The master quilting teacher presents the ultimate reference guide for drafting your own quilt designs—including 3 projects to test your skills! Quilt artist Sally Collins has helped countless quilters unleash their creative vision by sharing her vast knowledge of drafting. In this comprehensive guide, she offers detailed instructions on how to draft your own quilt blocks based on grids, circles, and various kinds of stars; how to design using mirrors, graph paper, pencil, and calculator; how to create your own variations of traditional blocks; and much more. The three projects featured in this volume are presented in order of difficulty so you can test new skills as you learn. With Sally’s easy methods, you will gain the confidence you need to draft and design your own creative ideas.

Twenty variations of the classic Rose of Sharon block and a stunning rose-and-swag border will inspire quilters to create an heirloom. Includes directions for a 20-block and smaller 12-block quilt.

“Inspired by the still astonishing quilts made from the 1920s through the 1940s in Emporia, Kansas . . . world-renowned for their design and workmanship.” —Publishers Weekly Between 1925 and 1945, women from Emporia, Kansas, created some of the twentieth-century’s most memorable appliqué quilts. Their designs were the modern quilts of their day. They earned both international renown and permanent places in museum collections. Now bestselling quilt historian Barbara Brackman and writer Karla Menaugh bring you seven spectacular new quilts based on those ground-breaking originals, plus the fascinating history of the women and times that produced the Emporia style. Seven projects include a nine-block appliqué sampler, featuring flowers, swags, and festoons. Timeless designs work with any appliqué technique. Mix and match elements into your own new classics.

Provides projects and designs for decorating picture frames with fabric, paint, beads and other objects.

Let your computer dress up your decor!

These gorgeous, sophisticated fabric furnishings will infuse even the dullest room with warmth, comfort, and style! Using the simplest techniques, such as straight-line sewing, gluing, stapling, painting, and beading, anyone looking to update their decor can dress up a window, create a cozy corner, and soften hard lines for a look of casual elegance. -- Twenty versatile projects range from simple accents that take just a few hours to ornate accessories for special occasions -- Designs feature a variety of shapes and styles and include pillows, table linens, slipcovers, duvet covers, shams, and lampshade covers -- Special decorating tips touch on both bold statements and the finer details, such as using decorative tassels for a polished finishing touch

The timeless wisdom of the English garden is interwoven with the entanglements of the heart in the story of three people who become entwined in one another's fates. By the author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

Sew circles around your quilting friends with six classic projects that simplify complex-looking circular designs, such as Dresden Plate and Mariner's Compass. Choose from four quilts, plus a pillow and table runner.

Get a first look at the books coming this fall from Wednesday Books! Includes sample chapters from beloved authors Lily Anderson, P.C. Cast, Amanda Hocking, and more!

With easy-to-use transfer paints and an iron, sewers and crafters alike can play with fabric painting in a fun and inexpensive way. Because designs are painted or stamped onto paper before they are transferred to synthetic fabrics, readers can experiment until they achieve the look they want. This easy-to-learn technique offers a wealth of new possibilities for quilts and other fabric-based projects.