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Breathe new life into your favorite quilts with Traditional Quilts with a Twist by Maggie Ball. Included are 20 projects from tote bags to queen-size quilts, patterns from easy to challenging, and full-color photos and illustrations.

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Exciting New Looks For Your Favorite Patterns

Author: Maggie Ball
Pages: 128
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11 "
Publisher: Krause Publications
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Breathe New Life Into Your Favorite Traditional Blocks

Take the Ohio Star, Trip Around the World and Bear's Paw blocks from "been there and done that" to fresh and fabulous new heights with Traditional Quilts with a Twist.

Author Maggie Ball gives these blocks a modern and teaches you how to tweak the designs with the right colors, fabric choices, value placements and settings to bring a spotlight-grabbing twist to your favorite blocks.

Traditional Quilts with a Twist gives you:

  • Comprehensive instructions for quilting basics
  • Patterns that progress from easy to challenging
  • 20 projects in various types and sizes, ranging from tote to queen-size quilts
  • Clear, concise instructions accompanied by full-color photos and illustrations

You'll fall in love—again—with the time-tested favorite blocks in Traditional Quilts with a Twist.

About the Author

Maggie Ball has 20 years of quilting experience. Her award-winning quilts have been exhibited both nationally. She's a quilt show judge certified by the Northern California Quilt Council. She teaches quilting and traveled to Mongolia as a volunteer to teach unemployed and low-income women. Maggie has published two other books with Krause Publications, Creative Quilting with Kids and Patchwork and Quilting with Kids. A native of England, Maggie lives with her family on Bainbridge Island in the Pacific Northwest.

Winter GardenQueen's Courtyard
Winter Garden & Queens Courtyard

Nine-Block Sampler Stars at SunsetTrip Around the Garden
Nine-Block Sampler Stars at Sunset & Trip Around the Garden

Basket of FuschiasDitsy Garden
Basket of Fuschias & Ditsy Garden

Day Tripper TotesQuick Tripper
Day Tripper Totes & Quick Tripper Quilts

 

Table of Contents

Introduction6Chapter Three - Trip Around the World35
Chapter One - How to Use this Book8Ditsy Garden36
Chapter Two - Quilting Basics10Quick Tripper38
Tools and Supplies10Mini Trippers - Spring Stars, Day Night Tripper40
Fabric Selection and Planning11Day Tripper Totes45
Fabric Basics12Basket of Fuchsias48
Rotary Cutting Fabric 12Trip Around the Garden52
Machine Piecing Techniques 14Chapter Four - Ohio Star61
Pinning, Pressing and Assembly Line Sewing14Large Ohio Star62
Strip Piecing15Tweaked Ohio Star - The Block Patterns65
Corner-Square Triangles15Tweaked Ohio Star - Pillows68
Half-Square Triangles16Nine-Block Sampler - Stars at Sunset70
Quarter-Square Triangles 17Tutti Fruity73
Block Construction18Queen's Courtyard77
Bowtie18Tropical Latte81
Shoofly19Ohio Star Lattice - Star Struck84
Sawtooth Star19More Lattice Quilts 88
Ohio Star20Chapter Five - Bear's Paw91
Wedges20Constructing the Bear's Paw Books93
Prairie Points22Bear's Paw Variations96
Piano Keys Border22Table Runner100
Squares On-Point Border 23Six-Block Samplers - Royal Bears, Pacific Northwest Bears102
Assembling and Completing the Quilt25The Bear's Come Out at Night105
Assembling Blocks and Adding Borders25Hydrangea Garden109
Mitered Corners28Winter Garden112
Quilt Backing29Mix and Match - Tuscany Bears118
Batting and Basting30Appendices 1-4123
Quilting 31Supply Sources127
Binding32About the Author128
Finishing Touches33  

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Best of the Best Quilts
Best of the Best Quilts

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Creative Quilt Collection Volume 1
Creative Quilt Collection Volume 1
That Patchwork Place
Creative Quilt Collection Volume 2
Creative Quilt Collection
Volume Two

That Patchwork Place
Creative Collection Volume Three
Creative Quilt Collection
Volume Three
That Patchwork Place
 Fabulous Quilts from Favorite Patterns
Fabulous Quilts
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Georgia Bonesteel's 
Quiltmaking Legacy
Georgia Bonesteel's
Quiltmaking Legacy
Memory and Milestones Cover
Memories and Milestones

by Debbie Mumm
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Quiltmaker's Fancy
Quiltmaker Magazine

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All Buttoned Up
All Buttoned Up
by Loraine Manwaring and Susan Nelson

Better by the Dozen
Better by the Dozen
by Susan Teegarden Dissmore

Blocks That Connect
Blocks That Connect
by Kay Oft
Bold, Black and Beautiful Quilts
Bold, Black & Beautiful Quilts

by Debby Kratovil
Chameleon Quiltsw
Chameleon Quilts

by Margrit Hall
Classic Quilts
Classic Quilts
by The Keystone Quilters
Dear Pam
Dear Pam

by Pam Bono
Granny Quilt Decor
Granny Quilt Decor

by Darlene Zimmerman
Joined at the Heart Quilting
Joined at the Heart Quilting for Family and Friends

by Anne Moscicki and Linda Wyckoff-Hickey
Keepsake Quilts for Baby
Keepsake Quilts for Baby

Designs by Julie Higgins
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DVD
Mastering Precision Piecing
Mastering Precision Piecing
by Sally Collins
Mis Mabel's Garden
Miss Mabel's Garden
by Helen Thorn
More Simple Quilts with Splash, Dash, & Panache
More Simple Quilts with Splash, Dash, and Panache

by Nicole C. Chambers
More Elm Creek Quilts
More Elm Creek Quilts
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A Passion For Patchwork
A Passion for Patchwork
by Lise Bergene
Patchwork Memories
Patchwork Memories

by Retta Warehime
Plentiful Possibilities
Plentiful Possibilities
A Timeless Treasury of 16 Terrific Quilts

by Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith
Q is for Quilt
Q is for Quilt

by Diana McClun & Laura Nownes
Quilt Shack
Quilt Shack
by R. Norum & H.A. Krohg
Quilter's Happy Hour
Quilter's Happy Hour
11 Quilts with Cocktail Recipes
Quilting with Bits and Pieces Cover
Quilting With Bits & Pieces

Various Designer w/
House of White Birches
Quilter's Bounty
Quilter's Bounty

by Robin Strobel
Quilting a Rainbow of Quilts
Quilting a Rainbow of Quilts

by Various Artists/Authors
Quilts for Ice Cream Lovers
Quilts for Ice Cream Lovers
by Janet Jones Worley
Quilts from Booneslick Trail Quilter's Guild
Quilts from Booneslick Trail Quilters' Guild

by Bettina Havig
Quilting Season
Quilting Season
by Debbie Caffrey

Quilting through Life
Projects for the Mind, Body, and Soul
by Julia Teters-Zeigler
Quilts From the Heart, Quick projects for gerous giving
Quilts From the Heart
Quick Projects for Generous Giving

by Karen Renaud
The Quilt Mania's Playbook
The Quilt Maniac's Playbook

by Nicole C. Chambers
Simple Quilts
Simple Quilts That Look Like a Million Bucks
by Nicole C. Chambers
Thimbleberries, Collections of Classic Quilts
Thimbleberries, Collection of Classic Quilts

by Lynette Jensen
Thimbelberries
New Classic Quilts Cover
New Classic Quilts
by Lynette Jensen
Traditional Quilts with a Twist
Traditional Quilts with a Twist

by Maggie Ball
Tried and True
Tried and True
by Sandy Bonsib
Twisted Classics
Twisted Classics
by Jeanne Stauffer &
Sandra L Hatch
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Twosey-Foursey Quilts
by Cathy Wierzbicki
Wine Country Quilts
Wine Country Quilts

by Cyndy Lyle Rymer & Jennifer Rounds
  

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