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How can you portray the splendor or a garden with merely black and white? Quite simply—and therein lies the beauty. A Black & White Garden by Kay M. Capps Cross celebrates gardens while highlighting them against a dramatic black-and-white background. Whether a garden is water, planted, wild or manicured, it begs to be brought indoors. Methods used to create an indoor garden are easy fusible appliqué and strip piecing and employs specialty treatment and fabrics, from silk, beading, thread painting to appliquéing hand-stitched and beaded squares from India.

 

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Black & White Garden

Author: Kay M. Capps Cross
Pages: 80
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4FF0348
Weight: 0.9 lbs.

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Cultivate your fabric choices and embellishments to tend and grow some fabulous quilts!

  • Start at the small garden gate and go down a garden pathway to a paradise of fun, fast and fusible appliqué projects.
  • Try dashes of color on a dramatic black-and-white background or full-color variations—the choice is yours.
  • Select quilts from placemat size to full-size with foundation piecing and strip piecing to help construction go quickly.
  • Fabric selection tips, appliqué and paper-piecing templates, guidance on quilting, embellishment suggestions and sewing instructions are all provided.

About the Author

It is hard to believe I am writing "About the Author" for my second book. How did I get to this wonderful place? I have been so fortunate in this journey. I happened into the quilting world by chance and what a happy accident it has been. Making clothes for my children led me to a quilt shop, which eventually grabbed me by the nose and led me to the life of a quilter/teacher/author. Thank you for letting me choose a sewing machine instead of a typewriter for graduation, Mom. It has served me well.

My quilting life is spent creating, writing and teaching. I have been fortunate to have quilts appear in Fabric Trends, McCall's Quilting, McCall's Quick Quilts, Quilter's World, American Quilter and Professional Quilter. My first book, Black & White Quilts by Design, was published by AQS. My patterns are distributed internationally and my travels take me to retreats, guilds, shops and shows around the country. Sharing my love of black and white along with stress-free quilting is such a gift for me. Along with a fulfilling life in quilting, I actually have a personal life, too!

In my 'real' life, my husband and I spend many hours a week improving our bleacher bottoms. We have four children active in a plethora of academic, musical, theatrical and sporting activities and I wouldn't trade a second of it. It seems impossible some days to fit it all in, but I am blessed with a wonderful family who does not begrudge me the time to follow and embrace my passion. They know that they are my priority, so they let me out like a yo-yo to play and then yank me back to sit on the bleachers some more! Life couldn't be better.

I truly admire quilters who create heirloom quilts for future generations to treasure. Someday I may do that, but for now I will utilize methods that leave me time for my personal heirloom creations: Garrett, Kaley, Addison and Elliott.

Table of Contents

 
Introduction 5
Quilt Projects  
Garden Gate 6
Garden Pathway 10
Paper Posies 14
Loose 20
Till The Rows 26
Patch of Posies 32
Limetail 38
Leaf Dreams 42
Balinese Beauty 46
Triune 52
Garden Goddesses 60
Resources 78
About the Author 79

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Instruction Page

Garden Goddesses
Garden Goddesses

Balinese Beauty
Balinese Beauty

Limetail
Limetail

LooseLeaf Dreams
Leaf Dreams & Loose

Till the RowsPatch of Posies
Till the Rows & Patch of Posies

Garden PathwayLimetail

Limetail & Garden Pathway

Garden Gate
Garden Gate

 

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Appliqué: Floral, Fruits & Nature

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24 Blossoms
24 Blossom Blocks

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by Trice Boerens
A Year of the Flower Block Cover
A Year of the Flower Block

by Jodi Warner
Anka'sTreasures
Anka's Treasures
by Heather Mulder Peterson
Art Nouveau Quilt
Art Nouveau Quilts
For the 21st Century
by Bea Oglesby
Aunt Millie's Garden
Aunt Millie's Garden
12 Flowering Blocks
by Becky Goldsmith & Linda Jenkins
Black & White Garden
Black and White Garden
by Kay M. Capps Cross
Contemporary Classics
in Plaids and Stripes
Contemporary Classics
in Plaids and Stripes

by Becky Goldsmith & Linda Jenkins
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Four Seasons of Quilts
Four Seasons of Quilts

by Cori Derksen & Myra Harder
Free-Style Quitls
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A "No Rules" Approach

by Susan Carlson
Miss Bunny's Show & Tell
Miss Bunny's Show and Tell
Six Little Fat Quarter Quilts
by Tricia Cribbs
The Applique Sampler
The NEW Appliqué Sampler

Learn to Appliqué the Piece
O' Cake Way!
by Becky Goldsmith & Linda Jenkins
Patches and Posies
Patches and Posies
by Carol Armstrong
Portraits from Nature
Portraits from Nature
by JeanWells
Rose of Sharon
Rose of Sharon
MAQS Exhibit
Sunshine and Sunflowers
Sunshine & Sunflowers
by Suzanne McNeill
Shadow Applique
Shadow Appliqué
A Fresh Take on a Traditional Technique

by Hetty van Boven
Pattern Booklet
Toppers for the Seasons
Toppers for the Seasons

by Prairie's Edge Patworks
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Garden Party
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by Cynthia Tomaszewski

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