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34 | QUILTING: DESIGN & TECHNIQUES, QUILTING: HISTORY Free-Form Patchwork Techniques: Strip Piec- ing, Log Cabin Pattern, Carpet Pattern • Tina Mast • Learn about the approaches and various scopes of design for free-form strip piecing, the log cabin pattern, and the carpet pattern. Quick- ly enjoy success with 19 models and ideas that are small, easy to reproduce, and not very time consuming. Projects include cute bags, attractive covers for binders or small notebooks, small wall hangings, and many more. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 126 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0- 7643-4019-2 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Heirloom Quilt Designs for Today • Lorie Mar- tin • More than 210 color images display tradition- al quilt designs and their contemporary counter- parts, all produced on modern heirloom quilts from Pennsylvania’s Amish country, including traditional patterns such as Log Cabin, Basket, Nine Patch; and pieced patterns such as Irish Chain, Railroad Crossing, Pin Wheel, and Shoefly. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 215 color images • 144 pp • 978-0-7643-2669-1 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Let's Get Creative With Quilt Labels • Shannon Gingrich Shirley • Through 250 color images, learn tips and techniques for making fun, beautiful, and informative labels for your quilts. Chapters include shaped and themed labels, preparing and transferring text onto labels, and hand-em- broidering your labels, as well as patterns and step-by-step directions. • 9" × 6" (229 × 152 mm) • 250 color photos, 25 patterns • 160 pp • 978-0-7643-4472-5 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Mariner's Compass Quilts: Solid & Split Point Patterns • Cynthia Sisler Simms • With 197 instructional images and patterns, this book introduces new patterns and shapes for the tra- ditional quilter’s favorite, the Mariner’s Compass. Discover how to eliminate the curved edge of the oval and replace it with eye-catching block shapes, including a hexagon, rectangle, and diamond. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 189 patterns & 26 color photos • 120 pp • 978-0-7643-4525-8 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Mary's Garden Quilt: 10 Floral Block Proj- ects • Jenny Rundle • Mary’s Garden was a place of beauty and pleasure dating from medieval times. Ten quilting projects represent flowers from the garden. With patterns and design tips, this book is perfect for seasoned quilters looking to make something new and unique. Chapters include appliqué basics and how to “re-create” Mary’s Garden. • 9" × 12" (229 × 305 mm) • 44 color images, 30 patterns • 56 pp • 978-0-7643-4462- 6 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Play-of-Color Quilting: 24 Designs to In- spire Freehand Color Play • Bernadette Mayr • Features 24 tantalizing patterns bursting with colors, plus easy-to-follow directions for making them your own, and gives quilters of any level a new source of creativity. Also includes 14 lessons on quilting skills, like cutting shapes, freehand machine embroidery, and quilt assembly. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 330 color photos & drawings • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-5533-2 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD A Quilt Block Challenge: Vintage Revisited • Mary Kerr • What would happen if sets of vintage quilt blocks were divided among a group of artists and each was left to create new quilts from them in their own style? In answer, this book presents 117 quilts made from six sets of vintage blocks by 19 talented quilters. Be inspired to create your own quilt block challenge using the tips and guidelines provided. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 301 color photos • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-3457-3 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD A Quilted Memory: Ideas and Inspiration for Reusing Vintage Textiles • Mary Kerr • Award-winning quilter Mary Kerr shares tips and ideas on how family memories can live on by cre- ating contemporary quilts from vintage textiles. Repurpose rather than purchase is the focus here, and through more than 100 images, quilters are encouraged to breathe new life into objects. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 120 color & b/w images • 80 pp • 978-0-7643-3921-9 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD The Quilting Power Grid: A Design Skillbook for Beginning Modern Quilters, with 50 Example Projects • Sandra Sider • The perfect spiral-bound resource for designing template-free geometric modern quilts. • 7" × 9" (178 × 229 mm) • 60 color images • 120 pp • 978-0-7643- 6550-8 • HC w/spiral • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Quilting with Doilies: Inspiration, Tech- niques, & Projects • Barbara Polston • Beautiful vintage doilies are given new life in 10 patterns and 137 color images. Techniques are demonstrat- ed, including appliqué, machine-embroidered rib- bon border trim, no math fabric changing binding, adding embellishments and words, and tips for working with silk, denim, and upholstery fabric. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 137 color images, 10 patterns • 80 pp • 978-0-7643-4699-6 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Quilts of Chestnut Ridge: Autumn at the Courthouse • Debbie Pierce • Learn how to com- bine two traditional patterns—Autumn Leaf and Courthouse Steps—with non-traditional methods. Self-taught quilter Debbie Pierce offers her own twist on the art form with step-by-step instructions, insider secrets, and shortcuts for simplifying the construction of her popular quilt pattern, Autumn at the Courthouse . • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 190+ photos & diagrams • 96 pp • 978-0- 7643-3699-7 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Quilts of Valor: A 50-State Salute, 1st Ed. • Quilts of Valor Foundation, Ann Parsons Holte • Including more than 200 photos and fascinating stories of how quilts can honor and even heal, this story shares the Quilts of Valor organization’s com- mitment to “cover military touched by war” with quilts. A Quilt of Valor is showcased from every state, and 16 quilt patterns encourage you to cre- ate one. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 246 color images & diagrams • 168 pp • 978-0-7643-5630- 8 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD See page 9 for new 2nd Edition! Scrap Happy Quilts from Georgia Bonesteel: A How-To Memoir with 25 Quilts to Make • Georgia Bonesteel • Blending art and ease, here are new, updated methods for making 25 classic quilt patterns using only your fabrics on hand. Known for her one-of-a-kind teaching style, quilt- ing legend Bonesteel also shares some of the les- sons she’s learned through the decades and offers homespun wisdom for all levels of quilters. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 213 color images & di- agrams • 224 pp • 978-0-7643-5632-2 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Trip Around the World: A Country Quilt Block Travelogue • Holly Anderson • More than 200 color photos display the 12" quilt blocks of more than 150 quiltmakers. Each block represents a nation and an original design researched by the artists involved to articulate some aspect of their chosen countries. Includes artists’ statements • 8.13" × 9.13" (207 × 232 mm) • 207 color pho- tos • 216 pp • 978-0-7643-4000-0 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD American Heroes Quilts, Past & Present • Don Beld • With more than 400 color and black- and-white images, American Heroes Quilts, Past & Present is the first in-depth compilation of quilt patterns named for or associated with famous Americans. The book explores 55 American heroes that quilters have honored through the centuries with patterns named for them. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 307 color and 93 b/w • 176 pp • 978-0-7643-5045-0 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Amish Quilts and the Welsh Connection • Dorothy Osler • More than 90 images show color- ful combinations and a design repertoire of quilts that provide a possible cross-cultural link between the Amish and the Welsh. Learn about the history of Amish quilt making and Welsh immigration and the threads that tie these two groups of settlers together. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 63 color and 31 black & white images • 144 pp • 978- 0-7643-3916-5 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Amish Quilts of Lancaster County • Patricia T. Herr • Enjoy the bold design and glowing colors of Amish quilts, specifically the 82 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Amish quilts formerly known as the Esprit collection. This volume gives new insight into their beauty, using more than 350 detailed color photographs and discussions of Amish culture, quilting patterns, materials, and construction. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 351 color photos • 176 pp • 978-0-7643-2017-0 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD Civil War Quilts: Revised, Updated, and Ex- panded • Pamela Weeks, Don Beld • The stories of fourteen extraordinary Civil War quilts and the women who made them will bring you face to face with the drama of war and its effect on thousands of lives. This second edition also features a lively discussion of the Jane Stickle quilt, one of the most famous quilts made during the Civil War. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 172 color & 59 b/w photo • 192 pp • 978-0-7643-5888-3 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / 56.99 CAD Colorado Quilting: From Mountains to Plains • Mary Ann Schmidt • Explore important historical quilting moments, traditional and modern quilting themes, and the beginnings of the Rocky Moun- tain Quilt Museum and the Quilter’s Newsletter magazine. Different council members researched, photographed, and recorded the most significant events, memories, quilters, and quilts. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 160 b/w & color photos • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-4596-8 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage • Sandra Sider & Pamela Weeks • A creative honor- ing of the 19th Amendment’s centennial for everyone interested in equal rights for all. African-American artists and subjects have a special place in the book, since although the 19th Amendment made a huge stride for- ward for women’s rights, in many voting sit- uations that right extended to white women only. • 9" × 9" (229 × 229 mm) • 71 color images • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-5917-0 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Eagle Motifs in America: Decade Art Quilt Series – 1770 to the Present • Susan E. Wilde- muth • Combining quilt art and history, and illus- trated with 117 color photos, this book tells the story of the American bald eagle, symbol of the US, through 28 quilted wall hangings. They capture the spirit and times of each decade, from the Revolu- tionary War to 2010. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 117 color photos • 80 pp • 978-0-7643- 4527-2 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD QUILTING: HISTORY