Piecing the Piece O' Cake Way: A Visual Guide to Making Patchwork Quilts - Softcover

Jenkins, Linda; Goldsmith, Becky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617450138 ISBN 13: 9781617450136

Publisher: C&T Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

From planning to binding, learn the right way to do patchwork with best-selling authors from Piece O’ Cake Designs.
Before they taught appliqué, Linda Jenkins and Becky Goldsmith shared a love of―piecing and they’re still avid patch workers today! Start with simple strips, squares, and half-square triangles. Then stretch your skills with diamonds, curves, and improv piecing. This visual guide includes 10 colourful projects, skill-building techniques, and tips for fabulous fabric selection. Beginners will love this complete guide to quilting basics including sewing scant quarter-inch seams, cutting fabric that’s larger than your cutting mat, sewing perfectly placed points, and more.

About this title

About the Authors

Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins first met at the Green Country Quilters Guild in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they both held up their hands and volunteered for jobs at their very first guild meetings. Their friendship grew as they worked together on many guild projects and through a shared love for quilting, and for appliqué in particular. They started Piece O' Cake Designs in 1994, as they were each moving away from Tulsa. Becky and her husband headed for Sherman, Texas, with their two sons. Linda and her husband, Paul, moved first to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, back to Tulsa in 2001, and finally to Grand Junction, Colorado, in 2008. Linda owned and managed a beauty salon before she started quilting. Over the years she developed a fine eye for color as a hair colorist and makeup artist. Becky took a liberal sprinkling of art classes while completing her interior design degree. They think that their varied backgrounds have combined well, making the quilts they design distinctive. Becky and Linda initially self-published their patterns and books but are now very happy members of the C&T Publishing family. Visit Becky and Linda at their website, www.pieceocake.com, and their blog, pieceocake.typepad.com/piece-o-cake-blog.

Becky Goldsmith is the co-owner of Piece O’ Cake Designs. Designing and making quilts, writing books, and teaching others how to make quilts is a better career than Becky could ever have imagined. For more information visit www.pieceocake.com

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- Everything you need to know about quiltmaking from patchwork experts from Piece O’ Cake Designs
- Expanded second edition! New quilts, improved techniques, and color choices made easy
- Handy, visual guide lies flat for easy reference

Edition details

• Publisher: C&T Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617450138
• ISBN 13: 9781617450136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128