A fresh take on quilting and applique! Kevin Kosbab shows quilters that not only is applique fun and easy to do, it can open up a world of design possibilities. The Quilter's Applique Workshop teaches you everything you need to know to create applique-both as embellishment and as the focus of projects. The book is divided into three sections that each explores a basic applique approach: raw-edge, prepared-edge, and needle-turn applique. Each section includes detailed instructions, tips, and illustrations. Twelve home-decor projects, including bed quilts, wall quilts, table runners/toppers, and pillows, illustrate the techniques and allow you to explore more specialized methods such as broderie perse, felt applique, and bias-tape applique. The Quilter's Applique Workshop gives you the tools to mix and match applique techniques and create any design you can imagine.
Kevin Kosbab is a writer, quilter, and designer living in Stockton, California. His designs have been published in Stitch, Quilter's Home, Quilter's World, and Fast & Fabulous Quilting Ideas magazines and in the book One Yard Wonders by Rebecca Yaker. He stars in the DVD Secrets of Home Decor Sewing.
Title: The Quilter's Appliqu? Workshop: Timeless Techniques for Modern Designs
Author: Kosbab, Kevin
ISBN: 9781596688612
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Publisher: Interweave Press Inc
Publication Date: 2014-03-28
Number of Pages: 144
Weight: 0.6202 kg
I pulled up the 'Look Inside' on Amazon, started reading the section on 'Give Applique a Chance,' and honestly, I got chills. Kevin and I could have one brain on the subject of applique hesitation. --All About Applique
Kevin has covered every last detail of multiple applique techniques and tools in this book. --Cut to Pieces
It's a comprehensive, diagram-packed book with 12 projects exploring three different techniques of applique: 1) raw edge, 2) what Kevin calls 'prepared edge' and 3) needle-turn. The instructions are clearly written, and have pertinent bits of info woven in, such as best tools for a task or alternate ideas. And it's classic Kevin. His urbane sense of humor oozes off the pages right from the start, where he answers all the classic applique objections, including those of us who whine that we don't have the patience for needle-turn work. --Generation Q
The Quilter's Applique Workshop: Timeless Techniques for Modern Designs is the kind of craft book I've really come to appreciate: a book that teaches a specific technique in deep detail, with a group of projects designed to give you lots of practice in those techniques. --CraftyPod
Kevin Kosbab does such an amazing job with the technical writting, explaining each and every little detail with fabulous illustrations. There is no way you can get lost and I learned so much!! --Happy Quilting
The instructions are immaculate, with detailed color photography and graphics included. I also love how Kevin Kosbab is giving a little 'why use this technique' section to explain when and why you may want to pick one technique over another. --Felicia's World
With its comprehensive coverage of sewn applique techniques and its clear, thorough instruction, this is a book that quilters will want in their libraries. The projects are fantastic and the tutorials are excellent but what makes this book shine is Kosbab's voice, which is wry and funny and encouraging in all the right ways. --Library Journal
It's an impressive handbook of techniques and projects that cover everything you need to know about sewing one piece of fabric onto another. --Portland Modern Quilt Guild
