This adorable collection is inspired by Sieglinde Schoen Smiths award-winning quilt and children's picture book, Mother Earth and Her Children. Four delightful quilts--Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter--celebrate the changing of the seasons. Each one features Seiglinde's little children as they discover the wondrous world of nature. A unique combination of applique and embroidery, Seiglinde's signature style has captivated the hearts of quilters everywhere. Each pattern is showcased in colorful, close-up photography, so that you can see every part of each quilt in amazing detail. There are step by step instructions for making each one. An introductory chapter explains Sieglinde's technique and features step-by-step hand photography. A template pack, enclosed with the book, includes full-size fold-out patterns for each quilt, ready for transfer onto fabric.

Written over 100 years ago and newly illustrated with an award-winning handmade quilt, this enchanting story celebrates nature's changing seasons. Deep below the ground, Mother Earth rouses her sleepy children. The little ones ready themselves for spring, then join a jubilant procession of bugs and beetles up into the summer meadows. With each colorful turn of the page, the children discover new surprises waiting just for them. In rhyming verse and vibrant illustrations, this enchanting story captivates the imagination of the youngest readers, gently leading them to make their own discoveries outdoors. "Young children will delight in this playful romp through nature's seasons. Sieglinde Schoen Smith's wonderful quilt makes the story shine!" Jinny Beyer, quilting expert and author Sibylle von Olfers is the author of the original German folk tale, "Etwas von den Wurzelkindern," which sold more than 800,000 copies when it was first published in 1906. Exactly a century later, Sieglinde Schoen Smith's quilted interpretation, Mother Earth and Her Children, won the top prize at America's most prestigious quilt show, inspiring this new translation. Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota) is the foremost expert on folklore in the United States. His works include the definitive English-language translation of The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Reproduce Sieglinde's illustrated letters without detailed needlework or embroidery. Resize letters A to Z to suit your project and print onto fabric sheets. Spell out words or phrases and place them on one of five backgrounds, ready to sew into projects. This product contains image files only. You will need to already have a design/image program installed, for example Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop or Paint.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Requires Electric Quilt 5 (EQ5) software, 5 MB hard disk space. PLEASE NOTE: Patterns on this CD cannot be printed directly from the CD. The block patterns are installed to your EQ5 Block Library. You will use the EQ5 software to print the patterns. Over 200 patterns to print in any style or size! Country Birds and Buds, Album Elements, Fanciful Flowers, Coxcomb and Currants, Nosegays and Bouquets, Grapes and Pomegranates, Princess Feathers, Folk Tulips and Rose of Sharon.

Clip art can add great visual excitement to any project. Artful Additions CD offers a large and diverse library of clip art images designed by Kathy Schmitz for you to enjoy. Ninety Black and White images; 12 Black and White Quilt Labels; 13 Color Borders and 30 Color Images. Includes a Punchneedle Pincushion Pattern and a Redwork Pillow Pattern.

Booklet with small quilting projects and alphabets. CD Rom includes four Alphabet Sets (Extra Small, Small, Medium and Large) with pictures of Bonus Projects.

Package contains CD-ROM with 40 images in three sizes.

Twenty-six projects with pre-sized images and instructions ready to print, sixty-eight images, three sizes each of many, over 150 printable images

Package contains CD-ROM with 29 images in three sizes - Print images to paper, fabric, canvas and transfers.

Eighteen images and sixteen projects for inkjet printing!

Ten projects with pre-sized images and instructions ready to print, seven fabric prints, twenty four images, three sizes of each, over 90 Printable Images

34 high quality images in three sizes or size to fit; three washable linen fabric sheets and two washable cotton canvas fabric sheets.