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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Gallery of Room Settings
  • Gallery of Sampler Quilts
  • CHAPTER 1: The Essentials
    • What Is a Quilt?
    • How to Use This Book
    • Understanding Fabric
    • Parts of Fabric
    • Stitches and Knots
    • Vocabulary
    • Equipment and Supplies
  • CHAPTER 2: Choosing a Pattern
    • All Stara
    • Attic Windows
    • Basket
    • Bear's Paw
    • Double Nine Patch
    • Dresden Plate
    • Drunkard's Path
    • Fence Rail
    • 54-40 or Fight
    • Grandmother's Flower Garden
    • Heart
    • Kaleidoscope
    • Le Moyne Star
    • Log Cabin
    • Madison House
    • Memory
    • Nine Patch
    • Ocean Waves
    • Pinwheel
    • Pinetree
    • Postage Stamp Baskets
    • Roman Square
    • Sawtooth Star
    • Spool
    • Square and Stars
    • Star of Bethlehem
    • Swamp Angel
    • Thousand Pyramids
    • T Blocks
    • Tumbling Blocks
    • Variable Star
    • Wild Goose Chase
  • CHAPTER 3: Color Selection
    • Color Schemes
    • Monochromatic
    • Analogous
    • Complimentary
    • Primary
    • Rainbow
    • Warm and Cool
    • Light and Dark
    • Neutral
    • Scrap Bag
    • Traditional
    • Practice Exercise
    • Memory Block: Six Individualistic Styles
    • Color and Fabric Selection Checklist
  • CHAPTER 4: Fabric Preparation
    • Ways to Prepare Fabric
    • Pre-shrinking Your Fabric
    • Pre-washing Your Fabric
    • Working with "New" Fabric
    • How to Determine If YOur Fabric Is Colorfast
    • Straightening Your Fabric
  • CHAPTER 5: Block Construction
    • Strip Piecing: A Time-Saver
    • Quick-Cutting Your Fabric
    • Quick-Cutting Non-Directional Fabric
    • Quick-Cutting Directional Fabric
    • Traditional Fabric Cutting
    • Things to Know About Your Sewing Machine Before Beginning to Sew
    • Sewing Strips Together
    • Pressing Your Pieced Strips
    • Practice excercise: Fence Rail Block
    • Making Half-Square Triangles
    • Practice Excercise: Pinwheel Block
    • Making Double Half-Square Triangles
    • Practice Excercise: Wild Goose Chase variation block
    • Drafting Patterns Made Easy
    • Practice Excercise: 54-40 or Fight block
    • Practice Excercise: Drafting Le Moyne Star
    • Templates and Their Uses
    • (etc. a lot more lessons and practice excercises...)
  • CHAPTER 6: Sewing Blocks Together
  • CHAPTER 7: Adding Borders
  • CHAPTER 8: Preparing Your Quilt
  • CHAPTER 9: Quilting
    • Hand Quilting
    • Machine Quilting
    • Tying
  • CHAPTER 10: Binding
  • Templates
  • Class Outline

Title: Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking
Editors: Diana McClun, Laura Nownes
Format/Publication Date: HC:1988
Publisher: The Quilt Digest Press, Lincolnwood, IL
Language: English
Page Count: 158
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0890409294

SUMMARY- This is a compilation of lesson plans and practice excercises for learning how to piece traditional quilts efficiently. You get a nice selection of classic blocks to choose from.