Author and needlework expert Celia Eddy says that making a quilt is like baking a cake. First, quilters should know the basic tools and ingredients. Next, they need a formulaï¿½or a recipeï¿½to follow. Finally, they must gather all ingredients together and follow the recipe. The Quilterï¿½s Recipe Book offers a feast of ideas for piecing, patchwork, and appliquï¿½ï¿½the basic techniques required for producing beautiful quilted items. Easy-to-follow instructions show how to piece the block, and make eight-pointed stars, fans, log cabin blocks, appliquï¿½ blocks, and blocks with curves. Each quilting ï¿½recipeï¿½ shows how to make a beautiful quilt and includes: 
<li> A large color photo of the pieced quilt</li>
<li> Block diagrams, templates, and drafting instructions </li>
<li> The amount of fabrics needed This beautiful volume also gives advice on creating imaginative combinations of fabrics and colors. Quilters can choose from 100 traditional and contemporary quilts, and can also use the blocks to create many other beautiful quilted things. Quilt recipes are arranged in order of complexity. More than 400 color illustrations.</li>

The Quilter's Recipe Book: All The Ingredients You Need To Create Over 100 Fabulous Quilts

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Eddy, Celia

Crafts & Hobbies

B E S Pub Co

For centuries, the craft of quilting has given the world wonderful and valuable works of folk art. But quilting is also an enjoyable activity for needlecrafters—a source of satisfaction whether practiced as a social “quilting bee” or as a solo activity. This attractive, how-to volume presents twelve projects on progressive skill levels. More than 300 color diagrams and photos show templates, sewing techniques, and beautiful finished items. The book’s first project is a small, easy-to-make wall hanging. Projects that follow include a baby’s play mat, a cushion made from joined diamond templates, a log cabin bed quilt, a complex but magnificent wall panel, and seven others. The author gives details on materials needed for getting started, offers tips on using different fabrics, threads, frames, and hoops, and instructs on machine quilting. Here is guidance that covers virtually every aspect of quilting, a source of many of tomorrow’s most valuable heirlooms.

Quilting Basics: All You Need to Know to Start Making Your Own Fabulous Quilts

Quilting is a fine art, and this instructive, beautifully designed volume carries that art to new heights. Eye-fooler quilts play with our sight and imagination, creating wonderful illusions in shapes and colors. Though complex to look at, these quilts are surprisingly easy to make when quilters are given sound direction. Here are instructions for more than 40 dazzling designs, the patterns falling into the following major divisions:
* Perspective and 3D effects * Circles * Grids * Interlacing patterns * Counterchange * Transparency effects
Here too are general instructions for making any quilt, with details on necessary tools and equipment, suggested fabrics and colors, the use of grids and templates, methods of sew-ing, instruction on assembling pieces, and techniques for finishing. Readers will also find a helpful list of resources for materials, as well as a bibliography and a glossary. Here's a book that deserves a place in every sewing enthusiast's personal library. More than 250 color illustrations.

Quilting Illusions: Create over 40 Eye-Fooler Quilts

Barron's Educational Series,Inc.

This hardcover book with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for readers to keep handy and reference often. The stylish design of this book, along with the interior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, make the learning process simple and fun for beginners and provides useful tips for more advanced readers. This is the ultimate easy-to-use reference for those interested in creating beautiful and individual quilts. Each of the 100 entries features a photograph of a block with diagrams and instructions on how to construct it. With clear guidance for beginners and experts, including a how-to section and a comprehensive list of symbols, this is a handy guide for anyone interested in quilting. With chapters on the tools and equipment used, and the fabrics available for quilting, beginners and more advanced quilters will find invaluable tips. Working with color and patterns is covered, and drafting blocks to make templates will help advanced quilters improve their craft. This book will help readers learn all the basic skills involved in drafting and making blocks and turning them into quilts. And that's just the beginning of the story, because readers can go on to make up their own blocks and design their own quilts with them.

The Quilter's Block Bible: The Essential Illustrated Reference: 100 Traditional and Contemporary Block Designs

Chartwell Books

This unique book features over 700 stunning color variations for a wide range of traditional and contemporary quilting and patchwork designs, from nine-patch and fan blocks to applique, stars, and octagons. This hardcover book with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for readers to keep handy and reference often. The stylish design of this book, along with the interior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, make the learning process simple and fun for beginners and provides useful tips for more advanced readers. What you'll find here is a brief introduction to the theory and language of color, with the basics of color theory explained in a down-to-earth and user-friendly way. Having that information under your belt will make it easier to decide why certain color combinations work and others don't, and allow you to mix and match colors to achieve the finish quilts you're aiming for.

The Quilter's Color Scheme Bible: More than 700 stunning color combinations (Artist/Craft Bible Series)

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

This is the ultimate quilter's block reference and resource book for both hobbyists and professionals who are fascinated by the endless variations offered by this time-honored craft. Learn how quilt blocks are categorized and follow selected examples from different categories to draft, design, and make individual block patchwork. Packed full of ideas, hints, and tips, expert advice is given for layout, colors, fabrics, and methods for creating more than 150 custom quilt blocks. Each bolck entry includes a photograph of the finished block, diagrams, and instructions for clear guidance for quilters of all skil levels. Concealed spiral binding allows quilters to read and practice simultaneously.

The Quilter's Block Bible: The Essential Illustrated Reference- 100 Traditional and Contemporary Block Designs

Krause Pubns Inc

Complemented by more than eight hundred full-color illustrations, a helpful manual for quilters offers an innovative approach to selecting the right colors and fabrics for any quilt project, explaining how to test colors using swatches, colored pencils, and computer quilting programs and including tips on pattern and block designs, color themes, and fabric effects.

The Quilter's Color Scheme Bible: More Than 700 Stunning Color Combinations For Every Style of Quilting Block

Quilted Planet celebrates the evolution of a beloved folk art in America and around the world, displaying the eclectic influences that are present in today’s modern quilt designs. Gorgeously illustrated with more than 200 original examples from six continents, this cornucopia of quilting styles is an inspirational reference for historians, crafters, and quilters alike. Never has it been more evident that quilting is the most culturally rich folk art being practiced today. From the earliest known quilt found in a Scythian chieftain’s tomb near Mongolia (circa 100 B.C. to 200 A.D.) to the hybrid designs of international contemporary works, quilting has mirrored the traditions, lifestyles, and social attitudes of people around the world for thousands of years. Quilted Planet celebrates the versatility of this timeless art form and what it has meant to various cultures by showcasing a wide range of quilt styles and techniques from across the globe. As she delves into a cornucopia of eclectic quilting styles, Celia Eddy looks at how patchwork and quilting traditions have evolved independently by showcasing methods unique to regions from six continents. She also takes a close look at how these historical techniques are echoed continuously in the work of today’s quilt artists, demonstrating this art form’s enduring influence on contemporary textile arts. More than forty original techniques are highlighted, including those from the United States, Japan, India, Egypt, England, Ireland, France, and Sweden, each with a brief account of the history of specific quilting traditions, methods, and styles. Quilted Planet also includes explanations of the methods and techniques particular to certain regions, including French boutis, Victorian crazy patchwork, and Japanese sashiko, providing quilters with endless new ideas to experiment with and incorporate into their own work. A gallery of contemporary quilts shows how modern-day artists transcend geographical borders in their use of new materials and techniques that superbly reiterate traditions of the past. With a comprehensive bibliography, exhaustive list of resources, and an introduction to basic techniques, Quilted Planet is the ideal reference and inspiration source for crafters, collectors, and historians alike.

Quilted Planet: A Sourcebook of Quilts from Around the World

Clarkson/Potter

100 Traditional & Contemporary Quilt Blocks

Search Press Ltd

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