Recreating Antique Quilts: Re-envisioning, Modifying & Simplifying Museum Quilts

Five ancient quilts reinvented for today’s quilter from four museums! The ten featured projects for quilters of various skill levels were inspired by historical quilts. Using modern fabrics and techniques, these ancient quilts will be brought back to life with new beauty and warmth to use and enjoy around your house.

Quilting comments and inspiration, step-by-step directions, full-size patterns, piecing and appliqué methods, and instructive diagrams and drawings are all included in each reproduced project. Wendy Sheppard, author and quilt designer, provides her lifelong adoration for historical quilts a modern update utilizing simpler construction so that any quilter may have fun while feeling connected to America’s rich quilting past!

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Sew a Color Wheel Quilted Pillow is a sewing project. It involves creating a decorative pillow using a color wheel design made up of different colored fabrics.

The project requires basic sewing skills and knowledge of quilting techniques such as piecing, quilting, and binding. The end result is a colorful and eye-catching pillow that can be used to decorate a bed, sofa, or chair.

If you want one for yourself, then look no further than this dazzling color wheel pillow to freshen up and brighten your living space in a flash. This quilter and expert sewist Leslie Schucker made this pillow to feature the EZ Quilting Fat Cat template, which makes cutting your fabric shapes a breeze.

She’ll demonstrate piecing your color wheel together and lightly quilting your pillow top.

You’ll also learn how to sew your own envelope pillowcase. You can create as many unique color wheel pillows as you like using fabrics from your stash.

By using a variety of fabrics, all of your pillows can be equally unique. Online Class Tutorial

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