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The Art of Classic Quiltmaking
Hard Cover w/ Covered Spiral Binding

Sharla's note about the book: Everything is covered for creating blocks by piecing using templates, fast piecing, and paper piecing techniques. Each project has multiple techniques covered, so you have directions for your favorite method of quilting!

Back Cover

The Ultimate How-To Book for Quiltmakers!

Two of quilting's most respected teachers combine their styles to present a complete reference guide and project book that beginners and experience quilters alike will always keep near the sewing machine. The Art of Classic Quiltmaking is a necessary reference for every quilter's library!

• Goes beyond quilting basics to give you the ability to explore your own quilting style.
• Find out how to answer questions such as "where do I go next?" or "what went wrong?"
• Loaded with the information you need to make traditional quilts, including:

• Includes a visually stunning selection of over 80 full-color quilt photos.
• Step-by-step exercises contain technique variations, hints, and helpful illustrations.

About the Authors

Both Harriet Hargrave and Sharyn Craig have Home Economics degree with an emphasis in clothing and textiles. They share a love of fabric and its texture and color. They both started sewing at very early ages, progressing from doll clothes, to their own clothes, their families clothes, to home decorations and crafts.

Harriet started quilting seriously in 1974, working alongside her mom. Her early quilting career included producing baby quilts for craft shows and teaching adult education classes. In 1980, Harriet opened her quilt shop, Harriet's Treadle Arts. The adult ed. students followed Harriet into her shop and continued investigating the various machine arts in her shop classroom. Her specialty at that time was free motion embroidery, machine arts and machine quilting. In 1982, Harriet attended one of Mary Ellen Hopkins's seminars. Mary Ellen's method of working with patchwork blocks opened a whole new way of thinking for Harriet. This led Harriet into teaching strictly quilting and forgoing the machine arts. Today she is best known as the pioneer of machine quilting and appliqué.

Sharyn started quilting in 1978, when she took an adult education class. By 1980, her enthusiasm for making quilts led her into teaching the classes themselves: first one, then two, finally four classes a week, averaging 50 students per class. She taught quilting in the adult ed. system for 11 years. In 1991, Sharyn began to teach internationally. One of her strongest talents is the ability to come up with efficient, organized sewing systems that relate to traditional blocks. She is also known as an inspiring teacher who encourages her student to be creative in their own work.

Between the two them have accumulated over 40 years of teaching experience, completed hundreds of quilts, and taught thousands of students.

Reference Cards (Laminated)

Fons and Porter's
Perfect Binding Card

Fons and Porter's
Need-to-Know Card
Size charts for diagonal corners, mattress sizes, cutting charts, yardage calculations and more

Foundation Piecing, Basics
by Marci L. Baker

Reference Booklets

Some with Heavy Cardboard Front & Back, Spiral Bindings
or
Bolted Corner (allows fanning of cards)

Spools & Cones

Superior
MasterPiece Thread
Available in 50 Colors
50 WT fine cotton
Endorsed by Alex Anderson

Traditional:

Beginner to Advanced Comprehensive Instruction

Project Specific with

Comprehensive Overview Instruction

Comprehensive

Technique Specific Instruction

Comprehensive Instructions

Hand Piecing

Also see Appliqué

Hand Quilting & Piecing Accessories

Template

Perfect Piecing
Use with Quiltmaking by Hand

Alex Anderson

Beginner to Advanced How-to Instruction

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