New Free eBook on Quilting for Beginners

Vivika_Blog — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:44:00 GMT

If you've wanted to learn how to quilt but didn't know where to begin or didn't want to take on a big project, our new free downloadable eBook, Quilting for Beginners: 5 Easy Quilt Patterns Plus Lessons on How to Quilt for Beginners, is for you!

This eBook offers you basic quilting techniques and advice from some of the most experienced quilt artists and teachers around. Each of the projects is small and manageable, just right for beginning quilting, and the quilting how-to information is easy to follow.

Branch and Bird Mini Quilts
by Candy Glendening.

In "Branch and Bird Mini Quilt Series," Candy Glendening shows you how to make small, simple, yet adorable quiltlets. These easy quilts offer a perfect way to try your hand at simple construction, composition, and free-motion stitching.

Morna Crites-Moore's "Small Felted Wool Quilts" make an easy beginning quilting project because you use small scraps of felted wool to make a patchwork design and sew it by hand. It's a fun, low-stress way to learn to quilt.

In "Art Quilting Made Easy," Lesley Riley shows you how to make a simple quilt with two easy quilt patterns and directions for making it your own.

Silhouette Quilts
by Maria Elkins.

Maria Elkins, famous for her portrait quilts, shows how to make "Quick and Easy Silhouette Quilts." This easy quilt pattern is one that you can make and show off to family and friends with pride.

Finally, you will learn to quilt pretty quilt stitching patterns from Heather Thomas in "Stitch This: Free-motion Quilting Motifs to Try."

With Quilting for Beginners: 5 Easy Quilt Patterns Plus Lessons on How to Quilt for Beginners, you don't have to wait to quilt any longer. It's time to begin!

P.S. Do you have friends who are looking for beginning quilting lessons? Forward this link to them so they can download Quilting for Beginners: 5 Easy Quilt Patterns Plus Lessons on How to Quilt for Beginners, too.

Use Your Scraps Fast with Our New Small Quilting Projects eBook

Vivika_Blog — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:14:00 GMT

Who doesn't love an easy and quick quilting project?

In this e-Book, 7 Small Quilting Projects: Free Designs for a Quilt in a Day, Small Quilts, and Other Quick Quilted Projects, some of our favorite fiber artists present artful and quick quilting projects and sewing patterns you can quilt in a day or weekend.

The first small quilt project is a mixed-media pillow cover by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer made scrap-quilt style with fabrics that have been painted and stamped over. Redecorate in a day!

Lindsey Murray designed a scrap quilt that is easy to cut and assemble in a weekend. This small quilt project will cover your lap comfortably and can easily be made as a baby quilt with the appropriate fabrics.

Mixed-media scrap quilt pillow
covers by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.

Another of our small quilt projects is Terri Harlan's Sunglasses Case made from fat eighths of coordinating prints and linen.

Julie Herman's Gift Card Wallets are a gift within a gift: a pretty place for storing gift cards. This small quilt pattern is just eight steps long.

In Jen Eskridge's Cold Weather Kit you'll find a 3-in-1 quick quilting pattern to keep the chill away. Sew the scarf, headband and glove-saver straps from scrap quilt leftovers.

Carol Fletcher shares her "Little Treasures" quick quilt pattern for creating an embellished and colorful fabric container to house a small gift. A word of warning: they are addictive!

Lindsey Murray's scrap quilt.

And lastly, want to impress your business associates (or fellow quilters)? Normajean Brevik has cleverly engineered a card case and mini wallet that dispenses a business card with the slight tug of a ribbon. These are a great way to show off your expertise in small quilting projects and use up scraps, too.

You'll have fun stitching and get the satisfaction of completing many of these quilt-in-a-day projects with 7 Small Quilting Projects: Free Designs for a Quilt in a Day, Small Quilts, and Other Quick Quilted Projects. This free eBook is ready for downloading now.

P.S. Do you have friends who like small quilting projects? Forward this link to them so they can download their own free copy of 7 Small Quilting Projects: Free Designs for a Quilt in a Day, Small Quilts, and Other Quick Quilted Projects.

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New Free eBook on Quilting for Beginners

Use Your Scraps Fast with Our New Small Quilting Projects eBook