The Beginner’s Guide to Sewing: Building Skills One Stitch at a TimeDo you feel overwhelmed when you sit down at your sewing machine? Are you looking for a simple, step-by-step guide to master essential sewing techniques and create beautiful projects with confidence? Do you want to impress your friends and family with handmade creations like a true sewing expert?If you answered YES to at least one of these questions, you MUST KEEP READING......

Do you feel stuck or unsure when you encounter mysterious symbols on sewing patterns? Are you looking for a simple, step-by-step guide to decode every sewing symbol and tackle any project with confidence? Do you want to sew like a professional and never be intimidated by pattern markings again?If you answered YES to at least one of these questions, you MUST KEEP READING...Unlock the Secrets to Reading Any Sewing Pattern and Create Like a True Profes...

A professional organizer's handy guide to creating an uncluttered, inviting quilting space for yourself—whether it's a small closet or a large studio.This practical guide shows you how to organize and maintain your quilting space, no matter what size. Learn handy ways to sort and arrange all of your fabrics and supplies into easy-to-use stations—and find actual organizing solutions from quilters' studios, including Alex Anderson and Diana McClun.Create a calm...

How to take easily obtained, inexpensive materials and, without power tools, create a custom fitted sewing table and how to adjust that table to make working with a large project, such as machine quilting a large quilt, easy and comfortable.If you have any stress, fear, or hesitation about becoming a machine quilter, it is my greatest hope that this book will help you. The information presented in this book is intended to make sewing and quilting as easy and as comfortable as sitti...

"A comprehensive and thorough guide for quilters just entering the arena of abstract art and design . . . Beginning art quilters will no doubt be inspired." — Quilting Arts MagazineThe bestselling author of Luminous Landscapes guides you through an amazing journey into the world of designing abstract art quilts. Take your imagination to new heights as you learn how to create an abstract design and then break it down into easy segments to sew and e...

THE user-friendly reference essential for any current or prospective serger owner:• Practical, easy solutions for any problem with any serger, no matter what the brand, model, or vintage.• Expert-savvy, timesaving tips on serger threading, needles, threads, feet, upkeep, and much more.• Comprehensive strategies that help answer "Which serger should I buy?"

"By playing with light and color, [Loughman] designs additional dimensions to quilted landscapes, thereby creating smashing results." — Publishers WeeklyLight not only catches the eye, it can transform your work into something truly magical. With four inspiring projects to get you started, world-renowned, award-winning quilt artist Gloria Loughman shows you how light can set a mood.You'll get stunning results with her mosaic tile process for captur...

An exciting new approach for beginning to advanced quilters who want to improvise on their own, with a friend, or with a community of fellow makers.Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, Sherri Lynn Wood presents a flexible approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms. Instead of traditional instructions, she presents 10 frameworks (or scores) that create a guiding, but not limiting, struc...

In First Time Garment Fitting, sewing and design expert Sarah Veblen takes you by the hand and teaches you everything you need to know to adapt patterns so you can sew garments that fit just right.With detailed descriptions of essential tools and techniques, the easy step-by-step instructions will have you altering patterns and sewing tops, pants, and skirts that fit you to a T in no time. The projects introduce key skills you’ll use again and again for all your garment se...

Discover your artistic voice Expand your creative horizons and embrace the process of developing your design skills using your own intuition. Jean provides you with more design guidelines and new exercises to hone your natural intuitive skills, then she encourages you to go out there and express yourself! Packed with inspiring quilt images, this book walks you through effective approaches to art quilting from journaling your ideas to unifying your design. • Continue your art quilting journ...

Goodbye, dull quilts! Hello, color confidence! Have you always felt nervous about choosing colors for your quilts? Popular pattern designer Pam Dinndorf helps you step up to color confidence and break out of the drab quilt doldrums for good. Learn how to use the color wheel to select fabrics and how to start with a large group of fabrics and zero in quickly on the ones that look best together. • Make 6 bold quilts in Pam's signature colors • Get answers to frequently asked questions like h...

An introductory guide to making your own curtains to add a unique touch to your home!Rebecca Yaker, co-author of the best-selling One-Yard Wonders, covers everything from measuring to calculating yardage, choosing the best fabrics, sewing your curtains, adding linings, and selecting the right fixtures and hardware for hanging. She includes step-by-step instructions for making five different curtain styles: pleats, eyelets, tab tops, tie tops, and rod pocke...