Quilting Designs From The Past: 300+ Designs from 1810-1940 (PagePerfect NOOK Book)

by Jenny Carr kinney

Overview

Make Your Quilts Look Like Antiques with Authentic Period Quilting Designs. Over 300 historically accurate quilting designs, organized into four time periods to make it easy to find the right designs for your quilt. Essential reference guide for anyone interested in vintage and antique quilts. Designs for all skill levels, from beginner to advanced. Use for hand or machine quilting. You've created a beautiful quilt top in the style of your favorite era. But how do you quilt it? This huge collection of historic quilting designs has the answer. With hundreds of designs gathered from old quilts, patterns, books, magazines, and other original sources, you'll find the perfect quilting design to make your quilt look like it was created generations ago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607053835
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	11/05/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Jenny Carr Kinney has been making quilts since 1968 and professionally teaching quiltmaking for over 25 years. She taught clothing construction when she joined the fashion design program at Ventura College. In 1999, Jenny developed the quilting curriculum - offered as elective credits for students studying to obtain an associate's degree through the Home Economics Department. Currently Jenny teaches all sections of quilt construction, pattern drafting, instruction writing, and quilt history. Jenny has appeared on Simply Quilts and teaches nationally. She specializes in historically inspired antique reproductions and period-appropriate quilting motifs sewn with modern equipment and using today's techniques. She and her husband enjoy hot air ballooning and share their home with black and chocolate Labrador retrievers, Darby and Lena.