If you always wanted to create a Baltimore Album quilt, you'll love Elly Sienkiewicz' new collection of smaller, less-complex blocks that are perfect for your first Baltimore Album. Or, enlarge the blocks for a larger work! More than two dozen block designs are also ideal for adding elegance to accessories and home dcor, or for creating a very special child's quilt. In-depth how-tos and Elly's skill-building lessons will have you creating block after block.

Join Mimi Dietrich on a creative journey into Baltimore album quilting! Rely on the teaching expertise of this best-selling author and acclaimed applique artist as you create your first beautiful Baltimore block. Learn techniques such as choosing fabrics, preparing applique pieces, basting, and hand-applique stitch methods Showcase finished album blocks in a small wall hanging Find additional fabric, color, and design ideas in the inspiring gallery

When Marsha D. Radtke discovered a tattered quilt in her rural Maryland parsonage attic, she found local history as well as an old textile. The red and green Baltimore Album quilt not only had an inked date of 1850, it also had inked signatures of women with well-known area family names. It was the superb workmanship that inspired Marsha to re-create the quilt s 24 hand appliqué patterns (one of them repeated in different fabrics) and share this historic treasure with others. These patterns sewn with expert skill before the Civil War have been redrafted for today's quilter with precision, clarity, and easy-to-follow instructions. In addition to being a Baltimore Album pattern teaching guide and resource, the book includes Martha s quilt-as-you-go technique and fail-safe binding method. Marsha began quilting in the 1990s and has won numerous ribbons and awards. Appliqué is her first love, which she enjoys teaching to others. She lives in Crossville, Tennessee, with her husband, Jim.

From critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an "impressively intelligent thriller," nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncovering strange secrets that lead to the truth of her demise (Refinery29). After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught -- or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself. Taking up residence in Carey's former studio, the painter works with obsessive, delirious focus. But when she begins to uncover strange secrets at Pine City and falls hard for Carey's mysterious boyfriend, a single thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?

The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local authorities, they are a one-stop for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: • Favorite restaurants and landmark eateries • Farmers markets and farm stands • Specialty food shops, markets and products • Food festivals and culinary events • Places to pick your own produce • Recipes from top local chefs • The best cafes, taverns, wineries, and brewpubs

Take a start-to-finish course on Baltimore Album quilts from a famed appliqué expert! Bestselling author Mimi Dietrich shares all of her best tricks-which she perfected while teaching hundreds of students-for creating these beloved quilts. Get a complete primer for every stage of the process, from selecting fabrics and appliquéing blocks to choosing the best quilting designs. Follow 12 step-by-step lessons for appliquéing baskets, wreaths, leaves, berries, and more. Includes a dozen blocks plus ideas for a variety of setting options.

Demonstrates applique and quilting techniques, and shares patterns for a variety of designs

Twelve lessons to enhance skills and inspire ideas.

In honour of C&T Publishing's 20th anniversary, the world's best quilt designers, fibre artists and quilting teachers, all C&T authors, have designed quilt blocks for you, plus share their favourite tips and stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry.