Basic Quilting: All the Skills and Gear You Need to Get Started

Book Overview

Well-chosen beginning projects develop your quilting skills without requiring a long time to complete Expert advice on choosing fabric, batting, backing, thread, and quilt designs Complete instructions and photos for creating a pot holder, tote bag, pillow cover, and table runner

Generations of family members have handed down quilts that have become family heirlooms. Quilting is a wonderful way to recycle old fabrics to create new, beautiful, and useful items, and Basic Quilting is the perfect introduction to this long-treasured craft.

The book begins with a comprehensive description of the materials and equipment the new quilter needs, and clear instructions on basic knots and stitches, all illustrated with step-by-step full-color photos. Includes background on how to match and care for quilting fabrics, and choosing the block pattern, piecing, and quilting establish the techniques a new quilter needs.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811733483
• ISBN13: 9780811733489
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A Good Start

I read several quilting books before I found Basic Quilting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started and finally the pieces of the puzzle started to come together. Other beginner books just had super simple projects that you can make in a day but you weren't quilting (you were making crafts with basic sewing stitches which is fine if that is your intention). I learned a lot from this book but it is definitely for beginners. You will not learn to make a quilt from this book. The most advanced project is a table runner but the projects are fun and with each project you learn a new quilting skill. I gave this book 4 out of 5 Stars because it does not cover how to bind a quilt.

An ideal, spiral bound, instructional manual

Compiled, edited and arranged by quilting expert Sherrye Landrum, "Basic Quilting: All The Skills And Tools You Need To Get Started" is a fundamental introduction and instruction manual on quilting specifically designed for the novice beginner. Aspiring quilters are provided with expert and seasoned advice on choosing fabrics, batting, backing, thread, and quilt designs. Complete, illustrated, and methodical instructions are given for specific 'novice friendly' projects such as creating a pot holder, making a tote bag, quilting a table runner, and more. With expert contributions by Charlene Atkinson and photographs by Alan Wycheck, "Basic Quilting" is an ideal, spiral bound, instructional manual for anyone aspiring to acquire the basics of quilting that launch them into the creative and valued needlecraft hobby of quilting.