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From Fiber to Fabric: The Essential Guide to Quiltmaking Textiles
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Harriet Hargrave presents the definitive resource guide to selection, use, and care of today’s textiles. Includes easy-to-understand directions for testing fiber content, thread count, colorfastness, lightfastness, washfastness, and shrinkage. You’ll find information on the effects of water and detergents on different fabrics and dyes. Thread compatibility and batting selection charts. Recommendations for storing quilts is also included. With a better understanding of how textiles are made, what to consider when buying them, and how to care for them once you bring them home, you will have much more enjoyment and less stress as you create your wonderful quilts.
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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
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I believe all serious quilters should read this book. Find out why you should buy quality fabric for your treasures.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5By far the most informative book on a subject related to textiles I have ever read. Amazing.