Author: Sue Beevers
Details: 101p color pdf (17.6MB)
Price: $14.99

A fabric and design picture book for grown-ups!

Create one-of-a-kind painted fabrics right in your own kitchen! Fiber artist Sue Beevers shows you the way and makes it fun and easy, too. Techniques rely on water-based paints used with convenient tools and supplies, such as oatmeal, yogurt containers, and file folders. Soon you’ll be sponging, stenciling, and brush-wiping like a pro!

• 30 step-by-step recipes
• 15 painting techniques
• Learn to create everything from simple lines and splatters to salting, sun-printing, and resist
• Sue’s hands-on approach covers practical color theory, troubleshooting, even paint brand comparisons
• Color photography highlights over 150 painted fabrics and 20 quilts

Ideal for:
• Quilters and fiber artists eager to create their own fabrics
• Painters and crafters who want to try painting on fabric
• Experienced fabric dyers and painters looking to expand their skills and try new techniques



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Author: Edited by Liz Aneloski
Details: 146p color pdf (19.2MB)
Price: $6.99

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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Author: Rita Hutchens
Details: 80 pages, color
Price: $12.99

Fantastic, dramatic, geometric quilts - they’re Totally Tubular!

It’s Totally Tubular and totally brilliant! Combine easy strip piecing with clever methods for cutting, rearranging, and sewing again. Quilt designer and teacher Rita Hutchens’ innovative Totally Tubular technique will have you creating dynamic geometric quilts before you know it!

• 5 projects - choose from “Rainbow,” “Lightning,” and 3 more bold, graphic quilts
• Template-free technique produces diamonds, spirals, kaleidoscopes, and other intricate geometric designs
• Complete, step-by-step instructions walk you through the Totally tubular process
• Rita’s colorful quilt gallery will inspire your own creativity

Author Award: 2005 recipient Honorary Mention Visual Arts Fellowship - Idaho Commission on the Arts



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Author: Nancy Johnson-Srebro
Details: 2 pages, b/w
Price: $2.99

Every quilter should have a copy of this handy reference chart! Developed by Nancy, the Add On Seam Allowance Chart takes the guesswork out of rotary cutting shapes and drafting templates. Simply choose from the 18 shapes illustrated on the chart, add the indicated seam allowance to desired finished size, and you’re ready to cut!

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Author: Kathy Sandbach
Details: 80 pages, color
Price: $12.99

You Don’t Need to be an Artist to Quilt Like One!

Whether you want to tackle your stack of UFOs, or design the quilting as you plan your quilts, Kathy’s free-form quilting methods will give you the skills and confidence you need. You’ll learn how to decide what to quilt and where to quilt it - and have fun in the process!

• 6 projects give you lots of opportunities to practice your quilting skills
• Find design inspiration in fabric, nature, gardens, and more!
• Turn your ideas into drawings, and turn drawings into continuous-line designs
• Complete discussion of tools, supplies, and machine quilting basics



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Author: Velda Newman
Details: 80 pages, color
Price: $12.99

Textile artist Velda Newman helps you find your own path to creativity and self-expression using quilts as your canvas. Take inspiration from nature, then learn the three basic design elements—color, shape, and texture—and use them to translate
the world around you into amazing works of quilted art!
• 6 study projects help you learn 6 different techniques for adding dimension to your quilts, such as shape and texture stitching, using cheesecloth for texture, paint and watercolor pencils, and more
• Learn to design quilts using your instincts and intuition; you’ll look at the world with new eyes and stretch your skills and talents as you compose richer, more interesting quilts
•Advice and tips for working with the different mediums Velda recommends
•Velda’s incredible quilts will inspire your own creativity



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Author: Harriet Hargrave and Sharyn Craig
Details: 240 pages, color
Price: $19.99

The Ultimate How-To Book for Quiltmakers!

Two of quilting’s most respected teachers combine their styles to present a complete reference guide and project book that beginners and experienced quilters alike will always keep near the sewing machine. The Art of Classic Quiltmaking is a necessary reference for every quilter’s library!

Goes beyond quilting basics to give you the ability to explore your own quilting style

Find out how to answer questions such as “where do I go next?” or “what went wrong?”

Loaded with the information you need to make traditional quilts, including:
• selecting and caring for fabric • choosing equipment and supplies
• calculating yardage • deciding on quilting designs
• designing borders • selecting the piecing technique that ensures the best result

Includes a visually stunning selection of over 80 full-color quilt photos

Step-by-step exercises contain technique variations, hints, and helpful illustrations

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Author: Diane Knott
Details: Finished Quilt Size 19.5″ x 19.5″, color
Price: $3.99

Complete instructions for creating this beautiful quilt designed by Diane Knott.

Author: Ellen Highsmith Silver
Details: Finished floorquilt: 34˝×24˝, color
Price: $3.99

Mitered designs look a lot more complicated than they really are, which makes producing one of these floorquilts especially satisfying. Try selecting an irregularly striped fabric—it provides more interesting and unexpected possibilities for the corners. Complete supplies and directions are included to create this beautiful floorquilt.

Author: Valori Wells
Details: Finished Quilt Size 42″ x 42″, color
Price: $3.99

Complete instructions for completing this beautiful quilt designed by Valori Wells.