Visual Guide to Free-Motion Quilting Feathers

Author: Natalia Bonner
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617455075
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Put a feather in your quilting cap Take the fear out of quilting feathers! Explore 68 modern feather designs with step-by-step guidance from award-winning quilter Natalia Bonner. Quilt stunning feathers on a variety of blocks and borders with this beginner-friendly, visual guide. Unlike traditional feather quilting, which relies on exactness and precision, Natalia’s ideas will help you break away from perfection and find creativity in your quilting practice. Use your home sewing machine or a longarm to free-motion feathers with confidence, adding a truly elegant finish to today’s modern quilts. • 68 modern feather designs! Beginner-friendly techniques from best-selling author Natalia Bonner • Kick your feather fears to the curb with an easy-to-use guide for domestic and longarm quilters • Finish blocks and borders with unique feather motifs to complement today’s modern quilts

Beginner’s Guide to Free-Motion Quilting

Author: Natalia Bonner
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607055384
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Photo tutorials show stitching in action for 50+ free-motion quilting designs to create modern quilts with classic style! Popular blogger and designer, Natalia Bonner, illustrates her instructions with detailed photos that make it easier to get beautiful results on your home sewing machine. Learn how to quilt all-over, as filler, on borders, and on individual blocks…using loops and swirls, feathers and flames, flowers and vines, pebbles and more! Includes tips for choosing batting and thread, layering and basting, starting and stopping, and prepping your machine are included. After you’ve practiced, show off your new skills with six geometric quilt projects.

Free-Motion Meandering

Author: Angela Walters
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617455210
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Finishing your own quilts is easier than you think Turn the corner to free-motion success with a meandering makeover! Best-selling author Angela Walters shows you that free-motion quilting doesn't have to be scary - with a couple designs in your pocket, you can finish almost any quilt on your home machine and enjoy the process. Practice 8 meandering stitches for beginners, plus creative variations on each, with step-by-step visuals and quilted samples. Start your free-motion journey on the right foot with proven techniques to help you disguise mistakes and transition between designs with ease. • Thrive at free-motion quilting with popular teacher and best-selling author Angela Walters • Just starting out? Angela includes the basics of quilting and supplies • Troubleshoot mistakes, master the meander, and practice fluid movement between quilt stitches

Mastering the Art of Mctavishing

Author: Karen McTavish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974470672
Category : Machine quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Expanded and completely revised, this book is the perfect companion for longarm, sit-down, or hand quilters to add a simple but beautiful background filler to their quilting repertoire. Dubbed "McTavishing" after its creator, it has become the most popular new design concept in quilting today. As shown in the extensively illustrated projects, McTavishing may be added to any quilt or garment, from wholecloth to contemporary art quilts, and done by hand, domestic machine, or longarm technique. The book's how-to chapters demonstrate the uses of the McTavishing stitch--as an addition to an open quilt block, in a border, to highlight complex applique, to custom tailor a favorite garment, or as part of a larger overall design--while the accompanying DVDs provide lessons from the author. Accompanied by interviews with accomplished hand and domestic machine quilters, this guide offers readers an unparalleled view of the exciting new quilting process. This edition boasts revised how-to chapters, new graphics, new text, and a simpler teaching method. Additional pages feature new quilts and quilters as well as a new section on modern quilting styles.

Heirloom Machine Quilting

Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1571202366
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description
Instructions from the purchase and care of equipment to techniques for finishing a quilt.

Graffiti Quilting

Author: Karlee Porter
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502389732
Category : Quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Instructions for creating quilts with complex designs that resemble graffiti art.

Modern One-Block Quilts

Author: Natalia Bonner
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607057247
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Sewists of all skill levels can easily create quilts of various sizes from just one block with this step-by-step guide. Back to square one. Here are 22 exciting quilts, and all you need is one simple block pattern to make each one! From throws and wall hangings to queen-sized blankets, sewists of all skill levels will be inspired to create something new by manipulating this one simple block pattern with interesting fabrics, unusual shapes, and expressive lines. Expert quilters provide clear step-by-step instructions and a quiltmaking overview to help you from start to finish. • One-block quilts are beginner-friendly, with fast, easy piecing and endless design options by changing up fabric choices • Great value: 22 quilts in 3 sizes each - baby, wall, and queen - 66 quilt possibilities in all! • Graphic designs are perfect for use in home décor Praise for Modern One-Block Quilts “All you need is one simple block pattern to make 22 exciting projects. The manipulation of this one pattern is easy and beginner-friendly because of fast easy piecing. Interesting fabrics, unusual shapes and expressive lines make the difference. Clear step-by-step instructions and an overview will help you create throws, wall hangings and queen-sized quilts from start to finish.” —Quilter’s Digest

Next Steps in Machine Quilting

Author: Natalia Bonner
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 161745155X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
50 new modern, sophisticated designs that encourage free-motion quilters of all skill levels to stretch their skills on a home sewing machine. Free-motion fans, rejoice! Natalia Bonner is back with a follow-up to her wildly successful first book that boasts 50 new modern, sophisticated designs that encourage quilters of all skill levels to stretch their skills on a home sewing machine. A variety of simpler straight-line and free-motion motifs invite beginners to dive in, while designs that modernize more traditional patterns will challenge intermediate and advanced sewists. Full-size patterns can be used for practice or marking quilt tops, and tips on a wide range of topics—supplies, embellishments, layering, and basting—open up a world of endless variations. • 50 new modern, sophisticated designs challenge quilters of all skill levels to stretch their skills • Full-size patterns for more elaborate designs can be used for practice or to mark quilt tops • Tips on supplies, layering, basting, and adjusting machine tension

Modern Quilts from the Blogging Universe

Author: That Patchwork Place
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1604682124
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
You'll be inspired by the work of these stars from the blogging universe, all of whom are innovative quiltmakers. Discover 19 beautifully unique quilts with a modern aesthetic Play with ideas such as negative space, purposeful imperfections, and improvisational piecing Enjoy the featured bloggers' musings on modern quilting, their personal design process, and their blogs

Doodle Quilting

Author: Cheryl Malkowski
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607056372
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
Learn to draw...with your sewing machine! In this beginner's guide to free-motion, continuous-line quilting designs, the focus is on selecting the right forms and lines that get you where you need to go...because sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next! You'll gain confidence in your innate artistic ability to draw basic shapes, then you'll learn how to put them together into over a hundred different all-over quilting designs. • See how easy it can be to create interesting quilting designs by mastering your doodling skills • From squiggles and swirls to flowers and feathers, learn which shapes are best for confined spaces and which work better traveling across your quilt • Includes drawing exercises and tips for transferring your designs from paper to fabric