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The Quiltmaker's Handbook: A Guide to Design and Construction
The Quiltmaker's Handbook A Guide to Design and Construction Author:Michael James With The Quiltmaker's Handbook, you'll learn how to create useful, uniquely personal, and beautiful bed coverings, wall hangings, and pillows; one-of-a-kind works of art using inexpensive materials and fabric remnants. This complete quiltmaking manual offers easy-to-understand instructions and step-by-step photographs that illustrate eac... more »h stage in the quiltmaking process. Michael James explains how to do both pieced work—including the time-honored log cabin, English patch, and star patterns—and appliqued quilts and helps you progress from using traditional quilt patterns in your work to creating your own original designs. You'll learn what material, needles, batting, and other supplies are best for specific quilting projects, how to cut and mark fabric, how to draft and cut patterns, how to enlarge your patterns using a grid, how to use colors creatively, and how to put the finishing touches on your quilt. Extensively illustrated with color and black and white photos of innovative quilt designs, this helpful guide also shows the best way to hang your work and tells how to care for and wash your quilts to insure a long, beautiful life. With The Quiltmaker's Handbook, you can master this craft and enjoy the almost limitless creative possibilities quiltmaking offers.« less