Step-by-Step Free-Motion Quilting

Turn 9 Simple Shapes into 80+ Distinctive Designs - Best-Selling Author of First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Improve your free-motion quilting as you sketch new designs—one simple shape at a time. Christina Cameli, best-selling author of First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting, returns with the perfect companion book to help you quilt unique patterns, using your home machine or longarm. A member of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild, Christina infuses her fresh aesthetic and passion for teaching quilters new skills into 80+ innovative free-motion designs. Working from a set of nine simple shapes, such as circles, wavy lines, and loops, she walks you through the basic elements via easy-to-doodle illustrations. Take the design power to your needle as you stitch Christina’s favorite continuous-line quilting patterns, ranging from straightforward to striking. If you can doodle, you can do it!

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-01-01
Mått197 x 250 x 13 mm
Vikt649 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagC & T Publishing
ISBN9781617450242

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March 2015There are a lot of books on free-motion quilting and the ones that C&T publish are consistently good. If you feel you have seen it all before, this book takes a slightly different approach and there are over 80 designs that spring from nine ‘elements’. These are combined and recombined to give endless possibilities. The ‘elements’ are circle, curvy lines, loops, drops, spirals, leaves, ‘s’ curves, arcs and grass. A brief description of each is given with diagrams and written instructions of how tosew them. This is a good foundation for moving onto the more complex designs but before you get to those, there are some considerations that are mapped out for you, which look at the practical aspects of these free-motion motifs. Considered here are the way the stitches will work together across a length of fabric. These tips are useful for planning out what kind of pattern you would want to see emerge on your work. The designs themselves are well laid out. Again, you have useful diagrams to show the initial pattern, how to expand on it and what it will look like on a larger scale. The latter is shown on a full-sized page and this is particularly useful, especially when you are encouraged to photocopy these and doodle onto them to create a hands-on practice of a design. A lot of the ease of free-motion pattern stitching comes from being able to get into the flow of onemotif to another and this suggestion is of great benefit to the reader to get their brain workingbefore starting to sew. It’s a great book for getting you to look beyond some of the more traditional stitches you might stick to and to think about how you can adapt these basic stitches to create something more personal.