Amish Quilting Patterns: 56 Full-Size Ready-to-Use Designs and Complete Instructions [Paperback] Review

This book gives complete details on HAND QULITING your Amish quilt and some general information about the colour/quilting/pattern combinations in black and white line drawings.Discusses the threads, batting thicknesses, how to copy the patterns,and includes information about quilting frames for a full roundup on the quilting scene.
As for which pattern to use with which type of quilt, the book breaks down the differences between the Lancaster PA Amish and the Midwestern Amish.Remember though this is geared all towards HAND quilting.For Machine Quilting see the Dover Pub,Amish Patterns for Machine Quilting which adapts these hand patterns for machines.
Really quite a nice book for the price.

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Veteran quilting instructors show how to create 56 of the most sought-after quilting patterns. Ready-to-use designs for tulips, cables, pumpkin seeds, more plus information on preparing patterns, transfering them to fabric, and executing decorative stitches.


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Amish Patterns for Machine Quilting (Dover Needlework Series) [Paperback] Review

A useful tool for the machine quilting library. There are about 50 templates including very basic, simple designs, plus flowers (lots and lots of them), baskets, stars, leaves, hearts, and combinations. Each templateis shown on one page along with a diagram showing arrows of how to sew thedesign with only one starting point. Some designs do require multiplestarting points but many are single-line (although much turning) designs.Some corner designs are shown and some attention is given to patterns thatturn a corner. About half the patterns are the kind that might be used in aquilt block (not continuous border-type designs), such as tulips, stars, orbaskets. I was looking more for new continuous-line, border-type patternsand did not see much new in that area. One page provides a detailed diagramshowing how to quilt feathers. Being more of a beginner-level, self-taughtquilter, the feathers always looked too difficult to me. But now I seeclearly how to proceed and might actually try this design!

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Traditional hand-quilted Amish designs are translated into easy-to-use sewing machine patterns. The 83 designs-including flowers, feathers, cables, baskets, stars and more-can be adapted in size, shape or any other aspect. A brief history of the Amish, diagrams and simple instructions are included (patterns can be quilted by hand, too).


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