San Francisco Quilters Guild

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.

Lots of photos illustrate storage techniques and space management for the quilter.  Handy ways to sort and arrange fabrics given.  Examples from actual quilters' studios.  Resources listing.

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.