Scrap House Quilt
Free Piecing Techniques
Published on 31. October 2012
Software
Digital media
978-1-906314-24-8 (ISBN)
Description
Katharine Guerrier shows how to create her freely pieced house blocks and put them together to make your own lively and quirky scrap house quilt. Quilts using this formula can be made any size, incorporating different elements and techniques: novelty fabric for gardens, farmyard or sky, curved seams for landscape panels, block samples left over from previous projects and oddments of fabric you will almost certainly have in your scrap bag. By following these guidelines and techniques, and adding your own ideas, orphan blocks and variations, your quilt will be unique. The interest is kept up as you work because decisions are made as you construct the quilt. Its almost as if you can make it up as you go along! This ebook in pdf format has video clips of the author demonstrating techniques.
Katharine Guerrier shows how to create her freely pieced house blocks and put them together to make your own lively and quirky scrap house quilt. Quilts using this formula can be made any size, incorporating different elements and techniques: novelty fabric for gardens, farmyard or sky, curved seams for landscape panels, block samples left over from previous projects and oddments of fabric you will almost certainly have in your scrap bag. By following these guidelines and techniques, and adding your own ideas, orphan blocks and variations, your quilt will be unique. The interest is kept up as you work because decisions are made as you construct the quilt. Its almost as if you can make it up as you go along! This ebook in pdf format has video clips of the author demonstrating techniques.
Katharine Guerrier shows how to create her freely pieced house blocks and put them together to make your own lively and quirky scrap house quilt. Quilts using this formula can be made any size, incorporating different elements and techniques: novelty fabric for gardens, farmyard or sky, curved seams for landscape panels, block samples left over from previous projects and oddments of fabric you will almost certainly have in your scrap bag. By following these guidelines and techniques, and adding your own ideas, orphan blocks and variations, your quilt will be unique. The interest is kept up as you work because decisions are made as you construct the quilt. Its almost as if you can make it up as you go along! This ebook in pdf format has video clips of the author demonstrating techniques.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vivebooks/Rainbow Disks Ltd
ISBN-13
978-1-906314-24-8 (9781906314248)
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Person
Katharine Guerrier is an acclaimed quilter, teacher and author who has written many books. Her most recent are Patchwork Postcards and Pinboard Quilts, Scrap Quilt Projects and Scrap Quilts for Babies and Toddlers (Rainbow Disks), Scrap Quilt Sensation and Quilting from Start to Finish.
Katharine Guerrier is an acclaimed quilter, teacher and author who has written many books. Her most recent are Patchwork Postcards and Pinboard Quilts, Scrap Quilt Projects and Scrap Quilts for Babies and Toddlers (Rainbow Disks), Scrap Quilt Sensation and Quilting from Start to Finish.
Katharine Guerrier is an acclaimed quilter, teacher and author who has written many books. Her most recent are Patchwork Postcards and Pinboard Quilts, Scrap Quilt Projects and Scrap Quilts for Babies and Toddlers (Rainbow Disks), Scrap Quilt Sensation and Quilting from Start to Finish.
Content
Using this ebook: tips Introduction The Basic House Block block size Adding Tree & Garden making the tree garden and path finishing the house block more house blocks Half-Square Triangles to make half-square triangles sawtooth strips Tilted Pinwheel Friendship Star adding the border and tilting the block Spinning Star Eight-pointed Star Diamond Strip Landscape Panel & Curved Seams The Fence Panel More Filler Blocks squares and strips blocks using half-square and quarter-square triangles blocks using flying geese Assembling & Finishing the border quilting and finishing Techniques quarter-square triangles diamond in a square quick pieced flying geese continuous binding with mitred corners Suppliers/Contacts Katharine Guerrier