Teen mother Becky Troyer struggles for acceptance in her Amish community. When a handsome young man named Jakob comes to help out for the summer, a friendship that blossoms slowly soon turns to love.

While working on a quilt that her grandmother had started before she died, Katy discovers the special memories and meanings that are part of every quilt.

Ater touching the patches of a magic quilt, Alex has a series of adventurous dreams.

Stitch up a whimsical world! Fast-Piece Applique makes it easy to sew complex-looking shapes in a jiffy. Whether it's your 1st or your 101st quilt, these imaginative designs will add life and sparkle to your world. Find step-by-step instructions for four colorful wall hangings, plus an inspirational quilt gallery and guidelines for creating your own designs Discover the best ways to work with large templates Explore fun options for embellishing with fabrics, beads, bangles, and found objects

Cat-loving quilters mew-nite! Embrace your inner cat lady with contemporary cat-themed projects! Play with texture and style to create 16 unique projects from bags and decor to 7 different patchwork quilts. Each project includes step-by-step instructions guiding stitchers on a variety of techniques from foundation paper piecing to free-motion embroidery. Also learn how to play with different substrates such as cotton, linen, wool, wool-blended felt, denim, vinyl, and repurposed clothing. From beginners to more experienced, there is something new to learn for every stitcher. The paw-sibilities are endless! Make the most of your feline fabrics and craft 16 original cat-themed quilts and textile projects Use dozens of techniques from basic piecing, hand embroidery, and machine sewing for a vintage-meets-modern aesthetic Experiment with different textiles and fabrics to create bags, accessories, home decor, and quilts

Jelly Roll Quilts features 12 award winning designs for quilts to make using jelly roll fabric rolls. The 12 winning quilt designs are from the finalists of the 2010/2011 Jelly Roll Dreams international quilt competition. Alongside the winning entries, every quilt has been recreated by Pam and Nicky Lintott, ensuring absolute accuracy and providing readers with an alternative colour variation. Step by step instructions illustrate how to make each quilt to ensure a perfect result every time. Each design comes with a full colour styled photograph, comprehensive making instructions and diagrams, and requires just one Jelly Roll to make. Perfect for ideas to use up your jelly roll collection.

Patchwork--the piecing together of many different fabrics--is back! And it’s making a splash on fashion runways, in the hottest magazines, and on the coolest indie craft blogs. No wonder, because patchwork gives stitchers an exciting way to make use of their old fabric scraps; in effect, they’re designing new material by creating original combinations of patterns. Thanks to a pool of talented designers and this new entry in the popular Pretty Little series, anyone can pick out some fabrics and get started. Thirty projects showcase a variety of creative ideas, including funky ornaments, a silk scarf, star pincushions, a yoga-mat carrier, and much more. An introduction teaches the basic techniques, and all the projects appear in full-color, close-up photos.

Jera Brandvig’s signature quilt-as-you-go method is back with brand new techniques and ideas! Create pretty projects using small, manageable pieces of fabric that can be made into different shapes and sizes from a creative and fresh perspective. The follow up to best-sellers Quilt-as-you-go Made Modern and Quilt-as-you-go Made Vintage, this book introduces how to quilt individual circles, hexagons, and easy 3D quilt blocks. Also, learn to add extra creative flair with embellishments such as lace and ribbon to your quilt. Once you’ve created your treasured masterpiece, enjoy learning Jera’s tips for how to tastefully display quilts as elegant home decor. Create beginner and precut-friendly quilts in multiple styles and sizes Learn various techniques such as making reversible quilts with folded circles or hexagons, making 3-dimensional flower blocks, and embellishing with ribbons and lace Includes special chapter showing Jera’s ideas for using quilts as home decor

Kristen Marsh dreams. By merely clutching something as she falls asleep at night her imagination conjures up a dream pertaining to this object. An amazing gift? to this ten-year-old it's more a curse, even though it may predict an event in the future or explain one from the past. When Kristen visits her grandparents' farm at Christmas, she snuggles at night beneath a patchwork quilt made of family remnants from years ago. Imagine the dreams produced from these scraps of cloth where she learns of a dark family secret, and how - Today - She can right a wrong of the past.