Fun and functional format for displaying and savouring family photos, the 10 projects featured in this book offer quilters a new and easy way to embellish quilted photos. Beginners and veteran quilters, as well as sewers, will quickly pick up the easy-to-follow method of creating stunning appliqued quilt projects. Readers will find: easy instructions to fuse, cut and applique special photos to quilts; steps to add unique embellishments, such as leaves, embroidered fireworks, netting and beading to create a realistic scene; and inspiring ideas for items to use as wall hangings and embellishments to add to any vest, jacket or handbag. "Quilt Your Favorite Photos" helps quilters add a personal part of themselves to any quilt they create.
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Betty Alofs is a former seamstress-for-hire turned quilter. After an early retirement from her editorial job, she began teaching, and started designing her own pictorial quilts, which led her to open her own business, Betty A's Designs.
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Here is another example for a good learning book For Picture quilting. Also very good example of turning your favorite photos into textile art. Raylene Wolff
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This book was just what I needed to help with a project I was involved with concerning saving a local historic building by making a raffle quilted wall hanging. It arrived pronto which also was a total plus.
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If you are just getting started with photo quilts, this is a good book to get started with.
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grab the stabilizer, border side strips, second border fabric, second border top, wallhanging quilt, open toe presser foot, foliage fabric, quilting instructions, bottom border strips, sky fabric, side border strips, appliqué pressing sheet, grass fabric, good white paper, framing border, fat quarter, tree fabric, machine appliqué, monofilament thread, fussy cut, fusible web, water fabric, narrow zigzag stitch, trace the pieces, cutting instructions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Finish the Quilt, Machine Appliqué Note, San Francisco, Use Clear Plastic New!
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grab the stabilizer, border side strips, second border fabric, second border top, wallhanging quilt, open toe presser foot, foliage fabric, quilting instructions, bottom border strips, sky fabric, side border strips, appliqué pressing sheet, grass fabric, good white paper, framing border, fat quarter, tree fabric, machine appliqué, monofilament thread, fussy cut, fusible web, water fabric, narrow zigzag stitch, trace the pieces, cutting instructions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Finish the Quilt, Machine Appliqué Note, San Francisco, Use Clear Plastic New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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