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5
General Information
6 Materials
Fabrics
Batting
Threads
7
Tools
Cutting tools
Rulers
Markers
Templates and stencils
Fasteners
Hoops and frames
Needles
Thimbles
Other tools
11 Pressing and
starching
11 Caring for your
quilt
12 Sizes of
quilts
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13
Preparation
14 Templates
Making templates for piecing
by hand
Making templates for piecing by machine
Using templates for piecing by hand
Using templates for piecing by machine
16 Cutting out
Using a rotary cutter
Cutting strips
Cutting squares and rectangles
Cutting half-square and
quarter-square triangles
Cutting diamonds
Trimming points
Cutting without templates
19
Creating the quilt top
21 Patchwork and
piecing
21 Patchwork blocks
23 Piecing by hand
Straz~ht seam
Butted seam
Set-in seam
26 Piecing by machine
Straight
seam
Chain piecing
Butted seam
Set-in seam
29 Sewing curves
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30 Foundation
piecing
31
Strip piecing
32 English piecing
33
Log cabin
35
Crazy patchwork
37 Seminole
patchwork
38
Appliqué
38 Preparing shapes
Using paper- backed fusible
web (or appliqué paper)
Using templates
42 Hand appliqué
Blanket stitch
Slip stitch
Stab stitch
Needle-turn appliqué
46 Machine appliqué
Satin stitch
Zigzag
stitch
Topstitch
47 Bias tubes
Tube with the seam
allowance on the outside
Tube
with the seam allowance on the inside
Double-fold tube
Appliquéing the tube
49 Broderie perse
50 Shadow appliqué
51 Reverse appliqué
52 Fabric
manipulation
52 Cathedral window
55
Ruching
Grid
ruching
Circular niching
57
Prairie points (or
shark’s teeth)
individual prairie
points
Multple
prairie points
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60 Slashing and
chenilling
61 Tucking
Spaced
tucks
Blind
tucks
Graduated tucks
Centred tucks
Undulated tucks
Bubble tucks
64 Suffolk puffs
65 Yo-yos
67 Embellishing
67 Embroidery
Blanket stitch
Blanket stitch
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long and short
Chain stitch
Detached chain
Feather stitch
Fly
stitch
French knot
Herringbone stitch
Pistil stitch
Stem stitch
Couching
75 Beading
Attaching a
bead
Attaching a string of beads
Attaching a circle of beads
78 Assembling the
quilt top
78 Blocking
79 Setting blocks
together
80 Sashing
Sashing without cornerstones
Sashing with cornerstones
82 Borders
Measuring for borders
Butted corners
Square corners
Mitred corners
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86
Quilting
87 Marking the quilting
design
Stencils and templates
Perforated patterns
Tracings
Using masking tape
90 Attaching the
batting
and lining
Preparing the lining
Layering
Basting with
safety pins
Basting with thread
93
Quilting by hand
Knotting the thread
Starting and ending off
the thread
Quilting without a hoop or frame
Quilting in a hoop or frame
97 Quilting by
machine
Starting andfinishing
Trimming the
tails
of thread
Quilting with the feed dog
engaged
Free motion quilting
99
Straight line quilting
Quilting in the
ditch
Outline quilting
Grid or cross-hatch
quilting
100 Echo quilting
100 Corded quilting
102 Trapunto
104 Tying
Buttoning
Tufting |
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Finishing
107 Squaring the quilt
Blocking
Squaring
108
Making binding
Joining bias strips
Making continuous bias binding
110 Attaching binding
Attaching doubled binding with butted
corners
Attaching single binding with butted
corners
Attaching doubled binding with mitred
corners
Attaching single binding with mitred corners
Making rounded corners Scallops
120 Backing turned to
front
121 Adding a hanging
sleeve
122
Glossary
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Index
128 Acknowledgements
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