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The books Let's Make a Quilt, Let's Make Squares and Rectangles, Let's Make Triangles by Billie Lauder are intended to be instructional books on basic quilt making. The quilts progress from very easy and basic to more complex. All can be made by anyone who takes one step at a time.

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Billie has been teaching Quiltmaking since 1976. A third generation quilter, she has inherited her love of quilts from her grandmother and mother and has the ability to make quiltmaking easy and understandable for every level of quilter. Her teaching techniques and quilts have also been featured on seventeen episodes of the Home & Garden Television Networks series Simply Quilts! hosted by Alex Anderson. Billie is teaching various quiltmaking techniques across the United States for quilt guilds, shops and other organizations and is a certified teacher in Art and Anthropology.

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Let's Make Triangles

Let's Make Triangles
Half Square & Quarter Square Triangle

Author: Billie Lauder
Pages: 44
Page size: 5"x 81/2""
Publisher: Easymade
Item Code: 4D0200

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This is the next step if you are a beginner. Half Square and Quarter Square Triangles really add to a quilt. They are not hard to do. Flip through the pages of this book. Start with the first quilt if you never made a quilt. Start anywhere if you made quilts before. Look over each quilt pattern before you start anything. Read the directions and plan what fabrics you want to use. For your first quilt pick fabrics that you will have fun using.

Table of Contents

Let's Begin
4
Construction of Quilt
22
Fabric and Basic Supplies
5
The Wonderland Quilt "Off with Their Heads"
23
Cutting Your Fabric
6
Construction
24
Cutting Half-square Triangles
6
Basic HST Border Quilt
32
Sewing Half Square Triangles
8
Pop Quiz Quilt- Sampler Quilt
34
Cutting Quarter Square Triangles
13
Half & Quarter Square Triangles
38
Shaded Nine-Patch Quilt
15
The Quilt Sandwich
40
Construction of Blocks
19
Binding
42


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Let's Make Squares & Rectangles

Let's Make Squares & Rectangles

Author: Billie Lauder
Pages: 44
Page size: 5"x 81/2""
Publisher: Easymade
Item Code: 4D0201

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8 different fabric in a trip around the world variationElement from double four patch quiltEasy nine strippy quilt

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Quilts that take you from beginner to beyond. Flip through the pages of this book. Start with the first quilt if you have never made a quilt. Start anywhere if you have made quilts before. Look over each quilt pattern before you start anything, Read the directions and plan what fabrics you want to use. Reproduction fabrics - you can make your quilt look like it was make in the 1880's or perhaps the 1930's. The fabrics that are available today are wonderful. There are flower prints in all sizes, oriental, batiks, solids, dots, calicoes and some bright bold modern print patterns, Patterns that are very graphic and just plain "cute". For your first quilt pick fabrics that you will have fun using.

Table of Contents

Fabric & Basic Supplies
5

Extra Nine Quilt

31
Cutting Your Strips
6

Yardage

 
Establishing Your 90 Degree Angle
6

Cutting & Construction

 
Sewing Your Strips
9

Sashing & Cornerstones

 
Pressing Your Strips
9

Extra Nine Quilt

31
Pressing in a Four Patch Spiral
10
Extra Nine Quilt Graph
32
Two Patch Quilt
11
Easy Nine Strippy Quilt
33

Yardage

 

Yardage

 

Cutting

 

Cutting & Construction

 
Construction
11

Sashing

 

Quilt 1

 Easy Nine Strippy Quilt Graph
36

Quilt 2

 Basic Pieced Border Quilt 
Two Patch Quilt Graph
14

Yardage

 
Double Four Patch Quilt
15

Sashing & Cornerstones

 

Yardage

 Play Time
38

Cutting and Construction

 Basic Borders
39

Double Four Patch Quilt Graph

18
The Quilt Sandwich
40
Double Four Patch Quilt Layout Variations
19

Make the Sandwich

 

Tip Around the World

 

Basting

 

"X" Marks the Spot

 Binding
43

A Fancy Trip Around the World

   


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Lets Make a Quilt
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Let's Make a Quilt
Includes both Squares & Triangles in same book

Author: Billie Lauder
Pages: 48
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: Easymade
Item Code: B5-QT01

feathered star medallion

goose in the pond qltthe wonderland qlt

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Six Quilts that take you from beginner to beyond.

This book is intended to be an instructional book on basic quilt making. The quilts progresses from very easy and basic to more complex. All be made by anyone who takes one step at a time.

NOT included in this book are the the basic quick tricks of sewing two units of four patches at one time nor the various fast methods for making half square triangles - such at Triangles On A Roll or Thangles™. All of these details are in my Quick Quilt Tricks Book.

It is easy to use both books together, Let's Make a Quilt for the patterns and Quick Tricks for the quick piecing tricks.

Table of Contents

Fabric & Basic Supplies 4 Shaded Nine Patch Quilt 18
Tools 4 Goose On the Pond Quilt 26
Cutting Your Strips 4 Wonderland Quilt 33
Sewing Your Strips 6 Feathered Star Medallion Quilt 38
Pressing Your Strips 6 Flying Geese Technique 45
Pressing in a Four Patch Spiral 7 Quilt Sandwich 46
The Quilts   Binding 48
Double Four Patch Quilt 8    
Variable Four Patch Quilt 12    



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