All Things Quilting With Alex Anderson

This comprehensive guide by the host of The Quilt Show covers everything you need to know to become a master quilter. Alex Anderson has taught and inspired countless quilters around the world through her television programs, fabric lines, and numerous books. In All Things Quilting with Alex Anderson, she packs her most indispensable knowledge and advice into a single volume. Encyclopedic in its scope, it covers quilting techniques, essential tools, binding basics, piecing and appliqué, and much more. It is both a master class for novices and an essential reference for experienced quilters.

Discusses equipment, fabric, tools, and techniques while offering patterns for six simple block quilts.

Make your first quilt a keeper with this comprehensive beginner’s guide by the host of The Quilt Show and author of All Things Quilting. Alex Anderson has inspired and educated countless quilters with her television programs, fabric lines, and numerous books. In Starting Quilting with Alex Anderson, she takes first-time quilters through every step of the quilting process. With Alex’s detailed instructions and illustrations, you will learn to plan, cut, piece, quilt, and bind a quilt. Starting Quilting with Alex Anderson features eight easy, beautiful projects. This expanded edition features new projects, more quilt sizes, and lots of helpful new tips and shortcuts. If you want to make a quilt but can't tell a rotary cutter from a seam ripper, Alex Anderson will get you quilting—and loving it—in no time!

Get scrappy with best-selling author Alex Anderson (more than 950,000 books sold!) Use your stash and your scrap bin to make 7 colorful quilts. Get in on Alex’s best scrap quilting secrets: which blocks and settings work best in scrappy quilts; how to combine fabric colors, prints, and values so your creations look exciting, not overpowering; and how to choose quilting motifs that will highlight your design. Includes complete instructions for 6 one-block scrap quilts, plus bonus sampler quilt and an inspiring gallery of 11 contemporary and antique scrap quilts. All quilts are easy enough for confident beginners.

Use color and thread to create the quilting of your dreams! With Color, Thread, & Free-motion Quilting, author Teri Lucas, a world-renowned master machine quilter, shares her brilliance and guidance to hone your machine quilting skills in a helpful, comprehensive, and understandable way. Quilters talk about building their fabric stashes but what about building their thread stashes, which is equally important? This book is a beautiful, well-guided and helpful resource for choosing threads––considering color, kind, and weight; choosing aids to help you quilt successfully; improving your free-motion quilting skills; and ultimately making free-motion quilting FUN! There are also lots of tips and tricks to help make your quilting enjoyable, playful, and frustration-free! Color, Thread & Free-motion Quilting is a comprehensive, go-to book that will be a staple resource in any quilter’s stash; I know it will be in mine!” ~ Pokey Bolton Thready or not! Learn how color, thread, and motif come together in machine quilting Compare actual quilted color wheels on a rainbow of various background fabrics Make your quilting a design element with solid quilting tips and color fundamentals

Alex Anderson is back showing everything you need to know to succeed and enjoy paper-piecing. Featuring full-size paper piecing patterns for seven blocks and one border, plus four brand new quilt projects - all accompanied by Alex's expert advice, this is a must have for anyone wanting to get to grips with paper piecing.

Explore the Endless Possibilities for Hand or Machine Quilting Designs! Are you stumped about the right quilting design for your latest materpiece? It’s America’s favorite quilting instructor to the rescue! 5 classic quilt projects allow you to put your new skills into practice. Learn how to decide on the best quilting design for each individual quilt. Step-by-step instructions for drafting your own designs, plus ideas for customizing commercial quilting patterns and stencils. Full-size, ready-to-trace patterns for traditional quilting motifs, such as feathers, wreaths, and more.

Piece dazzling diamond and gorgeous gemstone quilts Add dimension and luminosity to your quilts with gorgeous gemstone piecing! Learn the basics of abstraction and color theory as you piece stunning works of art with gem quilt expert MJ Kinman. After years of perfecting her technique, Kinman explains freezer paper piecing in brilliant detail with jewel quilting ideas to help you express your own creativity. Get helpful advice on fabric selection and quilting patterns to illuminate each cut. A sample gem quilt pattern helps you practice as you follow along step by step. Then find your own muse and bring any gemstone to life in exquisite detail. Just as gems can sparkle and glow in a million different ways, you’ll be inspired by the author’s work and a gallery of student quilts to help you let go of perfection and embrace the chaos of color and light. Shine on! Learn to create freezer-paper patterns for your own gemstone quilts Build skills as you sew a sample diamond quilt top, with step-by-step instructions See a gallery of ground-breaking jewel quilts from the author and her students