Let yourself be captivated by the spirit of Christmas as you decorate your home with wonderful patchwork items and stitched ornaments. Dress up your holiday by crafting placemats, pillows, cuddly blankets, and other special decorative items that will make your home warm and cosy. Create elaborate patchwork pieces like winter wall hangings and a festive tablecloth. Learn 25 simple, stitched projects for beginners, and incorporate more advanced challenges into the plan by reworking them as more complex models. Step-by-step directions and easy-to-follow templates will make working on all of the projects easy. Also included is a basic patchwork and quilting course. Christmas can be magical with these fun projects! AUTHOR: Ingrid Perra has turned her hobby into a business and established Country Quilt, a patchwork company, in Oberhausen, Germany. Her concentration is in American country style. She is a course instructor and regularly publishes models in different patchwork trade journals. 317 colour photos
