Learn to Quilt with Confidence • Everything you need to get started making beautiful quilts • Includes 9 skill-building classes • Complete instructions for making 13 classic quilts • Learn how to design your own quilts This must-have course guides you step by step through the basics of quiltmaking, from setting up your sewing space to binding and finishing your first quilt. Classroom-tested lessons draw on best-selling author Harriet Hargrave's many years of teaching experience. You are holding the first in a series of six books. The purpose of the series is to build your quiltmaking skills--from beginner to advanced--on a firm foundation. This first volume is to be used as a workbook. It contains a complete sequence of classes, lessons, exercises, and projects that will build your skills from one project to the next. We highly recommend that you make the quilts in the order presented, as we have placed them in order of complexity. Each quilt offers new challenges and involves new techniques that will help you continually build your skill level. We have chosen designs that are timeless and very adaptable to traditional fabrics as well as to more trendy fabric and color choices. Use these quilts to explore your color and style preferences. This book and the next in the series deal with quilts made of strips and squares. By mastering the techniques presented in these first books, you will be laying a foundation for precise, high-quality piecing. There are hundreds of quilt designs based on strips and squares, so you can spend a long time exploring these stunning quilts before you jump into the more complex piecing featured in the following books. Everything you need to get started making beautiful quilts Includes 9 skill-building classes Complete instructions for making 13 classic quilts Learn how to design your own quilts Harriet Hargrave is a world-renowned quilter, teacher, and best-selling author. She is responsible for myriad products pertaining to machine quilting, from batting to fabric. In 1981, she opened the hugely successful quilt shop, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, in Denver, Colorado. harriethargrave.com Carrie Hargrave-Jones has been surrounded by quilting all her life—sitting in her mother’s lap while she sewed and spending days at Harriet’s quilt shop. Carrie took over managing the shop in 2006. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Used Book in Good Condition