Full AspenCat Catalog

"Hundreds of full-color photos, charts, and diagrams accompany start-to-finish lessons on quilting styles - hand, machine, trapunto, appliqué - plus a wealth of patterns and sewing tips. Suitable for beginners to experts"--

Ready to take the triangle challenge? Choose from 70 pieced modern triangle blocks and 11 exquisite quilts that wow! Fourth-generation quilter Rebecca Bryan is back-this time with beautiful 3-sided blocks sewn from pieced stripes, chevrons, curves, and more. A dedicated graphic design chapter will help you choose a winning color palette, play up unexpected elements, and achieve balance and symmetry. Grab your favorite ruler and the full-size block...

Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to play with traditions and take liberties with fabrics, patterns, colors, stitching, and the ways in which they all connect. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles, methods, and aesthetics. Their ideas, their quilts, and their tips, tutorials, and techniques will inspire you to try something new and follow your own creativity...

"A dozen three-dimensional quilt projects, all made with 60-degree triangles cut from strips"--

Ellen is putting the finishing touches on a wedding quilt made from scraps of old dresses when the bride-to-be-her granddaughter June-unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling off the marriage. With the tending of June's uncertain heart in mind, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband. Working as a biscuit-shooter, Nell falls for a cowboy named...

"The quilting bee gets a modern makeover"--From publisher description.

Popular machine quilter Angela Walters will motivate you to try something new! Learn to stitch her fresh continuous-line designs on your longarm or domestic machine. Includes step-by-step instructions for continuous-line swirls, circles, squares, vines, arcs, and points. Using basic free-motion skills you already have, discover how to approach quilting a modern quilt by working with bold fabrics and negative space, uniting a variety of shapes, and...

The ultimate how-to book for quilters, a workbook with exercises that provide a foundation of much-needed basics to set you on your quilting path. Two of quilting's most respected teachers combine their different styles to present an incredible reference and project book that beginners and experienced quilters alike will always keep near the sewing machine! • Loaded with the information you need to make traditional quilts, including selecting...

Carolyn Forster shows you how to transform jelly roll scraps into stunning mini quilts and gorgeous patchwork gifts. Packed with 30 colourful and inventive projects and all the techniques needed to create them, the book contains an abundance of guidance and inspiration for quilters and patchworkers of all abilities. Each section contains a comprehensive step-by-step photographic techniques section and each of the 30 projects contains photography and...

Here is the best available book on quilt making -- a complete, easy-to-follow guide that shows you how to make beautiful, useful quilts that you will be proud to own and display. Even if you are a beginner, you will soon find yourself quilting like an expert by following these clearly drawn patterns, photographs, and step-by-step instructions.