Quilting the Savory Garden - Softcover

Quilters and sewers of all skill levels will learn to create a magnificent garden-themed quilt with the nontraditional machine piecing and hand stitching techniques presented here. Readers can quickly and easily combine colourful fabrics to create blocks featuring flowers, pears, snails, leaves, mushrooms, peppers, vines, a fence and more. These ten garden themed blocks can be used to create a quilt or other designs such as curtains, pillows, panels, and framed designs. Both machine and hand stitching results are featured, discussed, and the best one recommended for specific designs. The book highlights new needleturn applique techniques and gives machine options. This book adds new skills, builds techniques and presents innovative approaches and fresh challenges. Patterns are included.

A multifacered columnist, freelancer, and stitcher Sandra Millett wrote Quilt As You Go, which was featured in national quilting and sewing catalogues. For three years, she hosted a weekly, call-in radio talk show about stitchery. She also wrote, co-produced, and starred in the US television series, Needle Magic.