Elly's Books

Books Authored by Elly Sienkiewicz

Below is a list of books written by Elly Sienkiewicz and published by C&T Publishing Company, American Quilters Society and Wrights. Many are out of print and therefore unavailable from the publishers. Those book titles that are out-of-print have been highlighted in RED so you can readily spot them. If you are searching for an out-of print book, you may try posting your search request on an appliqué forum, or visiting www.BookFinder.com for help. Elly's books are also often resold on Amazon.com or Ebay. If the book is still in print, please contact your local quilt shop, or call C&T Publishing 1-800-284-1114; or visit their web site at www.ctpub.com for information and ordering.

Newest Release!

Baltimore Elegance
A New Approach to Classic Album Quilts
By Elly Sienkiewicz

C&T Publishing

25 new, smaller (8"), less complex blocks - 8 large reproduction blocks - plus border designs

6 lessons for building and improving your appliqué skills

Embellish pretty totes, aprons, pillows, and
a block carrier

Sneak Peek!

To order an autographed copy, send a check for $34.95 ($29.95 cover price + $5.00 shipping) to:

Elly Sienkiewicz
5540 30th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20015

To personalize autograph, please note the recipient's name.

Sweet Dreams, Moon Baby
A Quilt to Make, a Story to Read

C&T Publishing

Wrap your new baby in a quilt that only Elly Sienkiewicz could design! Elly used her appliqué expertise to create the Moon Baby and its supporting cast of sweet block designs like Wee Babe, Sleepy Star, and Smiling Sun. Read Elly's "Moon Baby Story" with your own baby, toddler, or grandchild.

5 Dreamy baby projects include the Moon Baby quilt, Golden Slumbers wallhanging, a mobile, and more to decorate your favorite nursery

Patterns for the Moon Baby and Sprinkled Stars central medallion and 12 smaller nursery motifs

Use Elly's color schemes or your own with cotton, wool felt, or plain wool

Includes instructions for hand, machine, and fusible appliqué, plus piecing, embroidery, and embellishment techniques

The Best of Baltimore Beauties Part II:
More Patterns for Album Blocks

C&T Publishing

In response to overwhelming demand, Elly Sienkiewicz presents a second collection of her most popular out-of-print Baltimore Album quilt block patterns, plus new designs you won't find anywhere else. Over 75 full-scale block and border patterns for Baltimore-style Album quilts, fully annotated for history, symbolism and construction including 12 NEW Baltimore-style designs from Elly. This new book features patterns personally chosen by Elly from her most sought-after out-of-print books: Papercuts and Plenty; Baltimore Album Quilts; Baltmore Beauties and Beyond, Volume Two; and Dimensional Applique.

Individual quilters and shop owners, please note that this is available directly from C & T Publishing (800-284-1114) even though not all distributors have it.

The Best of Baltimore Beauties, Part I:
95 Patterns for Album Blocks and Borders

C&T Publishing

In response to overwhelming demand from fans of Baltimore-style album quilts, C&T Publishing presents a collection of Elly Sienkiewicz’s most popular block and border patterns. Features patterns personally chosen by Elly from Papercuts and Plenty, as well as her out-of-print books: Baltimore Album Quilts, Baltimore Beauties and Beyond Volume Two, Dimensional Appliqué, and Spoken Without a Word.

Individual quilters and shop owners, please note that this is available directly from C & T Publishing (800-284-1114) even though not all distributors have it.

Appliqué 12 Easy Ways! Charming Quilts, Giftable Projects, and Timeless Techniques C&T Publishing
	This excellent book teaches you how to do hand appliqué simply. Great drawings show exactly how it's done. Even a beginner can make the cover quilt, "You've Stolen My Heart!" As you sew, you'll learn a lifetime of appliqué skills in just a few evenings. See your points, curves, and corners improve, heart by heart. While you create the pillow "Dutch Bulbs a' Bloomin" you'll perfect superfine stems, folded flowers, layered appliqué, and smooth round grapes. You'll be astonished at how much you learn so quickly.
Appliqué Paper Greetings Publisher - American Quilter's Society
	Appliqué Paper Greetings teaches all about card making: What cards are, what they do, design, and editorial approaches that make cards successful. Appliqué Paper Greetings is a workbook with sequential lessons and patterns. The lessons begin with the simplest of cards, the cut-out design motif itself, then move on to postcards and folded cards, dimensional ones, pop-up cards, those that contain small treasures, and greetings that are functional gifts in themselves. Ribbon flowers and other embellishments are covered, as are TechnoFancies, cards decorated by the sewing machine. "Cloth and paper" - the stuff of this book's projects - are each bursting with possibilities. Beyond cloth and paper, beyond the artwork and editorial processes, hovers the most important ingredient of all. . . creativity. It can be encouraged, and even learned. Why not work your way through the eight lessons? You may discover magic in these cards - and in yourself.

Baltimore Beauties and Beyond, Volume I
Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué

C&T Publishing

Unquestionably the most comprehensive book on how to do hand appliqué in print today. This book is clearly and copiously illustrated, and sparkles with 16 pages of color. Elly's patterns for making 29 blocks lead from beginner simplicity to complex classic appliqué. Basic details of perfect points, corners, curves, and invisible stitches lead the reader through Victorian fancywork like ruching, then right up to the modern ease of appliqué with the "freezer paper on top" method. This book will surely become a needlework classic.

Fancy Appliqué
12 Lessons to Enhance Your Skills

C&T Publishing

Take appliqué from plain to fancy with 12 new lessons from respected needlewoman Elly Sienkiewicz. Each exercise encourages playful exploration that will broaden your stitching horizons!

e 2 unique Fancy Sampler Quilt
e 50 different blocks
e All the techniques you need including: Cutaway and reverse cutaway appliqué
e Needleturn
e Non-decorative appliqué stitches
e Stumpwork
e Scenery blocks
e Methods for perfect points, inside corners, and smooth curves

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TITLES CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT


Baltimore Album Legacy: Catalogue to C & T Publishing's 1998 Baltimore Album Revival Quilt Show and Contest presenting a celebration of contemporary Baltimore-style Album quiltmaking! OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
OUT OF PRINT	This book is filled with stunning color photographs of quilts selected for exhibit in the 1998 Baltimore Album Revival Quilt Show and Contest. Interest in this brilliantly expressive medium has seen a full-scale revival over the past fifteen years. Many modern quiltmakers have mastered the intricacies of the classic 19th century Baltimore Album quilt. The 1998 Show and Contest showcases the superb artistry of today's needleartists who have a love for this style. Baltimore, a style once so intimidating to modern quiltmakers, has once again come fully into its own at the turn of a new century!

Baltimore Album Quilts: A Pattern Companion to Baltimore Beauties and Beyond, Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué, Volume I OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
OUT OF PRINT	An intimate portrait, Baltimore Album Quilts, draws the historic period, the quilts, and their makers closer to us all. The lively text stages both quilts and design motifs in a dramatic historic era. Fifty-two spectacular color plates, most of antique needle art, proffer insights into this nineteenth-century quilt tradition. In clear close-up photography, they reveal antique fabric use, period embroidery, and subtleties of individual presentations. With integrity and artistry, a splendid fifty-six patterns for making fifty-eight "beyond Baltimore" blocks are presented. Each one is referenced to appliqué lessons in Volume I, for whom this is a companion pattern book. Ten exciting classes using this book as text are outlined and may be taught in workshops or taken independently. Whether for a great read, or as a scholarly reference, or to create an Album heirloom of your own, this volume, itself, is certain to become a treasured possession.

Baltimore Beauties and Beyond, Volume II: Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
OUT OF PRINT	Insightful and abundantly illustrated, this volume probes both the design secrets and the origins of the classic Baltimore-style Album quilt. A gallery of fifty full quilts inspire lessons on picture blocks, Victorian inkwork, and sets and borders. Forty-five color plates and numerous design resources spin out the Album Quilt saga. The author's infectious enthusiasm, and her impressive, well-researched familiarity with the genre, plus thirty-three patterns (twenty for blocks, thirteen for borders), invite the reader "beyond" Baltimore. Here scholarship, artistry, and entertaining text embrace a glorious quilt tradition for all of us to share and to make our own.

Design a Baltimore Album Quilt! A Teach-Yourself Course in Sets and Borders: A Design Companion to Baltimore Beauties and Beyond OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
OUT OF PRINT	Rightly, we regard our Album Blocks as heirlooms in themselves. That next step, setting then into breathtaking Album Quilts, can be intimidating. This book demystifies the design ideas behind their sets and borders, so that your Album, too, can be an heirloom masterpiece.

Dimensional Appliqué, Baskets, Blooms, and Baltimore Borders: A Pattern Companion to Baltimore Beauties and Beyond Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué Volume II OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
OUT OF PRINT	Quick Victorian cushions, an heirloom quilt, or fresh floral jewels easy enough to craft with young friends and family? Beautiful projects, clear illustrations, and a workbook approach ensure your success in Dimensional Appliqué.

Baltimore Album Revival! -- Historic Quilts in the Making: Catalogue of the 1994 C & T Baltimore Album Revival Quilt Show and Contest OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
This book celebrates a contemporary quilt movement vivid in its vitality, worldwide in its popularity, and yet to peak after more than a decade-long hold. Quiltmakers have stitched the antebellum Baltimore Album Quilt style beautifully beyond its Victorian heyday.

Papercuts and Plenty, Volume III of Baltimore Beauties and Beyond: Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
OUT OF PRINT	Ballad-like, this book sings women's handwork to the tune of their spirits, harmonizing the present, past and future. With contagious enthusiasm, Elly Sienkiewicz invites the myriad pleasures of the quiltmaker's craft, always mindful of the Album Quilts' broader significance. Proverbially, the happiness is in the journey - to Baltimore and "beyond." Come, join us.

Appliqué 12 Borders & Medallions; Patterns from Easy to Heirloom: A Pattern Companion to Baltimore Beauties and Beyond, Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué, Volume III OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
OUT OF PRINT	Appliqué is flowering! Its heyday is here, once again -- and all those quilts a-coming will need the perfect border. Even patchwork blooms brighter with an appliqué border. If you love the look, yearn to learn -- or already appliqué -- gift yourself (or another special someone) with this basic quilt resource book. There's nothing like its 12 complete border and medallion patterns. There are classics, ones whose patterns belong in every quiltmaker's library. With them, you can appliqué 12 full borders and medallions -- a legacy by any measure!

Romancing Ribbons into Flowers OUT OF PRINT C&T Publishing
OUT OF PRINT	Romancing Ribbons, the ultimate guide to making ribbon flowers, brims with the warmth, charm and artistry of premier ribbon artist Elly Sienkiewicz. Illustrated profusely with exquisite projects, this book is encyclopedic inscope, featuring numerous techniques and simple, effective methods presented in a lesson format for self-study or group enrichment. The bountiful projects in Romancing Ribbons will delight lovers of Victoriana, designers of heirloom quilts, devotees of chic ornaments and festive attire, and all who love the romance and beauty of ribbon artistry. The comprehensive Resource Directory provides access to myriad ribbons and embellishments to fashion both practical and lavish designs. Buy this book to dream on, and then romance your ribbons into favorite flowers!

Spoken Without A Word OUT OF PRINT A Lexicon of Selected Symbols with 24 Patterns From Classic Baltimore Album Quilts Self Published 1983 The Turtle Hill Press
A wee Lexicon of selected symbols, and their meanings, from the Baltimore Album Quilt Period. It is illustrated with 23 drawings carefully replicating original Baltimore Album Quilt blocks and one contemporary block. The introduction develops the thesis that these Baltimore Album Quilts used symbolism extensively and often intentionally: that, in fact, these quilts "spoke without words."

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