Journey into a land of dreams and fairy tales as you sew unicorns, dragons, mermaids, and their friends! From mystical creatures to a royal princess, a castle, and a brave knight, Mary Hertel’s beloved paper-pieced blocks are simple to sew and easy to love. With sixteen mix-and-match blocks, you’ll unlock the power of imagination in your quilting. Combine the blocks to create seven cute and useful projects ranging from quilts and pillows to a drawstring backpack. With clever patterns and clear instructions, this collection will help paper piecers see that anything is possible.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Mary Hertel
• Publish Date: 06/25/2020
• Dimensions: 8.59in x 0.23in x 10.96in
• Softcover

Scared of the serger? Don’t be! From the best-selling A Field Guide series, this visual guide will help you get to know your serger from the inside out. Learn how to thread an overlocking sewing machine and achieve beautiful results with both basic and specialty stitches. Enhance your expertise working with an array of fabrics, from knits and wovens to sheers, and troubleshoot stitch issues with detailed how-tos. Bring ten fashion and home decor projects to life, from easy T-shirts and leggings to a market tote and elegant table decor. Whether you are breaking your serger out of the box, or looking to sharpen your skills, this comprehensive guide has everything you need to confidently create with your serger.

• Pages: 144
• Author: Katrina Walker
• Publish Date: 06/25/2020
• Dimensions: 8.07in x 0.38in x 10.06in
• Softcover

Embrace the art of quilting with simple instructions to create beautiful Dresden plate blocks. Each variation looks unique and all are astonishingly easy to sew. Use any and all of the twenty-five design elements, including four different edge treatments, a range of sizes (2”–9 1/2”), and an amazing variety of patterns, from sawtooth to flying geese. Mix it up even more by fabric piecing wedges and using up to twenty different colors for each wedge.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Candyce Copp Grisham
• Publish Date: 07/07/2019
• Dimensions: 8.55in x 0.26in x 11.11in
• Softcover

Sew fifteen inspired designs with strong lines and quilted curves! Laced with retro-inspired circles and bold stripes, these modern quilts leave an unforgettable impression. Piecing circles, half circles, and quarter circles is easier than you think, and the authors will teach you to add movement and depth two ways¿through easy strip sets or stripe-printed fabric. These aren't your typical Drunkard's Path quilts, but distinctive quilts for adventurous quilters! With block-based patterns, some improvisational piecing, and designs ranging from beginner-friendly to complex, there's something for everyone. - Move beyond common circle-quilt designs to tackle curved piecing with ease - Add stripes to curved piecing and use color to add depth for a simple way to make complex quilts - Piece block-based layouts and improv designs ranging from simple to advanced

• Pages: 128
• Author: Heather Black and Daisy Aschehoug
• Publish Date: 01/07/2020
• Dimensions: 8.08in x 0.39in x 9.92in
• Softcover

Build your quilting skills from the ground up. Learn to complete your first quilt from basic pieced strips, squares, and triangles. Established teacher Jo Avery guides you through twelve projects to whet your appetite for quiltmaking and take it a step further. Graduate to intermediate projects with major style as you try out foundation paper piecing, appliqué, and curves. Before long, you’ll have the confidence and expertise to tackle virtually any quilt pattern!

• Pages: 128
• Author: Jo Avery
• Publish Date: 02/25/2020
• Dimensions: 8.06in x 0.38in x 9.96in
• Softcover

Everything you love about the Quick & Easy Block Tool, now with triangle blocks! This ultimate no-math reference for quilters includes cutting charts, piecing tips, quilt layout ideas, and a visual index of blocks. Plus, get cutting instructions using straight or 60 degree triangle rulers for triangles, diamonds, jewels, half diamonds, parallelograms, hexagons, half hexagons, lozenges, and half lozenges. Ultra-portable and indispensable, this is the block guide that no quilter, modern or traditional, should be without!

• Pages: 136
• Author: Sheila Christensen
• Publish Date: 01/07/2020
• Dimensions: 5.68in x 0.89in x 9.09in
• Softcover

Enjoy quiet time with time-honored wool appliqué! Add warmth and texture to your home with wool appliqué. Sewing in the popular folk-art style, you'll stitch fifteen projects, including thirteen heirloom-worthy table mats and two versions of an Advent calendar. Learn how reverse appliqué brings depth and color to your handwork without the bulk of additional layers. This guide offers advice on choosing and using wool (even scraps!), plus valuable techniques and tips for wool hand stitchers.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Mary A Blythe
• Publish Date: 10/25/2019
• Dimensions: 8.4in x 0.28in x 11.06in
• Softcover

Elevate your wool appliqué! Learn from the authors and their fellow folk artist friends as they collaborate on creative handwork projects, from wallhangings and pillows to sewing room accessories. Get a taste of embroidery, rug hooking, punch needle, yarn sewing, quilting, cross stitch, and dimensional wool as you stitch sixteen projects in the American folk-art style. Each piece combines wool appliqué with a complementary handwork skill. Get tips for creative pairings for unique art!

• Pages: 96
• Author: Rebekah L Smith and Kelsey A Smith
• Publish Date: 08/25/2019
• Dimensions: 8.52in x 0.35in x 10.99in
• Softcover

When sixty-eight-year-old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a possible love interest. The ninth installment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries draws together a tattered quilt, an exhaustive search through the past, a murder suspect, and a grand jury hearing into a compelling mystery.

• Pages: 232
• Author: Carol Dean Jones
• Publish Date: 02/01/2019
• Dimensions: 5in x 0.47in x 8in
• Softcover

When sixty-eight-year-old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a possible love interest. The tenth installment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries contains a new friend, trunks full of vintage fabric, credit card fraud, a budding romance, and murder--and Sarah and her friends are at the center of it all.

• Pages: 204
• Author: Carol Dean Jones
• Publish Date: 02/04/2019
• Dimensions: 5in x 0.44in x 8in
• Softcover

You don't have to be a master embroiderer to create beautiful crazy-quilt seams! With 480 seam designs to inspire your creativity, you'll learn to stitch with uniform spacing for a professional appearance. Line everything up perfectly with five pages of full-size stitch templates and dozens of step-by-step illustrations. Then dress up embroidered seams with sparkly beads, buttons, sequins, and silk ribbon embellishments for endless creative combinations!

• Pages: 128
• Author: Kathy Seaman Shaw
• Publish Date: 06/01/20019
• Dimensions: 8.51in x 0.37in x 11.2in
• Softcover

Best-selling author Mary Hertel brings readers sixteen more of her adorable, easy-to-make paper-piecing blocks, along with six new projects! Whether you're an experienced paper piecer or a beginner, Mary provides simple instructions that will have you paper piecing in no time. Mix and match the blocks with each other or with any of Mary's previous books to create fun home decor projects, including a quilt, table topper, table runner, bench pillow, throw pillow, and pillowcase.

• Pages: 56
• Author: Mary Hertel
• Publish Date: 03/07/2019
• Dimensions: 8.46in x 0.21in x 11.06in
• Softcover

Learn 125 decorative bead embroidery and bead woven stitches with Christen Brown. Embellish jewelry, wallhangings, and more—perfect for embroiderers, crafters, crazy quilters, mixed media artists, and jewelry makers.

• Pages: 160
• Author: Christen Brown
• Publish Date: 04/07/2019
• Dimensions: 7.68in x 0.41in x 9.46in
• Softcover

Get the pocket guide to embroidery that everyone's talking about--a sixty-four page mini book perfect to take on the go! With over thirty essential embroidery stitches, this all-in-one reference is ideal for hand stitchers, crazy quilters, and free-form embroiderers. Learn the best stabilizers and thread for embroidery, then branch out with eye-catching embellishments. This petite paperback is the perfect size for your purse or embroidery kit--a great gift for all sewists!

• Pages: 64
• Author: Christen Brown
• Publish Date: 10/07/2018
• Dimensions: 4.04in x 0.34in x 5.95in
• Softcover

Classic A-lines, sleeveless summer dresses, and party frocks-- learn to sew eighteen-inch doll dresses for every occasion. This huge collection of over forty miniature dress designs includes twenty-eight complete patterns, plus thirteen bonus looks created from mix-and-match elements. Richly photographed, stylish dress projects are paired with sewing tutorials aimed at intermediate and advanced doll dressmakers. With princess seams, pretty pockets, and a variety of necklines, dressing up your doll has never been so much fun!

• Pages: 80
• Author: Erin Hentzel
• Publish Date: 10/07/2018
• Dimensions: 8.63in x 0.22in x 10.92in
• Softcover

When sixty-eight year old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a possible love interest. Includes instructions for the featured cover quilt. In the fifth installment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries, Sarah and her love interest Charles face the joys and challenges of combining households, while the gang pulls together to defend one of their own accused of murder.

• Pages: 218
• Author: Carol Dean Jones
• Publish Date: 12/04/2018
• Dimensions: 5in x 0.52in x 8in
• Softcover

When sixty-eight year old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a possible love interest. Includes instructions for the featured cover quilt. The seventh installment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries centers on Sarah's friend Sophie, as she encounters several major life changes, including two new family members and a job working with abandoned animals.

• Pages: 222
• Author: Carol Dean Jones
• Publish Date: 01/02/2019
• Dimensions: 5in x 0.48in x 8in
• Softcover

When sixty-eight year old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a possible love interest. Includes instructions for the featured cover quilt. In the fourth installment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries, Sarah's daughter, Martha, begins to play a larger role in her life, bringing a troubled past and impending danger.

• Pages: 256
• Author: Carol Dean Jones
• Publish Date: 11/06/2018
• Dimensions: 5in x 0.51in x 8in
• Softcover

When sixty-eight year old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a possible love interest. Includes instructions for the featured cover quilt. In the eighth installment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries, a friend has gone missing, and Sarah is told to leave it to the professionals--but Sarah refuses to accept their assumptions about her friend's identity.

• Pages: 224
• Author: Carol Dean Jones
• Publish Date: 01/04/2019
• Dimensions: 5in x 0.48in x 8in
• Softcover

Go beyond the expected with strip quilting's best-kept secrets! Learn tips for cutting, storing, and piecing fabric strips in a variety of widths. Sewing easy strip sets to start, you'll advance to triangles and interesting layouts that might surprise you. Then make the most of your stash by turning pre-cut strips, sliced yardage, and selvages into 15 innovative strip-quilt projects. Customize each quilt with blank coloring pages, laying the foundation to design your own strip quilts.

• Pages: 88
• Author: Diane D. Knott
• Publish Date: 12/07/2018
• Dimensions: 8.47in x 0.25in x 11.01in
• Softcover

Are you buried in scraps--big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too small to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie's basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces 3/4” to 2” wide, turning them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts.

• Pages: 96
• Author: Bonnie Hunter
• Publish Date: 12/07/2018
• Dimensions: 8.49in x 0.26in x 11.03in
• Softcover

Get the most out of your precuts with this pint-sized guide to precut squares, strips, and bundles! Learn how many precuts to buy for any size quilt, from crib to king. Get cutting tips for layer cakes, charm squares, and fat quarters, with easy half-square triangles from precuts. Never be stumped at the quilt store again with this forty-eight page mini guide to precut names and sizes, plus twenty-five dynamic quilt blocks to sew.

• Pages: 48
• Author: Gailen Runge
• Publish Date: 10/07/2018
• Dimensions: 4.56in x 0.19in x 6.31in
• Softcover

Say goodbye to your seam ripper, backwards blocks, and mismatched seams with Easy Precision Piecing¿the pathway to flawless patchwork. Use the best tools to prep and press fabric for seams that always lay flat. Get organized so you can easily set aside projects without losing your place. Practice your cutting, sewing, and pressing with foolproof Quilt Block Builder blueprints. Six stunning projects for beginners and advanced quilters will help you use your newfound skills.

• Pages: 104
• Author: Shelley Scott-Tobisch
• Publish Date: 08/07/2018
• Dimensions: 8.47in x 0.38in x 11.15in
• Softcover

From the sewing machine whisperer comes this in-depth, visual guide to how a sewing machine works, how to keep it in good working order, and how to solve common problems. Perfect for sewists and quilters of all levels, this friendly approach to learning about and troubleshooting YOUR sewing machine gives you the tools you need to sew and quilt with less frustration and better results!

• Pages: 144
• Author: Bernie Tobisch
• Publish Date: 08/07/2018
• Dimensions: 8in x 0.44in x 10.04in
• Softcover

Cozy up to wool appliqué with fifty colorful garden blocks to mix and match! Best-selling author Kim Schaefer shares seven easy wool appliqué projects to teach you embroidery basics or to bring your hand stitching to the next level. Layer luscious flowers, birds, and butterflies of wool on top of cotton fabric, then add the embroidered finishing touches to fusible appliqué wall quilts, table toppers, and pillows. It's the perfect primer for every skill level.

• Pages: 88
• Author: Kim Schaefer
• Publish Date: 10/07/2018
• Dimensions: 8.51in x 0.26in x 10.98in
• Softcover

Learn techniques for accurately piecing small quilts, from choosing fabrics to cutting, sewing, and pressing. Comes with 12 projects in up to 3 sizes each!

Want inspiration for your free-motion quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs--JUST designs--and will lay flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The second in a new series, this visual guide is filled with over 75 continuous-line designs from your favorite designers to get you stitching. Perfect for domestic and longarm machines.

• Pages: 160
• Publish Date: 02/07/2018
• Dimensions: 5.74in x 0.68in x 9.11in
• Spiral Bound

Now in an easy-to-use reference guide size, this updated block tool includes 110 authentic blocks from America's first mail-order pattern company, the Ladies' Art Company. Each block has instructions for 5 sizes, design details, construction diagrams, inspiration blocks, and even a project! The projects will be a breeze with helpful design hints specific to each block, including pairing them with plain alternate blocks, creating secondary patterns, and using precuts.

• Pages: 128
• Author: Connie Chun
• Publish Date: 05/01/2018
• Dimensions: 5.75in x 0.69in x 9.05in
• Softcover

Celebrate the seasons with this sweet collection of folk-inspired projects using wool appliqué and embroidery. Featuring Elizabeth's signature sheep and floral motifs, these 11 small, charming projects made with easy fusible appliqué will appeal to quilters, needlework enthusiasts, craft sewists, and more! Relax as you hand stitch these folksy, portable pillows and table runners with needle and thread. The mix of wool and cotton is fun to stitch, display, and gift.

• Pages: 48
• Author: Elizabeth Ann Angus
• Publish Date: 02/07/2018
• Dimensions: 8.48in x 0.13in x 11.05in
• Softcover

Learn how to make simple, one-of-a-kind quilts using large-scale print fabrics! Easy Stack is a quick-cutting, fabric-efficient way of making great quilts that are rotary cut and machine pieced. Using only 4 fabric repeats and easy-to-cut strips, you can create 3 kinds of fun and unique blocks. Then play with 9 setting options--with 4 quilt sizes for each option--to create an endless variety of quilts.

• Pages: 80
• Author: Paula Doyle
• Publish Date: 07/07/2018
• Dimensions: 8.54in x 0.29in x 10.98in
• Softcover