Best-selling quilt designer Barbara H. Cline teaches you her fail-proof method for piecing diamond chains from strip sets. Alternate two triangle blocks in different colors to form attractive stars and pinwheels where the angles meet. Full-size template patterns and detailed instructions guide you in constructing this dynamic diamond-chain quilt.

In a picturesque seaside town in Maine, two families face choices and changes over the course of one eventful summer: “Compelling.”—The Pilot Everyone in Yorktide, Maine, knows sixteen-year-old Sarah Bauer. She’s a good student and a dutiful daughter, as well as a beloved best friend to Cordelia Kane. So it’s a surprise to all when sensible Sarah reveals that she’s pregnant. Though shocked, Sarah’s family is supportive. But while Sarah reconciles herself to a new and different future, the consequences ripple in all directions. Her father—a proud, old-time Mainer—tries to find more work to defray expenses. Her younger sister grapples with a secret she can’t share. Cordelia feels abandoned, and Cordelia’s mother faces the repercussions of a long-ago decision. As Sarah’s mother frets about how she’ll juggle childcare with her job at the local quilting store, she seizes on an idea: to band together and make a baby quilt. Piece by piece, a beautiful design emerges. And as it progresses, reflecting the hopes and cares of the women who create it, each will find strength in the friendship and love that sustains them, in hardship and in joy . . . Praise for the writing of Holly Chamberlin “A thoughtful social commentary and tender narration of friendship and loyalty.” —Publishers Weekly on Last Summer “Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers into the story.” —USA Today on Summer Friends

Create totally unique quilts for family and friends Stunning inspirational photography throughout Discover how to quilt and design with confidence The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making is a charming, inspirational and practical collection of 15 quilts for would-be quilters by leading author Jane Brocket. There’s a Russian Shawl Quilt, inspired by traditional motifs of Russian folk art, a Floral Frocks Quilt inspired by summer dresses, flower gardens and herbaceous borders and a Suits and Ties Quilt reusing sober woollen suiting contrasting with extravagant silk ties designed in an Irish Chain. Finally, a practical section covers all the knowledge you’ll need – from chainpiecing, hand-quilting and sandwiching to binding, storage and caring for your quilt. Armed with the design tools, you can embark on your quilting journey and begin creating your own personal masterpiece.

Seaside Quilts shows how to transform any dwelling into a relaxing beach-themed retreat, with sea-inspired linens and home décor. With dozens of sewing, painting and crafting projects that anyone can make, it is aimed at the Mainstream Retailer, Craft, and Library markets.

Original quilt designs and other project ideas based on the idea of home. From townhouses to quaint cottages, seaside beach huts to shepherd’s cabins, there’s a quirky quilt for every taste. Janet Clare uses a whole range of sewing and quilting techniques in her projects, including freehand machine embroidery, applique, and hand-quilting to fantastic effect. As well as full-sized bed quilts, the book includes smaller projects such as lap quilts and wall hangings, as well as super quick projects like key rings. Filled with her own drawings and sketches, many of which double as templates, this delightful book offers inspiring ideas with a quilter’s sketchbook feel.

Meet 15 quilt makers who have interpreted their visions beautifully, then choose from 12 quilt projects, all with a shoreline theme.

Color your world with colorful quilts! If the rainbow of colorful fabrics on store shelves catches your eye every time, then author Amber Johnson's Quilt the Rainbow is a pot of pattern gold for you! All ten quilt patterns are scrap friendly and perfect for fat-quarter collectors, too. Begin with your favorite color, then quilt your way through a rainbow of hues. And because it takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow, there's a rainy-day quilt of scrappy black prints too. If choosing a favorite is too difficult, use all the colors to create an ombré rainbow quilt to showcase the range of colors you love. From beginning to end, you'll be dazzled with these radiant quilts!

This work allows readers to eliminate the guessing games and take their cue directly from their quilt for planning the most complementary quilting design. The unique four-step approach covers four major quilt groups: traditional, contemporary, art, and children's.

Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history—from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts—written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women—documents women’s literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album of stories, poems, and plays that celebrate quilting as a pattern in women’s history. These stories—grouped under the themes of memory, courtship, struggle, mystery, and wisdom—reflect the importance of quilting in the lives of American women, not only as a practical craft and a creative outlet, but also as an integral part of the social community. “The 28 works included in Quilt Stories restore to women a part of their history and their sense of community, an important service in a present time in which quilting has perhaps become a more private and individual art, though it still serves widely as a medium for social exchange and cooperative endeavor.” —Appalachian Quarterly “Macheski has pieced together a variety of literary fabrics into a unique design which represents women’s struggle for identity in a masculine world.” —Benton, Arkansas Courier “Each writing shares a glimpse of what quilting means to those people who practice the art and how it helps us to see, remember, learn, know and express our feelings.” —Quilt World “An innovative approach to writing the history of women.” —Northwest Ohio Quarterly