Stash Statement: Make the Most of Your Fabrics with Easy Improv Quilts

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Don't throw your fabric scraps away! Kelly Young will teach you how to make structured improvisational quilts. She starts by blending the old concept of an improv quilt with a newer structured way to do it with tips and techniques on how to get started, how to prepare your fabrics and choose which method you would like to use--panel, strip, or block. Then she offers three ways to organize your quilt: by colour, grabbing and sewing, and creating your improv as the background. Projects include Grand Bazaar, Precarious, Detour, Bloom Chicka Boom, Regatta and more! Perfect for confident beginners and experienced quilters.

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If, like most quilters, you can't bear to get rid of fabric scraps, strips, and leftovers, then you should turn them into cool, creative, one-of-a-kind quilts! Kelly Young can help--she's got a lot of creative, modern ideas for scrap quilt patterns and shares 15 of them in this charming, cheerful book. Learn how to organize your scraps so you're more likely to actually use them, explore design options with multiple color and style variations, and follow the step-by-step instructions to stitch your fabric scraps into treasured heirlooms. - Fons & Porter's Quick + Easy Quilts

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Kelly Young is a quilter, author of Stash Statement and Scrappy Improv Quilting, pattern designer, and quilt teacher. A former elementary teacher who has been making quilts for over 20 years, Kelly traded her classroom full of children for a classroom full of quilters and began traveling to teach and design patterns full-time in 2015.