Barbara Weiland Talbert

How to Make a Quilt

Learn Basic Sewing Techniques for Creating Patchwork Quilts and Projects

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With basic sewing skills and simple step-by-step instructions, this title helps you learn to make your first quilt. It outlines the complete process in an easy-to-follow sequence, from selecting a design and choosing fabric to cutting pieces, assembling blocks, assembling the quilt top, and finishing your quilt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 131mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781612124087
• ISBN-10: 1612124089
• Artikelnr.: 39185618

Autorenporträt

Barbara Weiland Talbert is a well-known sewing and quilting author who has a line of quilting patterns. She is the author of The Quilting Answer Book and The Sewing Answer Book.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: Let’s Make a Quilt
What Makes a Quilt a Quilt?
 
CHAPTER 1: Get Ready
Gathering Tools and Supplies: The Quilter’s Toolbox * Preparing Your Sewing
Machine * Choosing a Quilt Project * Selecting Fabric * Selecting and
Preparing Batting * Choosing Thread
 
CHAPTER 2: Essential Skills: Cutting, Sewing, and Pressing
Rotary Cutting Basics * Stitching a Perfect Seam * Press It Right
 
CHAPTER 3: Making Patchwork Blocks
Basic Piecing * Alternate Piecing Methods * Making a Log Cabin Block *
Piecing Basic Triangle Units * Cut-No-Triangles Folded-Corner Piecing *
Making the Sampler Blocks
 
CHAPTER 4: Assembling the Quilt Top
Easy Quilt Settings * Cutting and Adding Borders
 
CHAPTER 5: Finishing Your Quilt
Preparing the Quilt Top * Making the Quilt Sandwich * Quilt It! * Before
Binding * Binding Your Quilt * Labeling Your Quilt * The Beginner’s Sampler
Quilt
 
Resources and Links
Reading List
Index