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.

Sew Very Easy Quilt Favorites

Author: Laura Coia
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617459267
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
Learn quilting basics from a YouTube sensation and practice your skills with 12 fun projects suitable for all skill levels. Her instructional videos have inspired thousands to start sewing. Now for the first time, sew-lebrity Laura Coia shares written patterns for the most loved video tutorials on her “Sew Very Easy” YouTube channel! Learn the basics of quilt making, from cutting and pressing to borders and finishing. Then practice your skills with a dozen beautiful projects—quilts you’ll come back to time and time again—all suitable for beginners and beyond.

Visual Guide to Creative Straight-Line Quilting

Author: Natalia Whiting Bonner
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617457663
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
Discover how to machine quilt using straight lines with one of 48 quilting ideas and 13 variations, from the author of Modern One-Block Quilts. Are feathers and swirls your fallback? Learn how satisfying it is to quilt with only straight lines! Quilting expert Natalia Bonner shares sixty new straight-line motifs to fill in triangles, square blocks, and borders, plus allover designs. Teach your walking foot some new tricks or practice controlled free-motion quilting with rulers. Domestic or longarm machine . . . the choice is yours! Each pattern comes with step-by-step photos, so quilters of all levels can conquer their fears of straight-line quilting, and learn to rock it! • Natalia Bonner fans, unite! Learn forty-eight straight-line quilting ideas and thirteen fun variations • Find freedom in the constraints of straight-line quilting and shine a spotlight on every intriguing angle • Use a longarm or home sewing machine to create geometric perfection, step-by-step

Straight-Line Quilting Designs

Author:
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617459283
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Endless inspiration from your favorite quilters Want inspiration for your straight-line quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs—JUST designs—and will lie flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The fourth in our Quilting Inspiration series, this visual guide is filled with more than seventy-five distinctive straight-line designs from your favorite designers to get you stitching. Perfect for domestic and longarm machines Full-page spreads with easy-to-follow straight-line designs Lies flat for easy reference while quilting

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

The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design

Author: Sharon Boggon
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617453625
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
See it, stitch it! Thirty-five contemporary crazy-quilting stitches, photographed step by step. Rooted in the Victorian era, crazy quilting has a powerful allure for today's quilters, who use it to let loose and tell a unique story with fabric. Embrace crazy quilting with thirty-five must-know stitches and endless variations, shown in clear, step-by-step photographs for both right- and left-handed stitchers. Fine artist Sharon Boggon reveals design fundamentals to guide you in your process, so you can sew thoughtful, visually appealing blocks. Learn the theory and process behind this fascinating art: how to choose fabrics, piece stitch-and-flip blocks, and embellish seams with embroidery, beads, buttons, and charms. • Learn crazy-quilting techniques with colorful photos that show every detail • Combine fabric, embellishments, and thirty-five stitches, plus endless variations, into stunning crazy quilts as unique as you • Unpack savvy design principals to make order of the chaos and guide the viewer's eye around the block

Let's Stitch a Block a Day - 365 Quilt Block Designs

Author: Jeff Whiting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
365 quilt block desings with machine quilting rulers. Well known machine quilter, author and teacher Natalia Bonner has created 365 unique quilt block designs. Each design is quilted on a 6" square, circle or triangle. Each block design has a unique QR code that links to a machine quilting video, where Natalia will walk you step-by-step through the process of machine quilting the block.Natalia uses her popular machine quilting rulers; 4-N-1, Inside Out, Trailer, Mini 4-N-1 and Mini Inside Out

Foolproof Walking-Foot Quilting Designs

Author: Mary Mashuta
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617450529
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Learn to create a wide array of designs for walking-foot quilting no matter what your skill level. Take your machine’s walking foot for a walk on the wild side and move beyond basic stitch-in-the-ditch quilting! In her follow-up to bestselling Foolproof Machine Quilting, award-winning author Mary Mashuta teaches you how to quilt attractive lines, curves, and geometric shapes with a walking foot. The book includes a multitude of designs, each adapted for walking-foot quilting and marked with clock icons to indicate the skill level and time required to accomplish it. This visual guide provides an inspirational gallery of 30 finished quilts and is enhanced by detailed photos of successfully quilted blocks, center panels, sashing, borders, and corners. • Includes clock icons for each design to indicate the skill level and time required to accomplish • Custom designs to fit every block, border, and corner—with no marking and no math • Ideas for using commercial quilting templates, paper cuttings, and traditional sashiko-style designs • Decorative stitches, hand quilting, and embellishments are used to enhance piecing

Foolproof Machine Quilting

Author: Mary Mashuta
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607050838
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
Discover how to design and stitch beautiful machine quilting with the walking foot on your home sewing machine. Intimidated by free-motion machine quilting? You don’t need it to beautifully machine-quilt your own tops. Well-known teacher Mary Mashuta’s classroom-tested methods guarantee quilting success. Mary teaches you to use heavier-weight threads on the top of your machine, rather than in the bobbin, so that all your stitching is done on the right side of the quilt. • Learn to combine the right needles, threads, and batting to create exactly the look you want • Add style to your machine quilting with heavy-weight threads and your machine’s built-in decorative stitches • Use paper folding and cutting to create your own simple quilting motifs and border designs • Learn to adapt commercial templates and stencils into quilting motifs

One Line at a Time

Author: Charlotte Warr Andersen
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1571209069
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
Create Beautiful Machine Quilting with Almost No Marking. Sew these 24 graceful machine-quilting designs with ease on your home sewing machine, with almost no marking! An elegant alternative to stippling or meandering for all-over quilting, or give your quilt the look of Sashiko without the slow hand sewing. Many designs can build into more intricate patterns by simply adding more lines. Scalable patterns are easy to enlarge or reduce to fit even odd-shaped spaces. Every design includes easy-to-follow instructions and stitched sample; some include full-page pattern. Whether you want to quilt a simple overall pattern or a show-stopping design for a competition, you'll love the elegance of these continuous-line designs. Stitching them is so easy: just sew one line of stitching at a time. Stitch some designs with feed dogs up, others with them down. Designs include cross-hatching, triangles, stars, clamshells, jigsaw puzzles, and many more.