Adventures with Leaders & Enders: Make More Quilts in Less Time!

by Bonnie K. Hunter

Overview

An easy method to faster quilt-making, and incredible patterns to make use of your scrap stash.

 What if you could piece quilts even faster, work on more than one quilt simultaneously and save money, fabric and thread all at the same time? Bonnie K. Hunter will show you how to put the concept of Leaders & Enders to work quickly and easily, expanding your creativity, and upping your productivity all at the same time.

If you have ever found yourself paralyzed by your stash, overwhelmed by scraps you just can't bear to toss out, arm yourself with a new rotary blade for your cutter, make yourself a cup of tea and start reading. This book is not only full of beautiful scrap quilts that can be made in between the lines of other sewing, but also contains many ideas for getting your ever burgeoning scrap stash under control, into useable sized pieces that work well with one another, and ready to be sewn into quilts you've always wanted to make. Bonnie K. Hunter has done it again!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617453649
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	08/04/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	693,299
File size:	69 MB
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About the Author

Bonnie K. Hunter is passionate about quilting, focusing mainly on scrap quilts with the simple feeling of "making do." She started her love affair with quilting in a home economics class her senior year of high school in 1980 and has never looked back. Before quilting became her full-time career, Bonnie was the owner and designer of "Needle in a Haystack!" creating more than 70 patterns for dolls and stuffed animals with a country primitive feel. Many of her designs were licensed through the Butterick Pattern Company, translated into seven languages and sold around the globe through fabric stores. She has been machine quilting since 1989 and professionally long arm quilting for the public since 1995. She has been featured in magazines both for her quilt patterns and articles she has written on scrap management and using that stash to its full potential. Bonnie is dedicated to continuing the traditions of quilting. She enjoys meeting with quilters, teaching workshops and lecturing to quilt guilds all over the world, challenging quilters to break the rules, think outside the box, and find what brings them joy. Catch up with Bonnie's doings through her extensive website at quiltville.com. You will find Quiltville's calendar for lectures and workshops, tips and tricks, technique tutorials and a long list of free quilt patterns to help you dig into your scraps.

Table of Contents

Just What Are Leaders & Enders? 8

Scrap User's System 11

Make Mine Strip Pieced! 13

What quilters are saying about Bonnie Hunter's Leaders & Enders method 16

The Quilts

Sisters Nine Patch 16

Blue Ridge Beauty 22

Crabapples 28

Rick Rack Nines 34

Bow-Dacious 40

Four Patch Revisited 46

Texas Braid 54

Nine in the Middle 60

Hopscotch, Butterscotch 66

Classic Strippy 72

Mad City Mama 78

Happily Scrappily Irish 84

Inside Her Scrappy Mind 91

Other Kansas City Star Books 94

About the Author 96