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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Drafting and Design Simplified (edited by Sarah Sacks Dunn) is your Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting & Design

Declare your independence and find out how to draft and design your own quilts! A dream team of quiltmaking experts shares the latest and greatest techniques. There's no need to be a whiz at numbers! With clear, step-by-step directions and more than 350 photos and illustrations, you'll quickly learn the tricks, from resizing blocks to creating an original-- and wonderful-- quilt design.

Discover how to:
* Put design principles to work for you
* Take inspiration from photos or pictures to design original pictorial quilts
* Make your computer your favorite quilt design tool
* Create perfect circles, diamonds, hexagons, octagons, apple cores, clamshells, and kites
* Play with an image, adding, repeating, stretching, skewing, or curving it for a whole new look
* Draft dozens of patterns such as Stars, Mariner's Compass, Pineapples, Curved Flying Geese, Fans, Orange Peel, and many more

Drafting and Design Simplified

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Streamline your quiltmaking! Make more quilts in less time than you had imagined, inspired by the techniques that fill this book. Your quilts will go together quickly, with flair and precision. More than 230 color photographs and detailed step-by-step directions tell you how to marry rotary cutting with the best piecing techniques.

Learn these tips and tricks from the pros:

* Make your workspace work for you
* Take every opportunity to use strip piecing
* Create dozens of triangle squares in an afternoon
* Cut unusual shapes without templates
* Enjoy foundation piecing, hassle-free
* Learn shortcuts for adorable miniatures
* Complete speedy bed-size quilts in a weekend
* Discover the joys of quiltmaking with a buddy

Dozens of hints to help you get it right the first time!

Quilting that's quick, easy, and accurate!

Rotary Cutting and Speed Piecing

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Your Step-by-Step Guide to Sensational Sets & Borders

Discover lots of exciting new ways to arrange your stash of blocks in fresh, creative settings, and then surround them with a dynamic pieced or plain border. More than 200 quilter's-eye-view photos and clear step-by-step directions will guide you each step of the way.

Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn:

* Simple solutions for dealing with blocks that aren't the same size
* How to size and fit borders so they never, ever ripple or wave
* Sashing strategies that instantly add pizzazz to your quilts
* An ingenious, time-saving way to join blocks together (cut your assembly time in half!)
* The secrets to custom-fitting a pieced border
* Dozens of clever ideas for straight and diagonal settings

And much, much more!

Sensational Sets and Borders

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

How to Make Beautiful Quilted Projects - Large and Small

Provides instruction in the techniques of lap quilting. Includes 25 projects.

Lap Quilting

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Louisiana

Singer Sewing Update

25 gift ideas for giving and for keeping

Pretty Things Easy to Make

Singer Sewing Projects for the Home

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Complete Book of Baby Crafts

#hardcover #knitting #macrame #sewing #softfurnishings #embroidery #crochet #needlepointtapestry #crafts #art

Guide to Needlecraft

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Kentucky

New from sewing expert Nancy Zieman comes an essential reference guide for anyone who sews. Both beginner and advanced sewers will appreciate the convenient information and easy-reference charts--all accompanied by color diagrams and photos. Plus, readers will love Nancy's special hints and tips in her popular "Notes from Nancy". This valuable guide will invariably become a sewer's best friend.

Essential Sewing Guide

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Liz Trenow

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

"An intriguing patchwork of past and present, upstairs and downstairs, hope and despair."--Daisy Goodwin, New York Timesbestselling author of The American Heiress

A moving story of two women tied together by an heirloom despite the decades that separate their times in England, The Forgotten Seamstressquilts layers of history into one astonishing mystery.

In the early 20th century, Maria knows that, as a shy girl with no family, she's lucky to have landed in the sewing room of the royal household. Before World War I casts its shadow, she catches the eye of the glamorous and intense Prince of Wales. But her life takes a far darker turn, and soon all she has left is a fantastical story about her time at Buckingham Palace.

Decades later, Caroline Meadows discovers a beautiful quilt in her mother's attic. When she can't figure out the meaning of the message embroidered into its lining, she embarks on a quest to reveal its mystery, a puzzle that only seems to grow more important to her own heart. As Caroline pieces together the secret history of the quilt, she comes closer and closer to the truth about Maria.

Page-turning and heartbreaking, The Forgotten Seamstressstitches together past and present in an unforgettable quilt of English historical fiction perfect for fans of Jennifer Chiaverini and Pam Jenoff.

The Forgotten Seamstress

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Popular quilting pattern designer Helen Squire, well known for her 'Dear Helen, Can You Tell Me...?' series of nine pattern books, updates any quilting library with 75 of the best patterns from twenty years of 'Helen's Hints,' her American Quilter magazine column. Mix and match the patterns and watch secondary designs come alive. Reduce, enlarge, and play with arrangements to suit your quilt's personality. Quilt as desired? No problem; the combinations are endless! All 75 patterns are suitable for hand or machine quilting.

75 Quilting Patterns - the Best of Helen's Hints

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New Jersey

The Built by Wendy Guide to Sewing Knit Fabrics

Looking to give your wardrobe some pizzazz? Start sewing! Like knitting before it, sewing is being reclaimed by a new generation, one that celebrates individual creativity.
Fresh on the heels of her first book, Sew U, which focused on sewing with woven fabrics, Wendy will now teach the creatively inclined how to make perfect t-shirts, dresses, and hoodies, all with soft knit fabric. She'll take your sewing to the next level, providing step-by-step instructions (both for sewing with a serger and without) and patterns directly from her own studio. And with tips on how to alter T-shirts and clothes you already have, you'll soon be revamping all your clothes to make fabulous custom creations.

Sew U Home Stretch

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Illinois

My Learn To Sew Book

Oregon

How to Make Your Windows Beautiful 

Jennifer Chiaverini

Georgia

An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

History is thick with secrets in The Sugar Camp Quilt, seventh in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series from bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She discovers that a quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob with five unusual patterns of his own design contains hidden clues to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. The heroic journey she undertakes leads to revelations about her own courage and resourcefulness -- newfound qualities that may win her the heart of the best man she has ever known.

The Sugar Camp Quilt

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Making One of a Kind Creatures from Socks

Stray Sock Sewing

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Gloria Nicol

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Massachusetts

Complemented by more than four hundred photographs and illustrations, this practical project handbook introduces fifty simple ideas to accent every room in the house, ranging from window treatments to decorative lampshades and colorful fabric accessories, accompanied by materials lists, preparation times, step-by-step instructions, pattern templates, and creative variations.

Quick and Easy Home Sewing Projects

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Susan Beal

Projects to Sew with Pendleton and Other Wools

"These patterns are for making home goods and accessories that are like no others. Author Susan Beal, working in partnership with Pendleton Mills, presents a collection of modern heirloom projects to sew and enjoy for generations. From the sweet, simple primer on techniques (working with wool fabrics, hand-stitching, machine sewing, and quilting) to each individual project's detailed instructions (with tips on cutting, pressing, top-stitching, hand-tying, and more) Susan's passion for sewing shines through. Each project is rated from 1 sheep to 3 sheep, according to difficulty, and there are helpful box-feature guides throughout--helpful advice for everything from substituting fabrics to matching plaids to fabric care. On every page, readers will discover just how gratifying sewing can be"--

Hand-Stitched Home

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Speed Tailoring in the Ultimate Home Sewing Center

Presents fast, professional tailoring techniques, advice on a variety of products, fabrics, and notions, and suggestions on arranging a sewing area

Sew, Serger, Press

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Provides instructions and ideas for altering and decorating sweatshirts to convert ordinary garments into comfortable but pretty casual wear

More Sweatshirts with Style

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Let your quilting creativity soar with these magical machine techniques! Are you using your sewing machine to its fullest creative capacity? Do you know what each foot can do? Expand your repertoire with machine techniques, embellishment, surface design, and thread painting skill, thanks to your sewing machine. Nine highly qualified, experienced sewing machine educators have developed 13 delightful projects to show you how to make the most of your machine's technical possibilities. From pillows to bed scarves, from wallhangings to table runners, any quilt will benefit when its creator uses these techniques. OUT OF PRINT

Creative Sewing Techniques by Machine

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Pennsylvania

by the staff of The Old Country Store

This handbook for anyone interested in quilting, is full of hints, shortcuts, and practical know-how from experienced quilters. Reading it is like quilting beside an expert quilter and a trusted friend! The quilting experts at The Old Country Store, named "One of the 10 best quilt shops in the United States" by Better Homes and Gardens' Quilt Sampler Magazine, have assembled wisdom from a premiere group of thousands of quilters -- those women who have perfected precise piecing, who know how to prevent thread from knotting, who continually experiment with new batting, new tools, new techniques. From selecting fabric to hand quilting and machine quilting, to embellishments and new technology, this handbook offers candid and clear hints and tricks of the trade that are of value for the novice and experienced quiltmaker alike. Previous edition sold more than 200,000 copies. "This is a collection of tips for those who may not think they need them! Recommended."—Booklist

Tips for Quilting

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South Carolina

Cotton and Wool Projects from the Quilted Crow Girls

With their hugely popular book Elegant Quilts, Country Charm, Leonie Bateman and Deirdre Bond-Abel won fans around the world. Now these talented Australian designers are back with stunning all-new designs featuring wool applique on cotton backgrounds.
 * Experience the sumptuous pleasures of working with wool including reverse applique to create distinctive designs
 * Select from 12 appealing patterns in a variety of sizes for all skill levels
 * Make charming lap quilts, table runners, a pillow, framed applique, wall hanging, and more

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Sarah Sacks Dunn

Drafting and Design Simplified

Sarah Sacks Dunn (Editor)

Rotary Cutting and Speed Piecing

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Sensational Sets and Borders

Muriel Breckenridge

Lap Quilting

Sewing Reference Library

Singer Sewing Update

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Pretty Things Easy to Make

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Singer Sewing Projects for the Home

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The Complete Book of Baby Crafts

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Guide to Needlecraft

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Essential Sewing Guide

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The Forgotten Seamstress

Helen Squire

75 Quilting Patterns - the Best of Helen's Hints

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Sew U Home Stretch

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My Learn To Sew Book

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How to Make Your Windows Beautiful

Jennifer Chiaverini

The Sugar Camp Quilt

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Stray Sock Sewing

Gloria Nicol

Quick and Easy Home Sewing Projects

Susan Beal

Hand-Stitched Home

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Sew, Serger, Press

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More Sweatshirts with Style

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Creative Sewing Techniques by Machine

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Tips for Quilting

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