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"Easy Does It For Christmas" by Art to Heart "You Did What in the Ditch" Quilt Book Quilt Book
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25 projects designed to help you make quick and easy gifts and decorations to share with family and friends. Make something special for everyone on your Christmas list: ornaments, Christmas Cones, Holiday Tea Towels, Table Runners, Santa bottle gift wraps, and more. The name of this book alone is irresistible. This isn’t a pattern
book-it’s full of tidbits of folklore from the quilting world. Browse
through the vocabulary section; you’ll no doubt find some new terms
along with old favorites. A chapter on quilters’ superstitions, as well
as sayings, proverbs and poems, offer fodder for your next quilt guild
meeting. This book provides an overview of quilting folklore, but even
more, it’s chock full of fascinating snippets quilters will love to
share.
10 Minute Blocks 2 NEW! Quilt Book 12 Days of Christmas Nancy Halvorsen
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Feel the thrill of finishing a quilt in an afternoon! Join Suzanne McNeill and learn to make fabulous quilts quickly using the 10-Minute Block technique.

You'll love the staight seams and curved line designs found in each quilt. Suzanne McNeill shows you how to take 10-Minute Blocks further with an array of easy-to-execute designs. Experiment with positive-negative blocks or discover layers of pattern. Find year-round inspiration with the 12 block sampler quilt. You can assemble it as a block of the month or make an entire quilt from each delightful square. 36 pages
The 12 Days of Christmas embodies this spirit of giving to those you truly love. Enjoy and share the spirit of these delightful and easy projects.
3 Times the Charm Quilt Book NEW! A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves -Louisa L. Smith
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3 Times the Charm Quilt Book
Three Times the Charm! (Leisure Arts #5276) by Barbara Groves and Mary Jacobson for Me and My Sister Designs uses precut charm packs of 5" squares to make quick and easy little quilts for home decor and baby blankets. The seven quilt patterns were each sewn three times using different fabric collections, for a total of 21 quilts to help the quilter visualize her quilt in the charm pack she chooses. The piecing is fast and simple! Perfect for table toppers, wall hangings, and baby shower gifts! 7 projects for quilting: Amanda, Bertha, Charlotte, Dora, Emma, Fiona, and Greta.
A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves by Louisa L. Smith shows you how to start with basic strip piecing, add easy and gently curved edges, and prepare to be amazed! Four design concepts are introduced with step-by-step instructions.

Strip Piecing with Twists and Turns!

  • Start with basic strip piecing, add easy and gently curved edges, and prepare to be amazed!
  • Louisa introduces 4 design concepts, 2 template-based and 2 template-free, all with step-by-step instructions.

Whether you own Louisa's 2001 bestselling Strips 'n Curves, or you're new to the world of combining curved-edge and strip piecing, you will love the fresh ideas and fabulous inspiration in this book. Learn Louisa's four new techniques (Half Clamshell, Free-Form Curves, Strips 'n Circles, and The Swirl); then try them in four complete project quilts! Lots of step-by-step photos and clear instructions ensure your success. Ideas for home decor, garments and quilts, quilts, quilts!


ABC 3-D Tumbling Blocks and More...Book Marci Baker Alex Anderson's Hand & Machine Applique Book
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Marci Baker

Includes 16 projects, twelve using Marci Baker's strip-pieced method from
Not Your Grandmother's Tumbling Blocks and several updated designs from
Sara Nephew's most popular book Big Book of Building Block Quilts
including Hollow Cube, Honeycomb Waffle, Downtown, and Space Crystal.
Be inspired to explore the world of 3-D with the full color photos and step-by-step illustrations.


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Fall in Love with Applique! Learn to add beautiful applique to any quilt by hand or machine. 7 charming quilts get you started. 3 hand applique techniques: needle-turn, raw-edged, and reverse. 3 machine applique techniques: invisible, raw edged, and free-motion
Allie Aller's Crazy Quilting Book Amy Butler's Little Stitches for Little Ones
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Crazy Quilting by Allie Aller

Welcome to the new Crazy! Allie Allers shows you how to make crazy quilting more contemporary with an array of easy-to-master techniques. You'll learn how to combine traditional methods with modern fabric tricks. The photo gallery reveals just how fun crazy quilting can be!

20 Keepsake sewing projects for baby and mom.
An Updated Supplement To -Sulky's Secrets To Successful Stabilizing At Home With Nature Book by Wing and a Prayer- Flying Geese
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An Updated Supplement Book includes three quilt patterns, pillows, duvet cover, table runner and more! Projects can be made from the Back to Nature collection in cotton or flannel. Projects include Barn Raising Log Cabin, Log Cabin Euro Sham, Row Quilt, Ribbon Quilt, Duvet Cover, Pillow Topper, Neck Roll Pillow, General Pillow Directions, Applique Leaf Pillow, Decorative Prairie Point Pillow, Three Section Pillow, Envelope Pillow, Lap Front Pillow and General Quilt. Directions.
Baby Essentials Made Easy: Babyville Boutique book 2 Bed Runners Using Precut Fabrics - Quilting Patterns
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Baby Essentials Made Easy provides step-by-step instructions and photos for making a variety of baby accessories.  Patterns are included.  You will learn how to work with Polyurethane laminate (PUL), use Fold Over Elastic (FOE), insert zippers, apply snaps, and much more!

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Bed runners:  Kathy Brown

Are a new and exciting concept in the world of home decor quilting!
As decorative as they are functional, bed runners have a wide range of uses.
When added to the end of the bed in the wintertime, a bed runner can give an additional bit of warmth for cold feet.
Totally change the look of your bedroom with a really quick bed runner quilt - have one for every season!

Remember to have a special one for Valentines Day!
Best Of Fons and Porter: Tabletop Quilts Book NEW! BIG BAGS LITTLE BAGS
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34 projects of quilts for every occasion, from your favorite quilting magazine Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting! Tabletoppers are the perfect quilted treasure for your home. This special collection of projects we've hand picked for you includes a variety of styles and sizes – some of our best-ever tabletop quilts – for every season of the year. Enjoy the beautiful photography as you browse through the pages to find the one that's just right for you. We've included patterns for all skill levels and some include Sew Easy lessons that will guide you via step-by-step photography through any project-specific special techniques. Choose your favorite pattern and fabrics, and stitch a tabletop quilt to enhance your home decor.
Big Bags Little Bags


Atkinson Designs is one of my very favorite pattern designers. Now she has come out with a book of bags!

There's something on the menu for everyone! Bags and totes for home deco fabrics, oilcloth, canvas, quilter's cotton and more. Quilt as you go yo-yo bags and zipper pouches too.

Assorted sizes from 3"x 7"x 2" up to 13" x 15" x 10".
Bittersweet Book Nancy Halvorsen Fall & Thanksgiving Ideas Buttons & Blooms Book by Whimsicals
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If you love everything about fall, you will love this book. Let the colors of autumn splash across your home decor by making an adorable wreath from simple circles. Nancy displays fun and cheeky designs for place-mats, wall hangings, pillows, and more. This book features easy-to-follow instructions and detailed illustrations. Buttons and Blooms Quilt Book
Whimsicals by Terri Degenkolb

28 pages
Projects include:
Olive the Owl Stuffed Animal
On Pins and Needles Pincushion
Give a Hoot Throw Pillows
The Button Tree Quilt
Blooming Table Runner
Buttons and Blooms Tote Bag
The Happy House Table Topper
Carry Me Bag Making Book - 30 Boutique Bags to Sew, Bag Patterns NEW! Cathedral Window Quilts Book
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By (author) Yuka Koshizen

Japanese craft books
are a hot trend with their unique design sensibility and clever projects. "Sew Your Own Handbags" showcases that style with 10 handbags featuring clever construction, unique details, and simple sewing techniques. Sophisticated photography shows off each bag to the fullest, with helpful detail shots of closures, handles, linings, and design details. Inside you'll find a variety of bag styles including a wool tweed travel bag perfect for a weekend getaway, a stylish denim bag with grommet and zipper details, a roomy tote bag with contrast lining and inside pockets, a laptop bag featuring a unique patchwork design, a striped book bag with matching book cover project, a wool messenger bag with flower detail, a soft luggage tote with inside compartments and luggage tag, plus much more. Most projects have matching companion projects such as change purses, drawstring bags and wristlets, to give you lots of variation ideas on each bag project. Project templates are included on a pull-out pattern section bound inside the book. Every project includes detailed instructions, step-by-step illustrations, and easy-to-follow construction diagrams. A section on tips and techniques shows how to give each bag a professional look and add embellishments.
In Cathedral Window Quilting, internationally-renowned quilt designer Lynne Edwards returns to this beautiful patchwork technique by popular demand. Lynne's uniquely creative and accessible approach brings Cathedral Window quilting up to date, capturing quilters' imaginations and inspiring them to learn and enjoy this technique and its variations.

About the Author

Lynne Edwards is an internationally renowned quilt designer, teacher and author. In 1992 she was awarded the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for International Quilt Teachers, and in 2002 received the Amy Emms Memorial Trophy for services to quilting.
Celtic Clip Art for Machine Embroidery with CD-Rom Chinese Butterfly Clip Art CD for Machine Embroidery
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Chinese Butterfly Clip Art CD for Machine Embroidery
Fast-forward to the fun part of machine embroidery with this treasury of Celtic designs. Eliminate the time-consuming efforts of finding and copying patterns from elsewhere with the 100 motifs in this CD-ROM and book set, which are optimized for embroidery digitizing software. Use your creativity to personalize each design by selecting size, colors, stitch types, and other elements. The book offers a visual index of the designs, showing each one in black-and-white and in three different color combinations. Each design is offered on the CD-ROM in both JPG and EPS formats.
Compatible with all major brands of embroidery software, these meticulously processed digital files assure accurate, self-contained stitch patterns. The suggested motif colorways are specified for threads made by Isacord; color conversion tables for other manufacturers can be accessed at the back of the book. The files can also be used in print and web projects.
Dover Original.
About the Chinese Butterfly Clip Art for Machine Embroidery In this treasury of decorative accents
 for machine embroidery, a variety of images are presented in black-and-white
as well as in three different color combinations.
The dainty designs can be stitched automatically in minutes and are
compatible with all major brands of embroidery machines.
Plus, the designs can be used in print and web projects as well!
Chisel Chase Noble Needle Quilts (Trapezoid) Circle A Round Book By Phillips, Cheryl
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Chisel Chase Pattern Book  with nine quilts include a baby quilt, a sampler, a scrap quilt, a Christmas quilt, an ever popular blue quilt plus four more designs. Something for everyone! The chisel shapes can be cut with the AccuCut Roller die cutting system or Sizzix Big Die Cutter and Sizzix Trapezoid Dies. Directions are included to cut your own chisel shapes.
Designed by Kay Gentry
Publisher: Phillips Fiber Art
Have you noticed so many curves and circles in today's quilting?
Phillips Fiber Art offers a new book with the secrets of setting in circles.
It's so easy with the "Inch Rule" technique.
Forty beautifully colored pages will inspire even the beginner to make art quilts.

Cloth Diapers Made Easy /BabyVille Boutique Book Count on It! New Book Nancy Halvorsen
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Cloth Diapers Made Easy provides step-by-step instructions and photos for sewing a variety of cloth diaper styles.  A diaper pattern accommodating four sizes is included.  You will learn how to choose fabrics, work with Polyurethane laminate (PUL), use Fold Over Elastic (FOE), apply snaps, and much more!
If you are making a diaper cover, you can buy everything but the thread from Babyville Boutique. If you want to make a lined or pocket diaper, you would buy the inner fabric separately. You can make a cover in a few hours, and as you get more practice, you can make them more quickly. You can personalize the diaper by adding a cute applique or label, and more advanced diaper sewers have even cut apart the wings and added contrasting fabric wings. You can really customize them as much as you want to!
You can celebrate the year by counting each day of the month or enjoy the anticipation of counting down to your favorite holidays. You can decorate for birthdays with a special Birthday Quilt, displaying either their age or the countdown to their special day.... You can make a Happy Birthday garland and add that special person's name (wouldn't this be fun for kids??!)... Or, just make the little monthly mini wall hangings to display each month! 
Crazy Curves Continues by Elisa's Backporch Crazy Dog Days! Buggy Barn Book
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Elisa's Backporch Crazy Curves Continues Book by Elisa Wilson- If you like the look of curves but shy away because you think they are too difficult or time consuming, then this is the book for you! Learn how to cut your blocks quickly, sew without pins, use all of your fat quarter(no wasted fabric), and much more, all the while using the designer's 7" crazy curves template and 3 1/2" Small Paths template. These acrylic templates are not included with the book however there are paper patterns which will allow you to create your own plastic versions of these templates. More that 20 quilt patterns to inspire you. 88 pages in a soft cover. There are so many new ideas in this book. Even if you already have her first book you will want this one too.

HAVE A LOOK AT THE GREAT FOOT TO MAKE CURVES EASY
You've been asking us for a dog pattern and so here it is.. not one, but two new crazy dog designs! Mom is always saying that Pam and I are "busy as a bird dog!" and now we're crazy as one too! So get busy, and be crazy!
Cut the Scraps! Book by Joan Ford + FREE 1 Panel Scrap Grids! Design Magic for Paintstiks on Fabric NEW! Book
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7 Steps to Quilting Your Way through Your Stash    


s your stash taking over your sewing room and your life? Joan has a seven step program to organize your stash and 20 gorgeous projects to use up your stash.! There are fabulous quilts, bags, wall hangings, table runners, and more for you to a make out of your treasured scraps! Be brave, take the first step, and start using that stash.

All quilters know one thing for sure: a fabric stash is a living thing. It grows imperceptibly at first, but soon takes over your sewing room, and, if you’re not careful, your life. Joan Ford is a quilt designer who recognized a need to clear the clutter among her fellow quilters and came up with a fun and effective way to deal with it. Enter ScrapTherapy™
Explore the magical world of design and create personal prints in far less time than you
ever thought possible. Design Magic is easier than appliqué and faster than fusing!
Enjoy the adventure as Paintstik artist Shelly Stokes brings out your inner
designer with a simple 3-step method that takes you from initial design to
fabulous fabric with stencils and Shiva Artist's Paintstiks.
Easy-to-follow instructions with dozens of step-by-step photos and illustrations.

Designing Quilts is Easy Book Doubledipity More Serendipity Quilts
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Three simple steps to designing quilts with confidence! Begin designing by asking yourself three questions: What if? Do I like it? Why? Learn to design quilts that fit your personal taste and décor. Calculate how much fabric you need in your designs with ease. Or sew the six sample quilt projects included in this book.
Techniques: piecing, quilt design

More six-pointed star blocks and exciting layouts continue the serendipitous enjoyment of
these gorgeous, yet easy works of art. The possibilities increase with 60 more wedge based blocks!
Visual indexes make design choices easy. Includes 13 fast and fancy pieced borders.
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