Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs, Vol. 2: Full-Size Patterns for Blocks and Borders [Paperback] Review

I have had a short-arm home quilting system with a laser and pantograph shelf for only about 6 months now, so am a beginner at machine quilting.I find Mary's designs very easy to follow, and very well planned.Start and center lines are indicated on the papers, as well as lines for aligning the pattern to the border. She also includes numbers for learning the flow of the pattern.Best of all, her design sheets show you how to get around the corner of your quilted border!The designs range from all purpose scrolls and feathers to leaves and garden flowers, as well as more whimsical designs such as dogs and stars/moons.She includes sub-designs for corner squares and quilt blocks as well.I have several machine quilting books but but find myself relying almost exclusively on these designs!I am hoping the author creates another pattern packet soon!

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Mary Covey is back with more of exactly what quilters need to "quilt as desired"! No guesswork needed-simply trace, transfer, and sew the enclosed patterns to create gorgeous continuous-line quilting designs. A 16-page book with complete instructions is included!
-All-new collection of 20 pattern groups features coordinating designs for blocks, borders, and setting triangles
-Patterns can be used on a home sewing machine, a long-arm quilting machine, or even by hand quilters
-Bonus-includes 1"-wide quilting designs that are perfect for narrow borders and sashing

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Machine Embroidery Makes the Quilt: 6 Creative Projects CD with 26 Designs Unleash Your Embroidery Machine's Potential [Bargain Price] [Paperback] Review

Excellant book but, beware! This book's CD designscan not be downloaded to Husqvarna machines using the older reader-writer cards.

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For quilters who want to learn to do more with their machine embroidery, this book provides six classic projects with elegant twists. Quilters learn how to choose and customize designs for all their projects, whether they are embroidering embellishments on selected blocks or an entire quilt. This guide is full of tips on interpreting favorite techniques like applique and embellishment in embroidery.
Patty Albin is a quilt appraiser, fabric designer, and former editor of Quiltmaker magazine. She has won numerous awards for her embroidered quilts, and she teaches quilters across the country to use machine embroidery in their work. She lives in Westminster, CO.

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Piece in the Hoop: 20 Quilt Projects + 40 Machine Embroidery Designs [Paperback] Review

This is an advertisement without the specifics that machine embroiders need.What are the most popular formats; SEW JEF ART ?What is the size of the stitch field required for the designs; 4X4, 6X8, 5X7, 8X8 or other?I have used these techniques with great success from other sources but I would not purchase this without knowing these answers in advance.I have wasted money in the past on designs that were too big for my machine and all the books with design CDs are not returnable.

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Discover step-by-step how to Piece in the Hoop, a technique that allows you to sew precision quilt blocks on your machine embroidery machine. Whether you're an enthusiast of machine embroidery or quilting, this book allows you to expand your skills and make beautiful quilts through this sewing technique. In addition, the book includes 20 embroidery designs, quilt- block outline designs and 20 projects for using your stitch-out blocks to make interesting, attention-grabbing projects. As part of the Create with Nancy series, the book will also include Nancy's Notes and a video with Nancy Zieman and Larisa Bland featuring the technique.

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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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Quilting Patterns: 110 Full-Size Ready-to-Use Designs and Complete Instructions [Paperback] Review

I really like this book. This book is full of quilting and filling patterns. It is good for creative ideas. This book was exactly what I was expecting. I am glad that I bought this book. It is for beginners andexperts alike.

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Quilters at every level of expertise will welcome this comprehensive sourcebook of 110 full-size, ready-to-use patterns-including pinwheels, birds, flowers, nautical designs, braids and other designs. The author provides easy-to-follow directions and numerous diagrams for quilting, attaching a quilt to a frame and suggestions for using patterns. List of Suppliers. Metric Conversion Chart.


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