Alex Anderson

All Things Quilting with Alex Anderson

From First Step to Last Stitch

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With more than one million books sold, the author who taught the world to quilt is back again! Internet and television personality Alex Andersonâ s â big bookâ of quilting includes indispensable, straightforward adviceâ essential tools, binding basics, and easy-to-understand piecing and appliquà .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: C & T Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 215mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9781607058564
• ISBN-10: 1607058561
• Artikelnr.: 42082014

Autorenporträt

Alex Anderson seeks to educate, inspire, entertain, and grow today's quilting community. A longtime host of the TV show Simply Quilts, she is also executive producer and co-host of the web TV's The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims. Alex lives in Northern California. alexandersonquilts.com and thequiltshow.com

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Few Words from Alex Anatomy of a Quilt In the Sewing Room
Sewing Machine Shopping for a New Machine Caring for Your Machine Your
Physical Set-Up Tools and Notions Fabric and Color: Choose It and Use It!
Fabric Grain A Few Words About Quality Three Keys to Successful Fabric
Selection Color Value Character of Print Add Some Sparkle Alternative
Strategies for Choosing Fabrics Caring For Your Fabric To Prewash . . . or
Not? Where and How to Store It Drafting: Have It Your Way Drafting Blocks
Based on Grids Drafting Non-Grid Based Blocks Drafting an Eight-Pointed
Star Drafting a Hexagon (Hexie) When Hexie Size Doesn’t Matter When Hexie
Size Does Matter Subdividing the Hexie Rev Up Your Rotary Cutter Safety
First Basic Rotary-Cutting Technique Squaring Up the Fabric Cutting Strips
Cutting Squares Cutting Rectangles Cutting Half- and Quarter-square
Triangles Half-square Triangles Quarter-square Triangles Cutting 45°
Trapezoids Cutting an Isosceles Triangle in a Square Background Triangles
(A) Isosceles Triangle (B) Cutting Equilateral Triangles Cutting 45°
Diamonds Cutting Bias Strips The Ins and Outs of Piecing When You Need
Templates Adding Seam Allowance to Drafted Patterns Machine-Piecing
Techniques Pinning Stitching Pressing Matters “Unsewing” Machine Piecing
Techniques You’ll Want to Know Strip Piecing Sew-and-Flip Method Secret
Star-Point Method Y-Seams Sewing Curves Paper-Foundation Piecing Sizing
Fabric Pieces Creating Patterns Sewing Sewing Units into Blocks Removing
the Paper Foundations Hand Piecing: English Paper Piecing Cutting the
Shapes Piecing the Shapes All About Appliqué Preparing for Appliqué
Preparing Individual Appliqués (Hand or Machine) Preparing for Individual
Appliqués (Hand Only) Preparing the Background for Appliqué (Hand or
Machine) Hand-Appliqué Techniques Basic Stitch for Needle-turn or
Paper-basted Appliqué Needle-turn Appliqué Buttonhole-stitch
(Blanket-stitch) Stitch Appliqué Reverse Appliqué Machine-Appliqué
Techniques Invisible-Appliqué Stitch Customizing Stitches Raw-edge Appliqué
with Buttonhole (or Blanket) Stitch Putting It Together: Settings and
Borders Settings Gallery of Settings Borders Design
Considerations/Proportions Intended Use Squaring Up the Quilt Measuring for
Borders Cutting and Grainline Stitching Borders Border Options Butted
Borders Mitered Borders Partial-Seam Borders Borders with Corner Squares
Pieced Borders Self-Bordering Quilts Scalloped Borders Appliqué and Quilted
Borders Choosing and Marking Your Quilting Design Basics of Good Quilting
Design Basic Quilting Strategies Other Sources for Quilting Designs Ideas
for Creating Your Own Motifs Eight-Section Designs Twelve-Section Designs
Soft, Curved Lines Transferring the Design Straight-Line Quilting Stipple
Quilting Preparing to Quilt Housekeeping Choosing and Preparing a Batting
Choosing and Preparing the Backing Piecing the Backing Basting Basting for
Hand Quilting (in a Hoop) Basting for Machine Quilting Ready, Set . . .
Quilt! Hand Quilting Placing the Quilt in a Hoop Selecting a Thimble The
Quilting (Rocking) Stitch Preparing to Stitch Thimble on Middle Finger
Thimble on Pointer Finger Thimble on Thumb Finishing and Burying the Knot
Machine Quilting Adjusting the Tension Handling Bulk Starting and Stopping
Anchoring Machine-Quilting Technique Straight-line and Simple-Curve
Quilting Simple-Curve Quilting Free-Motion Quilting Stipple Quilting
Practice, Practice, Practice Tying Your Quilt Finishing Touches Binding
Straight-Grain vs. Bias Binding Figuring Binding Length Double-Fold Binding
Preparing the Quilt for Binding Binding with Squared Corners Binding with
Mitered Corners Binding a Zigzag Edge (Inside Corner) Binding a Scalloped
Edge Faced Edge with Hanging Sleeve Folded (Flat) Piping Prairie Points
Adding a Hanging Sleeve Making a Label Index Resources About the Author