Sewing with fat quarters makes quilting a breeze! From the pages of the United Kingdom's best-selling modern quilting magazine, Love Patchwork & Quilting, comes this collection of colorful and eye-catching projects featuring fat quarters. Curved piecing, paper piecing, strip piecing, appliqué, fusible web, and more—use your favorite fat quarters to create a delightful array of projects from cushions and other small projects to mini quilts and bed-size quilts. Piece 22 projects using fat qu...

From the editors of Love Patchwork & Quilting comes this collection of bright, modern, and bold projects that show off the ever-popular Flying Geese block in ways both expected and innovative, resulting in wonderful array of motifs and looks. With designs ranging in size and complexity from a pillow and wallhangings to bed-sized quilts, this project-stuffed book is an easy and affordable way to own stylish patterns from the best-selling modern quilting magazine in the United Kingdom. • Per...

Bags for Your Life On the Go Fab and functional bags to sew … that perfectly fit your life on the go! Favorite bag designers and top bloggers share 15 unique organizers, all tailored to a specific purpose. From a laptop folio or a gym bag to an airport sling or a trunk organizer, every tote has just the right features to keep your essentials within easy reach. Practical, stylish, and versatile by design, each carryall has multiple uses. Projects are organized by skill level, from confident...

Bring the feel of the countryside into your home with this unique collection of patchwork quilts and gifts from the top fabric designer.Lynette's inspiration comes from nature, her garden and her animals, and all of these are reflected in this new collection of patterns. The designs in this title feature birds and flowers, with lots of hand embroidery and stitching, including great portable projects for stitching "on the go."All the basic techniques you will ...

Learn to create modern quilts more quickly and easily than ever with this popular method, featuring thirteen projects and twenty-five bonus ideas.Do you believe rules were meant to be broken? If so, this improvisational quilt-as-you-go technique is for you. Instead of dealing with precise paper patterns and cutting measurements, you'll learn how to piece fabric onto small, manageable batting blocks. Let your creative juices flow as you quilt directly on the blocks (...

Discover all that you can make with just one yard of fabric!Rebecca Yaker and Patricia Hoskins offer 101 fun projects that use a single yard of fabric to make clothes, accessories, baby items, and more. With clear, step-by-step instructions, each project is designed to be completed in just a few hours. Get inspired and turn a yard of your favorite fabric into a quilted lunch bag, bright sundress, or a cuddly plush turtle.

Quilt As You Go with a modern, fresh twist! No one will ever never know your quilts are quilt-as-you-go and that's the twist.Quilt As You Go is the process of making quilt blocks (from 12 to 16 inches square) and then quilting them - easy! Join the quilted blocks and you almost have a finished quilt, you just need the binding.This book teaches a few modern twists on a very popular technique which results in simple, easy to make quilts that can be made from "fat quarters", "...

All you need to get sewing: supplies, stitches, sizing charts, over 300 photos, and much more.This comprehensive reference is an indispensable guide for anyone who sews (or wants to start). Organized for easy readability and usage, it covers everything you need to know whether you're making a home decoration, piece of clothing, or an accessory. Contents include:an extensive overview on tools and materialsstep-by-step instructions on various ...

Create a sampler quilt as unique as you are!Tula Pink gives you an inspiring quilt block collection with Tula Pink's City Sampler. Make a beautiful, modern quilt of your own design with the 100 original quilt blocks or try one of the 5 city-themed sampler quilts designed by Tula.A note from Tula:"You will notice...that the blocks are not named but simply numbered. This is intentional. I may have designed the blocks and give...

Learn professional techniques, shortcuts, and secrets for making couture bags Let's be honest: when you make a bag, you want it to be constructed well and finished beautifully - with that professional edge that sets apart homemade and handmade. In this how-to book, accomplished bag maker Nicole Mallalieu reveals her high-end techniques, shortcuts, and secrets for professional design and finishes. Graded and ordered by degree of difficulty, the 10 featured projects teach a range of expert s...

Nancy Zieman's pattern fitting approach is easy - no cutting, slashing, tucking or pinching-just logical and easy pivot-and-slide techniques, providing a painless method to follow that results in a garment that is comfortable and attractive. Once you learn Nancy's techniques for fitting, you will find it easy to make every garment you sew fit your size and shape. Multiple fitting charts are included in the book, as well as an index for locating technical information at a glance.

Sewing can be as easy as 1-2-3 with this helpful building-block approach—includes thirty-three projects!In this creative teaching book, craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker offers a wholly unique approach to sewing: She presents projects in groups of three, each building on the techniques used in the project before. Baker shows, for example, how to sew a glasses case, then build on those skills to create a zippered pouch, and from there, make a more advanced cosmetics ...