BASKETS & MORE
Details: "As many quilters know, baskets are a beautiful way to store everything from fabrics to notions and all those other wonderful things that a stitcher needs. So why not capture these lovely catch-alls on quilts? Fill your own pieced and appliqued baskets with fabric flowers, stars, and other fun while making lovely lap quilts, wall hangings, pillows, and a tote bag. Thanks to the good folk at Country Threads, quilting just got better by the basketful!" (from the front of the book)
BASIC GUIDE TO ROTARY CUT QUILTS
Trade Paperback; 68 pages; Size Approx. 8 3/4 X 11 3/4.
Published by Leisure Arts, Inc.; Copyright 1999.
Details: "Welcome to the pleasures of patchwork! We love making quilts for our homes -- wall quilts, baby quilts, bed-sized quilts -- and we know you will too. It's 'sew' much fun.
If you've never made a quilt before -- this book is for you. We have geared it to help you get started with quick rotary cutting methods, easy machine sewing, and speedy quilting techniques to make your first quilt, and, hopefully, many more.
Included in our Getting Started section are tips on buying fabric and acquiring the basic tools you need to begin. We also tell you how to set up your sewing machine for accurate stitching results. Nine Patchwork Lessons teach you how to make the nine blocks used in the projects pictured in the book. We've included step-by-step photos and illustrations to make learning as easy as possible. Making Your Quilt A Quilt tells you how to turn your patchwork into a real quilt by layering it with batting and backing, quilting it, and finishing the edges.
Piecing patchwork quilts used to involve meticulous tracing around templates and hours of laborious cutting with scissors. Not any more! The methods we've used in this book -- rotary cutting, making strip sets, stitching 'diagonal seams,' machine piecing, and machine quilting -- are used by modern quilters everywhere to make quilts quickly to decorate their homes and keep their loved ones warm." Marianne and Liz from the front of the book.
Condition: There is a pin-sized hole at the upper edge of Baskets & More going through the front cover and the first 16 pages of the book (see pictures); otherwise the books are in very good condition with firm bindings and clean pages.
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