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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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Back Cover InformationTurn Circles, Squares and Rectangles into Gorgeous Quilts
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Table of Contents |
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| Foreword |
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| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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| Straight Piecing |
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| Floral Sorbet |
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| Tips & Techniques: Choosing Large-Scale Prints |
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| Vintage Floral |
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| Tips & Techniques; Adding Strip-Pieced Details |
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| Retro Romance |
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| Tips & Techniques: Choosing Companion Colors |
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| Daisy Mae |
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| Tips & Techniques: Expanding Your Color Scheme |
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| Painted Grass |
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| Tips & Techniques: Using Value When Working With Solids |
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| Yard Sale |
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| Tips & Techniques: Creating Scrap-Bag Palettes |
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| Curve Piecing/Circle Appliqué | |
| Blossom |
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| Tips & Techniques: Creating Quilting Designs |
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| The Red Tree |
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| Tips & Techniques: Using Blind-Hem-Stitch Appliqué |
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| Zinnias |
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| Tips & Techniques: Using Repetition |
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| Circle Around |
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| Tips & Techniques: Adding Interest by Varying the Design Elements |
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| Effervescence |
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| Tips & Techniques: Finding Inspiration |
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| Cerulean Sands |
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| Tips & Techniques: Combining Design Elements |
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| Coming Home |
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| Tips & Techniques: Using Accents |
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| Paper Piecing | |
| Firefly |
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| Tips & Techniques: Improving Your Paper-Foundation Piecing |
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| Lily Pond |
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| Tips & Techniques: Using Painterly Piecing |
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| About the Author |
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| Resources |
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Color & Compostion in Art QuiltsAlso seeArt Quilt Collector Editions |
The Art of Travel with Sketchbook by Mari Le Glatin Keis |
![]() Color & Composition for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust & Brett Barker |
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![]() Simple Start Stunning Finsih by Valori Wells |
Settings for Quilt Layouts![]() Diagonal Set Triangle Rulers |
![]() Great Sets by Sharyn Craig |
![]() Round Robin Renaissance by M'Liss Rae Hawley |
![]() Smashing Sets by Margaret J. Miller |
![]() Sensational Settings by Joan Hanson |
Single Block Ideas with Design Variations |
![]() 9-Patch Pizzaz by Judy Sisneros |
![]() Dresden Plate New Quilts from Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit |
Puzzle Quilts by Paula Nadelstern |
![]() Monkey Wrench New Quilts From Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit |
![]() New Quilts From an Old Favorite Contest Double Wedding Ring, Log Cabin, Ohio Star MAQS Exhibit |
Seven Sisters New Quilts from Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit |
![]() Simple Contemporary Quilts by Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader |
![]() StrataVarious Quilts by Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover |
Design using Perspective & Adding Illusions |
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![]() 3-D Explosion by Cara Gulati |
![]() Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust |
![]() Easy Pieces by Margaret M. Miller |
![]() Shifting Perspective by Lorraine Torrence |
![]() Smashing Sets by Margaret J. Miller |
Optical Illusions For Quilt Ideas |
![]() Ambiguous Optical Illusions by Al Seckel |
![]() Action Optical Illusions by Al Seckel |
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Impossible Optical Illusions by Al Seckel |
Book of Optical Illusions by Michael DiSpezio |
3-D Illusions using Hexagons in QuiltsBuilding Block, Inner City | ![]() Big Book of Building Block Quilts by Sara Nephew |
![]() Seven Sisters by The American Quilter's Society |
One-Block Wonders Encore! by Maxine Rosenthal & Joy Pelzmann |
![]() Optical Illusions for Quilters by Karen Combs |
Linear Lines Design Influences | ![]() A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves by Louisa L. Smith | ![]() Beyond the Block by Linda K. Johnson & Jane K. Wells |
Creative Fabric Weaving by Julie Higgins | ![]() Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust |
![]() Dancing Quilts by Debbie Bowles | ![]() Quilted One Block Marvels by Carolyn Sullivan | ![]() The Quilter's Book of Design by Ann Johnston | ![]() Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts | ![]() Thinking Outside the Block by Sandi Cummings with Karen Flamme |
Quilt Designs usingContemporary Curves |
![]() A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves by Louisa L. Smith |
![]() Blendable Curves by Peggy L. Barkle |
![]() Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust |
![]() Dresden Plate New Quilts from Old Favorites MAQS Exhibit |
![]() Easy Bias Curves by Wendy Hill |
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![]() Free & Eazy Circles by Jan Mullen |
![]() Free Expressions by Robbi Joy Eklow |
![]() Journey of an Art Quilter by Barbara Olsen |
![]() Piec-Lique by Sharon Schamber |
![]() Pieced Curves So Simple by Dale Fleming |
![]() Quilters Playtime by Dianne S. Hire |
![]() Quilting by Improvisation by Vikki Pignatelli |
![]() Simply Stunning Woven Quilts by Anna Faustino |
Ruler![]() WaveEdge Rulers 2 sizes: 24" & 16" |
Book![]() Let's Make Waves by Lily Marie Amaru |
Pattern![]() Triangle Waves by Lily Marie Amaru |
Pattern![]() The Wave Lotus by Lily Marie Amaru |
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