Ricky Tims' Rhapsody Quilts
Inspiring, Amazing—Create Your Own!

Author: Rhapsody Quilts
Pages: 96
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher:C&T Publishing
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4L0893
Weight: 1.1 lb

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Make One-Of-A-Kind Contemporary Quilts with a Traditional Flair-—Ricky Tims Shows You How!

• Learn to design choose fabrics, and make templates for these one-of-a-kind beauties
• Handle curves easily with Ricky's sure-fire method for No-Pin Precision Curved Piecing
• Start with 5 ready-made design outlines, then expand the possibilities by composing your own Rhapsody quilts
• Learn Ricky's secrets for enhancing your designs with appliqué.
• Get inspired by the gallery of Rhapsody quilts made by Ricky and other quilters just like you!

About the Author

Ricky Tims successfully blends two diverse passions into one very unique and interesting career. Thousands who have heard his music affirm his skills as a pianist, composer, and producer. His success as a quilter is equally significant.

He is know in the international world of quilting as an enthusiastic and encouraging teacher, and award-winning quilter, and a talented and spellbinding speaker. His innovative and entertaining presentations feature live music and humor, combined with scholarly insights and wisdom. His quilts have been displayed worldwide, and are highly regarded as excellent examples of contemporary quilts with traditional appeal. He is currently the co-host of The Quilt Show, an Internet-based show for quilters that also features Alex Anderson, C&T Publishing author and former host of HGTV's Simply Quilts.

Ricky began designing and making quilts in 1991. In 2002 he was selected as one of The Thirty Most Distinguished Quilters in the World. He maintains an international schedule of teaching and speaking engagements, presents Ricky Tims' Super Quilt Seminars in select cities throughout the United States, and hold week-long retreats in La Veta, a tiny mountain town located in south central Colorado.

Ricky is passionate about quilting, and is delighted to share his experience and enthusiasm with quilters of every level of expertise. He is challenged by creativity in all forms, and encourages individuals to cultivate self-expression, reach for the unreachable, and believe in the impossible.

Quilting is a relatively new interest compared to Ricky's lifelong passion for music. He began formal music lessons at the age of three. He is a pianist, conductor, composer, arranger, music producer, and performing artist. Tims's music is neither classical, new age, pop nor world, and yet it could fall under any of those classifications.

Sacred Age, Ricky's newest recording, was released in January 2006. The album project, featuring solo piano infused with Native American instruments, string orchestra, and vocal orchestrations, was created to suggest the beauty, majesty and spirit of the Spanish Peaks region of southern Colorado. Tims' music has wide appeal for a diverse audience and has been described as "George Winston meets Carlos Nakai meets Yanni."

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Sunflower Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody

Fire Magnon Rhapsody

Rhapsody in Green

Feathers & Urns Rhapsody Quilts

Author: Ricky Tims
Pages: 16
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: C & T Publishing
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4L0893
Weight: 0.6 lb

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MSRP: $19.95

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Expand the Possibilities of Rhapsody Quilts

This companion volume to Ricky Tims' Rhapsody Quilts contains a complete pattern for the new Rhapsody Quilt, Viva Violetta, plus 9 bonus pattern ideas and a collection of Ricky's favorite appliqué patterns.

• Full-size Freezer Paper Pattern
• Bonus appliqué designs & ideas
• Make your own one-of-a-kind heirloom quilt with a brand new, full-size Rhapsody Quilt pattern from Ricky Tims.
• Add excitement with 21 of Ricky's appliqué designs: feathers, urns, scrolls, flowers and leaves..
• Put it together with easy fusible appliqué and machine quilting
• Use 9 bonus Rhapsody design "skeletons" to inspire your own designs.

About the Author

Ricky Tims has successfully blended two diverse passions into one very unique and interesting career. His skills as a pianist, composer and producer have been affirmed by the thousands who have heard his music. His success as a quilter is equally significant.

He is known in the international world of quilting as an enthusiastic and encouraging teacher, an award-winning quilter and a talented and spellbinding speaker. His innovative and entertaining presentations feature live music and humor, combined with scholarly insights and wisdom. His quilts have been displayed worldwide and are highly regarded as excellent examples of contemporary quilts with traditional appeal. He is currently the cohost of The Quilt Show, an internet-based show for quilters that also features Alex Anderson, C&T author and former host of HGTV's Simply Quilts.

Ricky began designing and making quilts in 1991. In 2002, he was selected as one of The Thirty Most Distinguished Quilters in the World. He maintains an international schedule of teaching and speaking engagements, presents Ricky Tims' Super Quilt Seminars in select cities throughout the United States, and holds week-long retreats in La Veta, a tiny mountain town located in south central Colorado. He and life partner, Justin Shults, own Tims Art Quilt Studio and Gallery, a space dedicated to promoting quilting as art.

Ricky is passionate about quilting and is delighted to share his experience and enthusiasm with quilters of every level of expertise. He is challenged by creativity in all forms and encourages individuals to cultivate self-expression, reach for the unreachable and believe in the impossible.

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