You’ve got something unique to tell the world. What better way to get your message across than sewing your words into a quilt? Fiber artist and quilt designer Sam Hunter teaches you to say it all with 12 new projects featuring modern, paper-pieced text blocks. The book includes patterns of an easy-to-read font that includes lower- and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Sam covers everything you need to know about paper piecing, choosing fabrics, and designing your own quilted words. Use Sam’s designs to get started, and then stitch up your own words to give any occasion the ultimate personal touch.

Learn the easy secrets to creating dynamic free-pieced letters for your quilts - with no tracing and no measuring. Want your next quilt to send a special message? Now you can spell it out with no tracing, no templates, no paper-piecing, no applique, and no precise measuring! "Word Play Quilts" teaches readers a terrific technique for free-pieced letters, as well as three practice projects and loads of quilt samples to instruct and inspire. This is your chance to break rules, mismatch, go wonky, and enjoy yourself.

Historically, the Southwest has attracted people with yearnings for freedom and adventure, people who define themselves as individuals. Unlike their husbands and brothers, women in the Southwest did not, for the most part, subdue and tame the land; but their character and individuality were manifested as they lived with and improved upon conditions as they found them. Their fascination with their way of life and the need for self-expression led them to write of their experiences, providing them with a creative outlet and offering those who came later a unique window into the past. "A Quilt of Words" won the Border Regional Library Association 1989 Southwest Book Award for literary excellence and enrichment of the cultural heritage of the Southwest. It was also awarded the National Federation of Press Women first prize for history in 1989. --back cover.

2021 ARAB AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER Children's Africana Book Award (CABA) 2021 Honor Book NCSS 2021 Notable Social Studies Book Kanzi’s family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that’s why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). When she leaves, the teasing starts. That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt her teita (grandma) in Cairo gave her and writes a poem in Arabic about the quilt. Next day her teacher sees the poem and gets the entire class excited about creating a “quilt” (a paper collage) of student names in Arabic. In the end, Kanzi’s most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one. This authentic story with beautiful illustrations includes a glossary of Arabic words and a presentation of Arabic letters with their phonetic English equivalents.

From apples to cows, kettles to scarecrows, warm country images abound in this delightful alphabet poem.

Albert helps his Tia Lilly make a piñata for his birthday, but Albert has a secret plan for his piñata. Years later, Tia Lilly makes a special quilt for Albert in memory of the piñata that would not break.

Take our word for it - you'll love expressing yourself with Text It quilts! Share a sentiment, stitch an inspiring statement, or create cute and quirky messages in fabric. Use the letters, numbers, and symbols of seven different fonts, provided on pullout pattern sheets, to create 10 quilt and pillow patterns as shown in the book. Or personalize projects with one-of-a-kind wordplay! Applique text with a variety of techniques, including fusible, bias-strip, and needle-turn applique, plus English paper piecing. Mix and match lettering styles (choose from print and cursive), sizes, colors, and fabrics for layers of creative fun. From clever catchphrases to sayings that are good for the soul, choose just the right words to convey your thoughts in fabric.

"We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna's mother said. "It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night. And so it was. From a basket of old clothes, Anna's babushka, Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdress and an apron of Aunt Natasha's become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family, and the quilt that remains a symbol of their enduring love and faith.

A collection of letters written by people who have made panels for the Quilt--a loving memorial to those who died of AIDS--reveals a variety of individuals whose words are funny, heartwarming, tender, and moving

The new quilt is finished, and what a quilt it is! Here is a square from the proud owner's baby pajamas, and one from the shirt she wore on her second birthday. There is even a square of the same material from which her mother made her stuffed dog Sally. How can she possibly sleep when there is so much to look at, and remember, and dream about . . . ?