BOOKS

These lovable collections of nursery accessories have everything you need to give charm to a child's room: a crib quilt large enough for toddlers, too, plus wall quilts, bibs, drag-around blankets, soft pictures, pillows, and growth charts. Make that special child a whole room full of love.

“Sue Spargo's folk-art imagery, melding African mystery with English charm, reflects her multi-cultural roots in Africa and England. Her projects can combine wools and cottons, with beads, button and embroidery embellishment.

Size: 49 ½” x 31 ½”

Mercer Lane is based on my 2006 Block of the Month.

Size: 48” x 46”
"Influenced by the Art Museum in New York City as well as my experiences as a child growing up in two countries in Southern Africa."

Best-selling authors Barb Adams and Alma Allen are back, this time with quilts and projects celebrating the home, community and friendships!

In this companion book to Quilts in Red and Green, Terry Clothier Thompson and Nancy Hornback celebrate 21st century women using today's new fabrics and 19th century designs.  Here, along with the original photos, designs and history of 1800s quiltmakers, are 11 new quilts, and a look at the quilters' personal methods of sewing appliqued quilts.

Terry and Nancy pay tribute to descendants who have preserved their family-made textiles, stories and ancestors' photographs. They also rejoice in today's quiltmakers' choices of fabrics and sewing methods such as fusible, freezer paper and machine and hand applique.

Authored by quilt historian Terry Clothier Thompson, this book looks at the Civil War through the eyes of Louisa May Alcott. Louisa is best known for writing children’s stories and Little Women, but she was also very involved with the anti-slavery movement, rights for women, and served as a Civil War nurse.

The heart of the book is the “Louisa” quilt. In this quilt there are nine “cameo” blocks that tell the story of Louisa and her family’s life in New England. Also, as part of the quilt, there are six pieced blocks from the Civil War era that can be used to make soldiers quilts.

Help yourself to some beautiful quilts – and grab a bit of war-time history, too!

Carolyn McCormick, author of Carolyn's Paper Pieced Garden and Hard Times, Splendid Quilts and inventor of the Add-A-Quarter ruler, creates another stunning paper pieced sampler. Twenty Kansas City Star patterns from the 1940s have been redrafted into 10-inch and 4-inch paper pieced patterns, giving the quilter the choice of a larger quilt or a miniature.

Join Golden's life on a prairie farm in the early 1900s.  A sampler quilt of 20 blocks, illustrated by diary entries and photos of the lively grandmother of co-author Kaye Spitzli, are the backbone of this book.  The sampler was designed by the three talented quiltmakers who make up Of One Mind, a Eudora, Kansas, quilt company.

Quilters Newsletter: The Best of 2007 software

A year of beautiful quilts…resize, recolor, print patterns and sewing instructions, print and read selected workshops, features, lessons and tips from experts.  Stand alone software and also fully compatible with EQ6.

My Dream House:EQ Projects of Appliqué Patterns by Angie Padilla

Play house with over 450 pieces to mix, match and make!

The block patterns and projects are installed into EQ5 or EQ6. Use EQ5 or EQ6 software to print the patterns. Use these projects with EQ5 or EQ6.

This CD features a beautiful variety of over 650 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.

Attention EQ6 beginners! EQ6 Simplified, the newest and biggest of our best-selling “Simplified” tutorials is ready. Popular EQ teacher and author Fran Iverson Gonzalez holds your hand as you work through step-by-step instructions in eight fun lessons. It’s like taking classes right in your own home. Fran has taught thousands of EQ beginners and she’ll teach you too as you design fabulous, yet simple, quilt designs.

EQ6 Pieced Drawing allows EQ users to design unique blocks for any quilting need. Authored by drawing expert Patti Anderson, this book will inspire you to draw blocks like you have never done before!

Karen K. Stone Quilts by Karen K. Stone

A colorful pattern book from one of America's most popular quilters and teachers. For the past decade, Karen K. Stone's dazzling quilts have won awards and a legion of fans. Now quilters who can't get enough of Karen's innovative takes on tradition and riotous fabric combinations can discover just how Karen creates her magic.

Also available is Karen K. Stone Quilts EQ5 Projects & Palettes software for EQ5

Portraits from Nature: 35 Studies for Dimensional Quilts

Bring Your Favorite Garden Plants to Life in Lovely Quilted Portraits.  
Favorite author Jean is back with more inspiration from her garden.

Small quilts focus on flowers, leaves, and individual garden motifs. Feature a single favorite, or group several!  More than thirty-five full-size patterns to combine any way you like.

Great Sets: 7 Roadmaps to Spectacular Quilts

Laurel Burch Quilts: Kindred Creatures

Join celebrated artist Laurel Burch in the infinite realm of her imagination, where myths come alive and kindred spirits connect. Laurel’s graphic signature style translates beautifully into quilts you’ll love making for yourself and for others.  12 projects including fun designs like Mariah Moonbeam and Friend, Feline Fairies, Folkloric Flutter-bye, and Mythical Dogs.

The Crazy Quilt Handbook: Revised, 2nd Edition

Create your own heirloom crazy quilts with help from world-famous expert Judith Baker Montano! This classic guide has been updated in full color. New projects, new photography, and up-to-the-minute techniques make the process more user-friendly than ever.

3 new designs for a total of 10 beautiful projects to get you started, including wallhangings, jewelry, and an evening bag.  Judith walks you through the process of putting together a crazy quilt using her unique center piece method, showing you how to choose fabrics and lay the foundation, to adding decorative details and solving problems.

Radiant New York Beauties: 14 Paper-Pieced Quilt Projects

Quick-Strip Paper Piecing: For Blocks, Borders & Quilts

Tradition with a Twist: Variations on Your Favorite Quilts

It's in the Details

Transform off-the-rack drab into off-the-charts fab! Add flair to ready-to-wear items with this creative guide to personalizing clothing with unique embellishments. Make a fashion statement with simple embroidery, beading, appliqué, and no-sew techniques.

Five sections—each with six projects, plus accessories—spotlight beads and sequins, ribbons and lace, patches and scraps, flowers and leaves, and yarn and wool

Use these easy techniques on jackets, jeans, skirts, sweaters, T-shirts, and more

More Strip Clubbing

More Great Quilts for 2 1/2" Strips. From the original creators of Strip Club come this second book designed for you to use those fabulous jelly rolls, strip club bundles or fabric from your own stash. 

Designs in this book come in multiple sizes, giving you more options. 

Mimi Dietrich's Favorite Appliqué Quilts

Mimi Dietrich's incredible career as a bestselling author and beloved appliqué artist has spanned 20 years. Now Mimi has created a collection of her favorite quilts from past books—long unavailable until now!

Get the ultimate in ease and simplicity with this special selection of patterns; they're great for beginners!

Choose from classic appliqué motifs such as hearts, flowers, yo-yo's, and wreaths

Color-Palette Applique´: The Seasons in Bloom

Create blossoms that rival seventeenth-century floral paintings in this popular continuing pattern series! Simply assign colors and values to each applique´ element and bring flowers to life in your quilts like never before.

A simple numbering formula makes color selection a cinch

Find directions for marking, cutting, basting, and assembling blocks

Beautiful Blooms

Ispired by walks through the gorgeous gardens that dot the British landscape, this American quiltmaker has turned images of genteel scenery into stunning quilts and pillows.

Create English roses, Irish shamrocks, Welsh daffodils, and more

Find instructions for hand and fusible-web applique´, plus helpful tips for choosing a color palette

Needle Felting with Cotton and Wool

Discover a whole new way to applique sing roving
instead of thread! Along with projects that showcase
this design team's charming style, you'll learn their incredibly
quick position-and-poke applique´ tricks.

Take an adventure in texture when you combine wool and cotton fabrics in 10 projects

Get up to speed with a learn-the-basics section; then take designs to the next level with oodles of creative ideas

Yo-Yo Fashions

Alphabet Quilts: Letters for All Ages

This lively appliqué tribute to the alphabet has something for everyone. Block letters, cursive, Spencerian - patterns for seven unique quilts are included. Animals, numbers, and flowers accompany the letters. 

Author Bea Oglesby offers advice for making these quilts quickly and easily with fusible web and her own signature style of fine hand appliqué. Additional projects offer other imaginative ways to use the letters.

Copy Cat Quilts

Love cats? Then you're the perfect candidate for making Copy Cat quilts! First published in the 1980s, this award-winning pattern has been updated with contemporary quilting techniques.

Find tips on working with textured fabrics like Minkee and chenille

Oh Sew Easy® Life Style: 20 Projects to Make Your Home Your Own

Cutting-Garden Quilts

Use a simple paint-by-number process to create these gorgeous floral-appliqué quilts! A quick layer-and-fuse technique, along with step-by-step color placement tips, will have you quilting your own cutting garden in no time.

Easy fusible designs feature numbered color charts—they'll help you choose the perfect hues

The Tale of Alice's Quilt

When a young girl discovers a stack of applique´d quilt blocks from the past, a thread to another time and place opens up for her to explore. Her desire
to piece together the blocks she found leads her on a journey full of lessons about life, love, and even death—and how a love for quilting can bind generations.

Behind Every Quilter is a Huge Pile of Fabric!

So Much Fabric...So little time

Elm Creek Quilts: Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels

Sue Spargo: Folk-Art Dreams Software

Sue Spargo's folk-art imagery, melding African mystery with English charm, reflects her multi-cultural roots in Africa and England. Her projects can combine wools and cottons, with beads, button and embroidery embellishment.

Learn to blend wool, cotton and embellishments, creating easy folk-art appliqué projects using this stand-alone software. Fuse, needle-turn, or print the designs right onto fabric!

Make it like Sue or make it you!

16 projects,

Dozens of quilt layouts, quilt design tools, sewing instructions

Quilt Design Wizard™ Software

Create quilts on the screen!  Print patterns in any size!  Sew a treasure that will last a lifetime!

200 quilt block patterns, printable in any size.  3000 scanned fabrics, bright fresh colors.

Take-Along Totes: Mix & Match Your Way to Creative Organization

Feathers & Urns—Rhapsody Quilts: • Design Companion Vol. 1 to Ricky Tims’ Rhapsody Quilts • Full-Size Freezer Paper Pattern • Bonus Appliqué Designs & Ideas

Cool Girls Quilt
More than 15 Fresh, Fun, and Funky Projects

B844, $24.95, 96 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", full color, softcover

Girls, get sewing—because crafty is cool! Teens and tweens with a funky fashion sense will love creating these fast, fun quilts and gifts. Twenty hip projects use bright fabrics and simple-to-stitch designs.

Make six quilts plus 14 gift items with easy patchwork, appliqué, beading, and embroidery

Choose from a music-player case, a table runner, a pillow, greeting cards, and much more

Be Attitudes      534B
Price: $16.00

It's all in your attitude! That's what Mom taught me and it's true. I hope you'll have fun with this block-of-the-month fusible appliqué quilt which reminds us of uplifting attitudes and values that can make our lives more enjoyable and beautiful. Make the entire quilt, or choose individual blocks to make into a mini-quilt for each month. These blocks were designed using my William's Inn fabric from Benartex. Encourage a happy mood!

Simple Start–Stunning Finish: • Fabric Secrets • Easy Piecing • Quilting Solutions

Posterize It!
Shoot, Enlarge, Print, and Sew

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

Make it You™—Your Space: 
• Sew with Style • Easy Step-by-Step Instructions • Uniquely You

Make it your space. Make it reflect your unique style! Make it today! You’ll be surprised how easy it is to turn fabric into decorating magic and cool accessories. Try transforming a wall or ceiling, or jazz up your bed with a canopy, headboard, or quilt. Quick and easy projects like frames, covered boxes, and vases make great gifts, or use them to tie your room together! Even beginning sewers can make these projects by following the clear, step-by-step instructions.

WINSOME BABY

A baby is a kiss from heaven! I'm a grandma now and I'm in love with babies even more. Make something wonderful for your baby, grandbaby or a friend with these 17 sweet projects. They are made using my new "Winsome" fabric line for Benartex. Kisses to my two new grandbabies...Will and Bree!

36-pages

Book Price: $18.25

Magic Vine Quilt

Grow a flower garden in beautiful fabrics to grace your bed or wall as Eleanor Burns presents Magic Vine.

The patterns for Magic Vine originated in the 1930’s in a newspaper quilt column written by Florence LaGanke Harris. As part of a series, LaGanke presented one new pattern each week. In addition to the pattern, the reader was treated to a fictitious story about a quilt group and their leader, Nancy Page. In the group, they shared stories, and decided on what colors to use for their flowers.

Twenty-two flowers are appliquéd in rows with twinning vines. It is magical because of the variety of flowers that grow on the vine. The vine grows quickly, like the magic vine in Jack and the Beanstalk.

$27.95

Bound for Glory
Five Patriotic Quilts

B842, $14.95, 24 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", full color, staple-bound, ISBN 978-1-56477-737-9

Display your American pride with patriotic quilts from one of America's best-loved quilt designers! Nancy J. Martin salutes the Stars and Stripes—in her trademark scrappy style—with quilts that celebrate the American spirit.

Use your favorite red, white, and blue fabrics in five lap quilts

Hang quilts to celebrate President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veteran's Day, and other patriotic tributes

Twice Quilted
Continuous-Line Quilting Designs

B833, $26.95, 16-page booklet plus 20 folded pattern sheets, 8 1/2" x 11", shrinkwrapped box, ISBN 978-1-56477-761-4

Quilt it once and it's great—quilt it twice and it's simply grand! Quilt two interlacing motifs in different colors and give a stunning finish to any project. Continuous-line designs make it easy—just follow the lines.

Twenty pattern sets—40 designs in all—include classic and themed motifs, such as poinsettias and pine needles for Christmas

Enclosed booklet includes complete instructions on how to trace, transfer, and sew designs

HAPPY HOUR #ATK-605

Relax and enjoy these super simple quilts. Also includes a tote bag, table runner, and pillow.


Four or more sizes for every quilt.


Got an Hour? Make it a Happy Hour working on these easy projects!

Got a bed? Even a beginner will enjoy these simple fun quilts!

Sew You Want to be a Quilter board game:
The questions and answers in the game have been designed to be interesting, informative, educational, and just plain fun.  The questions range from the very simple, i.e. "What is a thimble?"..... to the very hard, i.e. "What is a Japanese 'yubi nuki'?" There will be times when you will say "wow, I didn't know that" and times when "I knew that" will be your thought.  Regardless, you will have fun playing and testing your quilting knowledge. 

B876, $14.95, 32 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", 

Get a complete introduction to the hottest new craze in wool crafting—needle felting. Learn all the basics, and then try your poke-and-punch skills in five fun projects.

Follow chapters on tools, supplies, and basic techniques; then add even more dimension to projects with wool appliqué and embroidery

Small, simple projects—most shown in two colorways—include a beginner bookmark, a journal cover, and a memento pillow

B772, $19.95, 80 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", 
Wind, wrap, and sew fabric strips into fantastic containers! Start with a plate shape to learn the technique. Then experiment with four basic container styles to create round, oval, square, and other shapes.

"Sew Easy Pajama Pants by Cindy Taylor Oates.

Pack up your sewing machine and take a “Quick Trip” with Eleanor! Quick Trip Quilts is a strip pieced pattern with three layouts. The traditional “Quick Trip” is based on a “Trip Around the World” format. A Bargello effect is achieved with the “Quick Quarter” pattern, and for the artist in you, piece a “Water Lily” which adds a bit of appliqué to a rippling water background. The patterns are easy enough for a beginner but will challenge seasoned quilters to achieve just the perfect effect for an inspiration quilt. Eleanor’s technique for this quilt is fun and so easy that it is truly a “Quilt in a Day.” Let your personality shine through in your quilt by fabric selection and placement. Yardage and cutting charts are included for all five-quilt sizes with bonus instructions to make table runners from your scraps. The book features sample quilts that symbolize locations from the desert to the sea. Take a trip to your sewing room and create your dream vacation with a Quick Trip Quilt!

Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Smocking will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring smocking within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

The smocking is finished and looks fabulous. >>>>
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Pillows- 29 projects

Duvet & Curtains- 15 projects

Table Toppers- 27 projects

Retail Price: $24.95 Amy Butler

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