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Home is where the quilt is! Quilt your own home or your dream home with this collection of inspiring designs for quilts, wall hangings and cushions. Choose from townhouses to quaint cottages, seaside beach huts, converted barns and even shepherds' huts. There's a quirky quilted home for everyone, whatever your taste!
Janet's distinctive style includes lots of freehand machine embroidery, hand stitchery and appliqué. As well as the 15 main quilt projects there is also a collection of extra ideas to sew smaller projects including a keyring, decorated napkins and even a quilted felt brooch.
Janet uses a combination of sewing, quilting and appliqué techniques to create her quilt patterns including freehand machine embroidery and hand quilting, which are currently both very popular sewing techniques.
All the quilting and pattern templates are included at full size for instant sewing. And templates can be mixed and matched to create your unique designs.
List of contents
Welcome
Tools and Materials
Town
Neat Town Houses Quilt
Street Skyline Quilt
Busy Town Wall Hanging
Detached Houses
Terraced Houses Cushion
Country
Village Squares Quilt
Village Map Quilt
Woodland Cottage Hanging
Isolated Cottage Picture
Country Lane Table Runner
Coast
Sea and Shore Quilt
Beach Hut and Gulls Quilt
Coastal Cottages Wall Hanging
Windy Day Picture
Beach Hut Cushion
Techniques
Templates
Suppliers
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Index
About the author
Janet Clare is an established quilting and sewing tutor and has already successfully published two quilting books: Freya and Fred and Hearty Good Wishes. She is a fabric designer for Moda, is a regular attendee of Festival of Quilts and teaches workshops for quilt groups throughout the UK. She sells her quilt patterns through her own website and on Etsy.
Summary
Quilt your own home with this collection of inspiring designs for quilts, wall hangings and cushions. Choose from townhouses to quaint cottages, seaside beach huts, converted barns and even shepherd’s huts.
