to two wonderfully preserved Victorian mansions; one operating as a
B&B and the other a museum. The quilts were then photographed in natural
light, draped on antique furniture and placed in settings that offer the reader
a glimpse into a long-ago world of wholecloth elegance.
Whitework Quilting comes with a hardcover, 192 pages, and page-marker ribbon.
It is full colour throughout and jam-packed with information.
Price: $58.00
If you’ve ever admired machine quilted feathers and
wished you could stitch them yourself, then this
instructional DVD is for you! Beginning with a
tutorial on marking the quilt sandwich, this DVD guides you
through stitching freeform feathers, feathered hearts,
whimsical feathers, and feather embellishments with
decorative threads. The tutorial then turns to feathers with
a stitched spine and curley-cue feathers with a stitched
spine, and then a discussion on ThreadPower…the use of
thread as an additional design element in your quilts. It
rounds out with a final discussion on uses for feathers in
traditional quilts, contemporary quilts, and in art quilts.
With such a versatile design element, what quilter wouldn’t
want to learn the art of machine quilted feathers?!
Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced
Price: $42.00
If you’ve been intrigued by the graceful curves of vines
or the intricate designs of leaves and wish to stitch them
yourself, then this DVD is for you! With designs
applicable to traditional quilts, contemporary quilts, and
art quilts, this DVD is a step-by-step tutorial on the free
motion stitching of a wide variety of vines as well as
garlands of flowers and leaves. You will then learn how to
add more interest to your vines and leaves through
hyperquilting, or overquilting your stitched motifs with a
high contrast decorative thread. Bring the garden of your
fantasies to life with your sewing machine as you master
these free motion designs and techniques!
Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced
Price: $42.00
If you are captivated by the delicate veins of leaves or
the curvaceous line of a meandering vine and are looking for
ways to add texture and interest to your quilts, then this
DVD is for you! This second volume of vine and leaf
motifs takes off where Volume 1 ended! We’ll begin by
learning new vine and leaf motifs to add to your design
repertoire, but that’s only the beginning! We’ll blast off
into the exciting world of free motion machine embroidery,
and you’ll see just how easy it is to use your free motion
skills to add another layer of interest and texture to your
quilts! Using your new skills of hyperquilting, free motion
embroidery, and free motion machine quilting, your quilted
botanical motifs will add new dimension and intrigue to your
quilts!
Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced
Price: $42.00
Are you new to free motion machine quilting and need
guidance from the ground up? Are you a seasoned free motion
machine quilter and looking for some new design ideas for
stitching quilted motifs? Then either way, this
instructional DVD is for you! This DVD begins with a
discussion on the basics of free motion quilting, and then
turns to a lesson on preparing the quilt sandwich. The
mysteries of mastering sewing machine tension are then
unraveled before basic lessons in free motion machine
quilting begin. Once the basics are covered, the viewer is
introduced to the concept of “Fast and Free”…the technique
of creating countless spin-off designs, just by making a
small change in one base design. Watch and listen as Patsy
shows and discusses how to stitch 18 different quilting
designs and gives ideas for additional related spin-off
designs. The tutorial ends with a detailed lesson in how to
convert your closed toe free motion foot to an open toe
foot. With designs suitable for traditional quilts,
contemporary quilts, and art quilts, what machine quilter
wouldn’t benefit from a tutorial like this?!
Skill level: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced
Price: $42.00
Are you bored with stippling and searching for new design
ideas?If you’re intrigued by the wonderful variety of
textures created by intricate quilting designs, or if you
just LOVE quilting and are on the lookout for novel
background fill designs, then this instructional DVD is for
you! With designs applicable to traditional quilts,
contemporary quilts, and art quilts, Patsy explains and then
demonstrates how to stitch 29 different designs and gives
you the tools to create even more spin-off designs!The
tutorial ends with a detailed instruction on how to build
your own Plexiglas extension table for your short-arm,
mid-arm, or long-arm machine…think of the money you’ll save
over buying a frame system! With designs suitable for
traditional quilts, contemporary quilts, and art quilts,
what machine quilter wouldn’t benefit from a tutorial like
this?!
Skill level: Intermediate & Advanced
Price: $42.00
Wholecloth Linen Quilts by Cindy Needham
Transform vintage linens into charming small quilts! Yesterday's
treasures become future heirlooms as antique embroidered and embellished
pillowcases, dresser scarves, and tablecloths inspire today's machine quilters.
20 exquisite examples are quilted to enhance lace-edged, crocheted,
cross-stitched, and embroidered linens from the past. 100 quilting patterns are
arranged by category- centerpieces, fans, medallions, and borders - and are
shown in various popular sizes.
Price: $44.00
 The
Quiltmaker Collection Vol 1 by The Electric Quilt Company
This CD features a beautiful variety of over 500 of the most
popular quilting designs and variations from past issues of Quiltmaker, selected
for you by the magazine's staff. For more creative fun, print various designs,
then combine and repeat them on your quilts, resulting in your own innovative
quilting patterns. Helpful design instructions on positioning motifs are
included. EQ6 Compatible.
These designs are protected by copyright. Permission to use
the designs is granted for personal and professional purposes, as well as
permission to digitize the designs for use in a computerized quilting system.
Digitizing these designs for sale and mass production of these designs is
prohibited.
We require the use of the following credit:
Used with permission.
Copyright Quiltmaker 2007.
Price: $52.50
Mindful Meandering by Laura Lee Fritz
132 Original Continuous Line Quilting Designs. Beyond stippling!
Add a light-hearted touch to your quilts with 132 contemporary continuous line
designs. Use as allover designs, on borders, or combine designs to create your
own new styles. Designs are easy to reduce or enlarge to fit your quilt!
Price: $39.95
Pepper Cory Quilting Pattern Collection by Pepper Cory
Best selling patterns from Quilting Design from the Amish and
Quilting Designs from Antique Quilts were completely redrawn and compiled into
this new collection. Over six dozen designs have been resized, many to a
standard eight inches, for easier enlargements, reductions and scanning. Helpful
info includes tidbits on judging, adapting patterns into continuous lines,
advise on using multi-pieced stencils and the history of stencils. Check out her
miniature collection too!. A photo essay with step by step photographs shows how
to use stencils and even how to make your own!
Price: $44.00
More Antique Quilting Designs by Roberta Benvin
Use these patterns to reproduce an antique quilt or enhance an
original, modern day project. Six historical quilts have inspired a collection
of floral quilting patterns for quilt makers and non-quilting historians. All
are suitable for today's newer techniques: fusible appliqué, embroidery, fabric
painting and stencilling, as well as for quilting. 85 quilting patterns and
sampler designs were provided by nineteenth-century artists whose "canvas and
brush" methods were a square of muslin and a needle.
Price: $39.95
Infinite Feathers Quilting patterns to print CD rom by
Anita Shackelford
Print as many patterns as you like, at any size you like, to fit
your quilt pattern needs! Includes over 100 feather designs, plus 11 additional
bonus patterns not found in the book. 6 Circular Grids, 16 Be Creative Ideas
sections, providing the ins and outs of working with unusual shapes. Easy-to-use
patterns provided as pdfs, jpegs, and bitmaps for easy interface with existing
graphics software. (Copyright statement: For personal use only. Contents of this
CD cannot be reproduced for resale in any form)
Price: $46.50
 Quilt
as Desired by Charlene C. Frable
You've just spend hours, days, weeks or months following
instructions to create the perfect quilt only to get to the last step where you
see that dreaded phrase, "Quilt as desired" Now what? With Charlene Frables'
Quilt as Desired, you'll learn to turn that dread into a welcome
challenge. Charlene beings with a comprehensive quilting tutorial, detailing
everything from machine accessories and fabric preparation to thread tension and
what to do when the bobbin thread runs out. She then walks you through 24
quilting patterns and extra variations, discussing their benefits and drawbacks.
When you've mastered the quilting patterns, you can test your skills with six
featured projects.
Price: $45.00
Just Leaf It! by Kim Stotsenberg
Have you feathered everything you can think of until you are
doing feathers in your sleep? Just Leaf It offers a creative alternative. What
you can feather you can Just Leaf It!
In this new book Kim gives you step by step instructions on how to make a
sampler of leaf designs for borders, blocks and setting triangles. Also
included are several quilt top designs and how to Just Leaf It to them...
Price: $32.50
Machine Quilting Solutions by
Christine Maraccini
Did you know that your tops can tell you exactly how to quilt
them? It's true! Expert machine quilter Christine Maraccini guides you through
every step, taking cues from the intended use of the quilt and the shapes and
patterns created by your piecing and appliqué. Discover no-mark-motifs that fit
each space and learn the techniques to apply them to your own unique quilt.
Includes complete, step-by-step instructions for 6 quilts, including 3 different
quilting options for each, plus 9 trapunto templates!
Price: $50.00
Freehand Filler Patterns
by Sue Patten
For freehand quilting success, explore
quilting ideas rather than following patterns line-by-line! Multiply the designs
- choose from four different filler categories: flames, feathers, spheres, and
swirls, for an unlimited number of quilting ideas. Quilt as inspired - three
dozen traditional pieced blocks with 150 worksheets help identify the areas for
quilting. Additional filler patterns - 30 cornerstone and sashing strips plus 12
full-sized quilting patterns and 5 background quilting ideas equal limitless
possibilities.
Price: $39.95
Quilting Inside the Lines by Pam
Clarke
Follow Pam's pointers for insider tips &
tricks for using domestic, sit-down, or stand-up/longarm machines for markless
quilting. Practice with a purpose - go from finger tracing and freehand
sketching seven basic shapes - swirl, leaf, loop, curve, E & L, heart, feather -
to free-motion quilting. Over 150 great ideas - choose from instructional
information, design ideas, practice shapes, and over 80 quilting patterns
grouped by skill level to create your own Quilted Sampler
Price: $52.80
Feathers of a New Generation by Lisa Calle
Lisa’s new book,
“Feathers of a New Generation”,
will teach you
a wonderful new technique for creating beautiful wreaths, borders, and fill
designs all without stitching a spine. Don’t know what to do with those
masculine quilts or looking for something different than traditional feathers?
You will also learn several new and interesting feather variations that will
make all of your quilts sing. Whether you use a longarm, mid or short arm or a
domestic sewing machine, this book is a must have for all.
The book and DVD cover
the same material so you can buy one or the other or both for an in home
workshop.
DVD Price: $52.50
Book Price: $38.00
Renae's Amazing
Ways to use Circles and Rays for Longarm Quilting! by
Renae Haddadin
In this information packed, two DVD set,
Renae Haddadin creates six wall hanging samples that instruct you on how to
maximize the use of Renae's Amazing Rays, Renae's Mini Rays and Renae's Arcs.
This DVD set, which contains much more educational information than could be
shared during the equal class time, is an excellent way to learn volumes from
this award winning quilter.
Renae's knowledge and experience, combined with her
amazing tools, will take you from the more basic use of the tools through
the more complex and intricate techniques. Renae marks and then stitches
each sample so you get to see snippets of the entire project. Her
comfortable conversation includes many practical tips concerning design,
spacing and visual impact that will help you get more "wow" with your own
quilts. Drafting and stitching beautiful quilts has never been easier!
Price: $52.50
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Meandering Magic by Suzanne Earley
Based on the same concept as the popular "Meandering Magic,"
this book is packed with 12 new magical variations, as well as ideas for
variations on the meander, and block and border ideas.
Hanging Hearts, Ladybug Dance, Feather Garden, Fleur De Lys -- and many more!
Designs range from beginner to advanced and cover a range of styles that will
suit many different kinds of quilts.
There are numerous large drawings, new Step-by-Step instruction boxes, and color
photographs throughout the book.
51 pages, coil bound
Price: $38.00
 Tremendous
Textures by Nichole Webb
14 of her latest and best background and fill designs, broken down in her
signature step-by-step style so that even the quilter who is not yet completely
comfortable will easily find success.
Spice up your background quilting with new techniques and designs! Find
suggestions for twisting old designs with some new ideas and applications.
These textures are fun to stitch and have awesome dramatic effect! Get your
copy today!
Price: $35.20
Quilting for Show
Autographed copies of Quilting for Show ~ A Practical Guide
to Successful Competition Quilting are available for preorder.
The new Quilting for Show showcases a collection
of the nations’ best quilts and quiltmakers. Karen explains what it means to
quilt for show, how to go about finding a show, what to expect from judges, what
kind of behaviour is ethical, what to do about photography, how to ship your
quilt to a show and why appraisals are important. She also shares practical,
quilt construction knowledge such as how to bury your threads, how to block a
quilt, how to add a sleeve and how to quilt like a hand quilter. More info.....here
Price: $44.00
Spinal Twist by Megan Best
Creative quilting ideas with unusual beginnings! Fabulous Fills,
Incredible Borders, all in one book! New quilting ideas with old spines, as well
as old designs with new spines! 20 designs and nearly as many borders too!
Price: $33.00
Beautiful Quilts As You Go by Keryn Emmerson (out of stock -
backordered)
A book for the domestic quilter
detailing four methods of quilt-as-you-go, concentrating on quilted patterns
rather than patchwork patterns. There is all the information a beginner needs
to start quilting and 48 designs and four projects.
Price: $39.95
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Meandering Magic by Suzanne Earley
Suzanne's new book Meandering Magic will
teach you all about her fabulous freehand technique. It all starts with a
meander, and then you add "magic" -- feathers, ferns, hearts, stars, and more!
Meandering Magic is a freehand design
idea book for any machine quilter. Designs were originally created on a longarm
quilting machine, but can be adapted for use on shortarm and midarm quilting
machines. Ideas for using this technique by quilters using a domestic sewing
machine to quilt are also included.
The book has many full-page drawings, color photos, and step-by-step
instructions.
Designs are based on a large meander that becomes the spine for many different
kinds of embellishments.
Price: $38.00
Quilt Savvy Gaudynski's Machine Quilting
Guidebook by Diane Gaudynski
Improve accuracy & fluidity of stitches in charming unmarked
free-motion designs, such as Diane-shiko, spirals, leaves, fronds, and
clamshells. Exquisite quilting is detailed in close-up photos of the technique
behind the stitches by this International award-winning quilters. Plus,
invaluable tips debunk the common myths of machine quilting
Price: $39.95
Quilt Savvy - Simple Thread Painting
by Nancy Prince
With the stroke of a needle your memories and daydreams come to
life. Two simple stitches, straight and zigzag, develop character and attitude
as machine speed and hoop manipulation transform them into distinctive works of
art. Any sewing machine, whether old or new, can make gorgeous thread-painted
designs. Add a new dimension to your quilt, vests and jackets, memory books and
much more! There are five seasonal projects that feature flexible techniques to
teach you to design in any configuration and size desired. Without having prior
artistic ability, you have the perfect way to be creative with thread painting.
Price: $43.20
The Secrets of Elemental Quilting
Karen's new book, The Secrets of Elemental Quilting ~ Innovative
Quilting Designs plus Trapunto Tips & Tricks, showcases the author's
creative design ideas through multiple element and pattern examples. These
patterns will enhance Appliqué and Pieced quilts or can stand
alone as a Wholecloth design. Longarmers, domestic machine quilters and
hand quilters alike can use these elements (as many times as they like). The
book includes a detailed 60 minute DVD* of Karen teaching the techniques,
step-by-step, of Trapunto, Shadow Trapunto and Color Trapunto.
This book is organized in 3 main sections to guide the reader in using the
elements in their quilting: How to Use Elements which includes Supplies
and Getting Started, Patterns which includes Fundamental Feathers,
Seashells, Victorian Feathers, Seussian, Primordial and Wholecloth Patterns and
Trapunto How-To which includes instruction on Basic Trapunto, Shadow
Trapunto and Color Trapunto. The accompanying DVD* offers a private lesson with
Karen on these 3 Trapunto techniques.
The Secrets of Elemental Quilting offers a peek into the
unlimited potential of quilting design. The author shares her secrets for
creating complex motifs out of a single, simple design. The book and DVD include
3 trapunto lessons, enabling the reader to enhance any kind of quilt. Quilters
who have been asking Karen to teach her trapunto techniques will be delighted
with this new book and accompanying DVD*.
This book is softcover, 112 pages, 120 unlimited use compound elements, and a
60 minute DVD* which features 3 trapunto lessons.
Price: $44.00
*DVD's have been formatted to play on NTSC
machines in North America. An NTSC formatted disc should also play in newer DVD
players and TV's from Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia, but it does not
always work. If you are from a country which supports PAL formatting, and you
can't get the DVD to play, or it plays in black and white, try playing the DVD
in your computer or on a newer DVD player with an NTSC compatible TV. (NTSC
compatibility is standard on newer TV's and DVD players in countries which
formerly only supported PAL formatting.)
 Dimensional
Quilting Video (PAL format) by Linda V. Taylor
Linda Taylor explores numerous Trapunto
Techniques on the quilting machine. Approx 1hr 33min.
Price: $65.00
 Fancy
Feather Frenzy2 DVD by Linda V. Taylor
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced
longarm quilter, Linda Taylor shows you how to start with the basics and end
with incredible variations of feathers and ferns! Linda has expanded freehand
feather designs with practical suggestions into all area of quilting. Eah of the
four samplers completed in this presentation stand alone as expert examples of
imaginative creativity. The DVD allows you to review each technique at your
leisure! Approx 97 minutes.
Price: $65.00
 Advanced
Artistic Freeform2 by Linda V. Taylor
Ready to go beyond the basics? Linda show you all
the tricks to expand your library of design ideas. Learn from the leading
longarm expert. The DVD is a 'must have' for longarm quilters ready to advance
their freehand skills. The project is separated into four main parts. The DVD
menu allows you to review each technique at your leisure! Approx 113 min
Price: $65.00
 Fancy
Feathers! by Linda V. Taylor
Learn feathers from the feather expert! Over 40
pages of techniques and examples! "Linda V Taylor"
Price: $36.00
Fancy This! by Linda V. Taylor
Over 35 different techniques and instructions by
the designer. Make a 40" square heirloom cloth quilt
Price: $26.00
Fancy That! by Linda V. Taylor
Create a wholecloth quilt using over 50 free-hand
techniques
Price: $26.00
LT's Trees & Other Things by Linda V. Taylor
Linda shows you many freehand ideas for quilting trees. Use
these ideas on a variety of other shapes! 43 pages full of wonderful ideas....
Price: $30.00
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NEW NEW NEW NEW
Finally a book to assist you
step-by-step in creating your own original swag designs!!
Tempting Templates! Swags by Tracey Browning
Inspiration abounds to get you started in using your templates
to their fullest potential. Join me in expanding your mind, your originality and
your repertoire of design options in your quilting endeavours!!
Includes general template use instructions, marking templates,
instructions to fit any size border, how to stitch continuously, creating
corners, the opposite sides, problem solver suggestions, alternative
corners,8" swag template design options, 5" swag template design
options, overlapping designs, sashing how to & design and the confidence to
jump right in !!!
Price: $25.00
Infinite Feathers Quilting Design Template by Anita
Shackelford
Do you love feather quilting patterns?
Now you can draw the designs you want
in the size you need! The Infinite Feathers
template makes design work easy.
A dozen different shapes and sizes can be
used to create an almost infinite variety of feather designs. Three curved edges can be traced
to create spines for plumes, swags and running border designs. The cut-out feather shapes are easy to trace onto paper or directly
onto the quilt top. All one piece - easy to trace, no slipping, no little
templates to lose.
The Infinite Feathers template measures approximately 8" x 12" and comes with
complete instructions for a variety of quilting designs.
Price: $22.00
 Follow-the-Line
Quilting Designs by Mary Covey
Full size patterns for blocks and borders. In 20
coordinating sets, make it a cinch to start using these quilting patterns right
away. Patterns are perfect for use with home sewing machines or long-arm
machines - or even for quilting by hand. Pattern groups make it easy to match
designs for blocks, , setting triangles, and borders. Border pattern sheets fold
out to 11" x 25" and include designs from 4" to 7" wide,
including motifs for turning border corners
Price: $50.00
 Heirloom
Machine Quilting 4th Edition by Harriet Hargrave
This book is a compendium of 25 years of
experience in quilting and teaching from quilting expert Harriet Hargrave. New
information and tips developed since the last edition cover the basics and
beyond. Everything you need to know about straight-line and free-motion
quilting, elegant feathers, and padded quilting. The most comprehensive guide to
Hand-Quilting effects using your sewing machine.
Price: $58.85
Helen's Mix & Match Quilting Patterns by Helen Squire
Enhance your quilt top with this outstanding
ombination of patterns, ready to trace, scan or photocopy. Discover 115 unique
patterns, explore 36 placement diagrams and marvel at 20 secondary designs
created using multiple repeats of the same quilting pattern. Chapters include:
More Helen's hints, framing ideas, traditional patterns, continuous line,
beautiful scrolls, grids VII, and secondary designs.
Price: $45.20
Antique Quilting Designs by Roberta Benvin
Features 100 antique quilting patterns from
mid-1800s quilts. It includes more than a dozen feathered and scalloped wreaths,
full-size medallion patterns and folk art designs. 7 historical quilts with
focus on traditional quilting. Simple to fancy quilting patterns for larger
spaces. Large scale border motifs and undulating feather patterns and a variety
of authentic quilting themes to choose from.
Price: $43.50
Judy Allen's Quilting Pattern Pack
Multiple motifs adjust to fit any size quilt.
Contains 10 exclusive new designs and full-sized borders. 10 original curved
crosshatching patterns with 16 placement diagrams. 12 undulating & straight
border designs. Learn from Judy - crosshatching ideas, feathers that fit from
simple to complex. For hand quilters & machine sewing- domestic, home
quilting systems and longarm.
Price: $38.85
Shirley Thompson Quilting Pattern Pack
60 ready to use continuous line borders &
blocks. Tips from the book on auditioning patterns, no-marking method and
freemotion quilting. Each pattern available in three different sizes.
Coordinated blocks and patterns.
Price: $38.85
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 'Garden
Branching' A guide for freehand design by Nichole Webb
Garden Branching is based on a technique that is
frequently used in machine quilting. If you get cornered, all you need to do is
backstitch down previous branches to where you need to go! Flowers include
Bleeding Heart, Chrysanthemum, Drooping Thistle and many more!
Price: $35.20
 The
Art of Feather Quilting by Judy Allen
Judy's signature style will have you creating
beautiful curved crosshatching, crossover designs, and Victorian-inspired feather
patterns - all suitable for quilts and stylish wearable art. Over 100 pattern
choices! Each perfect for the hand quilter, for the domestic sewing machine, and
any home quilting system or professional quilting machine.
Price: $39.95
 Mastering
the Art of McTavishing
Karen's new book, Mastering the Art of McTavishing ~ The Official Guide
to Adding this Stitch to Your Quilts, showcases the author's signature
stitch on Apparel and Art, Appliqué, Wholecloth,
and Pieced quilts. Contributing quilters are longarmers, domestic machine
quilters and hand quilters. The book includes a detailed 90 minute DVD of
Karen teaching the process, step-by-step, of McTavishing.
McTavishing is the most popular new design concept in quilting. This
innovative stitching technique is inspiring quilters from New York to Australia.
The author’s namesake stitch makes a quilt look and feel as if it has motion
and texture.
The inspiration for this style of quilting comes from Art Nouveau artist,
Alfonse Mucha. Author, Karen McTavish, adapted Mucha’s curvy, stylized art
form into a free-hand background filler quilting design. The effect was electric
on the quilting community and in judged competition. Quilters started to emulate
her form and dubbed it “McTavishing.”
Her newest book is a compilation of masterpiece quilts that highlight
McTavishing in all its complex forms. Mastering the Art of McTavishing
instructs the quilter on adding this technique to any quilt or garment, from
traditional wholecloth to contemporary art quilts, for use by hand, domestic
machine, or longarm quilters.
Seven how-to chapters, twenty-two quilts, and four garments from thirty-two
contributing quilt artists help illustrate the many ways to use McTavishing: add
the stitch to an open quilt block, use it in a border, highlight complex appliqué,
custom tailor your favourite garment, make a large over-all design or quilt it
tightly packed to emphasize trapunto - every aspect of how to use McTavishing is
compiled in the book and in the accompanying DVD. The book is softcover, full colour,
96 pages, includes a DVD.
Lessons from the author combined with interviews of accomplished hand and
domestic machine quilters on the DVD give the reader an unparalleled view of the
quilting process. Quilters who have been asking Karen to teach her technique
will be delighted with this new book and accompanying DVD.
Price: $44.00
NB: To see one of the quilts that were
selected for this book, visit my gallery here
to see 'Daisy Dance', which was designed & made by Helen Stubbings of Hugs'n'Kisses
& quilted by me!!
 Perfecting
the Quilting Stitch by Patricia J Morris
This revised & Updated edition will help a
new generation of hand quilters to master techniques that will improve both
their stitches and their enjoyment of quilting.
Includes: Marking tools & methods, Assembling
the textile sandwich, a dozen detachable quilting practice exercises & more
Price: $46.20
 Imagery
on Fabric by Jean Ray Laury
A complete surface design handbook!!
All the latest techniques & technology for
transferring images to fabric. Drawing & painting with crayons, dye sticks,
permanent markers and paints, transfer photos etc etc. Some interesting and
varied quilting techniques are photographed for inspiration with these types of
quilts
Price: $63.80
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Breaking the Code by Christine Olson
Price: $44.00
Christine Olson, owner & operator of Cascade Custom
Quilting, presents a book to assist novice and veteran quilters in deciding how
to approach the quilting design process. She explains the simple steps to
successful design selection in her first book. Topics covered include: The
Inquiry Phase, The Basics, Importance of Fibre Content & Colour Value,
Finding your cues, Looking beyond the Obvious and Overcoming Obstacles to Design
Selection.
Free Hand Pattern Designs from the Jelly Bean
Quilter
Mary's Whimsies by The Jelly Bean Quilter, Mary Eddy
Price: $38.50
Mary's fifth book of all new designs that will add life to any
quilt. These designs give a detailed description so that every one from the
novice to the advanced quilter can master these techniques. The designs include
the Melted Jelly Bean Feather, Lollypops, Sunflowers & Loops, Funky Chicken,
Happy Clam, Sea Star, Holly Bells, Swiss Cheese, Sheepish, Wavy Daffodils and
more. A total of 22 designs and a medley of undulating designs that include,
Music in the Air, Inchworm, Ribbon Fern, Bed Springs and more....
 Flowers
in Motion by The Jelly Bean Quilter, Mary Eddy
Price: $33-00
Freehand patterns designs for the machine quilter! Many of
Mary's designs have been used on award winning quilts around the world. Step by
step diagrams to allow you to create some stunning freehand designs. Excellent
resource to expand your repertoire of flowers and create original designs for
yourself or customers.
 Potpourri
by The Jelly Bean Quilter, Mary Eddy
Price: $33-00
Yet more freehand pattern designs from award winning Mary
Eddy. From flowers to pumpkins to the most amazing bumblebee and many, many more
designs to tantalize your creative juices. Step by step diagrams to comfortably
teach you how to accomplish them. 38 pages of great instruction &
inspiration.
 Plant
this in your Quilt by The Jelly Bean Quilter, Mary Eddy
Price: $33-00
52 pages of glorious floral and plant designs to entice you.
Some look so complex but the step by step instructions will have you creating
masterpieces in no time. Wow your customers with some really different designs
on their quilts as well as making your own stand out from the crowd.
 Jelly
Bean Jamboree by The Jelly Bean Quilter, Mary Eddy
Price: $33-00
64 pages of all new designs from award winning quilter, Mary
Eddy. Yet even more flowers, plants, bugs and freehand fillers to inspire you to
create some masterpieces. This will be well used book when received!
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Perfect Hand Quilting without Pain by Liuxin Newman
Price: $38.00
This book is about healthy
quilting. It is about perfect hand quilting without the pains that so many
quilters experience. The perfect stitch is not the only goal but rather a
natural outcome of healthy quilting. Pain-free quilting is essential.
The Best of Shirley Thompson Quilting Patterns compiled by
Cheryl Barnes
Price: $ 48.00
From miniatures to continuous line, enjoy this
treasure trove of dazzling designs that you'll use time & time again.
Shirley Thompson was a trendsetter who opened the door to a whole new quilting
era where quilting the quilt became a recognised outlet of creative expression.
This collection features her distinctive style of designing for both hand,
domestic, shortarm and longarm machine quilters. 200 patterns taken from all
seven of Shirley's books have been included.
 Add-a-Line
Continued MORE by Janie Donaldson
Price: $48.00
Over 60 patterns make an exceptional continuation
of the popular best-seller Add-a-Line, which set the standard for
continuous-line books. Hand, domestic & longarm machine quilters will
appreciate the grouping of patterns into a colourful sewing sequence in
this handy, larger page format. These unique designs, in numerous styles and
sizes, provide unlimited combinations to accommodate nearly any type of quilt.
Pathways to Better Quilting by Sally Terry
Price: $45.20
Find the clues and secrets for tapping
into your creativity! Learn the 5 questions the quiltmaker answers, the 5
questions the fabric dictates, and the 8 quilting decisions determined by the
quilt top. 75 patterns for quilters with traditional sewing machines, shortarm
systems, and midarm or longarm quilting machines. Even hand quilters will love
these beautiful designs! Accelerate your learning curve with Sally's effortless
transitions to freehand and free-motion quilting. The simple practice sessions
are guaranteed to IMPROVE YOUR INDIVIDUAL STYLE, skill, and creative ability.
Show me how to Create Quilting Designs by Kathy
Sandbach
Price: $44.00
You don't need to be an artist to quilt like one! Whether you
want to tackle your stack of UFOs, or design the quilting as you plan your
quilts, Kathy's free-form quilting methods will give you the skills and
confidence you need. You'll learn how to decide what to quilt and where to quilt
it - and have fun in the process!
Winning Stitches by Elsie M. Campbell
Price: $58.00
Discover winning stitches for winning quilts! Master the
secrets of beautiful hand quilting! Award-winning quilter Elise Campbell shares
her foolproof techniques for marking quilting designs and stitching heirloom
quality quilts. Every quilter need this book! 50 original quilting designs. 2
complete projects designed to showcase the quilting, step-by-step photos show
you how to perfect your quilting stitch & tips, techniques and insider
advice to help you create your own award-winning quilts.
Loving Stitches by Jeana Kimball
Price: $50.60
A guide to Fine Hand Quilting revised
edition. Create a quilted masterpiece with the art of hand quilting! This newly
revised version of a quiltmaking classic is packed with information to last a
quilter's lifetime. Perfect your technique with updated and expanded
instrucitons, plus all-new quilt photos. Find full-size quilting patterns and
expert tips on using hoops, frames, and other tools. Learn this master's secrets
for making flawless quilting stitches - the true test of an accomplished quilt maker.
Quilting with Carol Armstrong
Price: $41.10
Combine quilting & embellishments
for a fantastic effect. Carol Armstrong presents a fresh look at quiltmaking!
Use quilting lines, rather than pieced blocks, to define familiar patterns such
as Bow Tie blocks and Grandmother's Fan, then add stitchery and other
embellishments. 16 irresistible quilt projects, complete with appliqué designs
and quilting patterns.
Machine Quilting - a primer of techniques by Sue
Nickels
Price: $48.00
Quilt marvellous designs with ease as you discover the magic
of your machine. All aspects of beginning quilting are covered in this must have
machine quilting primer of techniques. Includes a detailed list of supplies,
such as thread and needle suggestions for a variety of projects. Straight-line
and free-motion machine quilting techniques will have you sewing designs you
never dreamed possible! A unique trace & practise section provides several
patterns such as stippling and crosshatching to help you achieve expert status.
Three projects, along with full- sized quilting patterns allow you to explore
cables, feathers, and no-mark designs in style.
Guide
to Machine Quilting
by Diane Gaudynski
Price:$48.00
Award winning tips and techniques perfect for every skill level of
machine quilters. Start off right with easy to follow directions and
helpful step-by-step photos.
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 Machine Quilting with decorative threads
by
Maurine Noble & Elizabeth Hendricks
Price: $41.80
 Exploring
Machine Trapunto by Hari Walner
Price:
$52.50
Hari expands on her basic trapunto techniques and innovative
surface design ideas, in addition to giving lots of great, new, inspiring
designs.
 250
Continuous Line quilting Designs
Price: $33.00 250
designs include home & garden, sewing notions, nature, sports themes, birds,
animals & fish. Appropriate for both hand and machine quilting.
 Helen's
Copy & Use Quilting Patterns
by Helen Squire
Price: $68.00
Contains 275 designs, placement diagrams & reversed
patterns in a variety of sizes. The quilting patterns are grouped into 9
categories. Chapters contain a mixture of continuous line patterns for sewing or
longarm machines, sashing strips with borders, and everyone's favourites -
hearts & tulips.
 The
Ultimate Guide to Longarm Machine Quilting
by Linda Taylor
Price: $51.40 176 pages, softcover book written
by multi award winner, Linda Taylor.
- How to use ANY Longarm machine
- Techniques, Patterns & pantographs
- Starting a Business
- Hiring a Longarm Machine Quilter
Learn the basics, how the process works, advice on tools, supplies, and
accessories, and a glossary of terms.
Complete information on pantograph (all-over) designs, custom quilting, and
freehand techniques.
An overview of the business of longarm quilting, with guidance on pricing,
customer relations, copyright, and more
38 pages of original pantograph patterns, 2 quilt projects, and a gallery of
beautiful quilts from longarm quilters.
 Feathers
that Fly
by Lee Cleland (No longer in print - 1 copies left!)
Price: $60.00 Make your machine take flight! How to Design, Mark, and
Machine Quilt Feather Motifs. Take the intimidation out of machine quilting
classic feather motifs with this easy-to-follow guide! Discover a new technique
in each chapter, along with projects for practice. 14 projects that show you how
to quilt straight-spine feathers, plus wreaths, curves, and cables.
 Infinite
Feathers
by Anita Shackelford
Price:$55.00 Working
with simple tools, learn to create designs that fit perfectly in the blocks and
borders of your next quilt. Includes designing motifs, continuous line patterns,
innovative designs transferring designs and more.
 Machine
Quilting Made Easy
by Maurine Noble
Price: $28.60 Practice
the simple techniques prepared by experienced quilting instructor Maurine Noble.
You'll be ready to machine quilt your own heirloom in no time with her..... Easy
to follow instructions and exercises on Straight-Line Quilting, Freehand
Quilting, Quilting with Decorative Threads and Tying a Quilt by machine.
 A
Treasury of Quilting Designs
Price: $ 44.00
The no-mark approach to quilting opens the door to a new
level of freedom in machine quilting....The exciting designs will inspire even
the timid beginner to drop the feed dogs and play!
 Add-A-Line
Continuous Quilting Patterns
by Janie Donaldson
Price:$48.00 Over 50 quilting designs range from simple single line to
skill-enhanced multiple line colour-coded patterns. Pattern subjects vary from
flowers, leaves, swirls, scrolls, crowns and loops to combined geometric shapes.
Contains eight-inch coordinating blocks, border designs, and two whimsical
animal patterns.
 Quilting
Makes the Quilt
by Lee Cleland
Price:$53.40
Discover a world of possibilities for quilting your quilt.
You'll see 12 traditional quilt patterns, each pieced five times using the same
fabrics and then quilted using five different designs. Full-size pullout
patterns of 11 quilting designs. Detailed instructions for making your quilting
designs fit your quilt top are at your fingertips, along with information on how
to assemble and finish it!
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