The Quilting Answer Book
I'm so pleased with the results and everyone who's seen it remarks on the colorful cover, information-packed pages, and it's handy size--so easy to keep right at the sewing machine or to drop into your tote bag to take along to quilting class.
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Your Quilting Answers, Squared Away!
“This is a book that should be part of every quilter’s library, from the beginner to the advanced enthusiast. As is always the case when a book carries Barbara’s name, the information is accurate, well-illustrated, and easy to understand.”
Judy Murrah
Vice President of Education, Quilts, Inc.
Quilting is one of the fastest-growing segments of the craft market in recent years--and a long-time leader in the DIY trend. With so many people making quilts or itching to learn how, it seems that there is no better time to read The Quilting Answer Book by Barbara Weiland Talbert, the latest in Storey’s Answer Books series.
Barbara Weiland Talbert Storey Publishing; April 2009 432 pages; 4½ x 6? Two-color; illustrations throughout $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-60342-144-7
Barbara answers quiltmaking questions from start to finish — from Quilt Anatomy 101, Choosing Fabric, Gathering Supplies and Tools, Cutting, Templates, Stitching, Batting, Finishing, to Embellishments. She even provides a handy chapter on quilting math, solving problems involving yardage, cutting techniques, charts, patterns, and needles. Have a quilting question? You'll no doubt find your answer — and more — in The Quilting Answer Book. Keep it at your fingertips beside the sewing machine. The handbook size is small enough to tuck into a craft bag or to take to the fabric store to help with yardage calculations and design choices. This book joins other popular crafting titles in Storey’s Answer Books series (over 500,000 combined copies in print). These books cover the basics, and also puts the knowledge, insights, and experience of topnotch experts at readers’ fingertips. Whether the passion is quilting, beading, knitting, crocheting, or sewing, enthusiasts will find solutions to any quandary they may face, and discover the joy of doing, making, and growing.
The Quilting Answer Book
Barbara Weiland Talbert is a nationally known sewing author, columnist, and editor who designs quilting patterns for stitchers of all levels. Over the past twenty-plus years, Barbara has written over a thousand magazine articles for sewing publications, including Sew News, Sewing Savvy, and Creative Machine Embroidery.
