Perfect for beginners, this quilting book features simple illustrations and easy-to-follow steps that teach you how to make up to 30 beautiful quilts in a short amount of time! A comprehensive guide for both first-time quilters and those looking for a refresher course, Urban Quilting teaches you everything you need to know about this timeless craft. Each pattern contains instructions for three different quilt sizes, with designs that feature bold colors and geometric shapes that will stand out and look stunning in your home.

Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, this book also serves as an excellent refresher course. It offers a handy guide to embroidery by both hand and machine, with practical advice on equipment, materials, methods, and techniques. Readers receive step-by-step instruction for preparing and matching threads and fabrics, working with hoops and frames, and transferring designs. An illustrated stitch directory shows how to complete more than 70 types of stitches, arranged by families for ease of reference. Simple practice projects are provided for making a bag keeper and a peacock cushion cover.

Complete Book of Sewing

Quilting rulers have long been used by longarm quilters to make uniform shapes while quilting, but now, with the advent of the domestic ruler foot, domestic quilters can join in on the fun, too! Amanda Murphy, best-selling author of the Free-Motion Quilting Idea Sampler, starts by showing you how to use 6 basic shapes of machine quilting rulers to lay a foundation for your quilting, then moves on to teaching you 59 different designs. Finish up by following Amanda’s suggestions for filling in the background space with free-motion quilting. This custom book includes exclusive content on the Amanda Murphy Good Measure Brewer Exclusive rulers. Basic introduction to rulerwork, with tons of helpful information on using quilting rulers and ruler feet. Stitch 59 designs using 6 basic quilting ruler shapes, including straight lines, circles, and squiggles. Combine rulerwork and free-motion quilting with Amanda’s innovative suggestions.

The Quilter's Field Guide to Color: A Hands On Workbook for Mastering Fabric by Rachel Hauser The #1 complaint of quilters? Mastering effective color combinations. The Quilter's Field Guide to Color is a practical guide showing effective and not so effective color combinations. Each chapter will call readers to use the skills they learn through an optional series of 'Patchwork Challenges' which can be used to create a quilt by the book's completion. Along the way, readers will be guided through fabric auditions so that readers can ask themselves questions for evaluating their own fabric pulls. Forget the dry color theory! This book is fun, conversational, practical and beautifully inspiring. A one-of-a-kind resource for modern quilters Hands-on exercises with a true workbook approach Real modern fabric pulls to help evaluate choices 150-color swatch card include to replicate the author's process Optional Project Blocks for each section to use as inspiration or to create a quilt by the end of the book.