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Learn Valori Wells secrets of successful quiltmaking from color and fabric selection, to design, piecing and appliqué techniques and more in Simple Start Stunning Finish Turn circles, squares and rectangles into 15 gorgeous quilts that are quick-to-make but get dramatic results.

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Author: Valori Wells
Pages: 95
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
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Turn Circles, Squares and Rectangles into Gorgeous Quilts

  • 15 hip, quick-to-make quilts that get dramatic results from simple shapes and large-scale prints
  • Color inspirations from traditional to trendy, soft to spicy
  • Sizes that suit your decor, from smaller wallhangings to large bed-sized quilts
  • Learn Valori's secrets of successful quiltmaking—color and fabric selection, design, piecing and appliqué and techniques and more

 

Author Valori WellsAbout the Author

Valori Wells is a professional quilter, fabric designer, author and pattern designer. Nine years ago, Valori joined The Stitchin' Post staff as notion, book and pattern buyer. She is now the co-owner of the store with her mother, Jean Wells. Together they pool their ideas to keep the store on the cutting edge of quilting. Valori is also responsible for creating the store's web-site and managing the Quilter's Affair conference.

Valori has a bachelor's degree in fine arts, specializing in black-and-white photography. This background has contributed to her career as a fabric designer, her fabrics often portray larger-than-life flowers in updated palettes that appeal to the younger generation of quilters as well as the general quilting public. As a quilter, she is always designing quilts in her mind as she paints her fabric designs.

Valori lives in Sister, Oregon, with her husband, Ross, and daughter, Olivia.

Table of Contents

Foreword
4
Preface
5
Introduction
6
Straight Piecing
Floral Sorbet
9
Tips & Techniques: Choosing Large-Scale Prints
11
Vintage Floral
13
Tips & Techniques; Adding Strip-Pieced Details
16
Retro Romance
17
Tips & Techniques: Choosing Companion Colors
21
Daisy Mae
23
Tips & Techniques: Expanding Your Color Scheme
25
Painted Grass
27
Tips & Techniques: Using Value When Working With Solids
34
Yard Sale
35
Tips & Techniques: Creating Scrap-Bag Palettes
42
Curve Piecing/Circle Appliqué
Blossom
43
Tips & Techniques: Creating Quilting Designs
47
The Red Tree
49
Tips & Techniques: Using Blind-Hem-Stitch Appliqué
52
Zinnias
53
Tips & Techniques: Using Repetition
55
Circle Around
56
Tips & Techniques: Adding Interest by Varying the Design Elements
60
Effervescence
61
Tips & Techniques: Finding Inspiration
64
Cerulean Sands
65
Tips & Techniques: Combining Design Elements
68
Coming Home
69
Tips & Techniques: Using Accents
73
Paper Piecing
Firefly
75
Tips & Techniques: Improving Your Paper-Foundation Piecing
82
Lily Pond
89
Tips & Techniques: Using Painterly Piecing
92
About the Author
95
Resources
95

Instruction Page

Instruction Page

Firefly

Coming Home

Cerulean Sands Lily Pond

Circle Around Yard Sale

Blossom

Painted Grass Daisy Mae

Retro Romance Vintage Floral

Floral Sorbet Effervescence



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