Quilter's Catalog A Comprehensive Resource Guide by Meg Cox - PB

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Paperback, 400 pages, 6" x 9"

It's not your grandmother's quilt world anymore. Quilting today is a phenomenally popular hobby, artform, and business, often rolled into one, that attracts 21 million avid quilters who spend $2.27 billion annually on their passion. There are 2,500 quilt shops around the country, popular television series, guilds, Web sites, and national fairs - one in Houston draws 50,000 visitors each year.

Meg Cox, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is one of the obsessive new quilters, and in The Quilter's Catalog, she draws on all her skills as a journalist to write the essential resource for contemporary quilters. Here's the low-down on tools: computer-driven sewing machines, innovative rotary cutters, longarms. New and old techniques, from how to dye your own fabric to cutting-edge digital photo-transfer. Profiles of the twenty top quilting teachers - television's Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, Ruth McDowell, known for her bravura technique. Who makes the best fabrics and how to find them. A comprete resource guide to the best Web Sites, online groups, books, patterns, stores, shows, challenges. And a look at the new world of quiltaholics: its sense of community, it opportunities for business, its controversies (hand-sewn vs machine-sewn), its attractions - quilting is easy, portable, friendly, therapeutic, often profitable, and the perfect way to mark a milestone.

The book includes 12 step-by-step projects from key teachers - a crib quilt, bed quilts, quilted ornaments - and instructions on how to hang, store, or ship a quilt. Photos of the finished projects are shown in a special 16-page full-color section; the rest of the book is heavily illustrated in black-and-white.


This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 09 February, 2019.

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