Leaving Baltimore - A Prairie Album Quilt    New!

Leaving Baltimore, A Prairie Album Quilt combining traditional and dimensional applique. Christina DeArmond, Eula Lang & Kaye Spitzli's newest book published by the Kansas City Star.

Imagine living in the mid-1800s.  Now imagine leaving your home and heading west in a covered wagon to your new home on the prairie.  The flora, fauna and landscape are all new to you, and like the ladies of Baltimore, you want to record this journey by creating an album quilt.

Using both traditional and 3-dimensional applique, you record the wildflowers, fruits and vegetables, and animals you see along the way and around your new home.  You add the Prairie Schooner that brought you to this new land, the cherished Bible that provided guidance when the journey was rough, and the bald eagle that symbolizes the strength and freedom of this young country.

Included in this book are large photographs and full-sized patterns for the nine album blocks and four cutwork blocks, with clear, detailed instructions for embellishing your quilt with 3-dimensional applique.  Additional projects include a Prairie Chain quilt, a table mat and an embroidered wall hanging.

A Baltimore Album

Twenty-five applique patterns By Marsha D. Radtke to recreate a pre-Civil War Baltimore Album quilt found in her rural Maryland parsonage attic.

Christmas at Home

Published by Kansas Star, Christina, Eula and Kaye's book, Christmas at Home - Quilts for your Holiday Traditions features two full size quilts with pieced and embroidered blocks and three smaller projects for your Christmas holidays, and a few of our favorite recipes.

Embroidered Quilts

Embroidered Quilts from Hands and Hearts.
Inspired by antique redwork, Christina, Eula and Kaye have created 7 lovely quilts and 3 fun projects showcasing embroidery. You'll find designs for floral motifs, months of the year, butterflies, vintage daisies--even proverbs. The book has clear embroidery instructions and a brief history of embroidery art.

Get Your Stitch On Route 66

Quilts From The Mother Road
Got the urge to travel? Take a journey of stitches along the historic Route 66 with Christina, Eula and Kaye. The book includes 21 embroidery patterns of famous Route 66 highway signs and scenery. Alternate the embroidered blocks with pieced blocks to make three quilts.

Golden's Journal

This 20 block sampler quilt honors life on a Kansas prairie farm in the early 1900s. Each block is illustrated with diary entries and photos of Kaye's grandmother. Three distinct quilt settings and eight projects from the sampler block patterns are included in this book by Christina, Eula and Kaye.

Perfect Hand Applique'

This book by Liuxin Newman, the "Thimblelady" will show you how to needle-turn applique' to perfection. This is not an applique book to make a particular pattern, but a real "how-to" with all the tips, techniques and secrets from a master appliquer. Book includes her DVD with a close up shot on every step of stitching. Master all the innovative techniques of today's highest skill level, you can applique anything and everything humanly possible with ease.

Perfect Hand Quilting Without Pain

This book is a thorough "How-To" on hand quilting complete with close up photos AND instructional CD by Liuxin Newman, "The Thimblelady". With the Thimblelady thimbles and her quilting method it really is possible to make perfect stitches without pain!

Sylvia's Bridal Sampler Book

This beautiful book by Jennifer Chiaverini is a must have especially if you enjoyed her Elm Creek Quilts novel series. The beautiful full color book has directions for 140 traditional quilt blocks.