Learn to Make a Quilt from Start to Finish: Quilting how-to book

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BERNE, Ind. -- DRG, a leader in the craft and nostalgia markets, has released a "how to" quilting book under the company's House of White Birches brand.

Learn to Make a Quilt from Start to Finish includes advice on everything from fabric and pattern selection to cutting techniques and tips on completing a quilt. It focuses on one pattern, with one block that can be turned in different directions to create a number of different designs.

The book is written to teach beginners how to make a first quilt, with step-by-step photos that walk the quilter through each stage of the quilt-making process. Added tips and insights on techniques are included to make sewing easier and more accurate.

Carolyn Vagts is the designer and instructor for Learn to Make a Quilt from Start to Finish. Vagts has more than 10 years of quilting experience, and her resume includes freelance designer, quilt store owner, writer and quilt-pattern proofer. Her freelance designs have been included in a number of magazines.

In the spring of 2011, she was named editor of DRG's Quilter's World magazine, and her personal patterns are available through her store, The Village Quilt Shoppe, located in Lake Orion, Mich., and through DRG's Clotilde catalog.

Learn to Make a Quilt from Start to Finish is available from the Clotilde catalog, accessible online at Clotilde.com.

DRG is in its third generation of family ownership in Berne, Ind. The company is well known for its iconic brands, which include House of White Birches, Annie's Attic, Clotilde, American School of Needlework and Good Old Days.

The company publishes magazines and books, and also offers kits, supplies and Web-deliverable products in print catalogs and on more than 40 DRG websites. Its magazines and products are also available on newsstands and in retail chains and stores nationwide.


About DRG: DRG (DRGnetwork.com) is part of the third-generation Muselman family business headquartered in Berne, Ind., near Fort Wayne. A leader in the craft and nostalgia markets, DRG is well known for its iconic brands, which include House of White Birches, Annie's Attic, Clotilde, American School of Needlework and Good Old Days. The company publishes magazines and books (print and digital), and also offers kits, supplies and Web-deliverable products in print catalogs and on its more than 40 websites. Magazines and products are also available on newsstands and in retail chains and independent stores nationwide. One of DRG's divisions, Strategic Fulfillment Group (SFG), provides state-of-the-art fulfillment and database marketing services out of a 140,000-square-foot facility nestled in the rolling wooded landscape of East Texas, centered between Shreveport and Dallas. The Muselman business began in 1925 with the founding of Economy Printing Concern in Berne. EP Graphics, as it is known today, is still owned by the Muselman family. It specializes in high-quality, four-color web printing for catalogs and magazines.