The Complete Quilting Course: Rediscover and Reinterpret Traditional Quilting Skills

by Gail Lawther (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.25

  This book provides a complete course in the traditional skills of quilting via the use of 25 step-by-step projects including patchwork and applique designs. There are simple and more difficult projects for each techique, ranging from cushions and cot quilts to applique, pictures and full-size quilts and there are illustrations of quilted items, both old and new, throughout the book. The first section looks at getting started - fabrics, transferring patterns, colours, stitches and finishing - while the second section shows different techniques including contour quilting, English quilting, patchwork, Italian quilting and designing your own patterns.