Morse Code Quilts: Material Messages for Loved Ones (Landauer) 10 Projects to Customize Your Quilts with Secret Messages & Hidden Meanings; Includes Yardage Requirements, Cutting Instructions & Charts

Beautifully illustrated and thoroughly user friendly.

It's easy to translate the dots and dashes of Morse code into beautiful pieced quilts. The concept is simple, and the possibilities are endless!

• 10 projects for unique modern quilts and wall hangings
• Simple technique for sewing customized quilts for birthdays, weddings, graduations, congratulations, and more
• Learn to use Morse code to endow your projects with "secret" messages such as names, favorite quotations, sayings, and simple sentiments
• Provides charts for both letters and numbers, and shows how to translate dots and dashes into a quilt layout
• Includes methods to calculate yardage requirements and cutting instructions

Morse Code Quilts shows how to use Morse code to customize your quilts with secret messages and hidden meanings. A baby quilt can contain the child's name and birthday, or a wedding quilt might feature the happy couple's names along with the date of their vows. Favorite quotations, popular sayings, and simple sentiments are all wonderful opportunities to create a unique quilt!

Morse Code Quilts offers ten projects that express the aesthetic of modern quilts, including a wall hanging stating "The Adventure Begins," a rainbow quilt that says "Love is Love," and a graduation quilt coded "The World Awaits."

Author Sarah J. Maxwell provides charts for both letters and numbers, and shows how to convert dots and dashes into a quilt layout. She also includes methods to calculate yardage requirements, as well as cutting instructions.

Create beautiful, unique quilts to send secret notes to your loved ones with the clever material messages and techniques inside Morse Code Quilts!

Use the dots and dashes of Morse code to create unique quilts with secret messages such as names, favorite quotations, sayings, simple sentiments, and more. Morse Code Quilts features 10 wonderful projects that express the aesthetic of modern quilts.

Sew Secret Messages
& Create Meaningful Gifts

Using the dots and dashes of Morse code, create one-of-a-kind quilts with hidden messages, such as names, favorite quotations, sayings, simple sentiments, and more. Morse Code Quilts features 10 detailed and easy-to-follow projects that express the aesthetic of modern quilts.

• Learn how to read and use Morse code for quilting.
• Includes 10 exciting projects for unique quilts, throws, and wall hangings with secret messages.
• Create your own messages with the Morse code charts for numbers, letters, and months.
• Make use out of your scrap piles of fabric to sew secret sentiments.

"This personalized and innovative way to create a keepsake for someone special is something that all quilters, whether new or experienced, will need to make. This is beyond amazing!"
—Mathew Boudreaux, aka Mister Domestic Fabric Designer for Art Gallery Fabrics

Sarah J. Maxwell is a talented fabric and pattern designer for Studio 37 Fabrics, a division of Marcus Fabrics, with countless quilts to her credit. Her work has been featured regularly in both McCall's Quilting and McCall's Quick Quilts. Sarah's quilts have also appeared in Make Modern, Simply Moderne, American Patchwork & Quilting, Quilts & More, and many other magazines. Her Morse code quilt, "A Message in the Dark," was juried into QuiltCon 2016.