The essential reference on quilting with colorFree yourself from preconceived notions about color and get ready to push the creative envelope! This must-have book inspires you to experiment with solids to gain a deep understanding of how color functions. Perfect for both the adventurous beginner and skilled intermediate quilter, the 12 modern quilt projects show you how to create fresh combinations, vibrancy, and movement using different hues. To make the p...

Creative free-motion ideas for traditional quilt blocks, borders, and more Take the guesswork out of free-motion quilting with 155 fresh ideas, each handpicked for a specific space on a quilt. Popular author Amanda Murphy pairs unique free-motion designs with 30 well-loved quilt blocks, such as the Sawtooth Star and Drunkard's Path. Pick and choose elements from each chapter (borders, sashing, motifs, and more) for an artful finish! This must-have reference includes an inspiring gallery of...

A basic introduction to reulerwork, featuring fifty-nine designs using six basic quilting ruler shapes, including straight lines, circles, and squiggles.Quilting rulers have long been used by longarm quilters to make uniform shapes, but now, with the advent of the domestic ruler foot, domestic quilters can join in on the fun, too! Amanda starts with how to use six basic shapes of machine quilting ruler to lay a foundation for your quilting, then moves on to executi...

Want inspiration for your straight-line quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs—JUST designs—and will lie flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The fourth in our Quilting Inspiration series, this visual guide is filled with more than seventy-five distinctive straight-line designs from your favorite designers to get you stitching. Perfect for domestic and longarm machines Full-page spreads w...

A quilt for the special events in your life Don't let the important occasions in life pass you by. Quilt them! Gift meaningful milestone quilts for religious celebrations, graduations, anniversaries, important birthdays, and more. Best-selling author and fabric designer Amanda Murphy presents 10 projects and 18 designs to celebrate life's hallmark moments. Space is cleverly built into the designs so you can personalize them with numbers, dates, messages, and signatures. Amanda's patterns a...

45+ intricate designs to color your cares away. Enjoy the art of coloring with this intricate coloring book featuring contemporary and elegant designs by Amanda Murphy. These illustrations, printed on high-quality, heavyweight paper, are ideal for framing and perfectly suited to coloring with colored pencils, fine tip markers, and even watercolors. Evocative of the Arts and Crafts era, designs include romantic florals, classical motifs, hypnotic watches and gears, and decorative patterns w...

Learn how to color fearlessly Color a masterpiece every time with this comprehensive guide to coloring from some of your favorite authors and illustrators. Start by discovering the best surface to color on and the best colored pencils to use, then try out a huge array of techniques, from blending and shading to using patterns and creating a three-dimensional effect. Dive into a section on color schemes, and top it all off by hosting your own coloring party! Plus, test out your newfound ski...

Discover how to use quilting rulers to their fullest and achieve the quilting you want every time.Straight lines, curves . . . there are rulers for every kind of quilting! Amanda Murphy shares an in-depth guide to everything you need to know about rulerwork quilting on both domestic and longarm machines. With recommendations for choosing templates and feet, this technical guide is great on its own, but also makes the perfect sidekick to Murphy's popular Rulerwo...

This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions posed by Borges's often paradoxical writing, and leads the novice through the complexity and breadth of Borges's vast literary production.Originally published in French by an Argentine ex-pat living in Paris, ...

At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic.In its long history, Venice was the only city that succeeded in constructing a durable republica...

An awareness of diachronic development at all levels of language can enhance the learning and teaching of language and translation. This book illustrates this approach, adopting a variety of research methodologies. A diachronic perspective is applied to the pedagogy of English spelling, translation studies, bilingual education, approaches to teaching culture in CLIL, the development of a new multimodal genre, the lyrics video, aspects of modality in legal English, and the meaning shifts th...

All 14 episodes of Amanda Murphy's sitcom about the will-they-won't-they romance between best friends Cassie and PeteCassie's 30, single, and miserable. All her friends are getting married - even Ugly Paula (albeit to someone on a life sentence in a Kentucky prison) but nobody loves her. Except for Pete. And he's her best mate, so he doesn't count... or does he? Over the course of three series, we follow Cassie and Pete as they attempt to answer that critical quest...