The master quilting teacher presents the ultimate reference guide for drafting your own quilt designs—including 3 projects to test your skills!Quilt artist Sally Collins has helped countless quilters unleash their creative vision by sharing her vast knowledge of drafting. In this comprehensive guide, she offers detailed instructions on how to draft your own quilt blocks based on grids, circles, and various kinds of stars; how to design using mirrors, graph paper, pe...

The ultimate reference guide for borders and edges! Think of quilt borders and edgings as design elements, not just afterthoughts. They serve as a frame for the central design as they enrich and complement it. Give your borders and bindings the attention they deserve, and they will pay you back 100-fold in incredible quilts that really work! • The most comprehensive reference guide available for borders, bindings, and other quilt finishes • Advice on planning, cutting, stitching, and attac...

Learn Precision Piecing from an Award-Winning Expert • The must-have book to take your quilting to the expert level • 7 new projects • Tips to improve your skills at every step of the quilting process • Learn to create the perfect 1/4" seam, sew straight, and chain piece for efficiency • Hundreds of illustrations and photos for clear direction • Use color like Sally for exquisite results Sally shows you how to bring accuracy to every step: pinning, cutting, sewing, and pressing. Seven piec...

It's the spring of 2009 in Deer Valley, Wisconsin, and with the crack of a screen door, twenty-year-old Emily Schmidt's life is about to change.Born and raised and still living in The Honky Tonk, her dad's flagging tavern, Emily's tired of the patrons' same old conversations, the jukebox's same old sad songs, and her dad's same old drunken tirades. Loyal, but lonely and struggling with an unsettling incident with one of the regulars, she's secretly planning to pursue her own dreams...

Here are easy-to-learn precision piecing methods that will help you attain quality workmanship and extraordinary quilts.Sally Collins, the author of Small Scale Quiltmaking, shows you how to enjoy the journey from design idea to quilted reality!Patterns for forty-nine traditional-style blocks in three", four", and six" sizes.Instructions for making a knock-your-socks-off sampler quilt that uses all forty-nine blocks.The ul...

If you are serious about quiltmaking and improving your skills, you will find this book most rewarding. Sally teaches how to make creative small scale quilts that excite the eye, challenge the hand, and failthfully reflect the "full size" vision, in a smaller space. Nine projects are presented in order of their degree of difficulty. You will find creative challenges for both new and experienced quilters. Thinking large and working small helps you to develop a better understanding of the sc...

Fully revised for this fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology fully reflects new developments in the field. Featuring new sections on the outcomes of the MBRRACE report, abnormally adherent and invasive placenta, pregnancies in mothers of advanced age, assisted reproduction, and ovarian cancer screening, it provides a contemporary overview of this complex and important specialty. Written and reviewed by a team of highly experienced clinicians, academics,...

A timeless and enchanting children's fantasy classic with a loyal fan base.At the end of his thousand-year reign of the Copper Mountains, old King Mansolain is tired and his heart is slowing down. When his attendant, the Hare, consults The Wonder Doctor, he is told he must keep the King engaged in life by telling him a story every night until the Doctor can find a cure.The search is on for a nightly story more wonderful than the last, and one by one the kin...

Obstetric Medicine, the first title in a new Oxford Specialist Handbooks series covering Obstetrics and Gynaecology, contains relevant, accessible, and focused information to help both general physicians to manage medical conditions during pregnancy, and the specialist obstetrician manage general medicine in the pregnant patient. Pregnant women regularly present with medical problems to many different medical specialties, and as their physiology is changed by the pregnanc...

Urogynaecological problems are one of the most common reasons that women are referred to the hospital services, and can account for up to a fifth of the gynaecological surgery waiting list at any time. Pelvic floor problems can have a huge impact on the patient's quality of life, and therefore should be managed appropriately. Compact, portable, and comprehensive, this new addition to the Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Obstetrics and Gynaecology series covers all aspects of pelvic ...

"Delicious and delectable quilts . . . adorn the pages of this fabulous new book . . . it is just what everyone's bookshelf has been waiting for" ( Fabrications).Immerse yourself in the sumptuous world of Jelly Rolls with 17 exciting quilting projects. Learn how to turn the pre-cut, 2 ½-inch strips into fabulous quilts, each of which can be made from just one 40-fabric roll.Jelly Roll Quilts features unique advice on making the most of thi...

This comprehensive beginner's guide to quilting skills covers everything from setting up a sewing area to designing your own quilts.Harriet Hargrave has taught quilting all over the world. Now, with the Quilter's Academy series of coursebooks, you can learn from her mastery and decades of experience. Volume one of the series welcomes freshman quilters with classes, lessons, exercises, and projects that will build your skills from one project to the next.Arr...