350+ quilting tips, techniques, and trade secrets How to be better at what you do
Book - 2017
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- Published
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New York :
St. Martin's Griffin
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Item Description
- "A Quarto Book."
Includes index. - Physical Description
- 160 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBN
- 9781250162779
- Introduction
- About this book
- Choosing equipment
- What you really need
- Your sewing machine
- Quilting gadgets
- Choosing and preparing fabrics
- Selecting patchwork cottons
- Special fabrics
- Preparing and storing fabrics
- Dyeing your own fabrics
- Printing your own fabrics
- Your photos on fabric
- Color confidence
- Color creations in practice
- Tricks with contrast
- Prints and patterns
- Working with quilt patterns
- Using a pattern
- Designing with traditional blocks
- Planning a block quilt design
- Style genres
- Quilting inspirations
- Cutting skills
- Rotary cutting
- Making templates
- Fussy cutting and kaleidoscope effects
- Patchwork techniques
- Machine patchwork
- American patchwork
- Easy blocks with squares and rectangles
- Improving your piecing speed
- Seminole and string patchwork
- Easy triangles
- Flying Geese variations
- Easy foundation piecing
- Further foundation piecing
- Puzzles and weaves
- Inset seams and miters
- Curved seams and inset circles
- Freehand curves
- English paper piecing: portable patchwork
- Assembling the quilt top
- Japanese folded patchwork
- Appliqué and embellishment techniques
- Appliqué
- Fused appliqué
- Freezer paper appliqué
- Needleturn and reverse appliqué
- Hawaiian appliqué
- Bias strips appliqué
- Broderie persé and shadow appliqué
- Embellishments
- Crazy patchwork
- Techniques for textures
- Batting and basting
- Batting
- Making the quilt sandwich
- Quilting designs and techniques
- The quilting pattern
- Hand quilting
- Machine quilting
- Long-arm machine quilting
- Quilt-as-you-go
- Sashiko and kantha
- Hand quilting with other stitches
- Corded quilting and trapunto
- Big stitch and tying
- Binding and finishing
- Types of edge finishes
- Applying lapped binding
- Mitered and curved bindings
- Turned, wrapped, and faced edges
- Invisible-edge finish
- Labeling your quilt
- Quilt group fun
- Groups and projects
- Making a group quilt
- Shows and exhibitions
- Your quilt group's exhibition
- Visiting a large show
- Entering a competitive show
- Preparing your exhibition quilt
- Care and storage
- Estimating fabric quantities and math reference
- Useful addresses
- Glossary
- Index
- Credits