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Bestselling author and teacher M'Liss is back again with this essential tool for beginning quilters. The tool has everything you need to know to make a beautiful quilt-M'Liss takes you step by step from start to finish.

Helps you create wonderfully comforting quilts in both traditional and scrappy styles. In this book, the author brings together a collection of 11 heartwarming quilts suitable for everyday enjoyment. It also includes dozens of expert hints and tips, clever shortcuts, and streamlined technique which ensure that creating your project is even easier.

You'll love the dramatic results you get with this modern approach to quiltmaking. Popular author/designer team of Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr present their design and construction methods with 10 projects, then show you how to transform their ideas into quilts that truly express who you are.

Contains things you need to start making fabulous bags for various occasion - from cute little children's pouches to handy totes and elegant evening purses. This title features 10 fat-quarter-friendly projects and a huge gallery of 101 ideas for 'bags' of inspiration.

Want inspiration for your straight-line quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs‿JUST designs‿and will lie flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The fourth in our Quilting Inspiration series, this visual guide is filled with more than seventy-five distinctive straight-line designs from your favourite designers to get you stitching.

Discover the secrets to sewing a stylish wardrobe with staying power! This guide walks you through thirty timeless garments to create, including a must-have button-up shirt, a flattering A-line dress, and a modern classic pencil skirt (pattern included). With a conversational narrative, the authors have created an engaging, informative guide to sewing by tracing the garments‿ origins, offering styling and sewing tips, and sharing a modelled photo gallery and charming fashion illustrations by Beth Briggs.

Sew modern quilts that illuminate your life with the help of ombré fabrics. Easy large-scale piecing shows the entire ombré gradation, while smaller-pieced quilts let colours dance and glow in hundreds of hues, tints, and tones! With a single fabric containing subtle shifts from pale to dark, colour feels exciting and new again. Jennifer Sampou shows you how to make the fabric work for you, with six brilliant quilt projects featuring her Sky Collection fabric.

Over two hundred and twenty five embroidery designs from best-selling author Brian Haggard are now available as iron-on transfers, to make applying and using his designs a breeze. Transfer and embroider beautiful designs from his popular books Embroidered Memories and Crazy-Quilted Memories. From florals and banners to birds and bees, this book has elegant images of all kinds (and in all sizes, too!). All projects, patterns and instructions include both metric and standard imperial measurements.

Sew seventeen projects, from bags and accessories to home decor. Learn how easy it is to work with cork fabric from the designer behind Sallie Tomato, Jessica Kapitanski.

"Combine antique textiles, ephemera, and other items with new elements to create unique and useful items for your home. Includes 5 projects with detailed instructions and patterns, plus many more inspiring projects in gallery form"--From publisher description.

'...for anyone interested in general surface embroidery, it's a wonderful thing to have a nice repertoire of decorative band stitching, and this book provides just that!' Mary Corbet, Needle 'n Thread

Sew stylish shoulder bags, totes, clutches, and drawstring bags! Whether you‿re a total beginner or a confident sewist who loves to finish a project in one sitting, you‿ll love this modern collection of thirteen bags you can truly make your own. Turn flat fabric into handbags of any shape when you learn the basics of construction, transferring a pattern, and finishing details. A must-have primer for the beginner sewist!

With its organic lines, hand applique is the perfect medium for artistic expression. Come into the studio with Kathy Doughty as she shares her passion for quilt design, needle-turn applique, and fabric selection. Draw inspiration from eight projects with full-size patterns and build your skill set with simple, step-by-step instructions for Broderie Perse (Persian Embroidery), Boro-style applique, paper piecing, and hand quilting. Take control of the creative process, experiment with colour, and achieve your creative goals!Everything you need to applique quilts in Kathy's style or your own! Choose fabric, make bias vines, master needle-turn, and much moreAdd to your skills with intermediate and advanced techniques you haven't seen before, with simple instructions that beginners can easily followPractice taking risks in colour and design, with an inside look at Kathy's process.

Sew 15 quilts from triangles, hexagons, trapezoids, jewels, diamonds, parallelograms, and strip-pieced blocks.

Get ready for some of the best-kept secrets in strip quilting! Learn tips for cutting, storing, and piecing fabric strips in a variety of widths. Start by sewing easy strip sets, then advance to triangles and more complex layouts. Make the most of your stash by turning precut strips, sliced yardage, and selvages into fifteen innovative projects. Customise the look of each quilt with blank colouring pages, laying the foundation to design your own.

Take your handmade business to a truly professional level with practical advicefrom industry experts!