A modern maker’s guide to patchwork and quilting traditions from around the world, this book is guaranteed to expand your crafting horizons.
Patchwork & Quilting: A Maker’s Guide contains fifteen beautiful step-by-step projects for crafters at all levels. Each one takes its cue from a different tradition, including Indian kantha, English wholecloth quilting, Japanese boro patchwork and the block- and strip-pieced quilts of North America, as well as appliqué traditions from Hawaii and Panama.
Designed by teachers and practitioners at the leading edge of today’s craft revival, the projects are both functional and fashionable, and include tips on how to take next steps towards developing your own designs.
This inspiring book will give you the skill and confidence to express your passion for pattern through the age-old crafts of patching and quilting.
Patchwork & Quilting: A Maker’s Guide contains fifteen beautiful step-by-step projects for crafters at all levels. Each one takes its cue from a different tradition, including Indian kantha, English wholecloth quilting, Japanese boro patchwork and the block- and strip-pieced quilts of North America, as well as appliqué traditions from Hawaii and Panama.
Designed by teachers and practitioners at the leading edge of today’s craft revival, the projects are both functional and fashionable, and include tips on how to take next steps towards developing your own designs.
This inspiring book will give you the skill and confidence to express your passion for pattern through the age-old crafts of patching and quilting.
Edition type: First edition
Extent: 176 pp
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2017-10-05
Size: 26.5 x 20.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500293263
1. Running Stitch Quilting: Sashiko; Kantha; Wholecloth • 2. Stuffed and Padded Quilting: Cord quilting; Trapunto • 3. Geometric Patchwork: Block patchwork; English paper piecing; Amish patchwork; Seminole • 4. Freeform Patchwork: Log cabin; Jogakpo; Boro • 5. Appliqué: Hawaiian; Mola; Intarsia
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