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Easter Quilt Patterns

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Easter Quilt Patterns

Happy Easter & Palm Sunday!

	Fast, Fun and Fabulous Quilts: 30 Terrific Projects from the Country's Most Creative Designers List Price: $18.95 Sale Price: $10.62 Average Rating:
	Fifteen of the country's top quilt designers, including Debbie Mumm and Lynett Jensen, offer their favorite projects, which range from miniature to wall-size quilts. Filled with more than 30 color photos and 500 color diagrams, this guide is replete with innovative, time-saving tricks and techniques.

Focus On Florals: Quilts From Pretty Prints (That Patchwork Place)
List Price: $23.95
Sale Price: $8.96

Feature floral fabrics in fresh, fun quilts! These simple-to-make designs spotlight gorgeous fabrics bursting with flowers. Easy piecing and quick fusible appliqué guarantee a fast finish. · Choose from ten projects, including throws, wall hangings, and bed quilts · Try watercolor looks, scrappy styles, or planned palettes that focus on just one fabric · Discover how to use value, scale, and color—the secrets to success when working with floral fabrics

	Creating Scrapbook Quilts List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $4.99 Average Rating:

	Weekend Quilts and Pillows Sale Price: $51.65
	Whether quilters are making their first quilt or their hundredth, they'll want to make quilts in this great book! Patterns are short and simple, designed to piece in 8 hours or less. You'll find nine fantastic quilt patterns and another nine pillow patterns...

Once More Around the Block
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You’ve just discovered the source of endless quilting possibilities! Popular author Judy Hopkins is back with 200 new quilt-block patterns, each presented in six sizes. • 200 new designs are easy to make and completely template-free • Classic blocks are updated with Judy’s quick rotary-cutting techniques • Includes valuable tips for calculating yardage, making multiple blocks, and creating borders

	Fast, Fun and Fabulous Quilts: 30 Terrific Projects from the Country's Most Creative Designers List Price: $18.95 Sale Price: $10.62 Average Rating:
	Fifteen of the country's top quilt designers, including Debbie Mumm and Lynett Jensen, offer their favorite projects, which range from miniature to wall-size quilts. Filled with more than 30 color photos and 500 color diagrams, this guide is replete with innovative, time-saving tricks and techniques.

Focus On Florals: Quilts From Pretty Prints (That Patchwork Place)
List Price: $23.95
Sale Price: $8.96

	Creating Scrapbook Quilts List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $4.99 Average Rating:

	Weekend Quilts and Pillows Sale Price: $51.65
	Whether quilters are making their first quilt or their hundredth, they'll want to make quilts in this great book! Patterns are short and simple, designed to piece in 8 hours or less. You'll find nine fantastic quilt patterns and another nine pillow patterns...

Once More Around the Block
List Price: $26.95
Sale Price: $42.00
Average Rating:

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New - Truly exquisite designs, intricate details, brilliant color schemes...on an egg? Achieve all this and more with ease while admiring the unbelievable beauty displayed in glorious color throughout these pages. Apply gem-like colors and watch as they awaken the design "written" on the egg in wax. From classic "quilt" patterns, to traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs and everything in between, you're sure to be enchanted by this age-old craft.

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New - From classic quilt patterns to traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs, this is an introduction to the variety of ways in which one can decorate eggs.

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New - From classic quilt patterns to traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs, this is an introduction to the variety of ways in which one can decorate eggs.

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New - From classic quilt patterns to traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs, this is an introduction to the variety of ways in which one can decorate eggs.

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I want to make a dress very similar to this one for Easter. I need to know if it will be simple enough?

I have sewn a little in my life. Everything has turned out very well so far. I think this dress looks pretty easy to make (I've made several Quilts, so I know the piecing part would be easy). I can't do ruching (never tried), so I would leave that part out. I don't really know where to get a pattern like this, either, though it looks like a basic sundress to me. Any ideas? Am I going for something too difficult here?

http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?subCategoryId=&id=030010&catId=CLOTHES-DRESSES-PRINTED&pushId=CLOTHES-DRESSES-PRINTED&popId=CLOTHES-DRESSES&sortProperties=&navCount=100&navAction=middle&fromCategoryPage=true&selectedProductSize=&selectedProductSize1=&color=041&colorName=NAVY&isSubcategory=&isProduct=true&isBigImage=&templateType=templateA

Piecing quilts is relatively easy because you're working in just two dimensions. The finished piece will be flat. The dress you've displayed requires a very high level of precision piecing so that all the points will match. And, you've got to make it fit perfectly. The skirt panels appear to be cut on the bias and that will give you lots of stretchy edges that need controlling.

I would give this one a pass until you've had more experience with tailored and fitted garments.