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Landauer Publishing Fearless with Fabric - Fearless Quilts from Traditional Blocks: An Inspiring Guide to Making 14 Quilt Projects
Quilt outside of your comfort zone! This must-have project book is designed to build your confidence as a dedicated or intermediate quilter and will inspire you to transfer your traditional blocks to beautiful modern quilts. Including step-by-step projects that combine fabrics from different lines and genres with clear guidelines to encourage mixing and matching, you'll no longer fear the play between fabrics and colors! For each pattern, there are four sidebar features to experiment with; Leap of Faith suggestions, Confidence Booster tips, alternative digital colorations, and Fearless Takeaways lists. From incorporating negative space to manipulating traditional blocks into modern settings, gain the skills to confidently choose, improvise, and embrace your own sense of style to apply to future projects. Written by an Aurifil designer, Sarah J. Maxwell is the perfect teacher to help you reach your fullest quilting potential! She is also a fabric and pattern designer for Studio 37 Fabrics with countless quilts to her credit. Her work is regularly featured in both McCall's Quilting and McCall's Quick Quilts for the past several years, as well as Make Modern, Simply Moderne, American Patchwork & Quilting, Quilts & More, and many other magazines.
£16.99
Landauer Publishing Morse Code Quilts: Material Messages for Loved Ones
It's easy to translate the dots and dashes of Morse code into beautiful pieced quilts. The concept is simple and the possibilities are endless! This book shows how to use Morse code to customize quilts with secret messages and hidden meanings. A baby quilt can contain the child's name and birthday-or a wedding quilt might feature the happy couple's names along with the date of their vows. Favourite quotations, popular sayings and simple sentiments are all wonderful opportunities to create a unique quilt. Morse Code Quilts offers six projects that express the aesthetic of modern quilts, including a wall hanging that says "Love is Love" and a graduation quilt that says "The World Awaits." Author Sarah J. Maxwell provides charts for both letters and numbers and shows how to convert dots and dashes into a quilt layout. She also includes methods to calculate yardage requirements and cutting instructions.
£11.81
