Contents Introduction 8 Choosing fabrics 12 Before you begin... 18
Projects Row by row construction
Inset piecing
Diamond Chips.................................................... 34 Botanical Gardens............................................. 38
Peaks and Troughs............................................ 96 Stars in Your Eyes............................................. 102
Strip piecing
Needle-turn appliquÉ
Rebel with a Rotary........................................... 46 Sandwich Short of a Picnic............................ 50
A Little Silhouette............................................. 114 A Wing and a Prayer....................................... 120
Deconstructed piecing
Using wedges
The Woodpile........................................................ 58 Dandelions............................................................ 62
Fanfare.................................................................. 134 Hanging Lanterns............................................ 138
AppliquÉ with bias strips
Step-down piecing
Spring....................................................................... 70 Whirligig................................................................. 74
A Step Down........................................................ 150 The Night Garden............................................ 154
Flying geese and foundation piecing
Feathered blocks
Geese Around the World................................. 84 North by North East.......................................... 88
Reflections in a Lake....................................... 164 Flock Together................................................... 170
Quilt basics
Quilt layout and assembly
Sewing techniques
constructing your quilt
Foundation piecing......................................... 184 Appliqué................................................................ 186
Adding borders................................................. 190 Layering the quilt............................................. 191 Basting.................................................................. 193 Quilting................................................................. 194 Binding................................................................. 197
Glossary 200 AcknowledgEments 209 Resources 210
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Quilting from little things...
Quilting
Discover how, from little things, big and exciting things can grow.
Quilting from little things...
Mastering the variety of quilting techniques can be a challenge, but Quilting from Little Things by Sarah Fielke shows you an easy way to try out new methods, textures and colors: You start small and scale up! Inside you’ll find ten pairs of quilts that each provide a lesson in quilt-making. By first constructing a small dolly quilt, you’ll gain confidence in the techniques that enable you to make its larger companion quilt. These beautiful quilts, big and small, provide the opportunity to practice traditional quilting techniques such as creating wedges and flying geese blocks, and experiment with new, less conventional methods, such as deconstructed piecing. Sarah also shares her needle-turn appliqué and hand-quilting techniques, which give her quilts their contemporary and unique style.
Fielke
Sarah Fielke is a quilter, teacher, designer, and author living in Australia . She has coauthored two hugely successful quilt books— Material Obsession: Contemporary Quilt Designs and Material Obsession Two: Shared Inspiration. She appears regularly in quilting features in international home magazines and is the creative editor of www.sewn.net. au, a website for all things sewn. You can find her at www.sarahfielke.com or on her popular blog, www.thelastpiece.net.
Quilting from little things...
Take a small idea and develop it into something wonderful
Includes pattern sheets
Sarah Fielke
co-author of Material Obsession