San Francisco Quilters Guild

2 DVD discs containing a 9 part TV mini-series.  Includes episode on Gee's Bend quilters.

Strips, half-square triangles, and quarter-square triangles star in these quick and easy quilts.  Instructions are divided into one-hour segments (for busy quilters).  Tops take just 6 to 18 hours to complete (after cutting).  Fun and interesting borders abound.

Master the illusion of transparency with ten quilt projects, each in 3 sizes.  These experts show you how to select fabrics for striking results.  These quilts have a sophisticated style with a soft, graphic look.

Learn to use your sewing machine needle as an artist's paintbrush.  Comprehensive reference book for supplies, techniques, and troubleshooting.

Focus on the value of value in these monochromatic quilts.  Neutral color is anything that does not appear on the color wheel, from black to white, from brown to cream, and all shades and tints in between.  Well-known blocks such as log cabin, snail trail, stars, and disappearing nine patch can look quite different when done in neutrals.

Uses GridMap (c) technique to work with blocks of varying sizes to create "next generation sampler quilts".  Detailed and comprehensive instructions teach the basics.  Good primer.

20 scrappy projects (quilts, table runners, and bags).  Key is cutting fabric stash in usable 2 inch, 3 1/2 inch, and 5 inch squares.  Every ScrapTherapy quilted project starts with scraps cut into one, two, or all three of these sizes.  Many quilts use half-square triangles.

A collection of "Make It Simpler Cutting Line" blocks which use a quick, one-step way to cut starched, stacked, and uniformly trimmed squares into pieces.  Pieces are then swapped around before sewing them into traditional blocks like pineapple block or into more crazy blocks.

Cutting-edge fabric designer Tula Pink shows off fanciful fabrics in her 10 quilt patterns and 10 accessories (such as a pillow, lampshade and clock).  Quick construction techniques such as scrappy fusing, stitch and flip corners, and strip piecing allow the quilter to focus on fabric selection (expanded upon in the book) and quilting.  Importantly, the author explains the quilting design she chose for each project.  Covers how to sketch your own fabric and block/pattern designs.

Authors use improvisational techniques to make graphic contemporary (21st century) quilts, pillows, and table runners.  Indentify 7 core methods of improvisation such as free-piecing, slice and insert, stitch and flip, and improvisational curves.

Use primarily black and white fabrics sorted into light, medium and dark values to create dramatic quilts.  Sparing use of color adds to the effect.  Many traditional block patterns re-imagined.  Some foundation piecing, some applique.

17 projects for festive Christmas quilts, runners, wall hangings, and more from Leisure Arts.

Three-dimensional textures created with fabric such as weaving with wrapped strips, some with bead embellishments.  Instructions for sewing jackets, vests, wall hangings, pillows, and handbags; garment patterns provided on CD-ROM.

Advanced technique book.  How to take better photos based on the elements of art and basic design principles.  Transform the photo image into a line drawing and a clear overlay marked for use in positioning fabrics pieces and embellishment.  Detailed fabric cutouts are done from line drawing.  Fabric is fused onto a prepared background fabric.  Add thread stitching at end.

Pieced and appliqued borders.  Borders that are extensions of the top piecing.  12 eye-catching, beginner-friendly projects.

30 patchwork patterns to show your patriotism.

Designs that ignore the traditional idea that a quilt top needs to be made up of a grid of assembled blocks.  Although basic 1/4 inch seam piecing with straight lines is the focus of construction, the designs are often improvisational, monochromatic, made of solid fabrics, and emphasize the use of what designers call negative space.  Two quilting (stitching) options are shown for the 20 projects since quilting is very visible in these quilts.

6 beginner-friendly quilt projects using jelly rolls, charm squares, strip sets, and fat quarters.  Great as weekend projects or charity quilts.

Continuous-line patterns for hand quilting and short-arm or long-arm machine quilting.

Master 12 different fabric painting techniques with detailed, step-by-step photos.  3 projects. Design strip technique to make dynamic pieced quilts using large uncut sections of fabrics.

Contemporary (21st century) aesthetics applied to traditional quilt designs.  21 pieced and appliqued quilt projects.  10 pairs of quilts, each springing from the same concept (usually a fabric or a pattern such as flying geese and spiderweb) so you learn about two different interpretations of a concept.  Projects rated by degree of difficulty.

Working from a still life, the author demonstrates a variety of approaches and transformations to create designs from which abstract quilts can be made.  Approaches include collage, photograph manipulation, and blind contour drawing.  Includes lots of photos of her students' works for each exercise.

Quilts made by combining templates for accurate and simple straight-seam piecing with raw edge machine applique to reduce bulk of multiple seams and still maintain the look of precision piecing.  Uses fusible web on the back of shapes such as triangles and squares; after fusing, stitches down with short  stitches on the sewing machine.

Techniques to conceive and build an art piece around a found object -- from natural materials such as pine cones to a lavish piece of silk fabric.  Where to search for found objects.  Relates how found objects can be used to add beauty, depth, and meaning to your textile art and art quilts.

Author's dedication: To all the quilters worldwide who ask "Where do you get your ideas?".

More of a coffee table book of beautiful photographs of beautiful quilts than a how-to book.  Brief prose descriptions of how basic geometric forms -- squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, quarter circles, and circles -- found in natural and man-made environments inspire his quilt designs.

40 pages of glorious photographs.  Then 20 quilt designs each with about 3 pages for description and layout.  All original quilt designs with many using essentially traditional blocks cut from 21st century-aesthetics fabrics by Rowan.

A beginner's guide to 11 techniques for fabric painting (textile painting) from colorwash to painted whole cloth.  Also covers some stamping and stenciling.  Paint types and other supplies discussed.

Emphasis on thread, yarn, textile, and fusible embellishments (rather than beading).  Discusses use of more sewing machine specialty feet.  How to alter embellishments by dying, drilling, gluing, painting, wrapping, layering, etc.

Use the author's patterns as a guide to making your own landscape quilts.  Combine piecing and your choice of applique methods to add texture.  All quilts made from commercial batik fabrics.

Author brings her unique 21st century modern style and color aesthetic to 20 traditional block patterns.  Includes stories about the historic quilts that inspired the modern designs.

Full-size patterns and directions for an alphabet based on illuminated manuscript letters from the past.  Stitch samples for each letter shown.

Some of Fons and Porter's most popular quilts collected in a new volume with step by step instructions.  Patchwork and applique.  Includes lots of technique lessons, including interfacing applique, paper foundation piecing, quick half-squares and triangles, and borders.  39 projects.

First section focuses on fabric de3sign and creation and special effects for fiber and mixed media art.  Surface design methods such as painting, dyeing, discharging, screen printing, found object printing, photo transfer, masking, foiling, and Angelina fibers are illustrated.  Second section suggests ways to connect with other artists.

This book describes needle-turned applique stitched with perle cotton in contrasting colors and values.  Includes long chapter on general applique instructions for the beginner.  Paper pattern sheets included.

Authors are known for their applique work.  In this book they re-imagine Amish quilts with applique in place of the simple piecing in traditional Amish quilts or in place of the simple quilting in the negative space.  Pattern sheets included.

Learn about the key elements of design (unity, line, direction, focus, shape, color, rhythm, variation, contrast, etc.) and how to apply strategies for success in design.  While examples of and references to quilts abound, this book is about design in any art form.  Only the last chapter addresses design issues specific for patchwork quilts.

Quilting patterns indexed by shape, size, and name.

Block styles from simple patchwork to applique, foundation piecing, hand embroidery, and yo-yos.  All 12" blocks.  Setting suggestions.  Full-size applique and foundation-piecing patterns on CD-ROM.  Includes block index by designer.

60 borders in a glossary or dictionary format.  15 simple quilts with 4 border design suggestions each.  Learn how to fit any border to any top including the use of coping strips.

Nancy Zieman and quilt historian Carol Butzke show timesaving techniques for replicating vintage quilt designs.  Six projects.

Quilting (stitch) designs inspired by Amish quilts.  Various sizes.  How to make a quilting stencil.

141 color plates showing the work of 60 women in 1978 who were producing contemporary fabric art.  Poor quality photography.

This book brings together various quilts that are especially significant for the stories they tell about individual women as well as women as a group.  Talks about the relevance of quilt making in women's lives.  Well known and unknown artists.  19th and 20th century artists.

Quilts and their makers from 7 counties in central Pennsylvania are documented.  Biographical information and historical primary sources (such as probate records and diaries) are included for these 19th and 20th century quilt makers.  Includes Quilter's Questionnaire designed to elicit historical information from each person who provided a quilt.  Has index but no table of contents.

Social history of women quilters in 19th and 20th century Ohio.  Told through photos of their quilts, their words, probate records, fair reports, and other primary sources.  Supported by the Ohio Arts Council and the Ohio Historical Society.

Quilts documented by the Missouri Heritage Quilt Project.  Each quilt is accompanied by a color plate, black and white block diagram, and brief biography of the quilt artist.

19th and early 20ty century quilts made in Arizona.  Arizona Quilt Project publication.  Includes bibliographical references and index.

Displays works by over 200 members of SAQA.  The works are art quilts from a wide variety of techniques and materials.  This is the third edition of the portfolio that is published as a book, produced in 2007.  Contact information for each artist is included on the page that features her or his work.  High quality color plates.

Displays works by over 200 members of SAQA.  The works are art quilts from a wide variety of techniques and materials.  This is the second edition of the portfolio that is published as a book, produced in 2006.  Contact information for each artist is included on the page that features her or his work.  High quality color plates.

Covers the spectrum of contemporary quilting exhibited at Quilt National in 1981.  Some photos in color, some in black and white.

2002 exhibit of quilts using traditional textiles produced in Japan in modern patchwork and applique quilts.  Brief biography of each artist accompanies full plate photos of quilts.

Self-published book of foundation pieced cat and dog patterns.  Easy to follow.

24 appliqué and embroidery designs for quilts, many of them flowers.

Details the renovation and reconstruction of old quilt tops, including choosing the right fabrics.  Also, full-sized templates for 18 quilt designs.

Sew and flip, or slice and swap, your way to twelve blocks.  Carefree (non-precision) techniques shown.

Issue 165 of magazine with special section on SFQG and other San Francisco quilters and organizations, p. 92-106.  In Japanese.

Quilts of interest to the authors (museum director, quilt festival director, quiltmaking magazine publisher) from 24 countries and displaying a vast array of styles and techniques.  Each full-page plate has a description and comments by the quilt artist.

Slim catalog from an exhibit at the New England Quilt Museum featuring quilts made in Japan but influenced by American design.

Through fascinating biographical sketches, the author reveals how the hardships of one woman's life was reflected in her quilts.  Mormon pioneer at the end of the 19th century.

All blocks designed by Eula Long around 1982.  Facts about each state accompanies the block photos.  Templates for each state block provided.

Primer with an Australian fabric twist.  Ten projects.  From straight forward four patch to log cabin to improvisational piecing from strips.

Text traces the evolution of the quilt from the bedcover to museum pieces.  Over 200 art quilters are profiled along with discussions of their signature techniques, innovation methods of constructions, and use of non-traditional materials.  Selected by author who is former curator of the Sherburne (VT) Museum.  High quality photography.  Includes bibliographical references and index.

Quilts from the Sears National Quilt Contest and Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition in 1933.  Text gives historical contest to these two events.  Biographical information for quilt arts.  Includes bibliography.

Use symmetry and repetition in designing highly geometric blocks and quilts.  The designs used only strips and squares -- no templates.

Workbook of quilt patterns based on M. C. Escher designs using repeating patterns.  Eight projects are fully drafted and their construction explained.  Includes guide to the process of adapting new designs for piecework patterns.

Instructions for lining wicker baskets and for making a lined cardboard sewing basket.

Over 360 designs based on the four patch concept.  Blocks are classified by unit (patch design) that makes up one quarter of the block and shown in black and white illustrations.  Templates for patch designs as well as layouts are provided.  All blocks finish 12 inches.

Brief history of quiltmaking punctuated with photos of quilts shown at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (many belonging to other museums or private collections).

Exhibit in 1991 in Sydney, Australia.

Use personal photos to create a collage, then interpret it with fabric as a quilt.  Learn to look for texture, shape, and color when you shoot photos.  Tips on making collages, translating them into traditional and non-traditional quilt formats, making a seamline diagram, finding fabric, and assembling the quilt.  Gallery of collages and their resulting quilts.

The magic of Paula Nadelstern's technique is revealed.  Draft a 22.5 degree wedge and subdivide it to make intricate kaleidoscope blocks.  Technique uses graph paper and template plastic.  Already drafted wedges for 12 projects provided.

Part patchwork pattern book, part history of barns, part dictionary of common blocks listing their oldest know source and alternative names.  Instructions for 6" and 12" blocks, rotary cutting, quick piecing for components such as flying geese.  Covers complete quilt assembly.

Start with a focus fabric, feature it in a variety of settings, add pieced components and strip piecing from complementary fabrics.  Follow the detailed block placement diagrams or pick your own settings and fillers.  20 pages of techniques for making the pieced components.  8 projects.

This free-motion machine quilting books combines inspiration, how-to, and patterns.  Making your own designs is illustrated from inspiration to sketching to doodling to refining the design.  Many ideas for backfill free-motion quilt are given.  Design considerations such as where and how much to quilt are covered.

Karey Patterson Bresenhan, director of the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX, juried this collection of art quilts.  Each quilt's description includes artist name, title, year completed, size, and materials.  Almost all quilts were made after 2000.  Includes index of artists.

Narratives from artists active from about 1960 to 1980 form the foundation of this documentary-style book.  The focus is on the emergence of art quilts, also known as studio, contemporary, and non-traditional quilts during that period.  The role of exhibitions and museum acquisitions is examined along with social and political movements.  Includes extensive bibliography and index of artists.

 Quilts designed for 2 1/2 " strips.  18 quilts described. Some scrappy looks, some monochromatic, some coordinated fabric looks. Use pre-cut strips or cut your own from scraps.

Quilts with a vintage flair, using folk art, whimsical, and traditional designs.  Features both piecing and applique techniques.  Template patterns included.

Comprehensive, in depth guide to the museum's national collection, dated late 18th to late 20th century.  141 color plates with text.  Catalog of all 398 quilts in the collection as of 1996.

Contemporary aesthetics and graphic boldness applied to handicraft projects and quilts.  Reinterprets some traditional bocks in a hard-edged, quirky, but heartfelt new ways.  Book covers, pillows, placemats, etc.  Extensive how-to-section on quilting basics.  Glossary, resources, index.

Contemporary aesthetics applied to traditional quilt designs.  23 pieced and applique quilt projects organized by difficulty.  An alternative colorway is shown for each quilt.  Emphasis on bringing harmony to bold striped, spotted, and large floral print fabrics.  Glossary.

Explains the principles of color and harmony as to how they apply to quiltmaking.  Analysis of quilts by respected quiltmakers for color choices.  15 fabric selection projects.  4 original patterns that demonstrate how to unify a complex palette, how to understand the principles of value and saturation, and how to work with color proportion.

Covers basic principles of color and use of the color wheel.  Follows on with effects such as luminosity, luster, transparency, and "magic fabrics".  Color cue tips throughout.  Gallery of examples.

This is a sourcebook of design elements for appliqued quilts.  Comprehensive explanations of machine and hand applique, with 4 practice projects.  50 page catalog of applique design elements (patterns).

Contemporary style applied to patchwork projects such as bags, pillows, sachets, and slippers as well as 10 quilts.  Reviews fundamentals of the quilting process.

Drafting circle and ray (radiating line) patterns such as New York Beauty and Mariner's Compass using a beam compass, bow compass, or ruler and pins.  Much of the piecing is done with foundation paper piecing.  CD-ROM includes patterns for 7 projects.  Extensive use of tear-away stabilizer for the paper pattern.

Block diagrams plus sewing instructions for half-rectangle triangles and half-square triangles.  All diagrams produce 12" blocks.  Triangle piecing tips. Full-size triangle template patterns in  appendix.

Quilt instructions feature traditional patchwork and fast cutting and piecing techniques.  50 quilt projects, 3 or 4 pages of instructions for each project.

Template patterns included for hand applique flowers and quilts.

Original quilts designed for children.  Use of color and value to make beginner-friendly quilts look more complicated than they are.

Examples of many quilts made in Japan and others made worldwide with traditional Japanese design aesthetics.  Half of the book is explanation and examples of how Japanese history and social customs inform contemporary quiltmakers.  The other half illustrates mostly applique patterns derived from traditional Japanese design and techniques for executing these patterns.

All template patterns included for this single quilt of 12 hand applique blocks.  Uses Piece O' Cake technique using sturdy laminated templates and a clear vinyl positioning overlay.

6 wall hangings for the four seasons of the year plus Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.  Full-size patterns.

Written for use with Hoffman Fabrics Bali Pop strip sets, which contains forty 2 1/2 inch strips.  6 projects.

Step-by-step instructions for the entire dyeing process from preparing the work area to mixing the dyes to washing and drying hand-dyed fabrics.  Charts for colors and gradations.

All designs are pattern-, pin-, and template-free.  Uses easy-sew curve and stack-and-slash techniques.  Abstract design wall hangings created with 6 fat quarters

Quick child-size quilts and quilted objects designed to be completed in one weekend.  Easy to follow instructions with illustrations and templates.

Catalog of the Quilt Visions Exhibition, an international juried show for art quilts.

African inspired quilts.  Pieced, machine appliqued, and hand appliqued.  African alphabet quilt with ibis, kudu, ndebele, baobab, ostrich, and warthog patterns among others.

18 scrap quilt projects from a wide range of quilt designers.  Mostly pieced blocks.  Yardage is given for "assorted light prints" and "assorted dark prints".

Fundamentals of log cabin style blocks are described and illustrated.  Then projects apply the techniques using modern fabrics.

Focus on speed cutting and sewing techniques along with the use of novelty prints.  Ideas for community outreach quilting.

Two applique techniques are described:  first, fusible web with raw edges finished during quilting; second, freezer paper patterns glue basted to background and either hand or machine appliqued.  Backgrounds are foundation pieced.  Projects employ full-size flower motif templates.

A spontaneous method for creating a quilt based on a medallion quilt design with a series of concentric borders sewn on one after another.  Borders can be simple or intricate.  Suggested piecing for borders given.  Experimenting, changing, arranging, and rearranging are encouraged.  Fundamental marking, piecing, and quilting techniques covered.  Troubleshooting section.  NOTE:  this book uses scissors (not a rotary cutter), a quilting frame, and hand quilting.

Art quilts in which beads are a primary design element, more than just embellishment.  Two chapters cover technical questions about beading supplies and art quilt construction.  After basic beading techniques are reviewed, author introduces more advanced methods such as beaded coils, elevated beading, setting a cabochon, and beaded snowflakes.  Paper stitch pattern grids provided.

How to translate photos into quilted wallhangings.  Starts with basic concepts of photography to achieve a reasonable good image with which to begin.  Covers how to create a master drawing from the photo, preferably using an overhead projector.  Fabric selection is discussed.  Three methods of machine applique (turn-under, fused, and raw-edge) are clearly illustrated.  Three practice projects provided.  Autographed by author.

Very detailed instructional guide for beginning quilters.  Includes equipment, tools, fabric preparation and cutting, and accurate sewing techniques. Several projects emphasize accuracy.

Both authors have a Masters Degree in design, so their emphasis is on color, fabric and shapes.  10 original projects have a decidedly modern aesthetic.

100 quilts crafted in North Carolina between 1800 and 1976, many never displayed before now.  Commentary by six quilt historians and quilt makers.

 31 quilts by a variety of designers. Includes templates, cutting instructions, and assembly diagrams. Sew Smart (tm) hints throughout the book.

Focus on patchwork quilts using novelty and/or large print fabrics.

Easy to intermediate level quilts designed with men in mind.  Clear instructions from 15 top quilt designers for pieced and appliquΘd projects.  Themes include cars, sports, sailing, fishing, and travel.

Not a quilt making book per se; rather, an exploration of different patches (blocks) that could be used in a crazy quilt.  23 projects such as bags, sachets, covered containers.  15 appliquΘ patterns.  40 illustrated embroidery and bead stitches.  Heliographic painting (sun prints). Very clear illustrations and photographs.

Repeating geometric block designs found in Celtic art.  The author reduces each design to a pieced block, then illustrates how to quilt it to achieve the Celtic block effect.  All pieced blocks are made from a combination of strips, squares, and triangles.  Zigzag stitching in black, gold, and silver complete the Celtic design.

Provides help for getting your blocks into a finished quilt top by describing 7 categories of settings.  To emphasize the importance of the setting, many quilt examples use the same pieced blocks.  Continuation of author's concept of Project Maps or Setting Maps from earlier book, "Setting Solutions".  Simple math concepts and charts to make blocks of any size and plug blocks of any size into setting maps.

Catalog of more than 60 quilts from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.  Quilts from the middle of the 18th century through the early 20th century are photographed and described.

Drafting techniques for controlling both the size and the composition of quilt blocks and tops.  How to draft blocks based on grids; based on a circle; based on simple and complex 8-pointed, 10-pointed, and feathered star shapes.  How to design using mirrors, graph paper, pencil, and calculator.  How to recognize the underlying architecture of patchwork.  How to fracture a traditional block to increase design, color, fabric, and value opportunities.  Lots of details in this book.

Fiction.

8 projects and 25 techniques demonstrate how to print fabric with ink and paint.  Digital images from the camera are manipulated in Photoshop Elements using a simplified technique described by authors.  Additional modifications with inks, pens, crayons, and pair are covered.  Products like purchased fabric, printers, inks, scanners reviewed.

Recorded images of quilts and wearable art from SFQG's biannual show in 1996.

Recorded images of quilts and wearable art from SFQG's biannual show in 1990.

Recorded images of quilts and wearable art from SFQG's biannual show in 2003.  Featured artists are Joe Cunningham and Marina Salume.

Original patterns that produce 3-dimensional effects.  Full-size templates included.

How to design and construct well-planned borders.  Attention is given to centering pieced borders and variations in corner treatment.  40 pieced borders plus variations.

An in-depth look at several quilting styles such as English, strippy, applique, log cabin, and pastels.  Exploration  presented in mostly chronological order.  Collection of patchwork and applique patterns along with a description of basic quiltmaking techniques provided.

Focus on wool quilts rather than today's more common cotton quilts.  Covers the history and traditions in wool quilts.  Techniques for working with fool fabrics in whole cloth, medallion, pieced patchwork, applique, pressed (string), and crazy quilts.

In English and Japanese.  Glossary.  Exhibit of 19th and 20th century quilts from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, the Mission Houses Museum, and the Daughters of Hawai'i.  Showcases the unique form of the appliqued Hawaiian quilt.  Includes royal flag patterns, varied floral patterns, and other motifs commemorating special Hawaiian events.

By example shows how to translate visual inspirations (photos, found objects, etc.) into texture in fabric.  Each inspiration is interpreted by several different artists.  Common fabric manipulation techniques are given one page descriptions.  Some finished pieces are shown in color or black and white photographs.

Translate your machine-piecing skills into miniature works of art.  Many tips to achieving accuracy provided.  Patterns grouped by the skills necessary to make them:  strips, bias squares, and triangles.

Basic principles of construction for Seminole patchwork, based on  Seminole Indian textile arts.  Six types of bands of fabric and up to 16 variations of each band illustrated.  How these bands can be used to create original designs or recreate old ones is covered.

Robert Shaw was curator of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont from 1981 to 1994.  In this oversize book, he displays and comments on quilts from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries in America.  Not limited to a single museum or collection

Patterns for 20 quilts which contain half-square triangles and can be easily made from leftover (scrap) fabrics using the author's ScrapSaver (tm) tool.  Tools allows half-square triangles to be quick-cut individually.

How to design, cut, and piece diamond based star blocks using rotary cutting techniques.  Many blocks for unique stars shown.  Full-size templates in book.

Primer on hexagons in quilts.

Patterns for 20 quilts which contain half-square triangles and can be made easily from leftover (scrap) fabrics using the author's ScrapSaver (tm) tool.  Tool allows half-square triangles to be quick-cut individually.  Also has 9 pages of information about finishing a quilt.

All blocks are hexagon shaped in these quilts.  Many blocks have applique interiors.  Piecing for many well know blocks such as Grandmother's Flower Garden and Baby Blocks.  English piecing and patchwork piecing briefly described.

One quilt booklet with patterns and instructions for assembly 30 floral applique blocks.

Hand applique without basting, pressing, or cutting templates.  Written for beginners.  Simple reverse applique and stained glass effect covered.  Patterns for nine blocks.

Instead of cutting straight-edged strips, the author shows how to cut strips with gentle curved edges, then sew the strips into unique fabric bands.  Projects show how to use these striped bands in contemporary and traditional settings.  Many words and only hand drawings to illustrate  the technique.

Pieced animals go into an alphabet quilt.  All animals are drawn on graph paper and some have full-size templates.

New presentation of material published earlier as Classic Basket Patterns.  Brings together a number of basket styles and treatments so the quilter can combine patterns, ideas, and settings.  Includes fully drafted patchwork and applique patterns.  Ideas for basket handles given

8 designs for folding patches, including stars, diamonds, roses, pinwheels, kimonos, with detailed folding techniques illustrated.  22 projects for quilts, vests, pillows.

27 pieced border designs in several sizes.  How to calculate for any size and how to measure for borders.  Includes Squares on Point; Grecian Key; strips; Accordian Pleats; Flying Geese; Double Sawtooth; Spinning Stars; Folded Ribbon; Ocean Waves; braids; pieced mice & hearts.

Full-sized applique patterns.  5 projects for hand applique:  medallion quilts and wall hangings, using freezer paper applique.

Recorded images of quilts and wearable art from SFQG's viannual show in 2005, recorded by a member.

Cover title:  Trouble free triangles : quilt design based on rotary-cut 60 degree triangles.  Use of ClearView triangle and equilateral triangle graph paper.  Half triangles, diamonds.  Instructions for 11 quilts.

Durham quilting is a form of hand quilting practiced in a small area of England.  Hand quilting, primarily on lateens, silks, and satins, is described historically and technically through the eyes of one quilter.  Tools, materials, and patterns are presented.

A combined history, biography, and pattern book covering American quilts from 1800 to 1990.

Two contemporary quiltmakers explore the history of how hand applique evolved in American quiltmaking.  They focus on rose and tulip motifs.  Photographs of quilts from their and Mary Schafer's collections.  Full-size applique patterns.  Reference section.  Index of rose and tulip designs.