The Quilted Home Handbook: A Guide to Developing Your Quilting Skills-Including 15+ Patterns for Items Around Your Home

by Wendy Chow, Paige Tate & Co. (Produced by)

Overview

Perfect for beginners and experienced quilters alike, this quilting book features simple illustrations and easy-to-follow steps that teach you how to make 15+ beautiful quilt projects for around your home, including everything from placemats to a throw pillow to a matching bed quilt and pillow shams.

The Quilted Home Handbook teaches you everything you need to know about how to create stylish, modern quilts for a variety of uses around your home. Each pattern contains easy-to-follow instructions, detailed diagrams and photos, and eye-catching designs. Author Wendy Chow's signature bold colors options and geometric shapes empower you to create quilts that will stand out and look stunning in a modern home.

The Quilted Home Handbook includes:
• 15+ quilt designs in various sizes and including multiple fabric color ideas
• Beginner-friendly content, including everything you need to know to get started
• Detailed instructions with clear diagrams and photos so you can learn quickly and easily

Patterns include:
• Dining room: placemats, table runner, coasters
• Living Room: throw blanket, throw pillows, floor cushion
• Bedroom: baby, twin, queen, king-sized blankets, pillow shams, and eye mask

• Wall Hangings: Plus, instructions for how to turn many of these patterns into wall art

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950968626
Publisher:	Blue Star Press
Publication date:	01/24/2023
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	1,004,871
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Wendy Chow is the founder of the online quilting brand The Weekend Quilter and the author of Urban Quilting. A 20-something Australian native based in New York City, Wendy is a pattern designer with a passion for creating bold, modern, geometric prints inspired by architecture, nature, and interior design. Through her crafting, she hopes to inspire the next generation to carry forward the legacy and the art of quilting.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Color Inspirations 12

Getting Started 32

How to Prepare a Quilted Wall Hanging 60

Quilting Finishes with a Domestic Sewing Machine 66

Bias Binding Tape: What and How 84

General Instructions 104

Quilt Projects

Positive Start Bed Quilt 107

Positive Start Sham Cases 113

Checked Out Sleeping Eye Mask 125

Lasting Warmth Bed Quilt 135

Lasting Warmth Sham Cases 151

Day In, Day Out Lumbar Cushion and Coasters 171

Within the Walls Throw Cushion 179

Soundbars Throw Cushion 193

Brick-by-Brick Floor Cushion 205

Never Far Apart Matching Throw Quilts 215

Game Night Table Runner 231

In Position Placemats 239

In Position Coasters 247

Acknowledgments 257

Templates 258

Terms and Abbreviations 259

About the Author 263

Editorial Reviews

"Filled with a variety of stylish projects, helpful guidance and stunning photography throughout, The Quilted Home Handbook is a must-read for any modern quilter. Wendy takes you by the hand every step of the way, offering advice on colour choices and quilting finishes, along with helpful tutorials on quilting and binding. With plenty of patterns to choose from, this book is sure to appeal to anyone wishing to decorate their home with an on-trend, uniquely handmade touch."
-Lorna Slessor, Editor of Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine

"Wendy's designs spark nothing but joy and inspiration, and her new book helps to bring that inspiration to life! Wendy always brings a fresh and modern feel to all that she creates and in her new book, this is no different. From the color inspirations to making it happen and the amazing quilting projects, The Quilted Home Handbook is filled with amazing projects to turn your house into a home."
-Sarah Jones, Content Manager, LoveCrafts

"The illustrations are excellent, as is the glossary. This is a first-rate textbook for beginning quilters."
-Library Journal

From the Publisher

10/01/2022

Chow (Urban Quilting) takes readers through all the quilting steps from rotary cutting, perfecting quarter-inch seams, sandwiching the top with batting and backing, quilting on a domestic sewing machine, and binding. The only knowledge assumed is how to use a sewing machine. The author does a great job of listing the basic tools needed to get started. This book is also not the fussy little calico prints and traditional blocks that define quilts for many. Instead, the quilts are clean, modern designs in vibrant colors and neutrals that would appeal to the accomplished quilter as well as the novice. Smaller projects such as coasters and cushions provide a great entry before jumping into a bed-sized quilt. Only two projects are quilts, with instructions given for making them baby-, twin-, queen-, and king-sized. Some of the space given to choosing one's own design aesthetic and identifying the exact fabrics the author selected could have also been used to show how to resize some of the cushions into full-sized quilts. VERDICT The illustrations are excellent, as is the glossary. This is a first-rate textbook for beginning quilters.—Debbie Bogenschutz

Library Journal