Garden Inspired Quilt Block Designs

Foundation piecing is a quick and easy method for creating perfectly accurate, beautiful quilt blocks. Focuses on the beauty of the outdoors and garden-related imagery which will appeal to quilters everywhere.

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Flowers All Around

Pretty and fresh as a springtime garden, these quilts will delight and inspire you. All with a floral theme, the projects showcase traditional pieced blocks and exquisite appliqué. Choose from five projuects ranging from an appliuéd table topper to large pieced quilts Create a botanical quilt with nine different well-known flowers, each stitched to the center of a patchwork bloc Gain confidence with appliqué using beginner-friendly designs

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Quilted Garden

Award-winning quiltmaker Jane Sassaman is known for her bold designs celebrating the energy and miraculous beauty of garden flowers and plants. Joy and enthusiasm radiate from every quilt! Now, in her first book, Jane shares her methods and inspirations.

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A Bouquet of Quilts

From Quilts Japan magazine, here's a new take on traditional Western quilting as Japanese quilters share their fresh, unexpected ideas with enchanting results. Nine projects offer lovely designs for floral-themed quilts, pillows, and more. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Four Seasons of Quilts

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Kaffe Fassett s Country Garden Quilts

20 designs from Rowan for patchwork and quilting.

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A Floral Affair

Lose yourself in the romance of beautiful floral quilt projects as you discover new design options for favourite traditional blocks. The 12 projects offer pretty, romantic floral designs such as Cherry Blossom, Antique Rose and Flower Storm.

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Hidden Block Quilts

Lerlene Nevaril offers a solution to the challenge of making repeat-block quilts more interesting, by changing patches in traditional blocks, so discovering variations that blend with the original. The volume contains: 13 quilt settings based on Lerlene's hidden block technique; 55 blocks with 45 variations on ten favourite traditional quilt blocks such as carpenter's wheel, friendship star and bear's paw; suggestions for quilt back art; and a gallery of colourful quilts.

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Celebrate the Tradition with C T Publishing

C&T celebrates 20 years of beautiful books! Join C&T Publishing in celebrating 20 years of top-quality quilt books and paying tribute to the authors who made it possible! In honor of our 20th anniversary, the world’s best quilt designers, fiber artists, and quilting teachers - all C&T authors - have designed quilt blocks for us (and you!), plus share advice and memorable stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry. Over 70 commemorative blocks from longtime and brand-new C&T authors combined into 4 extraordinary anniversary quilts. Author reminiscences and qulting tips, plus block illustrations and basic instructions. The inspiring story of how C&T got started in 1983. Fun bonus - a glimpse of first quilts from famous authors alongside their latest work

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Enchanted Views

Create your own window views and garden scenes in fabric and thread, complete with dramatic appliqued garden gates, windows, grilles, and more! British quilt designer Dilys Fronks presents her techniques for adding reverse applique "wrought iron" designs to everything from watercolor landscapes to hand-painted fabric backgrounds for a whole new look in quiltmaking. 14 intriguing quilt and home decor projects combine reverse applique silhouettes with lovely pieced or whole-cloth backgrounds. Complete patterns and instructions for all stages of design, fabric selection, techniques, and finishing touches needed to create your own works of art. Includes designs for varying skill levels so you can learn as you go. Lots of photos of fantastic quilts by Dilys and her students to inspire you-you'll be creating your own grids, grilles, fanlights, and garden gates in no time!

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Quilting the Garden

Celebrate blooms and more as these bestselling authors combine the love of gardening and quilting. Two versions of quilts are presented, plus many projects.

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Quilts from the Garden

Whether your favorite posies adorn flowerbeds or feather beds, you're sure to cultivate a special affinity for these summer-inspired quilts from Laurie Bird. Appliqué a quartet of gardeners who happily tend blossoms at their windows. House friendly honeybees in a cozy skep. Or celebrate the serenity of a twilight garden by surrounding a nearby star with a blooming vine. Select your fabrics from an array of pastel prints, and treat yourself to some old-fashioned gardening fun -- no gloves, soil, or perspiration necessary! 3 Projects: Country Star (large appliquéd star entwined with flowers in center panel); The Desert Shall Blossom (appliquéd bee skep and flowers in center panel, with corner blocks of Shoo Fly and Double Monkey Wrench); and Flower Boxes (4 blocks, each with an appliquéd woman in bonnet, tending flower box).

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Quilts in Bloom

Presents a colorful array of quilts that use diverse floral designs, including appliqu, block patterns, quilting patterns, floral borders, and other embellishments, and includes step-by-step instructions for a host of quilting techniques and projects. Original.

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Twilight Garden Quilts

Author and appliqué aficionado, Deborah Kemball, juxtaposes lovely florals against dark backgrounds, creating an effect that makes the flowers pop! Create a variety of lovely silk or cotton quilts with two full-size appliqué patterns featuring curving blooms, petals, and vines. Plus, you can use the blocks from the 9-block quilt to make pillows, table runners, smaller quilts. The two-in-one pattern pack includes full-size patterns and a 16-page booklet.

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A Paper Pieced Garden

Discover 27 truly lovely blocks featuring flowers, leaves, and spritely creatures of the garden such as squirrels and robins. You'll also find seven delightful quilt patterns that showcase these versatile blocks. Develop your skills with paper piecing, machine applique, and free-motion machine quilting Celebrate nature's abundance with color-splashed projects for spring, summer, winter, and fall View a fabulous photo gallery brimming with even more ideas for these extraordinary blocks

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Cut Loose Quilts

18 fun, colorful projects - with no points to match! Jan's designs are easy enough for beginners, but interesting enough for expert quilters.

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Quilts from Grandmother s Garden

A little handwork--and a few quick tricks--is all it takes to create these striking quilts inspired by old-fashioned Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts. Instead of sewing together thousands of tiny hexagons, make applique units instead!"

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Better Homes and Gardens Scrap Lovers Quilts

Provides instructions and patterns on using scraps to create a variety of quilts and wall hangings.

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Thimbleberries Quilting a Patchwork Garden

Offers a new compilation of quilts, runners, wall hangings, pillows, and place mats in a patchwork garden of sixteen quilting projects that celebrate the seasons with spring blossom, summer sunshine, and autumn harvest designs made from such pattern blocks as Daisy Chain, Tulip, Flying Geese, Paddlewheel Surround, and Chevron Log Cabin.

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Fine Gardening

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