Easy Machine Quilting: 12 Step-By-Step Lessons from the Pros Plus a Dozen Projects to Machine Quilt (Rodale Quilt Book) [Hardcover] Review

This book is full of ideas for machine quilting and is divided up into 2sections. It is a collection of quilting lessons written by some of theforemost machine quilters in America. The first sectiontells you aboutthe basics of machine quilting, and then has various excersizes to help youpractise each technique..The second half of the book containsquiltsfrom the authorswith details on types of quilting, and where to find theinformation in the book to refresh your memory on the technique. Awonderful book with lots of hints to help you with your quilting

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Turn mountains of quilt tops into beautiful, finished projects-- faster than ever before! Twelve step-by-step lessons and companion projects from nine of today's top experts show you how to have fun with machine quilting.

Discover the secrets to smooth stipple quilting and fluid free-motion quilting ... and create flowing feathered cables and delicate background stitches.

Create perfectly smooth machine-guided curves and razor-sharp points ... and do exquisite machine quilting on beautiful wearables, bed quilts, and wall quilts-- the very first time you try!
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Piecing the Piece O' Cake Way: 15 Skill-Building Projects / 27 Quilts Today's Guide to Quilting Basics Color Choices Made Easy (Piece O'cake) [Paperback] Review

I am a tried and true fan of Piece O Cake designs.I have been quilting for seven years and I have almost all of their books.Although they generally concentrate on applique designs, this book is a very useful guide for piecing. (Piecing is when you sew patches together to make blocks.Applique is when you sew one fabric on top of another, often to make a pictorial design like a flower.-- I hope that makes sense.)
If you don't already have a good general knowledge book on piecing, get this one. They walk you through all of the general techniques quilters should know and in a way that is very easy to understand and is not intimidating.I lent this book to a beginning quilter friend of mine and she read the whole thing and now owns it, too.
If you are interested in applique, the Piece O Cake ladies really know their stuff and have several books covering a wide variety of different applique projects.They have such a positive and engaging teaching style which I have always found encouraging and stimulating.I have completed several of their projects that, if I'd stopped and thought about it for a minute before jumping headlong into them, I might have abandoned because they were beyond what I thought was my skill level.But, these ladies helped me find the confidence in myself to tackle and complete the projects and they break everything down in such a way that you won't feel lost and in over your head.

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Learn the Piece O' Cake style of piecing from the popular design duo, with 15 lively quilts to make.

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