Gifts From Your Scrap Basket: 25 Patchwork, Applique and Quilting Projects for Special

By Gail Lawther

Book Overview

Every quilter, embroiderer, and seamstress has secret stashes of favorite fabrics just waiting for the right project. Put your stitching skills to good use and finally bring new life to that old scrap material by making gifts and commemorative pieces for every special occasion. From small cards and gift tags that take a few minutes to a photo album cover to a full-sized quilt worth treasuring for years to come, these 26 projects will delight you, your family, and friends.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855858266
• ISBN13: 9781855858268
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Collins & Brown
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 11.8"

Customer Reviews

About This Book-

Publisher and Editorial Reviews: From Booklist How many stitchers have drooled over a pattern or design as a giftable idea, only to discover that it calls for many weeks of persistent labor--too long for the occasion? Veteran British specialist Lawther satisfies the need for immediate gratification, although--surprise of surprises-- amounts of time are not quantified. Depending for the most part on the techniques of applique, patchwork, and quilting, she lays out 25 gloriously colored items to copy, separated into six categories of events: birthdays, engagements and weddings, anniversaries, new babies, Christmas celebrations, and welcomes and farewells. Instructions feature all the usual suspects--lists of materials, directions, and color photographs--as well as more extraordinary data, including step-by-step, illustrated how-tos in color photographs, templates, tips, and variations. What will pique most interest? A confetti quilt for newlyweds, cake ribbon for birthdays, and a sashiko quilted retirement card. Barbara Jacobs Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Product Description: Every quilter, embroiderer, and seamstress has secret stashes of favorite fabrics just waiting for the right project. Put your stitching skills to good use and finally bring new life to that old scrap material by making gifts and commemorative pieces for every special occasion. From small cards and gift tags that take a few minutes to a photo album cover to a full-sized quilt worth treasuring for years to come, these 25 projects will delight you, your family, and friends.

Quilters scrap book

The Hardback edition that I got from the Library didn't have Quilted at the beginning of the name but it's the same book (aren't ISBN's wonderful!!)This is an Ideal book for Quilters but also for anyone with a lot of spare scrap fabric.It has a lot of suitable projects for children, weddings, valentines and Christmas, to name the ones that appear most. Well laid out with plenty of easy instructions for those of us that need them.