This fascinating book is perfect for anyone interested in taking a different approach to showcasing their fabric. Perfect for beginners, Angie Wilson walks you through the basics of choosing fabric, using prints effectively, blending patterns, and using templates and English Paper Piecing. The 14 projects range from easy potholders to a stunning bed quilt. The blend of humour and encouragement will keep you returning to this book again and again!
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Fussy Cutters Manifesto First Rule of the Fussy Cutters Club
- What is Fussy Cutting?
- Learn the Basics to Master the Complex
- The Projects in Fussy Cutters Club Cloth Tales Sidebar: Fabric 101
- Selecting Fabrics for Fussy Cutting
- Organizing Your Fabric Collection
- Tools of the Trade
- Tutorial: Seeing Secondary Patterns With a Hinged Mirror
- Tutorial: Adding a Seam Allowance to Acrylic Templates
- Tutorial: Making a Template with Template Plastic
- Tutorial: Making a Laminate Template How to be a Fussy Cutter
- Traditional Fussy Cutting
- Improvisational Fussy Cutting
- Tutorial: How to Improvisational Fussy Cut
- Fussy Cutting for Color
- Sidebar: Bias and Grain for Fussy Cutters
- Making the Cut
- Tutorial: Fussy Cutting Without a Template
- Tutorial: Fussy Cutting With an Acrylic Template Tutorial: Fussy Cutting a Repeating Design Basics of the Game
- To Wash or Not to Wash
- Machine Piecing
- Tutorial: Accurate 1/4" Seams
- English Paper Piecing
- Tutorial: English Paper Piecing
- Quilt Finishing
- Tutorial: Double-Fold Straight-Grain Binding
- Tutorial: Adding Binding to a Quilt Projects to Get You Hooked
- Nine-Patch Potholder
- Super Star Coasters Hexy Pin Up Pincushion
- 1-2-Sucker Pouch Fussy Designing: Improvisational Piecing
- Improv-able Dream Pillow Fussy Designing: Using Big Prints Projects to Feed Your Appetite
- Fabric Serenade Mini Quilt Fussy Designing: Creating an Uninterrupted Look
- A Flock of Seagulls Table Runner Fussy Designing: Achieving a Rainbow
- Gaggle of Geese Placemat Fussy Designing: To Match Or Not To Match When Making a Set
- Tote Amazeballs Projects to Cement Your Love Affair
- Rainbow I Spy Baby Quilt
- We Are All Connected Mini Quilt Inception Squared Quilt
- Focal (On) Point Quilt
- Crouching HST, Hidden Churn Dash
- Resources
- About the Author