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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Supplies for Applique
  • Fabric Choices
  • Let's Talk About Color
  • Contrast and Color
  • Designs on Fabric
  • Pieced Backgrounds with Applique
  • Coloring Your Applique
  • Preparing the Background
  • Placement Overlay for Applique
  • Using the Overlay
  • Applique Templates the Piece O' Cake Way
  • Using Your Templates
  • Designing a Block
  • The Practice Templates
  • What Does "Needleturn" Mean?
  • The Simple Heart
  • Thread
  • Knotting the End of Your Thread
  • Invisible Applique Stitch
  • Love Apple Swirl Pattern
  • Curves
  • Inner Points
  • Outer Points
  • The Ending Knot
  • Cutaway Applique
  • Making Bias Stem
  • Two-Part Leaves
  • Reverse Applique
  • Stitching "Off the Block"
  • Circles
  • Tight Curves with Inner Points
  • Embellishments
  • Trimming Blocks to Size
  • Making a Continuous Bias Strip
  • Cording or Traditional Binding?
  • The Documentation Patch
  • About the Authors
  • Teachers Guide

Title: The Applique Handbook: Learn to Applique the Piece O' Cake Way
Author/Designer(s): Becky Goldsmith, Linda Jenkins
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1998
Publisher: Piece O' Cake Designs, Inc., Pagosa-Springs, CO
Language: English
Page Count: 56
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: None

SUMMARY- Excellent well-illustrated instructions for rank beginners - they even show you how to create a consistant knot at the end of your thread. I think they're handbook would be very useful to a beginner.