Allie Aller S Stained Glass Quilts Reimagined

Aller shows you how to get the look of stained glass on your quilt to help you expand your quilting repertoire. She shows you ways to add "leading" between with pieces without bias tape and includes variations to help you personalize your work. The projects include traditional, picture, and improvisational quilts.

The author of Crazy Quilting shares new techniques for capturing the style of stained glass in cozy quilts, bedcovers, wallhangings, and more. Quilt designer Allie Aller spent years developing her own techniques for mimicking the look of stained glass. Surprisingly simple and endlessly inspiring, her methods produce stunningly beautiful results. In Allie Aller’s Stained Glass Quilts, she shares her secrets—from design sources and strategies to step-by-step instruction in various “glass and leading” techniques. Allie also includes six stained glass style quilt projects to get you started.

Welcome to the "new" crazy! • Jump into crazy quilting with seven enticing projects that include small quilts, a needle cushion, and a softie • Learn four different crazy piecing methods • Try creative techniques on fabric, such as stenciling, photo-transfer, and Angelina fiber effects • Discover how to add beauty and dimension to your work with embellishments like 3-D ribbon flowers, embroidery, beads, and painted lace • Follow along with a step-by-step photo guide that takes you from cutting to piecing to binding Allie shows you how to make crazy quilting more contemporary with an array of easy-to-master techniques. You'll learn how to combine traditional methods with modern fabric tricks. The photo gallery reveals just how fun crazy quilting can be -and anyone can do it.

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.

Now quilters can stitch stained glass quilts without using those old, time-consuming techniques! Instead, just four steps -- trace, cut, fuse, and quilt -- will produce gorgeous, color-splashed stained glass quilts in a fraction of the time. The simplicity and speed of this exciting technique creates stunning results that beginners will marvel at and advanced quilters will admire. -- Twelve brilliantly colored, stained glass quilt patterns that don't require unruly bias tape -- Simplified techniques for fusing colorful applique pieces to a black background, which eliminates the need for hand or machine applique -- A super-quick method for quilting and securing fabric edges in one step that every quilter will appreciate

A complete "Step-by-Step" Course in Stained Glass Quilting! I am a quilt maker! I always have been true to this art form. I love stained glass too and always wanted to dabble in glass, however, this craft was not portable and traveling around with glass would be a dangerous adventure. How do you combine a love for quilting and marry it with stained glass? Stained Glass Quilting! In this book I go over pattern selection, fabric choices, and the steps to make your very own sample from the patterns included in this book. I have made dozens of these quilts. My favorite is "E-Kennekoi" (The Japanese word for "Koi Pond") - the quilt that is on the cover. It took over two years to complete and well over two miles of thread just to piece it! I hope you will enjoy the lessons in this book and be inspired to make a masterpiece of your own! As I always say, "Never master the mundane". A stained glass quilt is never mundane!

Decorate your living space with 11 pieces of beautiful fabric wall art that will turn your house into a home. Wall quilts are the perfect place to experiment with new techniques (piecing, appliqué, and quilting) without committing to a large-scale project. And with patterns from popular designers—Rebecca Bryan, Emily Cier, Jenifer Dick, Becky Goldsmith, Kathreen Ricketson, Camille Roskelley, Kim Schaefer, Heidi Staples, and Laura Wasilowski—you have a great variety to choose from! Modern or traditional, scrap-friendly or stash-busting, there’s something for everyone in this value-packed book.