quilting

An alphabetically arranged guide to twenty-six different quilting techniques that offers step-by-step instructions and photographs of each completed project and pattern.

Shirley Johnson, a quilter, tells her children and their friend Charlie how she makes quilts, and explains how they were made in the past.

Maria, a young girl who lives with her grandmother Lupita, a cook on the Olson ranch, finds many loving, helping hands when she decides to make a quilt.

When her Mennonite family moves to Upper Canada to avoid involvement in the Civil War, young Selina is given a special quilt to remember the grandmother she left behind.

Basic instructions for developing skills in patchwork, appliqu?, and quilting with a number of learn-by-doing projects for each technique.