Anita's Books
| Infinite Feathers by Anita Shackelford, includes step-by-step photos and instructions for designing feather quilting motifs and transferring them to your quilt top. Working with simple tools, you can learn to create designs that will fit perfectly in the blocks and borders of your next quilt. Besides ideas for drafting your own designs, you will find a pattern section which over 100 feather designs in traditional, innovative and continuous-line styles. For even more inspiration, the gallery contains almost a dozen beautiful quilts made by some of today's top quiltmakers. If you love quilting, we know you will enjoy this book as much as her other titles. Softcover, 160 pages $25.95 |
| Applique with Folded Cutwork Discover how easy it is to make your own applique patterns by folding and cutting a piece of paper snowflake-style. Learn to design more than a dozen different styles of blocks and borders. We always have a huge response to the Simply Quilts program which featured this folded cutwork technique. Order now and get in on the fun. This book is out of print, but still available from Thimble works. Softcover, 143 pages $22.95 |
| Coxcomb with Birds 84" x 84" 1995 The first quilt I made was this careful reproduction of the antique piece. The design is the same and the colors are how I imagined the original must have looked. After this quilt was finished, the challenge was to see what else we could create by changing the color or layout of the pieces to make something new - but with recognizable ties to the original. Twelve new quilts are pictured, along with the templates and fabric requirements to make each one. I hope they will inspire you to create your own coxcomb quilt. |
| Pattern included in Coxcomb Variations book. Not available separately. |
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| Redwork Garden Charming floral designs work up quickly with a stem stitch and embroidery floss or thread of your choice. finishing this 25" x 35" wall quilt. $9.95 |
| Teens and Tweens Jen and I enjoyed putting together this great book of sewing and quilting projects, perfect for kids or any and you'd like to share your passion for working with fabric, you'll find lots of projects here. For a sneak peek at the kids at work click here. |
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| The Feathered Star wall quilt on the cover is both hand and machine pieced, hand and machine quilted, and includes trapunto in the background areas. |
| Echo quilting around the applique was done by hand, continuous curves and straight lines were quilted by machine. |
| Tropical Breezes is one of the projects in the book. It is both pieced and appliqued; batiks give it a tropical feel. |
| This sampler wall quilt shows the actual teaching samples for both dimensional applique and the embroidery stitches you can learn by working your way through this book. |
| "Those Our Hearts Are Fondest Of" shows many of the dimensional applique techniques which are included in this book. |
| A Quilter's Aphabet A Quilter's Alphabet is the perfect way to personalize your next quilt. These are the beautiful Old English letters that I used on our family album quilts and on Little Boy Dreams, which I made for our grandson, Brandon. Line drawings of letters, numbers and punctuation are full size, ready to use. Capital letters are 4" high, lower case letters and numbers are 3". The pattern book includes instructions for fused or stitched applique and padded trapunto, plus suggestions for embroidery or ink work and several project ideas. 32 pages. $8.95 |
| A Modern Mix Machine & Hand Quilting Quilt by machine or by hand? Both! is the resounding answer from Anita Learn how to successfully incorporate hand and machine quilting in the same quilt to add visual interest to your projects. 112 Pages 141 Illustrations $24.95 |
| Three-Dimensional Applique and Embroidery Embellishment Whether you are reproducing traditional album blocks or designing your own, this comprehensive guide is sure to provide both the information and the inspiration you are seeking. For each technique there is a project, a small block you can refer to as an illustration or actually complete. Work through chapter by chapter or simply turn to the book upon occasion with a particular need. You'll find it easy to use and full of sound information and inspiring ideas. 43 dimensional applique techniques, plus 23 embroidery stitches and suggestions for their use. |
| Pennsylvania Plain & Fancy Includes patterns for 6 pieced and 6 appliqued quilts with projects for beginner and advanced quilters. Also includes instructions for special techniques, such as folded cutwork applique, ruching and trapunto. 48 pages, full color $18.95 |
| Ohio Collection Create a Little Piece of History! This book includes 44 historic pieced and appliqued patterns. Discover designs that are perfect for you, designs that are perfect for you, whether you are a beginner or experienced quiltmaker. Work with templates or rotary cutting instructions to reproduce an antique quilt or make a new one. Softcover, 48 pages $18.95 |
| Coxcomb Variations Discover the incredible variety of quilts that can be created from one set of templates. I've challenged 9 people to create quilts based on a magnificent nineteenth-century Coxcomb applique quilt. The result is 11 new quilt projects for you to sew and enjoy. Each one contains full-sized templates and detailed instructions, along with the maker's description of how the quilt was designed and what makes it unique. You can sew one of the beautiful quilts as shown or play with the pattern pieces to create your own Coxcomb variation. Softcover, 63 pages $18.95 |
| Arizona Sunflowers This pattern was very popular when it appeared on the cover of Love of Quilting magazine, September 2006. Now the pattern is available from our website. The combination of pieced baskets and flowing applique wlll make this one of your favorite quilts. $11.95 |
| Ruched Ribbon Sunflowers This bird and sunflower motif is appliqued with a combination of hand and machine work and embellished with strip ruched ribbon and beads. Use on vest, shirt or other garment. 4 pages $5.95 |
| French Basket Create a 1920's style basket of flowers using both strip and circular style ruching. Directions for wall hanging or twin size quilt. 5 pages plus full size, pull-out templates for Garden Maze set, and full size border quilting pattern. $9.95 |
This almost life-size folk art sunflower design is appliqued with a combination of hand and machine work. Pattern includes full size templates plus instructions for strip ruching, embroidery and free-form embellishments 12 pages $9.95 |
