The Essential Guide to Practically Perfect Patchwork

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Create a stunning patchwork quilt — quickly and easily!

The perfect guide to accompany quilting classes, The Essential Guide to Practically Perfect Patchwork starts with the basics of quilting and expands to more advanced concepts — each of the 10 lessons building on the previous. This new book teaches, in a practical and easy-to-follow manner, quilting basics, how to make durable templates, piecing skills, and finishing techniques. It builds a foundation and a jumping off point for further exploration of quilting, and is full of hints, easy solutions, and short cuts to help readers achieve stunning results.

Michele Harer has been quilting for more than 30 years and has shared her easy techniques and love of quilting with others for the past three years.

Covers both machine and hand quilting techniques
Generously illustrated with photos, illustrations, patterns, and diagrams
Practical and easy-to-follow instructions, as well as full-size templates ensure gorgeous results

There is also a list of Practically Perfect Patchwork Errata.

Big Book of Quilting

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With 21 million quilters in the U.S., expert quilting resources are hot ticket items and Big Book of Quilting provides all the authority of four books for the cost of one! Four popular quilt references — The Essential Guide to Practically Perfect Patchwork Quilts, The Magic of Crazy Quilting, Kaye Wood's Strip-Cut Quilts and Fast-Folded Flowers — were combined to create one reference that covers the basic needs of a beginning quilter, and offers clever embellishing tips for advanced quilters.

Big Book of Quilting features more than 625 color photos and illustrations that demonstrate techniques including patchwork, strip-cut quilting and crazy quilting. Whether it's choosing correct fabrics and thread or experimenting with quilt template design, this book covers everything quilters need to enjoy their hobby more, and expand their skills.

Features instructions for quilters to try creating quilt templates
Covers time-saving tips and easy methods for correcting mistakes made in measuring and sewing borders and blocks
625+ color photos and illustrations guide quilters through projects involving patchwork, strip-cut quilting, crazy quilting and the use of embellishments