Today's quilters are rediscovering the charm in Charm Quilts. One-patch charm designs, with each patch cut from various fabrics, usually contain between 300 and 1,000 different prints! What a great way to showcase your stash! If you need more fabrics for your project, you can share swatches with friends or join a fabric swap or charm club. So, grab your sewing supplies and try your hand at making one of these delightful traditional patchwork quilts. Features 30 different charm patterns - Cradle, Picket Fence, Apple Core & more. A dozen traditional quilt projects - perfect for all skill levels. Beg and Borrow novelty quilt - with 'fabric swatches' from textile companies. AUTHORBIO: Bobbie Aug and Sharon Newman met in Paducah, Kentucky, at the 1989 American Quilter's Society Show. Both were in the first group tested and certified as quilt appraisers by AQS. Currently, both serve as members of the AQS Appraiser Certification Program Committee. Sharon also serves as the program's administrator.
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Bobbie Aug became involved with AQS in Paducah, Kentucky, at the 1989 American Quilter's Society Show. She was in the first group tested and certified as quilt appraisers by AQS. Bobbie serves as a member of the AQS Appraiser Certification Program Committee. She learned to sew on treadle sewing machines in Illinois. Bobbie Aug was inspired by the quiet, dignified beauty of nineteenth-century quilts and began making quilts 30 years ago. She became a quilt dealer, quilt collector, quilt shop owner, and quilt show consultant and producer, focusing on anything related to quilts and quiltmaking. Bobbie lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband, Norm. Their family includes son Tony, daughter Carrie, Brittany spaniels Angel and Sandie, and a nasty cat named Phannie.
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We decided to write a book about Charm Quilts (quilts made of multiple fabrics with no one fabric repeated) because the millennium was fast approaching, and we were certain quilters would want to make quilts to document this passage of time, Milepost markers in women's lives have been reflected in their quilts since quiltmaking began. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
charm quilts, butting line, date your quilt, quilt top, quilting design, border strips, press seam allowances, dark prints, light prints, light diamonds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bobbie Aug, Sharon Newman, Hoffman California-International Fabrics Rainbow Critters, Robert Kaufman Fine Fabrics, Springs Industries, Girls Night Out, Beggar's Quilt, Colorado Springs, Jinny Beyer New!
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We decided to write a book about Charm Quilts (quilts made of multiple fabrics with no one fabric repeated) because the millennium was fast approaching, and we were certain quilters would want to make quilts to document this passage of time, Milepost markers in women's lives have been reflected in their quilts since quiltmaking began. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
charm quilts, butting line, date your quilt, quilt top, quilting design, border strips, press seam allowances, dark prints, light prints, light diamonds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bobbie Aug, Sharon Newman, Hoffman California-International Fabrics Rainbow Critters, Robert Kaufman Fine Fabrics, Springs Industries, Girls Night Out, Beggar's Quilt, Colorado Springs, Jinny Beyer New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- String Quilts with Style by Bobbie Aug in Back Matter
- Space Odyssey: an Anthology of Great Science Fiction Stories by Robert Silverberg on page 2
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