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Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!!: the complete guide to quiltmaking
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 2nd ed.
Preface -- Room settings -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The essentials -- How to use Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!! -- Understanding fabric -- Equipment and supplies -- 1. Choosing a pattern -- Roman square -- Fence rail -- Log cabin -- Four-patch -- Nine-patch -- Double nine-patch -- Double nine-patch variation -- Hopscotch nine-patch -- Pinwheel -- Ocean waves -- Wild goose chase -- Wild goose chase variation -- Sawtooth star -- Attic windows -- Spool -- Madison house -- Pine tree -- Bear's paw -- Kaleidoscope -- Thousand pyramids -- Heart -- Postage stamp baskets -- Gingerbread house -- Pineapple log cabin -- Blossoming tree -- Drunkard's path -- Star of Bethlehem-- All stars sampler -- 2. Color selection -- Color schemes -- Monochromatic -- Analogous -- Complementary -- Primary -- Rainbow -- Warm and cool -- Light and dark -- Neutral -- Scrap bag -- Traditional -- Developing a color scheme -- Practice exercise : creating a color scheme -- A checklist for choosing fabric -- 3. Fabric preparation -- Ways to prepare fabric -- Pre-shrinking your fabric -- Pre-washing your fabric -- Working with "new" fabric -- Is your fabric colorfast? -- Straightening your fabric -- 4. Cutting -- Cutting your fabric -- Quick-cutting, nondirectional fabric -- Quick-cutting, directional fabric -- Cutting shapes from strips -- Traditional cutting, nondirectional fabric -- Tradition cutting, directional fabric -- Cutting fabric using templates -- 5. Piecing -- Hand piecing -- Sewing the pieces -- Practice exercise : making a 12" (30 cm) Drunkard's Path block -- Machine piecing or strip piecing -- Things to know about your sewing machine before you begin -- Sewing strips together -- Pressing your pieced strips -- Cutting your pieced strips -- Practice exercise : making a 12" (30 cm) Fence Rail block -- Making half-square triangles -- Practice exercise : making a 12" (30 cm) Pinwheel block -- Making double half-square triangles -- Practice exercise : making a 6" x 12" (15 cm x 30 cm) Tree block --
6. Appliqué
Preparing for appliqué
Preparing the pattern
Preparing and marking the background fabric
Preparing stems
Pinning and basting paper patterns to fabric
Basting leaves
Basting circles
Basting scallops
Hand appliqué
Machine appliqué
Practice exercise : making a 12" (30 cm) Benicia Rose block
7. Finishing the quilt top
Straight sets
Diagonal sets
Making side triangles
Making corner triangles
Assembling the quilt top
Design options
Alternate blocks
Sashing
Posts
Adding borders
Determining amount of fabric for borders
Cutting borders
Attaching straight borders
Attaching corner blocks
Attaching mitered borders
Attaching borders of border-printed fabric
Pieced borders
8. Assembly
Backing fabric
Measurement and preparation
Batting
Types of batting
Preparing to quilt
Quilting in a hoop : layering and basting
Quilting in a frame
Machine quilting
Tying
9. Quilting
Choosing and planning the quilting design
Outline quilting
Background quilting
Design quilting
Marking the quilting designs on the quilt top
Hand quilting
The quilting stitch
Machine quilting
Tying
10. Binding
Preparing your quilt for binding
Binding your quilt
Choosing the width of binding strips
How to determine the length of binding strips
Attaching binding strips to your quilt
11. Drafting patterns
The grid system
Marking a grid
Samples
Pattern drafting made easy
Practice exercise : drafting 54-40 or Fight as a 12" (30 cm) block
Practice exercise : drafting Le Moyne Star or Eight-Pointed Star as a 12" (30 cm) block
Templates and their uses
Practice exercise : making templates for 54-40 or Fight
Practice exercise : marking and cutting fabric using templates
12. Sampler quilt
Class outline
Sampler blocks
Templates
Glossary
Index
About the authors.
From the Book
The Essentials
Choosing a Pattern
Color Selection
Fabric Preparation
Block Construction
Sewing Blocks Together
Adding Borders
Preparing to Quilt
Quilting
Binding.
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9780913327166
9780844226163
9781933308371
9780844226170
9780844226163
9781933308371
9780844226170
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