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Lucky Spool Media Mini Masterpieces: Learn How to Quilt: a Workbook of 12 Essential Blocks & Techniques
Mini Masterpieces is a quilting masterclass. Follow along beginning with a fresh new take on basic blocks and increase to complex curves and colour-work. Throughout, international quilting teacher Alyce Blyth provides tips and advice she has learned through her years of quilting and from teaching students from all over the world. Frustrated by quilt block books without anything to do with your finished work? This is part of what makes mini quilts so achievable. Mini Masterpieces is designed to be a quilt block of the month with a fabulous finish every time. Looking for a mini to swap? Alyce has you covered with 12 refreshing designs that use old favourites and new challenges too. Looking for a sew along with your guild or for your local quilt shop? Mini Masterpieces was designed just for you with one challenging block/mini a month for your whole group. Looking to make a bigger quilt? Two beautiful takes on sampler quilts are included to encourage readers to mix and match and explore infinite design possibilities. Looking for something new but can't take on a big project? Mini quilts are the perfect solutions: easy to finish, fun to make, perfect for gifting or hanging on your studio wall. Join the mini quilt mania and sew up each of these quilts in no time, expand your sewing skills and have fun knowing you can complete any of the projects included in Mini Masterpieces in an afternoon.
£20.99
Lucky Spool Media Quilting with Liberty Fabrics: 15 Quilts Celebrating 145 Years in Fabric
Follow Jenni Smith as she's granted rare access to the Liberty design studio and historic archives, and celebrate the iconic designs that have made Liberty London one of the world's most iconic fabric manufacturers. Liberty London opened in 1875 and has been producing exquisite fabrics and designs for over 140 years. In this book there are 15 projects with a complete fabric design history of Liberty as well as a full colour reference index for every fabric used. Featuring beautiful details of the classic fabric designs produced over the years, each quilt will inspire readers to finally cut into those precious bits of fabric and begin enjoying them in pieced projects of their very own. The hardback book comes in a gorgeous hardcover textured linen slipcase in beautiful Liberty fabric. It's an ideal gift for anyone who is a fan of Liberty or British design. This is the first quilting book to be an official partnership with Liberty.
£26.99
Lucky Spool Media Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle: Foolproof Patterns and Simple Techniques from Basic Blocks
The HST is a workhorse block unit that can be used to make beautiful, timeless quilts. This book shows you the multiple methods for making them (from the slow to the speedy) and combines HSTs with other pieced blocks that complement the triangle blocks. The book is organised into four main sections: patterns that feature Colour, Scale, Patchwork Play and, finally culminating with a chapter on Half-Square Triangles only. This final chapter features an inspirational index of over 12’’ 60 HST block designs and encourages the reader to design their own quilts using a single block or combining a few.
£20.39
Lucky Spool Media Alison Glass Appliqué: The Essential Guide to Modern Appliqué
Enjoy the classic art of appliqué but with thoroughly modern projects. Features 8 essential and updated techniques, including the hottest new thing in quilt making: Large Scale appliqué. Use the skills learned to create one of the beautifully crafted 14 projects for the home by former interior designer turned pattern and Andover Fabrics textile designer, Alison Glass. Combine technique with project in this inspiring book on the time-honored craft of appliqué, brought up-to-date by award winning designer, Alison Glass. Her fans have long-awaited a book from Alison and she doesn’t disappoint. Beautiful detailed how-to photos will explore how to create designs using everything from classic needle-turned, hand stitched through to applying the latest substrates and a variety of fibers to achieve heirloom results. Go further with the addition of everything from crochet to embroidery to adding patchwork backgrounds to create unique, modern designs that fit perfectly in our stylish and highly curated handmade homes.
£20.37
Lucky Spool Media Use and Ornament: The History and Future of Improv Quilting
Open the door to creative freedom with Nick Ball’s improv quilting techniques Throw away your patterns and let your imagination soar! Nick Ball’s techniques will offer a liberated approach to sewing and open up a world of creative possibilities. As you experiment with textures, shapes, colours, you find your own creative way of quilting. A great resource that takes the reader through a journey of the many facets of quilt-making expertise, from preparation, through the elements of design, to completion with the perfect balance of guided instruction and creative freedom.
£33.51
Lucky Spool Media From Collage to Quilt
Quilter Sarah Hibbert finds inspiration in the everyday objects around her. Her unique approach includes using readily available, recyclable materials for paper collage, then she uses this design as the springboard for her quilts. From Collage to Quilt is the first craft book of its kind, detailing how to create a paper collage and turn it into a quilt. Sarah incorporates found objects, such as card stock, pages from magazines, and even canned food labels, into her collages which then go on to form the design inspiration for her incredible quilts. The result is stunning, and, with 15 projects to try, you can create your own masterpiece! Sarah's work is incredibly artistic, and soon, you’ll be able to execute one-of-a-kind designs at home.
£30.00
Lucky Spool Media Walk: Master Machine Quilting with Your Walking Foot
Quilters love the look of textural, detailed stitching that adds to the beauty of the quilt top design. This stitching is actually the “quilting” in quilting, and many quilters feel that paying a professional for machine quilting is one of their only options. The walking foot is an accessory for sewing machines that’s often used for machine quilting, but many quilters only use it to stitch around their designs. But the walking foot can do so much more, and author Jacquie Gering shows all of her tips, tricks and techniques to master all of the skills needed to quilt with a walking foot. This book cover the basics of using the walking foot, in addition to preparing the quilt, marking, managing large quilts, preventing puckers and keeping lines straight. Chapters include a variety of types of walking-foot quilting, including channel quilting, matchstick quilting, and decorative stitch quilting. Quilters won’t be limited to straight line quilting, either! They’ll learn how to quilt spirals, simple curves, and and marked curves like braids and clamshells.
£18.89
Lucky Spool Media Boho Embroidery: Mixed Media Techniques
The third title in Nichole Vogelsinger’s bestselling embroidery series. This highly illustrated paperback with flaps is the follow-up to two bestselling embroidery books by Nichole Vogelsinger. With more than 100 illustrations and 50 photographs, Boho Embroidery will re-establish the techniques discussed in the previous books and lay a foundation for four new ones: beading/embellishing, stumpwork, fabric painting, and needle felting. Each technique will have three projects, so readers can continue to deepen their embroidery skills.
£33.44
Lucky Spool Media Patchwork Lab: Gemology: Transforming Fabrics into Facets
Andrea Tsang Jackson guides readers through transforming the beauty, allure, and power of natural stones into glittering complex patchwork quilts. Using her expert tips and tricks and her step-by-step process to master a plan for the colour work required to achieve transparency and light through fabric selection, readers will paper-piece their way to a jewellery box of blocks. Beginning with nine traditional gemstone shapes, such as teardrop, marquis, and emerald cuts, each block progresses in complexity so readers can hone their skills as they work their way through the book. Next, quilters will be inspired to use their blocks in a series of projects – both large and small. Created with intermediate quilters in mind, the book includes: A beginner-friendly workshop on achieving effective transparency with fabric Andrea Tsang Jackson's speedy chain-piecing technique for paper piecing Nine basic 12'' gemstone blocks Graded patterns to create the perfect finished block size Traditional and modern settings Cutting and faceting with fabric workshop Gemstone groups with sampler ideas Field Guide approach with watercolour illustrations of gemstones
£22.49
Lucky Spool Media The Quilter's Field Guide to Color: A Hands-on Workbook for Mastering Fabric Selection
Let's play with colour! The #1 complaint of quilters? Mastering effective colour combinations. The Quilter's Field Guide to Color is a practical guide showing effective and not-so-effective colour combinations. Each chapter calls on 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 are guided through fabric auditions so that they can ask themselves questions for evaluating their own fabric pulls. Forget the dry colour theory! This book is fun, conversational, practical and beautifully inspiring.
£22.49
Lucky Spool Media Inspiring Improv: Explore Creative Piecing with Curves, Strips, Slabs and More
Explore the freeing power of improvised piecing with Nicholas Ball in his first book, Inspiring Improv. Learn his step-by-step technique based process to explore six fundamental piecing structures. Practice how to stitch fabric together in an improvisational manner to create blocks or sections before using them to sew unique quilts all your own. Improv piecing doesn't have to mean chaotic end results. Look to the eight original projects included to see how to create sophisticated quilts with structure focusing on repeating blocks or large scale scrappy designs. Follow along as Nicholas walks you through his original inspiration and follow his plan through to finished pieces, as he discusses which combination of his core piecing methods he used and how to achieve showstopping, exciting work. From simple strip piecing through to complex circles and rings, you will be eager to experiment making slabs, gentle curves, insets, triangles and even 9 patch and Log Cabin stacks, and then use them as a stepping stone to sewing original full sized designs.
£21.59
Lucky Spool Media Boho Embroidery: Modern Projects from Traditional Stitches
Embellish your world with the whimsical, creative art of Boho Embroidery. These bright, clean designs, in an Anthropologie-esque style, are ideal for beginners to advanced stitchers. This book begins with a tutorial for learning 10 different embroidery stitches, detailed instruction on colour work, and 10 fun projects like buttons and hair clips, then goes on to advanced pattern work for vintage clothing and linens, and finally, learning how to make your own hoop and accessories.
£17.99