Best of
Sewing

1991

Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns for Printed Fabrics Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period


Susan Meller - 1991
    Volume III contains 579 high-resolution designs from 124 categories. Each CD-ROM in the set comes with a licensing agreement granting FREE usage of each image.

Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers


Patricia Cox Crews - 1991
    The 103 quilts featured here (all drawn from the Nebraska Quilt Project survey) exemplify more than a century and a quarter of quiltmaking, from the territorial period to the 1980s. The descriptions of the patterns, materials, and quiltmaking techniques are rounded out with biographical sketches of the quiltmakers—women, children, and men whose stories are as varied as the quilts they made. Quiltmakers, quilt collectors, and those who simply admire quilts will treasure this compendium of Nebraska’s quiltmaking traditions.

The Smithsonian Treasury of American Quilts


Doris M. Bowman - 1991
    

Elizabethan Costuming


Janet Winter - 1991
    Includes construction, fabric selections and history of the clothing of that time in England.

Cloth Dolls: How to Make Them


Miriam Gourley - 1991
    Includes a 45-page section on basic dollmaking, plus exquisite doll designs from 10 noted dollmakers.

Fit and Fabric


Threads - 1991
    This collection of articles from the first four years of THREADS magazine explores the exciting concepts of pattern, fit, and fabric. Learn about preparing fabric for sewing, working with plaids, customizing patterns, sewing with special materials--knits, silks, stretch fabrics--and much more.

Successful Quilting: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering the Techniques of Piecing, Applique & Quilting


Linda Seward - 1991