Adding Layers—Color, Design, & Design, by Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession, is your illustrated guide to developing an artful understanding of your quilting process. In its 15 original projects, you’ll be inspired to experiment with textiles, tools, and techniques to create vibrant quilts. As you add these new “layers” of complexity into your designs, you’ll discover added interest and depth in your quilting experience.

Explains how anyone, even those who don't think they are 'creative' can confidently choose colours and patterns to create bold, easy-to-make quilts, perfect for today's busy craftspeople.

Practice taking color and design risks with an inside look at the process of Australia’s renowned quilting designer and owner of Material Obsession. Explore the use of symbols, pattern, colors, and techniques to make textile creations that reflect your perspective. With its organic lines, hand appliqué is the perfect medium for artistic expression. Come into the studio with Kathy Doughty as she shares her passion for quilt design, needle-turn appliqué, and fabric selection. Create quilt magic with eight distinctive projects and full-size patterns to inspire your imagination. Build your skill set with easy, step-by-step instructions for Broderie Perse, Boro-style appliqué, paper piecing, and hand quilting. Take control of the creative process, experiment with color, and achieve your creative goals! Everything you need to appliqué quilts in Kathy’s style or your own! Choose fabric, make bias vines, master needle-turn, and much more Add to your skills with intermediate and advanced techniques you haven’t seen before, with simple instructions that beginners can easily follow “Any aspiring quiltmaker should count themselves fortunate to have such an inspiring soul to guide and encourage them as Kathy Doughty.” —Kaffe Fassett

Layer, Stitch, Scrunch, Pull & Flick • 50 fabulous and simple step-by-step techniques that will be valuable for all crafters, from beginner mixed-media artists to advanced papercrafters and scrapbookers. • 75+ imaginative layouts and projects using innovative techniques, that can be applied to any medium, whether papercrafter, fiber artist, or messy artist. • A mixed-media crossover for all crafters or scrapbookers that will teach you how to make paper resemble lace, to flicking acrylic paint off of a toothbrush, or using household items to create your own stencil! Layer with Ronda Palazzari as she teaches you just how easy it is to get that desired layered look in any project. With five chapters, Art of Layers will help you build your skills, from various paper techniques, to working with fabric and adding embellishing, stamping, and experimenting with paints, mists and gesso. Accompanying projects show each technique in action and illustrate how they can be used in combination, to develop endless possibilities for an even grander project. Layer, play and have fun with Art of Layers!

The classic guide to crazy quilting, now with new projects, stitches, and techniques For nearly 30 years, The Crazy Quilt Handbook has been the essential guide to the fine art of crazy quilting. This newly updated edition brings you more of everything that makes crazy quilting wonderful: gorgeous stitches, embellishments, fabulous crazy quilt photos, and updated beautiful projects to make for yourself. Learn all the ways you can use crazy quilting to decorate clothing and accessories, beautify your home, share family memories, and create heirlooms for future generations. This is the must-have resource for any crazy quilter, whether you are just a beginner or are an experienced stitcher looking to enhance your technique. • The best-selling crazy quilting guide from world-renowned expert Judith Baker Montano (over 230,000 copies sold!), now updated with new stitches and techniques • Includes 12 beautiful projects, a dictionary of 37 embroidery and silk ribbon stitches, and instructions for additional embellishments • Benefit from Judith’s wealth of knowledge on colors, fabrics, piecing, embroidery, appliqué, embellishing, beading, photography, painting, dyeing, and more

Cross traditional crazy quilting with favorite pieced quilt patterns and today’s machine quilting methods, and what do you get? Crazy fun for all kinds of quilters, even those who don’t like handwork. Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell’s guide offers an exuberant mixture of vintage and modern, hand and machine work, and clever ways to make traditional quilts a little crazy. Includes 10 projects in sizes from small wall hangings to bed quilts; photo instructions for 15 crazy quilt and silk ribbon embroidery stitches; and tips for combining crazy quilting with machine piecing and embroidery.

Master the art of mixing fabrics and discover your boundless potential as a quilter! World-famous Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession gives a glimpse into her eclectic fabric pairings and signature style, empowering you to develop your own artistic voice. Learn to express yourself with creative, adventurous designs, all made achievable through step-by-step instructions. Shake up your approach with techniques you might not have tried, like English paper piecing, raw-edge and needle-turn appliqué, and improvisational piecing.

Want to be a scrap quilter? Great! Want to think like a scrap quilter? Learn from a master! Lissa Alexander has spent three decades honing her scrap-quilting talents, and in her first solo book, she offers page after page of tips for making dazzling scrap quilts bursting with colors, prints, and textures. Learn Lissa's secrets for deciding which fabric combinations work (and understanding why others don't). Best of all, with a dozen patterns to choose from you'll discover how to (finally!) use your unique stash to make scrap quilts that sing. Includes a preface by renowned quilt historian Barbara Brackman.

Discover your artistic voice Expand your creative horizons and embrace the process of developing your design skills using your own intuition. Jean provides you with more design guidelines and new exercises to hone your natural intuitive skills, then she encourages you to go out there and express yourself! Packed with inspiring quilt images, this book walks you through effective approaches to art quilting from journaling your ideas to unifying your design. • Continue your art quilting journey with Jean in this follow up to Intuitive Color & Design • Learn how to recognize those "big ideas" that become inspirational starting points for your art • 9 classroom-tested design assignments help you trust your creative instincts and develop distinctive work

A simple, step-by-step design process from popular HGTV personality and Target style expert Sabrina Soto People want their homes to look the way they do in their imaginations—beautiful colors, stylish furniture, and attractive lighting, with ample storage for all their stuff. The thing that stands between most homeowners and the home design they dream of is the lack of a simple, effective decorating process. They have the ideas, but they're hungry for the "how." In this accessible design manual, Sabrina Soto helps you realize your design visions one step at a time. In Sabrina Soto Home Design, each chapter represents one decorating "layer," such as color or furnishings. Following along with the chapters , you'll build a design component by component. Packed with useful and time-tested tips and shortcuts like those Sabrina features on her TV shows and website, the book also shows you how to save money, time, and effort without sacrificing style. The process works for any room, or for a whole house, and applies to any decorating style Sabrina's high-energy approach and let's-make-this-fun attitude make the book both informative and entertaining Sabrina is one of TV's most popular celebrity designers, appearing on Extreme Makeover Home Edition, The High-Low Project, Get It Sold!, Bang for Your Buck, Real Estate Intervention, and HGTV'd. Sabrina Soto Home Design gives you an easy-to-follow process that brings your own decorating ideas to life to create a stunning, personalized home design.