Making a quilt is sometimes like baking a cake--all the fun is in the frosting! In Quilt Toppings, Melody Crust offers hundreds of ideas for embellishing quilts, showing that the fun doesn't have to stop after the quilt top is done. From fabric paints and acrylics to kindergarten-style fun with spray paints, paint sticks, and even crayons, inks, and foil, quilters learn how to add color, texture, and pizzazz. Chapters on beads and buttons, ribbons, tassels, and trims, and stitching and embroidery all invite quilters to play with a fun and fancy embellishments to bring amazing special effects to their quilts and wearable art.

* Hundreds of color photos of embellishment in action
* Color, step-by-step drawings
* Idea Gallery in every chapter, showcasing techniques

Melody Crust is a popular quilting instructor and lecturer who teaches quilting from coast to coast and at major national conventions, including Quilt Festival in Houston and Chicago. An award-winning quilter and successful author, her work has appeared in several specialty magazines for quilters.