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Welcome to England Design! |
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In addition to this award, Cynthia won Best of Show at the International Quilt Festival in Houston for Piece and Quiet in 1993 and for Open Season in 2000. Visit the Meet Cynthia and Cynthia's Resume pages to learn more about the recognition her quilts have received. Click the Contact Info button to learn more about Cynthia's Lectures and Workshops and her upcoming teaching schedule. |
| What's New at England Design Visit our What's New page for information on what is happening at England Design as well as links to all our newest patterns and products. Here are just a few highlights. |
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Season's End, shown right, is Cynthia's other new Small Landscape Series pattern. |
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The latest issue of $100,000 Quilting Challenge magazine, (#3) features Cynthia's quilt Piece and Quiet on the cover and an article by her entitled "Getting the Most Out of Your Stash". Grist Mill, shown below left, is one of two recent patterns in Cynthia's Small Landscapes Series and is also featured in the article. |
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We are proud to announce our brand new See For Yourself Picture Piecing Videos. Cynthia has decided to bring into your quilting studio the live demonstrations that are always so popular in her quilt show booths. Visit our See For Yourself Picture Piecing Videos page to watch as Cynthia demonstrates how to picture piece her free Ice Cream Cone block pattern available on this site. |
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Cynthia is one of 14 featured designers in a new book by Jane Hall. The book, The Expert's Guide to Foundation Piecing: 15 Techniques and Projects, has just been released by C&T Publishing. The book is available through our online catalog, just click the book photo. |
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Cynthia's quilt Through Tuscany is one of the 12 quilts featured in the Quilter's Newsletter 2008 Calendar. | |
| Gallery of Cynthia England's Quilts | ||
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You can see photographs of Cynthia's picture pieced quilts, including detail photographs, by visiting the Gallery section of this site. Just click the Gallery button from any page. Open Season shown left, and Cynthia's latest quilt, Through Tuscany shown right, are two of the beautiful quilts you'll find in the Gallery. |
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| Picture Piecing Patterns and Books Through England Design, Cynthia has published over 50 patterns and two books. You'll find all Cynthia's currently available books and patterns on the Patterns and Books page. Her book Picture Piecing: Creating Dramatic Pictorial Quilts (shown below left), provides step-by-step details of her picture piecing design and construction technique. It has sold over 20,000 copies. |
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The book includes full color pictures of many of Cynthia's quilts and shows numerous examples of quilts created by other quilters who have used her picture piecing techniques.
The Give Thanks pattern, shown right is just one of the England Design picture piecing patterns |
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For the Birds (left) and Glorious Hummingbirds (right) are two 17" x 26" wall quilts we introduced at the International Quilt Market and Festival in November '06. They are available for ordering online; just click the linked images or visit our Floral and Bird Series page for details. Glorious Hummingbirds was featured on the Keepsake Quilting Catalog cover. |
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| Fabric Packets For almost every pattern in her line, Cynthia has put together a Fabric Kit with just the right types and quantities of fabrics to duplicate the sample quilt for the pattern. You'll find these fabric kits are offered right on the same page as each pattern. In addition, England Design offers over 50 Fat Quarter Packets which feature 4 fat quarters each. These fabric packets feature great fabrics for pictorial quilts |
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For instance, the tree bark fabric shown left is included in one of our Tree Bark Fabric Packets and the fabric shown to the right is included in one of our Hair Fabric Packets. Visit our Fabric Packets page to see all of our Fat Quarter Fabric Packets. |
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| NEW! We now offer a few landscape fabrics by the yard or panel. These are fabrics that have beautiful scenes that will appeal to landscape quilt lovers. Visit our new Fabric Yardage page to see these fabrics. | ||
| Helpful Products Cynthia loves to make it easy for quilters to enjoy quilting with her Picture Piecing techniques and patterns. Her online product catalog continually grows as she finds new products that will be useful to her students and customers. You'll find all of these great finds offered through our Helpful Products page. |
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The scissors and Fabrico pens, shown left, are examples of products that we now offer our customers because Cynthia found them so useful in creating her own quilts. The twill tape, shown right, is one of our newest helpful poducts. Visit our Helpful Products page to see our complete selection of useful picture piecing and quilting tools. |
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| Student and Customer Showcase Cynthia and the England Design staff enjoy seeing photographs of the quilts that Cynthia's students and customers have created using her picture piecing patterns and books. We invite all Cynthia's students and customers to submit photos of their creations to our Student and Customer Showcase which includes examples of quilts made using either England Design patterns or using techniques learned from Cynthia's workshops or Picture Piecing book. |
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Click the Showcase button on any page to see the wonderful quilt photographs people have shared with us or to get instructions for submitting your picture pieced quilt. Serena Toppins shared her quilt, shown left, based on the Snow Scene pattern. Donna Whitmer shared her "Road to McCall" quilt which she designed using Cynthia's Picture Piecing techniques. |
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| Thank you for visiting England Design, we invite you to explore the site and enjoy all the beautiful quilt pictures. Be sure to visit our What's New page periodically to see the latest news from England Design. | ||
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