Quilter's Academy Vol. 5 - Masters Year: A Skill-Building Course in Quiltmaking

By Harriet Hargrave and Carrie Hargrave-Jones

The fifth volume of the best-selling Quilter's Academy series inspires you to design your own stunning medallion quilts. Apply your Quilters Academy toolbox of skills to drafting dozens of different borders and creating beautiful medallion style quilts in the self-paced lessons.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C&T Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781617452338

Harriet Hargrave

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. Her website is harriethargrave.com

Reviews for Quilter's Academy Vol. 5 - Masters Year

[quiltz_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is the first in a series of 6 teaching the nuts and bolts of sewing and making a quilt. I highly recommend Volume 1 to a beginner or for someone who feels they need a refresher course. Important lessons about straight of grain in the fabric are detailed. If unlike me you didn’t have home economics in high school, this information doesn’t generally get out to the new seamstress. Accuracy in cutting fabric and ¼” seam allowances are stressed. Each section of the book is illustrated with step-by-step photographs with well written instructions as well as little exercises in sewing. Projects are provided to teach actual hands-on implementation of the techniques taught.I was pleasantly surprised that the authors also provided a beginning lesson on drafting quilt patterns. This information will come in handy to any quilter sometime in the future when they begin to adapt commercial quilting patterns or designing their own quilt patterns.