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 Creating Quilts with Simple Shapes

by Ann Castleberry & Mischele Hart

AUD $49.43 ($54.37 with GST)
NOW AUD $28.00 ($30.80 with GST)
GST will be added for Australian residents only.


Quilters who dream about designing but shy away when it comes time to put stitches to fabric will love this simple process for creating dazzling original quilts! These design concepts & projects rely on trouble free shapes, so quilters are free to enjoy the design process.
More than a dozen smashing projects walk quilters step by step, start to finish through these straightforward techniques for creating your own original quilt designs. Beautiful quilts use easy to stitch fabric shapes, simplifying the design process.
Informative sections on fabric selection secrets explain how choices in colour & value can make or break a quilt design.
Includes a special foreword from well-known quilting author and teacher Mary Ellen Hopkins

CONTENTS
  • SIMPLE SHAPES & SIMPLE VARIATIONS
    • Focusing on Squares & Rectangles
  • A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO DESIGN
    • Creating a Primary Design
    • Creating Secondary Designs
    • Finalising a Design
  • SELECTING FABRICS & COLOURS
    • Reproducing a Sample
    • Buying to Enhance Your Fabric Palette
    • Selecting Fabrics Systematically
  • WORKING THROUGH THE DESIGN PROCESS
    • Puss Design Progression
    • Tampas All in a Row Design Progression
    • Tampas Connect Up Design Progression
  • EXPLORING THE FOUR PATCH STAR DESIGN PROGRESSION
    • Basic Four Patch Star Design Progression
    • Adding Vertical & Horizontal Grids with Rail Blocks
    • Adding Energy: Incorporating Diagonal Lines
    • Introducing Variations on Blocks: Snowball Blocks & Hole in the Wall Blocks
    • Expanding the Grid: Adding More Blocks
    • Expanding These Concepts in Your Projects
  • TRY IT - YOU MIGHT LIKE IT!
    • Design Challenge - Not Design Problems
    • What About Washing Fabric?
    • Decreasing Your Design Anxieties
    • Aways, Always, Always Make a Samples!
    • No Discomfort, No Growth
  • CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
    • Accurate Machine Piecing
    • Pressing Matters
    • Constructing Blocks
    • Constructing Design Units
    • Assembling a Quilt Top with the Four Patch Method
    • Attaching the Borders
    • Layering & Basting
    • Hand or Machine Quilting
    • Attaching the Binding
    • Adding a Label
  • THE QUILT PROJECTS
    • Puss in the Corner
    • Plain Jane Pusses
    • Star Studded Gecko Pusses
    • Pretty Tampas All in a Row
    • SnS Tampas
    • Tampa Waterlilies
    • Pretty Tampa Trellis II
    • Original Tampa Connects Up
    • Tampas Go Hawaiian
    • Tampa Christmas Poinsettias
    • Bugs!
    • Circus Tents
    • Floral Tents
    • Turquoise Tango
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