tip: free eBook "Easy Resist Fabric Dyeing Techniques"

"Easy Resist Fabric Dyeing Techniques for Batik-style Dyeing and Surface Design" is a free eBook from Quilting Arts with the following topics:

• Color Therapy: Glue Gel Resist
  by Cynthia St. Charles
• Resists from the Kitchen, Ingredient 4: Corn Syrup
  by Lisa Kerpoe
• Batik with Soy Wax: Easy & Effective Techniques for Original Fabric Design
  by Melanie Testa
• Flour Paste Resist: It’s Irresistible!
  by Jane Dunnewold

You can find the eBook here. Thank you for your visit!

tip: free eBook "Quilt Squares For Modern Quilters"

"Quilt Squares For Modern Quilters: 4 Free Quilt Block Patterns To Make Quilt Blocs" is a free eBook from Quilting Arts with the following topics:

• The Birdhouse Rock Quilt
  by Tina Givens
• A Dotty Garden
  by Sarah Fielke
• Rubik’s Crush
  by Ashley Newcomb
• Quilted Shower Curtain
  by Jina Barney

You can find the eBook here. Thank you for your visit!

tip: free quickly made project "Sweet Little Purses"

from Quilting Arts a quick and easy gift idea:

You can find the project here.
Melanie Testa published this project in the December/January 2009/2010 issue of Quilting Arts magazine. It is a quickly made, very suitable project for the festive but hectic month of December.

Thank you for your visit!

tip: free eBook "Designs for Handmade Baby Quilts"

"Designs for Handmade Baby Quilts: 4 Free Baby Quilt Patterns" is a free eBook from Quilting Arts with the following topics:

• Hexagon Baby Quilt: Traditional Meets Contemporary with String Piecing
  by Malka Dubrawsky
• Go to Sleep Baby Quilt
  by Denyse Schmidt
• Patchwork Baby Quilt
  by Sheree Schattenmann
• 'Rolling on Through’: Mini Modern Landscape Quilt
  by Krista Fleckenstein

You can find the eBook here. Thank you for your visit!

tip: free eBook "5 Free articles for creative quilting"

5 Free articles for creative quilting:
Exploring quilt art through Artist Trading Cards, Inchies, landscape quilts and more, from Quilting Arts with the following topics:

• I’ll Trade Ya!
  by Janet Ghio
• Art by the Inchie
  by NormaJean Brevik
• Expand Your Horizons: Landscape Techniques
  by Joyce R. Becker
• Autumn Jewels: Capture the Season in Your Art Quilt
  by Kirsten Chursinoff
• Tea & Entomology
  by Judy Coates Perez

You can find the eBook at Creative Quilt Art.
Thank you for your visit!

tip: free eBook "How to Applique"

4 Quilt Designs for Creating Applique Quilts from Quilting Arts with the following topics:

• Flying Colors
  by Mary Stoudt
• Defying the Line: Free-motion Appliqué Explained and Explored
  by Ellen Anne Eddy
• The Heartfelt Landscape
  by Rose Hughes
• Décor-Bond It! Machine Appliqué
  by Mickey Depre

You can find the eBook here.
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tip: free eBook "Essential Embroidery Stitches"

4 Hand and Machine Embroidery Designs and Techniques from Quilting Arts with the following topics:

• Defining the line: free-motion embroidery skills
  by Ellen Anne Eddy
• Versatile satin stitch
  by Kathy York
• Off-site embroidery
  by Sussie Williams
• Reverse appliqué & bobbin embroidery with a twist
  by Yvonne Brown

You can find the eBook here. Thanks for your visit!

tip: free eBook "How to Quilt"

4 Free Projects to Learn How to Make a Quilt from Quilting Arts:

• Transformation: From Crafty Silk Flower to Sheer Sensation
  by Peggy Holt
• Creative Self-portraits
  by Yvonne Porcella
• Take 2: Two Quilt Artists Share Their Unique Approaches to a Fishy Subject
  by Jane Dávila and Elin Waterston
• Stitched Layers: journal quilts from canvas, gesso, fabric, and paint
  by Patricia Gaignat

You can find the eBook here. Thanks for your visit!

tip: free eBook "Traditional and Modern Quilting"

Designs and Techniques for Quilt Designs:
Quilting Arts shares techniques and tricks from both contemporary and traditional quilting worlds:

• Turn Down the Volume
  by Malka Dubrawsky
• Color Play
  by Anne Lullie
• Releasing the Creative Block
  by Melody Johnson

You can find the eBook here. Thanks for your visit!

tip: free eBook "Hand sewing techniques for quilters"

"... In this free eBook, "Hand Sewing Techniques for Quilters: Learn How to Hand Sew Using Ladder Stitch, Running Stitch, Chain Stitch, and More" from Quilting Arts, you will see how, with a few basic stitches, you can use hand sewing to transform your quilts ..."

• Embellished Stitches and Exotic Threads
  by Margaret Ball
• The Running Stitch
  by Julia Caprara
• Ladder Stitch Sampler
  by Beryl Taylor
• Power to the Hand Stitcher
  by Laura Wasilowski

Thank you for your visit!

tip: free eBook "4 Fine Sewing Techniques"

A free download from Quilting Arts:

• Transform a Quilt with Hand Stitching
  by Laura Wasilowski
• Retro-inspired Stitch Samplers
  by Jackie Cardy
• Painting with Pattern Stitches
  by Carole Redlich
• Thread Painting 101
  by Terry White

You can download sewing ideas to expand your stitchery and sewing machine techniques for quilting here.

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tip: free eBook "5 Ways to Create Your Own Handmade Quilts"

A gift from Quilting Arts to start creating your own handmade quilts:

• Art Quilting Made Easy
  by Lesley Riley
• Painting with Thread: Stitching a Story
  by Ellen Scott
• Home Free: Collage Your Way to Design
  by Sylvia Naylor
• Go Green:Eco-friendly Journal Quilting Techniques
  by Natalya Aikens
• Fusing 101
  by Laura Wasilowski

You can find this inspiring and free eBook here

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tip: free eBook "5 Free Quick Fiber Art Gift Projects"

Quilting Arts shares some of their favorite articles from past issues of Quilting Arts Magazin:

• Quick Coasters
  by Julie Hirota
• Glam-t0-Go for Gadgets
  by Lyric M. Kinard
• Adjustable Fabric Art Bookmarks
  by Diane Rusin Doran
• Altered Mini Tins
  by Kathy Mack
• Painted Mirror Frame
  by Linda and Laura Kemshall

Start creating fabulous gifts for everyone today from this inspiring and free eBook.

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tip: free eBook "5 Memory Quilt Ideas"

If not too personal why not share special moments and memories and use personal images, writings, and mementos in one of a kind memory quilts?
Quilting Arts shares some of their favorite articles from past issues of Quilting Arts Magazine:

• Scrap Wisdom
  by Marrgaret Applin
• Holographic Memories
  by Wen Redmond
• A Memory Narrative
  by Judy Murrah
• Canvas Books
  by Alisa Burke
• Stitched Layers
  by Patricia Gaignat

You find the eBook here.
A taster from Wen Redmond's video class on how you can use digital photographs to create holographic effects:

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tip: free eBook "5 innovative Ways to Embellish Your Fiber Art"

Hand embroidery, fabric beads, appliqué stitches, beaded trim and beaded fringe, buttons, scraps of fabric, paper and fibers, are some of the embellishments used in this free eBook from Quilting Arts:

• A Sandwich, for Starters
  by Susan (Lucky) Shie
• Fabric Bead Frenzy
  by Gail Ellspermann
• Embellishing with Attitude
  by Pamela Allen
• Outrageous Embellishment
  by Frances Holliday Alford
• Recycled Going Green! Wall Hangings
  by Belinda Spiwak

You can find the eBook here.
Thank you for your visit!

tip: free eBook "How to Make Photo Quilts with Quilting Arts"

Quilting Arts shares 6 Image Transfer Techniques for your Art Quilts in a free eBook:

• Scanning the horizon
  by Marie Roper
• Every Picture Tells a Story
  by Mary Ann Tipple
• Scan, Print, StamP, & Stitch
  by Pamela PrIce Klebaum
• Tapping into Image Transfers
  by Lesley Riley
• Digital Playtime
  by Diane Doran
• Options for Imagery
  by GInny Eckley

You can find the eBook with the techniques here.

Greetings from me "en route" (yes at 4:00 AM GMT+1:00, that early) to "Le Bugue sur Vézère" in the Dordogne in France!

tip: free eBook "6 patchwork quilts projects for contemporary quilts"

The 6 projects are shared by Quilting Arts in a free eBook here.
The subjects are:

• Contemporary Scarf
  by Vivika Hansen Denegre
• Inside Out Mini Quilt
  by Malka Dubrawsky
• Mini Hexagon Quilt
  by Malka Dubrawsky
• Patchwork Scarf
  by Malka Dubrawsky
• Out of the Dustbin Quilts
  by Annette Morgan
• A New Twist on Using Men’sTies in Quilts
  by Jeannie Palmer Moore

Thank you for your visit!

tip: free eBook "How to bind a quilt"

Quilting Arts shares 12 new quilt binding and finishing methods for art quilts with the following topics:

• On the Edge
  by Sarah Ann Smith
• Not Bound by Tradition
  by Sherrie Spangler
• A Big Finish for Your Small Quilts
  by Terry Grant
• Picture It Framed
  by Lyric Kinard

You can find the free eBook here.

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tip: free eBook about Fabric Painting

Another nice surprise from Quilting Arts: a link to a free eBook about Fabric Painting: 5 Surface Design, Paint, and Monoprint Techniques:

• Monoprinting with Paint
  by Liz Berg
• Plunging into Skydyes
  by Mickey Lawler
• Patterned & Painted Cloth
  by Barbara Schneider
• Monoprinting Fabrics for Textured Backgrounds
  by Fawn Mackey
• Working with Oil Sticks
  by Karen Williams

You can find the free eBook and more info about it at Quilting Arts here.

Thank you for your visit!

tip: free eBook "6 Free Sewing Patterns for Beautiful Homemade Gifts"

Today's nice surprise in my e-mail box is from Quilting Arts, a link to a free eBook with with the following topics:

• A Festive Setting
  by Jane Dávila
• Holiday Open House Advent Calendar
  by Judy Coates Perez
• Snow Play Table Runner
  by Kathy Mack
• Short & Sweet Candy Cane Napkin Holders
  by Pokey Bolton
• Easy Wine Bottle Gift Bag
  by Elin Waterston
• Quick Quilted Jewelry Wrap
  by Laura West Kong

You can download the eBook at the Quilting Arts website here.
I hope you enjoy this free gift as much as I do!