Click on the picture of book above to see the actual expanded Table of Contents PLUS a Sample Chapter

Are you curious to know what’s in store for you when you receive your copy of

A Beginner’s Guide to Quilting and Beyond?

Here’s a quick look at what’s inside the book:

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Learn about how and why patchwork quilting began in the United States, and how it has changed with the growth in technology

Chapter 2 - How to Use This Book
Tips for using the book to easily learn how to make a quilt

Chapter 3 - Selecting and Planning Blocks for Your Quilt
Learn how color choices affect the final look of your quilt, and see how easy or challenging it is to work with different shapes of fabric – from squares to curves

Chapter 4 - Choosing Colors and Selecting Your Fabrics
Learn about various types of fabrics and how to decide which is best for making a quilt; determine where you will use light, medium and dark fabrics as you make your quilt

Chapter 5 - Ready, Set, Cut
Tips to cut your fabric strips with rotary cutter accuracy and efficiency – saving time and fabric (money!)

Chapter 6 - Sewing Your Pieces into a Block
Learn the secrets of sewing accurate seam allowances; chain sew your strips and block units together with speed and accuracy

Chapter 7 - Sewing Your Blocks Together
Learn how to arrange your blocks and keep them in the order you want them sewn – without pulling your hair out! Shortcuts to sewing the blocks together to finish your quilt top painlessly.

Chapter 8 - Adding Borders to Your Quilt
Discover some of the many choices for your borders, from simple fabric strips to pieced borders. Glide through accurate measurement of your border strips, ensuring a “squared up” quilt.

Chapter 9 - Layering Your Quilt
How many different kinds of batting are there? And what and the benefits and drawbacks of each? Which is right for your quilt? All of these questions, and many more, answered.

Chapter 10 - Quilting Your Quilt
Learn techniques for both hand quilting and machine quilting.

Chapter 11 - Binding and Finishing Your Quilt
Discover the ease of making your own binding – in a continuous binding strip – saving you time and money, and making your quilt’s finishing touches even more perfect.

No necessary detail is left out!

In each chapter, you find tips and tricks for completing the step in the shortest amount of time possible with the greatest of ease and simplicity. All of the confusing terms are defined, and the book is jam-packed with full color photographs of each step along the way.

Click on the book cover, and take a look inside the book. You will find an expanded Table of Contents that includes all of the sub-headings for each chapter.

PLUS, you will find a sample chapter – Chapter 3 – Ready, Set, Cut! Not the overview chapters, but some of the real meat of the book. Looking at this chapter, you see the amount of detail and the value of the pictures.

Once you have taken the tour, you’ll be ready to take the plunge and begin your quilting journey with A Beginner’s Guide to Quilting and Beyond. So, now, just choose Electronic Download or Book Format when you are ready to take advantage of the SIZZLING SUMMER DISCOUNT!

Happy Quilting!

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