Fun with Fat Quarters

15 Step-by-Step Projects with Essential Techniques to Kick-Start Your Sewing

Wendy Gardiner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2023
Search Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80092-054-5 (ISBN)

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Brush up on your sewing skills with Wendy Gardiner and get sewing again! Previously published in 2015.

Sewing guru Wendy Gardiner brings you this comprehensive guide to sewing with fat quarters. Delve into a brilliant techniques section, guiding you through a variety of essential techniques, from inserting a zip and sewing buttonholes to creating patchwork. Each is fully explained and combined with easy-to-follow step-by-step photography.

Once you have brushed up on your sewing skills it's time to get sewing. Choose from 15 inspiring projects: from doorstops and drawstring bags to tablemats, aprons and cushions. Each fun fat-quarter project contains colourful photographs, instructive hand-drawn illustrations and a stash of handy hints and tips. Whether you have treated yourself to a fat quarter bundle or are using up leftover fabric, there is a project for you. Full-size traceable templates are supplied at the back of the book.

Previously published in 2015 (ISBN: 9781782211464).

Wendy Gardiner is a writer, teacher and author. She has been editor of several leading sewing magazines and written 22 books including The Great British Sewing Bee: From Stitch to Style, Take Two Fat Quarters: Home, Take Two Fat Quarters: Gifts and most recently The Sewing Machine Manual. Wendy has made several YouTube videos for leading haberdashery and pattern companies. She runs regular residential Creative Sewing Weekends, teaches a weekly class and writes articles for various magazines and her own website. Wendy organizes the extensive workshop programmes for the Festival of Quilts and the Knitting & Stitching Shows. She has a strong reputation and fan base because of her enthusiastic and friendly approach to sharing her passion for dressmaking and machine sewing. Wendy lives in Hampshire, UK. Visit her website: www.wendygardiner.co.uk

Introduction 6

What is a fat quarter? 8

Materials 10

Tools 12

Techniques 16

PROJECTS 40

Fabulous flowers 42

Drawstring bags 46

Reversible bag 48

Quilted Cosmetic bag 50

Doorstop 54

Party clutch 58

Retro mini-pinny 62

Diamond-star mat 66

Al fresco placemat 68

Tucked and stitched pillow 72

Disappearing nine-patch bag 76

Draught excluder 80

Pillow with piping 82

Baby playmat 86

Pretty pinafore 90

Templates 94

Index 96

Erscheinungsdatum	12.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	96 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Tunbridge Wells
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Gewicht	432 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
ISBN-10	1-80092-054-7 / 1800920547
ISBN-13	978-1-80092-054-5 / 9781800920545
Zustand	Neuware