Quilting

Author Penny Halgren has written 9 books for beginning quilters based on her 26 years of hands' on experience. Her latest effort, "How To Quilt - A Beginner's Guide To Quilting" is available digitally so it can be downloaded immediately after purchase. This precise no fluff guide presents a "9-Step Method" to creating your first beautiful quilt while eliminating the pitfalls experienced by most beginners.

pitfalls suffered by most beginners. In fact, Penny reveals all of the secret tips and tricks that many quilt makers "forget" to tell beginners!

A Beginner's Guide to Quilting is divided into 9 easy-to-follow steps, described in easy-to-understand language, with full color photographs of the actual quilt being made. Each step is chock-full of tips and short cuts to make your learning easy and making your first quilt fun. No holding back. Nothing is left out. When you finish your first quilt, you will know the secrets of experienced and professional quilters that many quilters with years of experience don't know!

Are you ready right now to learn how to:

• Create a masterpiece that will amaze your family and friends

• Choose the perfect fabric for just the right effect

• Cut your fabric without making wasteful mistakes

• Sew perfect seams so that every corner is square and every triangle tip is pointy

• Attach borders that make your quilt square up

• Make binding that adds the perfect finishing touch to your quilt

Here are some comments by happy users of Penny's guide:

"I loved your "Beginner's Guide To Quilting" book and found it very, very helpful. I read the book, cover-to-cover and it gave me the confidence I needed to attempt my very 1st quilt. I have it setting right next to my sewing machine so I can refer to it often."

Brenda Coburn, Las Vegas Nevada

Penny, you still provide the very best beginners' guides - more concise, to-the-point, step by step, assuming nothing - that in spite a quilting classes, I find myself referring to my dog-eared pages of "A Beginner's Guide to Quilting"

Diane Wollen, Albuquerque, New Mexico

A Beginner's Guide to Quilting comes with a 10-Bonus pack, a $145.77 value, free with your purchase. These will help you select the tools and materials needed for quilting without the expensive and time consuming "trial and error" method used by most beginning quilters.

Click here to visit Penny's website and see these valuable bonus items for yourself. You can also get a peak into her book!

As with all digital products reviewed on this site, "A Beginner's Guide To Quilting" comes with and unconditional 60 Day Money Back Guarantee.

This section showcases Penny's daily e-mail newsletter, which you can receive by visiting her website and filling out the subscription form. I seldom fail to learn something new, or at least be reminded of something that I had forgotten, each day.

The photos of the silk quilt in progress and the Dresden blockis are actually from a website link which you will find in the newsletter below.

From The Desk Of Penny Halgren

Frequently silk quilts were made using silk, satins, velvets and brocades and were embroidered with elaborate stitches,giving them charm and elegance. Often quilters used more than100 different embroidery stitches in their silk quilts.

Because silk is so delicate - and somewhat difficult to work with - quilters used a lining of thin muslin or cambric, and then sewed the design onto the silk and the lining at the same time.

Today, some quilters use silk for applique designs. Becausesilk frays easily, it is a little more difficult to work with

in applique and as patches in a quilt.

Many quilters like to use silk ties for quilts.

Maybe you are making a tie quilt because a man in your life has retired and is no longer wearing them.

Possibly, you decided that making a silk tie quilt sounded like a fun project, so you get your ties at the thrift shop.

Whichever it is, stabilizing the silk for sewing is critical for creating a beautiful quilt:

http://how-to-quilt.com/articles/1018-silk-quilts.php

In addition to techniques for stabilizing your silk pieces, you'll see a couple of design ideas for quilts using silk.

Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren

www.How-to-Quilt.com

P.S. My silk ties came from the thrift shop and were taken

apart and then washed in the sink with care before I cut them

into pieces for my quilt:

This one is for the more experienced quilter. In these days of economic recession we can all use an additional income stream. "How To Start Your Own Quilt Shop", deals mostly with business issues. A lot of people know how to make professional style quilts and even how to promote sales, but few know how to run a business properly.

Maybe you've just started to explore the possibility of opening your own quilt shop to see if you're ready for the commitment. Or perhaps you know you're ready, but want to be completely prepared when you start to look for locations and secure some financing. General business books don't go into enough detail about the specifics of opening, running, and marketing a successful quilt shop. This book delivers the step-by-step instructions you need to get your quilt shop up and running in the least amount of time.

How to Start Your Own Quilt Shop is the result of over 100 hours of research and over $1,000 in consulting fees. When you purchase, you get a comprehensive guide to starting, opening, running, and marketing your quilt shop. Other quilt shop books on the market are currently selling for more than $90, and don't offer the depth of experience that has gone into How to Start Your Own Quilt Shop.

This downloadable e-book provides all of this information and much, much more. Click here to check it out!

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Whether you are a novice or an accomplished, experienced quilter, this wonderful book will give you everything you need to know in order to make over two hundred quilts from the designs of quilts made by actual American pioneer women!

Step-by-step instructions, cutting designs, materials

suggestions, yardage estimates. You will be able to add a special value to the each quilt that you make, because you will be able to tell the story of the original quilt in American history. Mrs. McKim’s charming, well-illustrated book brings together historical research, a treasury of over one hundred authentic early American quilting designs, a wealth of practical methods, and a satisfying helping of nostalgia. You will not want your craft library to be without it!

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