 | Better Homes and Gardens 501 Quilt Blocks: A Treasury of Patterns for Patchwork & Applique
Buy used from: $4.38 This is to quilting as Joy of Cooking is to food. It was one of the first quilt books I bought and after ten years, I still use it regularly.
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 | The Dog Lady Speaks by Sharon Malec
Buy used from: $17.99 Even if portrait/picture style quilts aren't your thing, this book is a must have to learn her appliqué technique. It is marvelous! Plus the quilts are gorgeous.
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 | Setting Solutions by Sharyn Squier Craig
Buy used from: $67.71 A quilt is about more than just blocks. How you arrange and frame your blocks can take an "ok" quilt to "incredible."
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 | That Dorky Homemade Look by Lisa Boyer
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.63 No patterns to be found here, but it's a good reminder that a finished quilt is better than a perfect quilt. Every quilter, no matter how experienced, makes mistakes and it's ok to leave them!
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 | Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts: Mysterious, Magical, Easy, and Fun by Ricky Tims
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $8.75 His quilts are stunning and his techniques are very simple. Art quilts do not have to be hard to make, and they can still keep you warm and go in the washer. Check ALL his stuff out.
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| Fat Quarter Friendly: From Fons and Porter's For the Love of Quilting Magazine
Buy used from: $6.86 These two are the best at explaining techniques that I've ever seen. Plus this book is good to show you what to do with all your fat quarters.
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 | Heirloom Machine Quilting, 4th Edition: Comprehensive Guide to Hand-Quilting Effects Using Your Sewing Machine by Harriet Hargrave
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $20.65 Hargrave's work is stunning and many consider her the absolute authority on how to quilt a quilt. Great inspiration
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 | A New Look at Log Cabin Quilts: Design a Scene Block by Block PLUS 10 Easy-to-Follow Projects by Favin Glover
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $4.95 The log cabin pattern is a lot more versatile than one would think at first glance. Here's a book to get your ideas going.
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 | Kitty Capers: 15 Quilt Projects with Purrsonality by Carol Armstrong
Buy new: $23.35 / Used from: $8.99 Armstrong is a talented designer and her quilts are delightful for anyone that enjoys cats, birds or flowers.
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 | It's Raining Cats & Dogs: Paper-Pieced Quilts for Pet Lovers by Janet Kime
Buy used from: $6.75 A great pattern book to help you make something for the pet lover in your life.
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 | A Quilter's Ark: More Than 50 Designs for Foundation Piecing by Margaret Rolfe
Buy used from: $7.29 Paper piece some fun animals.
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 | Quilt a Koala: Australian Animals and Birds in Patchwork (That Patchwork Place) by Margaret Rolfe
Buy used from: $27.50 More paper pieced animals from Rolfe, and if I remember correctly, there are no duplicates from her other paper pieced animal book.
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 | Fabulous Quilts from Favorite Patterns: From Australian Patchwork & Quilting Magazine
Buy used from: $6.00 I like APQS's work because Australian quilters tend to use color differently than most American, English and Canadian quilters. The work is marvelous and makes for great eye candy.
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 | Bright Quilts from Down Under: 13 Color-Charged Projects (That Patchwork Place)
Buy used from: $6.31 More aussie quilts. You can't have too many of these books to help you learn to view color in as many ways as possible.
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 | Making Scrap Quilts to Use It Up by Lynne Edwards
Most quilters hate to throw away useable scraps but don't necessarily know how to use them. This will help.
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