Story Quilts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Story Quilts write by Yukari Takahara. This book was released on 2014. Story Quilts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese teacher and designer Yukari Takahara shares in beautiful quilts her own life story, inspiring everyone to recreate special events in their lives through the medium of quilting. Find a gallery of 37 different quilts and vignettes, along with 14 pages of pattern ideas and step-by-step directions for applique.
Tar Beach
Tar Beach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tar Beach write by Faith Ringgold. This book was released on 2020-08-18. Tar Beach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER • CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK Acclaimed artist Faith Ringgold seamless weaves fiction, autobiography, and African American history into a magical story that resonates with the universal wish for freedom, and will be cherished for generations. Cassie Louise Lightfoot has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on “tar beach,” the rooftop of her family’s Harlem apartment building, her dreams come true. The stars lift her up, and she flies over the city, claiming the buildings and the city as her own. As Cassie learns, anyone can fly. “All you need is somewhere to go you can’t get to any other way. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.”
Mooshka, A Quilt Story
Mooshka, A Quilt Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mooshka, A Quilt Story write by Julie Paschkis. This book was released on 2012-03-06. Mooshka, A Quilt Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Karla loves her special quilt, Mooshka. But Mooshka is more than just a quilt. Karla's grandmother lovingly pieced Mooshka together using scraps of fabric from members of Karla's family. Each square, or "schnitz," shares a special memory of Karla's ancestors and their lives. Mooshka speaks, comforting Karla at bedtime with whispered stories. When new baby sister Hannah arrives, Karla's routine is disrupted and Mooshka falls silent. Only when Karla shares Mooshka with her sister does the quilt begin to speak again and tell Hannah the treasured stories of her family.
Stitching Stars
Stitching Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stitching Stars write by Mary E. Lyons. This book was released on 1997. Stitching Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This distinguished biography is both a portrait of an artist and a chronicle of her times. Born into slavery, Harriet Powers had always been a quilt maker, but at 49, she began working on her first masterpiece--a story quilt of the Bible that is now at the Smithsonian Institution. Full-color photos.
Quilts Around the World
Quilts Around the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quilts Around the World write by Spike Gillespie. This book was released on 2010-11-21. Quilts Around the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essential book for all quilters and quilt collectors tells the fascinating story of quilting around the world, illuminated by the international quilt community’s top experts and more than 300 glorious color photographs. Covering Japan, China, Korea, and India; England, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands; Australia, Africa, Central America, North America, and beyond, Quilts Around the World explores both the diversity and common threads of quilting. Discover Aboriginal patchwork from Australia, intricate Rallis from the Middle East, Amish and Hawaiian quilts from the United States, Sashiko quilts from Japan, vivid Molas from Central America, and art quilts from every corner of the globe. Also included are twenty patchwork and applique patterns to use in your own quilt projects, inspired by designs from the world’s most striking quilts.
