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Good Ideas for Strip, Trip, & Shadow Quilts by Marti Michell featuring:

  • No pattern pieces required
  • Make any size you want
  • Grid-system, sew-before-you-cut patchwork
  • All quilts made from strips and square
  • Plus more machine quilting techniques

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Good Ideas for Strip, Trip, & Shadow Quilts

Good Ideas for Strip, Trip, & Shadow Quilts
for People Who Don't Have Time to Quilt

Author: Marti Michell
Pages: 44
Page size: 81/2" x 11 1/2"
Publisher: American School of Needlework

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Good Ideas for Strip, Trip, & Shadow Quilts by Marti Michell featuring

  • no pattern pieces required
  • make any size you want
  • grid-system, sew-before-you-cut patchwork
  • all quilts made from strips and square
  • plus more machine quilting techniques

Contents

Before You Begin2-4Quilt Designs 
A Little Review Amish Shadows/Roman Strips9
Learn to Think in Patchwork Grids  Overnight Success Quilt20
There Are No Patterns Joseph's Coat Borders25
What about Fabrics Railroad Crossing27
How Much Fabric Do I Need Sunshine and Shadows31
What Size is a Quilt Trip Around the World37
Accurate Cutting is Crucial Finishing Your Quilt Top40-44
Other Tools Now the Quilting 
The Sewing Techniques in Theory 4-5Preparation for Machine Quilting  
Analyze Preparing the Backing 
Strip Piecing What Kind of Batting? 
The Actual Sewing5-6Machine Quilting in the Ditch  
Seam Allowance Data Materials Needed 
There's More to Perfect Patchwork than 1/4" Seam Allowance The Actual Layering Process 
Sometimes It's Consistency That Counts  Start Pinning 
Math VS Patchwork Now What? 
Pressing—This is Not an Option! Setting up the Machine 
Shortcut Pressing Start Quilting 
The "Second Cut" Quilt-as-you-Sew Borders 
Chain Piecing  Straight Machine Quilting that Isn't in the Ditch  
Some Tips on Ripping Free Form Quilting Adds Another Direction 
Getting on Good Terms6Machine Quilting in Sections 
  Making the Binding 
  Machine Hemmed 
  No Separate Binding 
    

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 90 Minute Quilts
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 by Meryl Ann Butler		 A New Twist ln Strips 'n Curves
A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves
 by Louisa L. Smith		 Good Ideas for Strip, Trip, & Shadow Quilts
Good Ideas for
Strip, Trip and Shadow Quilts
by Marti Michell		 Rectangle Pizazz
Rectangle Pizzazz
by Judy Sisneros
Rolling Along
Rolling Along
 by Nancy J. Martin		 StrataVarious Quilts
StrataVarious Quilts
 by Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover

Strip Addiction
Strip Addiction
 by Donna Slater

Strip Clubbing
Strip Clubbing
 with designs by Daniela Stout, Georgette Dell'Orco, Susan Ziegler and Sharyn Craig		 Strip Easy
Strip Easy
by Christiane Meunier

Strip-Pieced Quilts
 by Maakie Bakker		 Strips and Strings
Strips and Strings
16 Sparkling Quilts
by Evelyn Sloppy		 Super Simple Quilts #1
Super Simple Quilts #1
 with Alex Anderson & Liz Anelsoki		    

Tricia Cribbs'

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Miss Bunny's Show and Tell
 Six Little Fat Quarter Quilts
by Tricia Cribbs
Love Covers
Love Covers
Designed by Tricia Cribbs
Turning Twenty Around the Block
Turning Tweny Around the Block
 Designed by Tricia Cribbs
 Turning Twenty Just Got Better
Turning Twenty Just Got Better
 by Tricia Cribbs

Jelly Rolls 2/12" Strips

 Jelly Roll Quilts
Jelly Rolls Quilts
 by Pam & Nicky Lintott		 cover more strip clubbing
More Strip Clubbing
 by Daniela Stout & Georgette Dell'Orco		 Simply Strips & Squares
Simply Strips and Squares
 by Suzanne McNeill		 Strip Crazy
Strip Crazy
 by Suzanne McNeill
Strip Delight
Strip Delight
 by Suzanne McNeill
Strip Happy
Strip Happy
 by Donna Kinsey 		Strip Lovers
Strip Lovers
 by Suzanne McNeill		 Home Decor & Quilts
Strippin' Time
Strippin Time: Project of the Month
by J.Jane Mitchell and Patsy Padgett
 Sunshine and Sunflowers
Sunshine & Sunflowers
 by Suzanne McNeill

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Quilting for People
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Have Time To Quilt
by Marti Michell 		Quilting For People Who Don't Have Time To Quilt
Quilting For People
Who Don't
Have Time To Quilt
by Marti Michell

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Good Ideas for Strip, Trip, & Shadow Quilts
Good Ideas for
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Stitched Appliqués,
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