Is your fabric hoard growing on a daily basis, taking
over shelves, spilling out of drawers, stacking up on
chairs? Take action now - make a stash-buster quilt!
Lynne Edwards, world-renowned quilt maker, teacher and
author of the bestselling Making Scrap Quilts to Use It
Up!, continues her campaign to help you reduce your
fabric collection, leaving you free to go out and buy
more! In this colourful book, 20 scrap quilt projects
are described in step-by-step detail, complete with
easy-to-follow piecing diagrams. Additional quilts are
pictured to provide added inspiration for combining your
leftover fabrics. Time-saving techniques are featured to
help your quilt grow speedily. Arranged in six chapters,
the book starts with Layer Cake quilts, where several
squares of fabric are layered and then cut into wedges,
just like cutting the slices of a layer cake, to create
three different scrap quilts, each with a variation. The
next chapter, Stitch a Strip, looks at quilt designs
made from patchwork strips, while Squaring it Up gives
you quilt designs to make from fabric squares. The Bits
and Pieces chapter looks at joining different shaped
pieced into attractive blocks and designs.Finally, the
Small but Satisfying chapter includes a selection of
smaller projects from bags to soft toys to ensure every
last scrap is used! The book ends Lynne's expert advice
for finishing a quilt including how to add borders to
your quilt, how to attach the quilt backing, how to bind
a quilt and advice on quilting the finished item. So,
don't let your fabric obsession get the better of you -
get creative, use up that stash and then you'll have the
perfect excuse to restock! |
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