Sew Emoji: Mix & Match 60 Features for Custom Emoticons; Make a Twin-Size Quilt, Pillows & More

By Gailen Runge

Fun, crafty creations that will get a smiley face and a big thumbs up!

Make this clever bedroom set for your favorite kid, young adult, or anyone young at heart! Combine thirty-five popular emojis to create four fast, fun and easy projects—a twin-size quilt, throw pillows, a pillowcase, and a bolster. Then mix and match sixty facial features, including hearts, tears, eyes, mouths, sunglasses, tongues, and a halo, with suggestions for thirty additional emoji faces, plus four popular hand emojis (fist bump, peace sign, thumbs up, and praise) . . . and even the strangely popular poop emoji.

With beginner-friendly projects and instructions, this book has everything you need to know to sew emojis!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Oct 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781617457715

Book preview

PUBLISHER: Amy Marson

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Gailen Runge

ACQUISITIONS EDITOR: Roxane Cerda

MANAGING/DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR: Liz Aneloski

TECHNICAL EDITOR: Debbie Rodgers

COVER/BOOK DESIGNER: April Mostek

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Zinnia Heinzmann

PRODUCTION EDITOR: Alice Mace Nakanishi

ILLUSTRATOR: Tim Manibusan

PHOTO ASSISTANT: Rachel Holmes

STYLE AND QUILT PHOTOGRAPHY by Kelly Burgoyne and INSTRUCTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY by Gailen Runge of C&T Publishing, Inc., unless otherwise noted

Published by C&T Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my family for the love and support and weekend hours you let me sew and write. I love you Kennedy, Jake, and Eric.

And to Sue, who is so full of so many good ideas … this book being one of them. ;)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to my C&T Publishing family, with whom I seem to spend more time than my outside-of-work family. Thank you for all the hard work on this book and for the fun every day. I’m amazed every day that I get to work in such a magical place with such amazing people.

Thank you to Robert Kaufman Fabrics for the very generous donation of all the solid fabric featured in these projects. Their Kona line is extensive and has a very soft hand.

My preteen daughter loves emojis! And while I made this bedroom set for her, I wanted to write the projects in a way that she—or anyone else, whether new to quilting or an experienced sewist—could make it herself.

I found that this is the perfect quilt to try all the little tips and tricks to make quilting a little easier and a little faster. … These include fusible appliqué, turned-edge appliqué using interfacing, and straight-line walking foot quilting. Along the way, I’ll introduce you to some of my favorite hints (a blind hem foot is the best thing since sliced bread) and tools of the trade (quilter, meet glue). If you’re an experienced quilter, you can, of course, use your favorite methods. I also think this quilt is perfect for a quilt-as-you-go technique. Have fun with it!

MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES

FABRIC

I created my emoji projects with solid-colored fabric. I like how that lets the emojis speak for themselves. (Pun intended.) You can use solids, as I did, or mix it up with prints.

COLOR BY NUMBER

Here’s a list of the specific Kona Cotton by Robert Kaufman Fabrics I used in these projects.

QUILT AND BOLSTER BLOCK BACKGROUNDS

K001-1282 Peacock

K001-1376 Turquoise

K001-1031 Blue Grass

K001-1009 Azure

K001-494 Malibu

K001-405 Alegria

K001-1061 Candy Green

K001-1183 Jade Green