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Alphabet Quilts by Bea Oglesby is a lively appliqué tribute to the alphabet and has something for everyone. Seven unique quilts are included as well as her advice for making these quilts quickly and easily with fusible web. Choose what letters or alphabet that you would like to use—be creative and make it your own.

 

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Alphabet Quilts
Letters for All Ages

Author: Bea Oglesby
Pages: 121
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: Kansas City Star Quilts
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4FF0061
Weight: 1.3lb

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This lively appliqué tribute to the alphabet has something for everyone. Block letters, cursive, Spencerian - patterns for seven unique quilts are included. Not only grandmothers will be delighted with these lively letter quilts, pared with several sets of design (animals, other familiar objects and numbers). . For the more sophisticated quilt or block Bea presents a classic alphabet paired with our favorite flowers.

Bea offers her advice for making these quilts quickly and easily with fusible web, and also using her signature style of fine hand appliqué Also included are projects to show other imaginative ways you can use these letters.

Author Bea OglesbyFrom the Author

I offer a basic reference and patterns for lettering to be used in quiltmaking. While searching through antique quilts, I found many nineteenth century quilts had the alphabet on them possibly used by mothers while crossing the prairie by wagon train to teach their children.

I have made quilts featuring four different alphabets.

  • The block alphabet can be used as just plain letters or as a child's quilt with an animal for each of the letters.
  • The cursive alphabet has both upper and lower case letters.
  • The floral alphabet features large letters with a flower for each letter.
  • Finally, there is the Spencerian alphabet, which is also know as Roundhand. This classy script was developed Platt Rogers Spencer in the nineteenth century. Our modern script is developed from it.

Bea has been a quiltmaker, teacher and lecturer since 1990. Because of her love of nature, flowers and art, she has found a never ending source of ideas for appliqué, her favorite medium. As a result, most of her work is in appliqué

Bea teaches and lectures in the Kansas City area and belongs to several local quilt guilds. She lives in Overland Park, Kansas with her husband, Red. She wrote her first book in 1999 and has completed a book every year since..

Table of Contents

 
Introduction 4
Basic Instructions 5
Chapter One  
Animal Alphabet 8
Block Alphabet 10
Chapter Two  
Cursive Alphabet 28
Alphabet and Numbers 31
Chapter Three  
Floral Alphabet 54
Chapter Four  
Spencerian Alphabet 84
Spencerian Alphabet with Flowers 88
Gallery 118
Other Star Books 122
   
   

Spencerian Alphabet

Floral Alphabet

Alphabet and Numbers

Cursive AlphabetPuppy

 



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