Books

Elly's Newest Baltimore Album: Smaller, Easier, Just as Appealing!

• A fresh look at Baltimore Album quilts!
• 25 new, smaller (8"), less complex blocks-8 large reproduction blocks-plus border designs
• 6 lessons for building and improving your appliqué skills
• Embellish pretty totes, aprons, pillows, and a block carrier

If you always wanted to create a Baltimore Album quilt, you'll love Elly Sienkiewicz' new collection of smaller, less-complex blocks that are perfect for your first Baltimore Album. Or, enlarge the blocks for a larger work! More than two dozen block designs are also ideal for adding elegance to accessories and home décor, or for creating a very special child's quilt. In-depth how-tos and Elly's skill-building lessons will have you creating block after block.

176 pgs soft cover

Color Inspiration to Make Every Quilt a Knockout

• Develop a keen color sense with Joen’s easy visual coloring technique • Learn to use this foolproof technique to select your quilt’s colors and fabrics

Do you get stuck when choosing colors and fabrics for your quilts? Joen comes to your rescue with this amazingly simple, practically foolproof technique. Using visual coloring, you’ll learn to select colors you love in nature and duplicate the effect in your work. You’ll find tons of photographs, fabric-swatch examples, and gallery quilts using this color selection technique, plus 5 simple and beautiful quilt projects

96 pgs soft cover

At Home with the Experts!
• Say it with thread - create fabulous free motion embroidery without drawing, templates, or stencils
• Use any sewing machine with feed dog drop
• Learn all about threads, needles and stabilizers, so you're successful every time
• Learn when and where it's convenient for YOU!
Also Includes:
Studio Tour
Interview
Quilt Gallery

75 minutes

Transform Your Digital Photos into Luminous Fabric Art
• Alter photos and use them to create beautiful, original works of fabric art - 11 exercises show you how
• Learn to alter images with Photoshop Elements®
• Use photos that really enhance your work (Hint: it's not always the best-looking shots!)
• Find inspiration in your own albums, from other artists, and in nature
• Make large-scale quilts with a standard-size inkjet printer
This accessible guide to creating fine fabric art with digital photos covers everything from the tools and equipment you'll need, to designing, finishing, and assembling your quilt.

96 pages softcover

Think Outside the Block and Look What Happens!

• 11 creative exercises take your use of color, design, and piecing in dramatic new directions, including unique, 3-D "off the wall" quilts
• Use photographs and journals to find inspiration and develop your ideas
• Learn innovative finishing methods that show your quilts at their best
• Classroom-proven techniques make the adventure easy for any quilter

Jean Wells gives you the assignment of your life: put away your ruler and use your inner vision to design and piece spectacular, free-form quilts you'd never have guessed you could create. You will never see quilting in the same way again.

96 pages softcover

Learn to Make Beautiful Appliqué with the Baltimore Album Master

• Learn how to create Elly's style of heirloom appliqué, up-close and in person
• Learn all the basics of planning, creating, and embellishing needle-turn appliqué
• Replay the lesson as often as you want to!
• Includes pattern for the Family History block in printable PDF format

Quilters travel from around the world to attend Elly Sienkiewicz's famed Appliqué Academy. Now you can learn Elly's appliqué techniques one-on-one, right in your own home. The video covers everything you'll need to get started: tools and supplies, preparing patterns, creating an overlay, printing photos on fabric, stitching your appliqué, and embellishing with oil pastels, plus a brief history of Baltimore Album quilts.