Quilter's Academy

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. Arranged in order of complexity, each quilt offers new challenges and involves new techniques that will help you continually build your skill level. By mastering the techniques presented in Quilter's Academy Vol. 1, you will be on your way to creating your own quilts with precise, high-quality piecing. Includes compete instructions for making 13 classic quilts!

Get a college-level education in quiltmaking in the comfort of your home with the second in the classic series, plus eleven projects to practice your skills! From the mother-daughter team of world-renowned teacher Harriet Hargrave and Carrie Hargrave, this book in the Quilter's Academy series will inspire you to put your developing skills to work and challenge you to start designing your own quilts. Drafting exercises help you learn to make any quilt, any size, with or without a pattern. You'll find loads of tips, techniques, and helpful charts. This classic series of comprehensive books will take you from the basics to complete mastery with easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises. In Volume 1, you learned the fundamentals of quiltmaking. Now, in Volume 2, you'll build your drafting skills by using tools like graph paper and linking blocks.