Simple Quilts for the Modern Home
Bright, fun, and simple-to-stitch quilts for beginning sewers—and everyone who loves modern style! This book teaches beginner quilters simple techniques to create successful quilts that reflect today’s tastes for bold colors and prints, high contrast, and expansive use of negative space. Simple Quilts for the Modern Home provides all the how-to a beginner needs to know to cut, piece, and finish 12 modern-inspired quilts. With over 75 pages of patterns, detailed instructions, high-quality photography, helpful illustrations, and step-by-step captions, you’ll learn and practice simple techniques to create beautiful, modern quilts. Each project is an opportunity to utilize a new skill, like strip piecing, using fusible appliqué, and cutting at a 45-degree angle. The results are fresh, bold, and contemporary quilts that will appeal to quiltmakers of all skill levels.

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Simple Quilts for the Modern Home
Bright, fun, and simple-to-stitch quilts for beginning sewers—and everyone who loves modern style! This book teaches beginner quilters simple techniques to create successful quilts that reflect today’s tastes for bold colors and prints, high contrast, and expansive use of negative space. Simple Quilts for the Modern Home provides all the how-to a beginner needs to know to cut, piece, and finish 12 modern-inspired quilts. With over 75 pages of patterns, detailed instructions, high-quality photography, helpful illustrations, and step-by-step captions, you’ll learn and practice simple techniques to create beautiful, modern quilts. Each project is an opportunity to utilize a new skill, like strip piecing, using fusible appliqué, and cutting at a 45-degree angle. The results are fresh, bold, and contemporary quilts that will appeal to quiltmakers of all skill levels.

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Simple Quilts for the Modern Home

Simple Quilts for the Modern Home

by Stephanie Soebbing
Simple Quilts for the Modern Home

Simple Quilts for the Modern Home

by Stephanie Soebbing

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Overview

Bright, fun, and simple-to-stitch quilts for beginning sewers—and everyone who loves modern style! This book teaches beginner quilters simple techniques to create successful quilts that reflect today’s tastes for bold colors and prints, high contrast, and expansive use of negative space. Simple Quilts for the Modern Home provides all the how-to a beginner needs to know to cut, piece, and finish 12 modern-inspired quilts. With over 75 pages of patterns, detailed instructions, high-quality photography, helpful illustrations, and step-by-step captions, you’ll learn and practice simple techniques to create beautiful, modern quilts. Each project is an opportunity to utilize a new skill, like strip piecing, using fusible appliqué, and cutting at a 45-degree angle. The results are fresh, bold, and contemporary quilts that will appeal to quiltmakers of all skill levels.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781947163034
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 02/12/2019
Pages: 80
Sales rank: 862,301
Product dimensions: 7.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Stephanie Soebbing is a quilt shop owner, pattern designer, teacher, podcaster, blogger, and savvy social media marketer. Starting out as a teacher in her local quilt shop, she has grown her on-line audience to over 40,000 quilters from around the world. Her e-commerce site, QuiltAddictsAnonymous.com, ships fabrics, patterns and supplies worldwide, while providing videos and tutorials to quilters of all skill levels. She also has a weekly podcast, Sit & Sew Radio, where she interviews industry leaders and creatives.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Let's Get Started! 5

Principles of Modern Quilt Design 6

Alternative Grid 6

Expansive Negative Space 7

Embracing Minimalism 7

Modernizing Traditional Blocks 7

Essential Tools 8

Sewing Machine 8

Quarter-Inch Presser Foot 8

Walking Foot 8

Thread 8

Rotary Cutters 9

Cutting Mats 9

Pins 9

Quilting Rulers 9

Batting 10

Quilting Fabric 10

Perfect Piecing 11

Straightening the Fabric 11

Cutting Diamonds 12

Cutting Triangles 12

Cutting 90° Triangles 13

Piecing 14

Strip Piecing 15

Half-Square Triangles 15

Equilateral Triangles 16

Large Background Triangles 17

The Quilt Sandwich 20

Prepping the Quilt Top 20

Prepping the Backing 20

Layering the Quilt Sandwich 21

Pinning the Quilt Sandwich 21

Quilting the Quilt 21

Finishing the Quilt 22

Continuous Binding 22

Label Your Quilt 23

Quilt Patterns 24

Going North 24

Houndstooth 28

Ripples 34

Herringbone 38

Bricks and Pavers 42

Stripes 46

Ombré 50

Bubbles 54

On the 60 60

Argyle 64

Ombré Star 68

Diamond 74

Meet Stephanie 80

About the Author 80

Special Thanks 80

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